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===Independence ===
Transjordan gained independence from Britain in 1946 within the above borders, prior to the termination of the Palestinian Mandate.<ref>"Mandates." ''The Continuum Political Encyclopedia of the Middle East''. Ed. Avraham Sela. New York: Continuum, 2002. pp. 583–584.</ref>
On 15 May 1948, the Transjordanian [[Arab Legion]], in conjunction with other regular Arab armies, entered what had been Mandate Palestine, seizing control of what come to be called the West Bank, East Jerusalem including the Old City. The tide of battle soon turned against the Arabs, and Israel then launched a series of military offensives, greatly expanding its territorial holdings. On September 22, 1948, during a truce in the war, the [[Provisional State Council]] of Israel passed a law annexing all land that Israel had captured in that war, and declaring that from then on, any part of Palestine taken by the Israeli army would automatically be annexed to Israel.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.israellawresourcecenter.org/israellaws/fulltext/areajurisdictionpowersord.htm|title=Area of Jurisdiction and Powers Ordinance (1948)|access-date=January 27, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130622033259/http://www.israellawresourcecenter.org/israellaws/fulltext/areajurisdictionpowersord.htm|archive-date=June 22, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> The end of the war saw the [[Lausanne Conference of 1949]]. Following internationally supervised Arab-Israeli negotiations, a boundary based on the cease-fire lines of the war with minor territorial adjustments, commonly referred to as the [[Green Line (Israel)|Green Line]], was agreed upon in the [[1949 Armistice Agreements]]. The Green Line was expressly declared in the Armistice Agreements as a temporary [[demarcation line]], rather than a permanent border, and the Armistice Agreements relegated the issue of permanent borders to future negotiations. The area to the west of the Jordan River came to be called the West Bank, and was annexed by Jordan in 1950.<ref>In the ''Act of Union'', 1950.</ref> and remained part of Jordan until Israel captured the West Bank during the [[Six-Day War]] of 1967, though Jordan continued to claim the territory after that date. In 1988, Jordan renounced all claims to the West Bank;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/01/world/hussein-surrenders-claims-west-bank-plo-us-peace-plan-jeopardy-internal-tensions.html|title=U.S. PEACE PLAN IN JEOPARDY; Internal Tensions|date=August 1, 1988|work=The New York Times}}</ref> this was made official in the [[Israel–Jordan Treaty of Peace]] of 1994.
[[File:Hussein Clinton Rabin.jpg|thumb|250px|right|A handshake between King Hussein and PM Rabin, accompanied by President Clinton, during the Israel–Jordan peace negotiations, July 25th, 1994]]
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