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I think part of the "peace" made with Jordan, was that the disputed land should be Palestinian.
So technically if the Israeli's disagree with that, or take the land, then Jordan's claim to that land reopens.
Not that i think Jordan would want anything to do with today's mess.
While Jordan has long harboured ambitions to annex part or all of Palestine as far back as 1921, they have no claim to it these days. Jordan supported the Peel Commission in 1937, which proposed that Palestine be split up into a small Jewish state (20 percent of the British Mandate for Palestine) and the remaining land be annexed into Jordan (then known as Transjordan.
Abdullah of Transjordan wanted to unite Jordan and Palestine under his own rule (and even came to an agreement with the Jewish Agency to annex most of the proposed Arab State in return for not entering the part of Palestine assigned to the new Jewish state with his army). So Jordan also supported the UN partition plan of 1947 in order that the Arab allocated areas of the British Mandate for Palestine could be annexed into their own territory.
In any case, with the agreement of many Palestinian leaders, at the Jericho Conference in 1948 Jordan annexed the West Bank in 1950 claiming full sovereignity over the territory. All residents of the West Bank were given automatic Jordanian citizenship. In the Jordanian parliament, the West and East Banks received 30 seats each, having roughly equal populations.
On 27 July 1953, King Hussein of Jordan announced that East Jerusalem was "the alternative capital of the Hashemite Kingdom" and would form an "integral and inseparable part" of Jordan.
Jordan renounced all claims to the West Bank in 1988 and the state of war between Israel and Jordan (which had been ongoing since 1948) officially ended in October 1994
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