Although there are 21 official Arab states and only one Jewish State, Arab nationalists are intent on creating a new state out of the West Bank and the territories inhabited by Arab people within Israel itself. Although there are claims that Palestine is itself the 22nd Arab nation, the United States, Israel and most Western states do not recognize it as such and the governance of the West bank falls to Hamas, an organization dedicated to fundamentalist Islamism. Netanyahu argues that it is unfair to again partition Israel for the purpose of creating a new Palestinian state when there are already 21 Arab states in existence and that Arab nationalist leaders have already admitted that Jordan is a Palestinian state.