POLS 3060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ottoman Empire, David Lloyd George, Turkish Nationalism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 3060
• Professor: Janine Clark

Document Summary

Film: promises and betrayals britain"s and the struggle for the holy land (2004) The film recounts the complicated history that led to the ongoing conflict between israel and palestine, a story of intrigue among rival empires and of misguided strategies. Despite widespread beliefs that the crisis originated with jewish emigration to palestine and the foundation of israel, the roots of the conflict began decades earlier. In 1915, when the allies were besieged on the western front, the british wanted to create a second front against germany, italy, and the ottoman empire. The british exploited turkish nationalism by promising arab groups their own independent states, including palestine, while secretly planning to carve up the. This british double dealing perpetuated the conflict in palestine. They promised the land to the jews but it was not theirs to give. They did not know what to do when ww1 ended and how they could follow through on the promises they made.