As a Palestinian living in England, I was very interested to read the travel report concerning my homeland (The Argus, July 27).

Like many writers, Mr Portway gets his short history of Jordan wrong and, in the interests of factual reporting, certain very important corrections are necessary.

Indeed, most people are unaware of the history of Jordan and the fact it is the major part of Palestine.

Soon after the First World War, The League of Nations granted the Palestine Mandate to Britain.

This mandate was to create homelands for the various people in the area, particularly Muslims, Arabs and Jews.

The Palestine Mandate area covered the lands we now call Jordan, Israel, the Golan Heights in Syria and parts of southern Lebanon but, at that time, these were all one and known as Palestine.

In 1922, the British Government divided Palestine in two and gave three-quarters of the area to the Emir Abdullah, one of the sons of the Sheriff of Mecca.

This was as compensation for him not being given the throne of Iraq by Britain. The area given to Abdullah was called "Transjordania" by the British - it was British administered and part of Palestine.

All Jews living in that area were then expelled and their property seized. Abdullah had no connection with the three-quarters of Palestine he had been given and, effectively, removed control of that area from my people.

The present Kingdom of Jordan was not created until 1947 and then on a whim of the British Government and in breach of the Palestine Mandate.

The Jordanian Royal Family has no right to control the major part of Palestine and has effectively deprived my people of the major part of our homeland, leaving only the tiny area west of the River Jordan available for division as homelands.

This has led to the problems seen today in Israel and the West Bank.

-M Jawed, Brighton