“On March 1st, I (King Abdullah) left Maan by train for Amman. I then received a note from Sir Herbert Samuel, British High Commissioner, inviting me to Jerusalem to meet the British Secretary of State for the Colonies (e.g. Winston Churchill). I accepted the invitation, and the date was fixed. The meeting took place as […]
In an urgent letter to the Foreign Office, the Colonial Office explained that article 25 (of the Palestine Mandate) had been framed in such a way as to enable Britain “to set up an Arab administration and to withhold indefinitely the application of those clauses of the Mandate which relate to the establishment of the […]
Winston Churchill, Secretary of State for the Colonies “I created Transjordan with the stroke of a pen on a Sunday afternoon in Cairo” Source: O Jerusalem!, Lapierre Collins, Simon & Schuster (1972) ; Gelvin, James L. The Israel-Palestine Conflict; One Hundred Years of War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
“The great powers, and among all the great powers most especially Great Britain, has freed them, the Arab race, from the tyranny of their brutal conqueror, who had kept them under his heel for these many centuries. I hope they will remember that it is we who have established the independent Arab sovereignty of the […]
40,000 Square Miles from Mediterranean to Iraq
The San Remo Conference outlined the Peace Treaty with Turkey by dividing the former Ottoman Empire. “The mandatory (e.g. Great Britain) will be responsible for putting into effect the declaration (e.g. Balfour) originally made on the 2nd November, 1917, by the British government and adopted by the other allied powers in favour of the establishment […]
Uganda Project- Joseph Chamberlain offered the Jews 5,000 square of the Mau Mau Plateau in what is today Kenya. The proposal was declined by the Zionist Congress in 1905.
In 1915 a unit of the British Army known as the Zion Mule Corps was formed in Alexandria by Egyptian refugees from Palestine, and then sent to Gallipoli to fight the Turks in WWI. A letter by General Sir Ian Hamilton to the Day, a New York newspaper: “General Headquarters,” “Mediterranean Expeditionary Force.” “It may […]
The McMahon- Hussein Correspondence, was an exchange of letters (14 July 1915 to 30 January 1916) between the Sharif of Mecca, Husayn Bin Ali, and Sir Henry McMahon, British High Commissioner in Egypt, concerning the political status of lands included in the Ottoman Empire. The letters declared that the Arabs would revolt and in return, […]
The Sykes-Picot Agreement, officially known as the Asia Minor Agreement was a secret agreement between the governments of the Great Britain and France, with the assent of Russia, defining their proposed spheres of influence and control in the Middle East should the Triple Entente(France Great Britain and Russia) succeed in defeating the Ottoman Empire during […]