TRN410H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ruhollah Khomeini, Insecticide, Highly Suspect
30 Apr 2016
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Emerged out of the commitments made at the end of wwi. One of three colonial period legacies legacy of division. Ottoman was on side of central powers during wwi and was crumbling. British balfour commitment making a jewish homeland. Nothing shall be done to prejudice non-jewish people. 2 contradictory threads being introduced by the british. Ottoman empire falls france is given mandatory power of lebanon and syria, gb over. End of 1920s saudi arabia its own kingdom. Jewish homeland within the palestinian state but rejected by the zionists. Resurgent movement and bombings agains british facilities. Borders that israel gains in territory in war. Us recognized israel 1948-67 even handed policy in the middle east. Truman, eisenhower and kennedy had sympathy for the arab peoples. Wwii decolonization but some states were still under colonial rule. The us would supplant the euros with the suez crisis 1956. Decline of the euro powers in the middle east.
