Der „arabische Aufstand“ gegen das Osmanische Reich
Von 1DarkStarryNight
Der „arabische Aufstand“ gegen das Osmanische Reich
Von 1DarkStarryNight
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the Ottoman Empire lost 82% of the territory it controlled in a time-frame of 42 years,
11th Russo-Turkish war, Balkan wars, Great War.
to put this into context, prior to the 11th Russo-Turkish war, it had ‘only’ lost 7% (Greece independence, southern Ukraine, including Crimea, plus Moldavia/Bessarabia annexed by Russia) compared to its ‘peak’.
The name always striked me as a bit unjust. Not all Arabs revolted, mostly the Hashemite dynasty in the Hijaz revolted against the Ottomans which were later conqured by the Saudis. Many Arabs tribes sided with the Ottomans untill the end.
Arabs alied with British forces and backstabbed the Turks
plans that backfired dramatically.jpg
as we all know the ME has since then become an oasis of peace und tranquility in a world full of terror and war
ummah
Thank you England and France for Saudi Arabia
Lawrence of Arabia is a pretty good film
Britain played them well.
Freaky to see Ottoman defenders as a Lebanese. They were trying to turkify the empire and helped manufacture a famine that killed a third of my people, not to mention the horrific massacres they performed on Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks. They only wanted to assimilate everyone into being Turks.
Some quotes by leaders of the revolt that people might find surprising:
>“We Arabs, especially the educated among us, look with the deepest sympathy on the Zionist movement…. We will wish the Jews a most hearty welcome home…. We are working together for a reformed and revised Near East, and our two movements complement one another. The movement is national and not imperialist.“
*-Emir Faisal I, commander of the Arab forces, letter to Felix Frankfurter, March 3, 1919*
>“All necessary measures shall be taken to encourage and stimulate immigration of Jews into Palestine on a large scale, and as quickly as possible to settle Jewish immigrants upon the land through closer settlement and intensive cultivation of the soil.“
*-Faisal-Weizmann agreement signed by Emir Faisal I, commander of the Arab forces, and Chaim Weizmann, president of the Zionist Organization, January 1919*
>“The resources of the country are still virgin soil and will be developed by the Jewish immigrants…. [We] have seen the Jews from foreign countries streaming to Palestine from Russia, Germany, Austria, Spain, America. The cause of causes could not escape those who had a gift of deeper insight. They knew that the country was for its original sons (*abna’ihi-l-asliyin*), for all their differences, a sacred and beloved homeland. The return of these exiles (*jaliya*) to their homeland will prove materially and spiritually [to be] an experimental school for their brethren who are with them in the fields, factories, trades and in all things connected with toil and labor.”
-*Article written or inspired by Sharif Hussein ibn Ali, initiator and principal leader of the Arab revolt and father of Emir Faisal I, „Al-Qibla“ newspaper (owned by Hussein), March 23, 1918*
Arab revolt to become owned by the Jews, Americans and Europeans 🤥
How could things get any worse than the Ottomans?
It would be oversimplying to call this a mere ‚revolt‘. Even before the Ottomans came to rule over this region, tribal dynamics and desert terrain were extremely difficult to navigate. It’s a godforsaken place to live and looking back at it would have had happened eventually, as the decline of the imperial power resulted in negligence and concentration of efforts in wealthy geography. Let’s see how that oil money will pan out in the future and if the world will want to depend on it.