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  1. #Alexandretta
    Stamp issuing: 1938
    Special days:
    1938 Apr 14 First stamps issued.
    1938 Sep 2 Name change to Hatay.
    1938 Nov 10 Last stamps issued.
    Stamp shown:
    1938, 10 piastre, airmail, overprint on #Syria, depicts Damascus.
    #stamps #philately #stampcollecting

  2. ⬆️ @homohortus

    #McMahonHusseinCorrespondence refined the vague borders of the original #Kitchener letter and carved OUT specific areas, including #Palestine, from a future #Arabia.

    SUBJECT to above modifications, the #British accepted rest of the limits, frontiers, and borders advocated by #DamascusProtocol.

    Nov 5, 1915: #Hussein refused to budge on #Arab claims to land west of #Damascus, #Hama, #Homs & Aleppo, including #Alexandretta, giving rise to #Britain's #ForwardPolicy.

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  3. ⬆️ @homohortus

    #McMahonHusseinCorrespondence refined the vague borders of the original #Kitchener letter and carved OUT specific areas, including #Palestine, from a future #Arabia.

    SUBJECT to above modifications, the #British accepted rest of the limits, frontiers, and borders advocated by #DamascusProtocol.

    Nov 5, 1915: #Hussein refused to budge on #Arab claims to land west of #Damascus, #Hama, #Homs & Aleppo, including #Alexandretta, giving rise to #Britain's #ForwardPolicy.

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    This gave rise to #Britain's #ForwardPolicy, which meant the larger effort to:

    1. attack #Alexandretta (now #Iskenderun, a port and naval base on the Mediterranean coast in southern #Turkey), and

    2. “roll up #Syria,”

    refashioning the #MiddleEast to suit #British imperial interests.

    Proponents of the Forward Policy exhorted #London to deal with #Hussein's demands head on.

    Speed was of the essence. They believed “if we don’t gain the #Arabs now we might well lose them altogether.”

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  5. ⬆️

    This gave rise to #Britain's #ForwardPolicy, which meant the larger effort to:

    1. attack #Alexandretta (now #Iskenderun, a port and naval base on the Mediterranean coast in southern #Turkey), and

    2. “roll up #Syria,”

    refashioning the #MiddleEast to suit #British imperial interests.

    Proponents of the Forward Policy exhorted #London to deal with #Hussein's demands head on.

    Speed was of the essence. They believed “if we don’t gain the #Arabs now we might well lose them altogether.”

    ⬇️

  6. ⬆️

    They reserved areas where #Britain had existing treaties with #Arab chiefs (Aden to Principalities on East Coast)

    They reserved territories in which Britain was free to act without detriment to the interests of their ally, #France.

    SUBJECT to above modifications, the #British accepted rest of the limits, frontiers, and borders advocated by #DamascusProtocol.

    Nov 5, 1915: #Hussein refused to budge on #Arab claims to land west of #Damascus, #Hama, #Homs & Aleppo, including #Alexandretta

    ⬇️

  7. ⬆️

    They reserved areas where #Britain had existing treaties with #Arab chiefs (Aden to Principalities on East Coast)

    They reserved territories in which Britain was free to act without detriment to the interests of their ally, #France.

    SUBJECT to above modifications, the #British accepted rest of the limits, frontiers, and borders advocated by #DamascusProtocol.

    Nov 5, 1915: #Hussein refused to budge on #Arab claims to land west of #Damascus, #Hama, #Homs & Aleppo, including #Alexandretta

    ⬇️

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    The dispute regarding the extent of the coastal EXCLUSION in the #McMahonHusseinCorrespondence is at the heart of the #Israeli-#Palestinian conflict. #Zionism is just an adjunct to the conflict, not the primary reason.

    #Britain excluded #Districts of #Mersina & #Alexandretta, portions of #Syria west of the districts of #Damascus, #Hama, #Homs & #Aleppo.

    They reserved the right to administrative control in the #Vilayets of #Baghdad and #Basra because of their interests in #British #India.

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  9. ⬆️

    The dispute regarding the extent of the coastal EXCLUSION in the #McMahonHusseinCorrespondence is at the heart of the #Israeli-#Palestinian conflict. #Zionism is just an adjunct to the conflict, not the primary reason.

    #Britain excluded #Districts of #Mersina & #Alexandretta, portions of #Syria west of the districts of #Damascus, #Hama, #Homs & #Aleppo.

    They reserved the right to administrative control in the #Vilayets of #Baghdad and #Basra because of their interests in #British #India.

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