abdullah said, but we can give you autonomy in a big j jordanen state. why do you rush to state hood? she said, your excellency, we waited 2,000 years for state hood. i think that s enough. we have had enough patience. so golda came back to palestine and said that transjordan are going to fight. and the jordanen army would have used all its power. it might be the end of israel. so ben-gurion prepared all the tools for this moment and this moment came. and it came in the war of 1948.