Empire of Sand: How Britain Made the Middle East - Walter Reid
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At the end of the First World War, Britain, and to a much lesser extent France, created the modern Middle East. The possessions of the former Ottoman Empire were carved up with scant regard for the wishes of those who lived there. From the outset, the project was destined to fail.
Conflicting and ambiguous promises had been made to the Arabs during the war but were not honored. Brief hopes for Arab unity were dashed, and a harsh belief in western perfidy persists to the present day. Britain was quick to see the riches promised by the black pools of oil that lay on the ground around Baghdad. When France, too, grasped their importance, bitter differences opened up and the area became the focus of a return to traditional enmity. The wartime allies came close to blows and then drifted apart, leaving a vacuum of which Hitler took advantage.
Working from both primary and secondary sources, Walter Reid explores Britain’s role in the creation of the modern Middle East and the rise of Zionism from the early years of the twentieth century to 1948, when Britain handed over Palestine to United Nations’ control. From the decisions that Britain made has flowed much of the instability of the region and of the worldwide tensions that threaten the twenty-first century; this thought-provoking book considers how much Britain was to blame.
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This post has 5 comments with rating of 5/5
August 18th, 2022
…and they did another heckuva job, Brownie.
August 19th, 2022
“The possessions of the former Ottoman Empire were carved up with scant regard for the wishes of those who lived there..”
Conquers be like that. Just like the Arabs had scant regard for the wishes of those who lived there when they conquered the region and North Africa and Spain and everywhere else they infected, pillaged and raped.
Conquers be like that.
August 19th, 2022
“The possessions of the former Ottoman Empire were carved up with scant regard for the wishes of those who lived there” Unless I misunderstood the Arab revolt then it seems the millions of Arabs living under Ottoman rule weren’t exactly consulted about it. Stop Press! The Brits didn’t do anything in the middle east that hadn’t already been done by Persians, Romans, Arabs, Turks, Franks and Mongols!
August 19th, 2022
Thank you so much
October 14th, 2023
Every single American taxpayer who doesn’t actively oppose giving Israel $3.8 billion each year with no strings attached has blood on his hands. No different than Germans who looked the other way even when they knew Jews and other “undesirables” were being sent to concentration camps.
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