#mcmahonhusseincorrespondence — Public Fediverse posts

⬆️ @homohortus
>>Britain NEVER offered #Palestine to #Arabs — before, during, or after #McMahonHusseinCorrespondence. They did offer it to Turkey. Repeatedly. But Turkey refused to exit WWI. After Turkey lost, Palestine went into an International Condominium.

Clarification: Turkey already had Palestine since 1517.

Britain offered to let Turkey KEEP it in exchange for exiting #WWI. It was a quid pro quo to induce Turkey so that WWI could end sooner. It was NEVER offered to Arabs for their help
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⬆️ @homohortus

#Hussein wanted #British as much as they wanted him, and he too was willing to POSTPONE settling the #BorderIssue.

Both parties were in a hurry as #WWI was raging and #Hussein and his sons were directly under threat from #Turkey.

Britain NEVER offered #Palestine to #Arabs — before, during, or after #McMahonHusseinCorrespondence.

They did offer it to Turkey.

Repeatedly.

But Turkey refused to exit WWI. After Turkey lost, Palestine went into an International Condominium

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⬆️ @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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⬆️ @homohortus

BEFORE the #ArabRevolt in #WWI, secret #Arab societies hiding from #YoungTurks unilaterally drafted the #DamascusProtocol and offered it to Grand Sherif #Hussein as a blueprint to negotiate Arab independence with #Britain.

Britain never agreed to the Damascus Protocol and made an offer based on vague borders per #Kitchener's letter.

Hussein was in a hurry. Instead of looking at actual British offer, he got fixated on Damascus Protocol.

#McMahonHusseinCorrespondence ensued.

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⬆️ @homohortus

>> So it was Turkey that antagonized BOTH Arabs and British.

Under threat from #CUP, and still under the #TurkishYoke, #Arabs approached #Britain and offered to revolt against #Turks in exchange for British recognition of #Arab independence from #OttomanEmpire.

British had rebuffed Arabs too, just as they had rebuffed #Zionists, but Turkish entry in #WWI changed everything and Britain agreed to work with Arabs.

THAT led to the #ArabRevolt, NOT #McMahonHusseinCorrespondence

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⬆️ @ajaykaul10

Nice explanation of #ThievesBanquet — WHY #Britain carved out #Palestine.

#DamascusProtocol was crafted unilaterally by secret Arab societies but Britain never promised Palestine to #Hussein in #McMahonHusseinCorrespondence.

Britain rebuffed #zionism in 1914 & tried repeatedly to get #Turkey out of #WWI in exchange for Palestine, but Turkey refused.

Palestinians never fought for freedom.

@ekis @Properganda @tartley @Lane @chiclet @GatekeepKen @nikatjef @Grant_M @CivilityFan

#PoliticalAllegory idea based on #uncannySimilarities between #MiddleEast & #SouthAmerica — #TerritorialDispute in former #British #colony mediated by #Russia, #Britain, & #America 100 years ago.

Dispute endures as #Venezuela says #American & #European colluded to cheat their country out of land.

They also need their own #McMahonHusseinCorrespondence to resolve the 1966 agreement among Venezuela, Britain, & #BritishGuyana.

The biggest difference is #oil vs #religion.

https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-guyana-essequibo-territory-dispute-maduro-referendum-d956cc4d5d2a70e3a1e762b744e397de

Untangling #DamascusProtocol dreamed up by #Arab secret societies on their own from the actual #British offer to Grand Sharif #Hussein of #Mecca — recognizing Arab independence from #TurkishYoke — in exchange for Arabs revolting against #Turks in #WWI

#McMahonHusseinCorrespondence ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111469381209136152

Meme inspired by @8124 -- Thanks!

#Ottomans #Palestine

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#Kitchener's mistake in choosing #Hussein & #Arabia as representative of ALL #muslims based on his misunderstanding of religious differences was responsible for 4 decades of #proxyWars between #ArabLeague states & #Iran's theocracy-backed #AxisOfResistance, until the secret #rapprochement brokered between them by #China in March 2023

#British mistake in offering independence based on vague borders & #Hussein's subsequent confusion were addressed in #McMahonHusseinCorrespondence, but in vain.

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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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With #Turkey entering #WWI against the #British & #Allies, the whole calculation had changed.

#McMahonHusseinCorrespondence that ensued had 2 main reasons:

1. Counteract #Ottoman #jihad against Allies
2. Maintain support of #Muslims in British #India over which the Ottoman #Caliphate had great sway.

It refined the vague borders of the original #Kitchener letter and carved out specific areas from a future #Arabia.

The dispute on this carve-out is the #cruxOfTheMatter in the conflict.

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