NMC278H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Ulama, Fertile Crescent, Guerrilla Warfare
20 Oct 2016
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Delegates were from syria, lebanon and palestine according to old ottoman districts. Saw themselves as successors to syrian parliament, wanted unity. Post wold war 1 ambitions in fertile crescent. Arab nationalists expected independence in fertile crescent. Zionists wanted their promised jewish national home. Britain"s (cid:272)hose fran(cid:272)e over the ara(cid:271)s: anglo french alliance was a corner stone and they were not prepared to sacrifice it, arab nationalist movement relied on faysal, faysal relied on britain, and britain failed them. Their organization was impeached, faysal and the syrian kingdom was sealed in a convo between uk and france where they were not included the sanrepo? agreement. Fertile crescent - mandates: methods of legal control. Britain received mandates for iraq and palestine, france syria and palestine. The supposed contract in which civilized countries lead backward countries to political and economic independence, whether they wanted the guidance or not. They did not want it, smelled like the old colonial system.
