Throughout the Mandatory period, some Arab residents of Palestine preferred a future as part of a broader Arab nation, usually concretized either as a nation of Greater Syria (to include what are now Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza,) or a unified Arab state including what are now Jordan, Israel, Gaza and the West Bank.Army of Shadows, Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917–1948, Hillel Cohen, Translated by Haim Watzman, University of California Press, 2008, p. 264
