POLI 347 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Peel Commission, Ambivalence, French Mandate For Syria And The Lebanon

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 347
• Professor: Julie Norman

Document Summary

British start making deals with many actors in the region for their own best interests: contradictory: Western powers (french) (sykes picot agreement) Zionists (balfour declaration: creating or aggravating conflict, mcmahon-husein correspondence (1915-1916) Prepared to recognize and support independence of the arabs . Will guarantee the holy places against all external aggressions . Husein notable arab leaders in current day saudi arabia. Sherif of mecca: sykes picot (1916) Split up middle east into spears of influence . Britain jordan & iraq, french syria & lebanon: balfour declaration (1917) Establishment takes away the idea of returning to a land that should be theirs, problematic for some zionists. Civil and religious rights not political or national, direct contradiction to. Non-jewish communities didn"t recognize arab or palestinian, some say it was an attempt to include christian minority. League of nations: british mandate over iraq, transjordan, palestine. Jordan independence 1946: french mandate over lebanon and syria, british mandate in palestine.