Britain’s perfidy created Permanent War: the Origins of the Syrian. Lebanese, Israeli mess

The British double crossed all sides during the 2nd World War, fomenting Arab and Palestinian Nationalism with false deals while setting up Israel as a Western proxy

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SYRIA. World War II. 1941. British and F.F troops advances on Damascus …

The conflict between Arab and Jew in the Middle East and most of the mess in Syria and the general region is a direct product of Britain’s Great War on the Ottoman Empire.

Britain, after declaring war on the Ottoman Empire in November 1914, as part of the Great War taken on against Germany, expected to make short work of the Turks.

However, the major reverse suffered at Gallipoli in 1915 convinced the British that they required various regional allies to help them conquer the Ottomans. They had already acquired the Russians through a convention in 1907, and through them the Armenians and their irregular forces in the eastern parts of Ottoman territory.

The Tsar was persuaded through an offer of his heart’s desire, Constantinople, which was made formal in a secret 1915 agreement by Sir Edward Grey after much diplomatic work done behind the scenes in the previous year.

However, having failed to defeat the Turks in the time expected and with the Russians and Armenians, England lured the Arabs into active participation in the war against the Muslim Ottoman State on the promise of a great Muslim Arab state after it.

To achieve this the seeds of nationalism were sown amongst this people, which had, up until then, proved impervious to such things. And Syria/Lebanon/Palestine/Jordan, they were led to believe, would be part of the nationalist inheritance at the harvesting of victory.

However, at the same time Britain divided up the Arab lands, including Syria, with their allies in secret agreements, despite knowing that this would confront the new Arab nationalism which they were cultivating, after the War.

While the McMahon correspondence and treaty with Shereef Hussein was being formulated, in which Britain agreed to establish a large Arab state in return for an Arab rising against the Ottomans, London began making secret treaties with the French (The Sykes/Picot Agreement of May 1916) which sought to divide up the Middle East amongst the Western Christian Powers after the Great War was won.

In 1917 Britain launched yet another project, on another set of promises, of a Jewish colony in Palestine, during a moment of great difficulty during its Great War. The object was to win over what it believed to be the considerable force of international Jewry to the failing Allied cause.

To do this it announced the Balfour Declaration and Britain set about the process of large-scale Jewish colonization of Palestine under the auspices of the Mandate system of Versailles. The plan was not to establish an independent Jewish State but a Jewish colonial state of the British Empire.

So, having created an Arab nationalism in the region that was going to be confronted with Imperialist domination, England simultaneously made sure of its frustration by giving it a powerful alien rival nationalism to also conflict with.

It is sometimes said that the Arab world was the victim of a British double-cross. But it actually fell foul of a triple cross. And in the century or so from 1918 there has been a working out of what emerged from the activities of the British State between 1916 and 1918 in destroying the Empire of the Ottoman Turks.

Shereef Hussein knew nothing of the agreement that aimed to balkanise the region so that the Muslims could not operate a state that would amount to anything in the world.

This plan of balkanisation was, of course, a most unsuitable way to administer the region because divisions within the Arab world were not national in any way. They were religious and cultural. Different religions and cultures were spread right across the region and could not be delineated by national boundaries or through nation states drawn out of the sand.

That was why the Ottoman structures worked – because they enabled different religious groups, clans and families with different cultures, ways of life and allegiances to live next to each other, with no lines in the sand to bother them.

When the lines in the sand were imposed on the Arabs they were forced to see themselves as nationalities, (but with no historical meaning) and to see others (who had the same history, religion or culture as themselves) as alien and a threat, because they were from without the newly imposed lines in the sand..

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