Pan-Arabism’s adoption let Arab states hold Palestinian territories and keep refugees stateless.

Evidence

Until 1967 Arab governments generally adopted the pan-Arab posi­ tion, which entitled them to make the Palestinian Arab cause their own and also, in the case of Jordan, Egypt and Syria, to remain in possession of those parts of mandatory Palestine not included in Israel. In Jordan, Palestinian Arabs were treated as citizens and accorded equal rights. In other Arab countries, how­ ever, they remained stateless aliens and were usually treated as such. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 923

Categorization

• XREF: Strongly corroborates the theme in the Islam-West representation cluster that pan-Arab rhetoric often served state interests rather than Palestinian self-determination — Palestinian refugees as instruments, not beneficiaries, of pan-Arab ideology.
• ADDENDUM: Reinforces the mechanism that rhetorical/ideological frames are wielded by states for territorial and control purposes — parallel to how moral panics and honor talk serve political ends.