tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post6312132482916174252..comments2023-10-03T23:58:17.279+11:00Comments on Middle East Reality Check: All Sykes-Picot, No BalfourMERChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14500573372528287733noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-86087555077878878162014-07-04T13:22:58.175+10:002014-07-04T13:22:58.175+10:00And what was it that then US President Wilson said...And what was it that then US President Wilson said about secret treaties and the rights of small nations to self determination?<br /><br />Why was Palestine the exception at the Paris Peace conference of 1919?<br /><br />The Hussein-McMahon treaty, by contrast, was not kept secret from the Arab population "yearning to be free".<br /><br />It was a carrot dangled in front of them to spur them on in their fight against the Ottoman occupiers. Full of pledges for future Arab independence, free of interference from foreigners, in their own country, Greater Arabia.<br /><br />Look what happened, occupied by new bullies,the Ottoman provinces divided and called countries and then pitted against each other.<br /><br />Of course there was an ulterior motive for all this deceit. The establishment of the Bandit State on Arab land- Palestine.<br /><br />Hussein-McMahon Treaty 1915 ---2015.<br /><br />Let every Arab call for it to be fully implemented. Even fight for it to be implemented, after all as the treaty was agreed and endorsed by none other than Sir Henry McMahon, as a lawmaker of His Majesties Britannic Government and the leader of the Arab revolt, and their ALLY Sharif Hussein, how could present day advocates of the treaty be accused of "terrorism" ? <br /><br />One hundred years later it is time for Britain to honour the pledge to the Arabs.<br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-35883924970818543332014-07-04T03:17:00.147+10:002014-07-04T03:17:00.147+10:00ze'ev jabotinsky
bernard lewis
what they want...ze'ev jabotinsky<br />bernard lewis<br /><br />what they wanted, what they got.<br /><br />isaac isaacs<br />albert einsten<br /><br />significant intellects of their epoch, what they wanted, what they did not got (sic/grammar)<br /><br />avuncular phillip does the fealty thing well. his daughter converted too. he always struck me as a social climber and fake socialist. <br /><br />well, he did have gareth porter on latenite(sic) but, that was more, limited hangout, so he could keep giving the one sided pov.<br /><br />gladdies and poddies. i prefer, w@nkers as epithet. will he get bob carr back?<br /><br />bob carr, always struck me as a datsun 120b. he is flying above his station, which is something like those old yellow/gold/black petrol bousers <b>Solo</b> back in the 90s. yep, thats his station.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com