worls aspires to indepenence us president agrees war in europe

Arab nation under Feisal , demascus protocol , revolt helped win war

british/french divide up later to league of nations

balfour palestine

divide up middle east iraq jordan under hasmelites lebanon like ireland palestine evil that men do

oil west never left compared to what might have been. hard men.

Arab state:

1915 War beckons in Europe.
1915 The Sharif of Arabia (Hasmelite) had an ambitious vision of a vast "Arab kingdom" for his family, and in 1915 he secured commitments from Britain regarding its future independence and frontiers. Sharif of Mecca, a descendant of the Prophet and Keeper of the Holy Cities of Islam. Sharif had two sons Feisal & Hussain .

[He was the ruler of an area around Mecca (later the Saudi king took it over to create Saudi Arabia).] The area Hasmelites had planned for was all of what is called the Arabia peninsula today. Including modern day Syria Lebanon, Palestine (including Israel), Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and all the gulf states and sheikdoms .
1915 “Damascus protocol “
Secret societies gave protocol to Feisal for him to give to the British.
1) The Damascus Protocol below These were secret independence movements seeking independent arab state under Hasmelites.
1916 May 16 Sykes-Picot Pact
Secret pact
2) The Sykes-Picot Agreement below British /French plan to divide Ottoman middle East between them Plan for post ww1 after Ottoman defeat. Completely ignoring Arab wishes and indeed promises to them.
1915-1916 July Hussein-McMahon Correspondence
3) The McMahon–Hussein Correspondence
below Great Britain is prepared to recognize and uphold the independence of the Arabs in all the regions lying within the frontiers proposed by the Sherif of Mecca
With some small exceptions ??
1916 Sharif raised the standard of revolt against Ottoman rule. Arab Revolt
4) Arab Revolt: below


1917 Feb 2 Balfour declaration. 8) British Empire blamed National Home for the Jews .
The moment Balfour ‘gave the zionist movement a national home for the Jews he opened the door to the endless conflict that would soon engulf the country and its people’ The Alien act & the US closed door policy gave message to Jewish refugees ‘don’t come here, go to Palestine’

1) The Damascus Protocol was a document given to Faisal bin Hussein by the Arab secret societies al-Fatat and Al-'Ahd[1] on his second visit to Damascus during a mission to consult Turkish officials in Constantinople (1914). The secret societies declared they would support Faisal's father Hussein bin Ali's revolt against the Ottoman Empire, if the demands in the protocol were submitted to the British. These demands, defining the territory of an independent Arab state to be established in the Middle East that would encompass all of the lands of western Asia,[2] then became the basis of the conversation in the Hussein-McMahon Correspondence.

2) The Sykes-Picot Agreement between Britain, France and Russia of May 1916 (made public by the Bolsheviks after the Russian Revolution) pre-dated the establishment of the League of Nations Mandate system. After the war, France and Britain continued to provide assurances of Arab independence, while planning to place the entire region under their own administration.[37][38]

3) The McMahon–Hussein Correspondence, or the Hussein-McMahon Correspondence, was a protracted exchange of letters (July 14, 1915 to January 30, 1916)[1] during World War I, between the Sharif of Mecca, Husayn bin Ali, and Sir Henry McMahon, British High Commissioner in Egypt, concerning the future political status of the lands under the Ottoman Empire. The Arab side was already looking toward a large revolt (which did not eventuate) against the Ottoman Empire and the British encouraged the Arabs to revolt and thus hamper the Ottoman Empire, which had become a German ally in the War after November 1914.[2]
Great Britain is prepared to recognize and uphold the independence of the Arabs in all the regions lying within the frontiers proposed by the Sherif of Mecca.[6]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussein-McMahon_Correspondence#The_Damascus_Protocol

4) Arab Revolt: On this understanding the Arabs established a military force under the command of Hussein's son Faisal which fought, with inspiration from 'Lawrence of Arabia', against the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt.[
The Arab Revolt began in June 1916, when an Arab army of around 70,000 men and some of whom moved against Ottoman forces.
Albert Hourani, the late Oxford historian, wrote in his 1991 book titled A History of the Arab Peoples:
"In 1916 Husayn, the sharif of Mecca of the Hashimite family (1908-1924), came out in revolt against the Ottoman sultan, and an Arab force, recruited partly from beduin of western Arabia and partly from prisoners or deserters from the Ottoman army, fought alongside the allied forces in the occupation of Palestine and Syria. This movement had followed correspondence between the British and Husayn, acting in contact with Arab nationalist groups, in which the British had encouraged Arab hopes of independence (the McMahon-Husayn correspondence, 1915-1916)."
Nejla L. Izzeddin, PhD, in her 1953 book titled The Arab World: Past, Present, and Future, wrote the following:

The Arab Revolt made considerable contributions to the Allied victory on the eastern front. The Sultan of Turkey had declared the jihad or holy war as incumbent upon all Moslems. The Arab Revolt, led by the Sharif of Mecca, a descendant of the Prophet and Keeper of the Holy Cities of Islam, drew the sting of the jihad."

5) Arab Nationalism :

Nejla L. Izzeddin, PhD, in her 1953 book titled The Arab World: Past, Present, and Future, wrote the following:
"The Arab Revolt broke out in Hijaz in the spring of 1916. It was neither an unheralded event nor a local outbreak. It was the expression of Arab national consciousness and awareness of an existence and a destiny apart from the Turks and outside the Turkish Empire. Trends and forces, slowly forming during the preceding hundred years, had gradually awakened Arab feelings of identity, and given shape to Arab nationalism, however vague and confused...

Sharif Hussein’s objective in undertaking the Great Arab Revolt was to establish a single independent and unified Arab state stretching from Aleppo (Syria) to Aden (Yemen), based on the ancient traditions and culture of the Arab people, the upholding of Islamic ideals and the full protection and inclusion of ethnic and religious minorities. Arab nationalists in the Fertile Crescent and the Arabian Peninsula found in the Hashemite commanders of the Great Arab Revolt the leadership that could realize their aspirations, and thus coalesced around them.
In order to discern the motives of the Hashemites in undertaking the revolt, one must understand the policies undertaken by the Ottoman Empire in the years leading up to World War I. Following the Young Turk coup of 1908, the Ottomans abandoned their pluralistic and pan-Islamic policies, instead pursuing a policy of secular Turkish nationalism. The formerly cosmopolitan and tolerant Ottoman Empire began overtly discriminating against its non-Turkish inhabitants. Arabs in particular were faced with political, cultural and linguistic persecution. During this time, Arab nationalist groups in Syria, Iraq and Arabia began to rally behind the Hashemite banner of Abdullah and Faisal, sons of Sharif Hussein bin Ali, King of the Arabs.
6) San Remo
On 6 January 1920 Prince Faisal initialed an agreement with French Prime Minister Clemenceau which acknowledged 'the right of the Syrians to unite to govern themselves as an independent nation'.[35] A Pan-Syrian Congress, meeting in Damascus, declared an independent state of Syria on the 8th of March 1920. The new state included portions of Syria, Palestine, and northern Mesopotamia which had been set aside under the Sykes-Picot Agreement for an independent Arab state, or confederation of states. King Faisal was declared the head of State. The San Remo conference was hastily convened, and the United Kingdom and France both agreed to recognize the provisional independence of Syria and Mesopotamia, while 'reluctantly' claiming mandates to assist in their administration. Provisional recognition of Palestinian independence was not mentioned, despite the fact that it was designated a Class A Mandate.
France had decided to govern Syria directly, and took action to enforce the French Mandate of Syria before the terms had been accepted by the Council of the League of Nations. The French intervened militarily at the Battle of Maysalun in June 1920. They deposed the indigenous Arab government, and removed King Faisal from Damascus in August 1920.[36] The United Kingdom also appointed a High Commissioner and established their own mandatory regime in Palestine, without first obtaining approval from the Council of the League of Nations.