Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Timeline: Six key moments that shaped Jerusalem

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/18/middleeast/jerusalem-original-series-faith-and-fury-timeline/index.html

By the start of World War I, Jerusalem was part of the Ottoman Empire, which was allied with Germany.
On the other side stood the British Empire, which "badly wanted to control the Holy Land, to bring it under Christian influence at a time of Ottoman Islamic rule," says Bruce Hoffman, the Director of the Center for Jewish Civilization at Georgetown University.
As the war unfolded, there was born what at first appeared an alliance, as Arabs in revolt against their Ottoman rulers found support from the British.
In reality, says Ali Qleibo, an anthropologist and writer for This Week in Palestine magazine, Arab rebels hoping to come out from under Ottoman rule "were lured and lied to by Britain. They thought it's simply liberation; they did not know it was preparatory for an occupation."
Britain struck a secret deal with France called the Sykes-Picot Agreement, which "essentially divided [the Ottoman Empire] of the Middle East into a British part, including most of Iraq, Jordan and Palestine, and a French part, which included Lebanon, Syria and part of Turkey," Mourad says.

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