Weizmann: May 14, 1926:
A few more words with regard to another question which is perhaps
connected with the military unit question, which came to the fore in
the discussion here. I openly and explicitly stated here as well as in
London that we see in Transjordania the eastern part of Eretz Israel.
Weizmann: 8 July 1947:
“There is no question about it that when Palestine was promised, when
the Declaration was given, when the Mandate was written “Palestine” was
understood “Palestine and Trans-Jordan”. Then Trans-Jordan” was
cut-off.
Jabotinsky – 1937:
The term “ Palestine,” when I employ it, will mean the area on both
sides of the Jordan, the area mentioned in the original Palestine
Mandate.
Ben Gurion in a speech in 1937:
The acceptance of partition does not commit us to renounce Transjordan:
one does not demand from anybody to give up his vision. We shall accept
a state in the boundaries fixed today, but the boundaries of Zionist
aspirations are the concern of the Jewish people and no external factor
will be able to limit them.