⬆️ Time to boost 🧵 #EcstasyAndAmnesia again… #WorthReading
Hard to miss the sudden and magical end to the conflict as #Biden retires.
Noting that correlation ≠ causation, I posit that the conflict was contrived for a specific objective, that objective was achieved, and like #DamascusProtocol, it was NOT dreamt up in consultation with #Palestinians, nor had #Palestinian interest in mind.
Once again, ecstasy will subside, amnesia will set in, and Palestinians will let others fight #inTheirName
⬆️ >> The main culprits were #Turkey and #Russia. There was much duplicity, especially between #Britain and #France… How is it, then, that the blame ALWAYS goes to the #UnitedStates, #Jews, #Zionists, and #Israel?
#US didn't do it. #Arabs & #Turks did it to themselves, & did it without #Palestinian agency ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111480417535849548
When #Ottomans entered #WWI & when Arabs wrote the #DamascusProtocol, neither consulted #Palestinians. Turkey wanted war spoils then. And after #Assad, still wants it
⬆️ @ksild
#Erdogan noted that those who say "What does #Türkiye have to do in #Syria" are unaware of history: "If the conditions were different when the borders in our region were redrawn after #WWI [when #Turkey LOST] the cities we call Aleppo, Idlib, Hama, Damascus, Raqqa would have been our provinces just like Antep, Hatay, Urfa. Since these cities are outside our borders, we did not have to completely cut off our relations with our people there."
⬆️ @homohortus
#McMahonHusseinCorrespondence refined the vague borders of the original #Kitchener letter and carved OUT specific areas, including #Palestine, from a future #Arabia.
SUBJECT to above modifications, the #British accepted rest of the limits, frontiers, and borders advocated by #DamascusProtocol.
Nov 5, 1915: #Hussein refused to budge on #Arab claims to land west of #Damascus, #Hama, #Homs & Aleppo, including #Alexandretta, giving rise to #Britain's #ForwardPolicy.
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⬆️ @homohortus
BEFORE the #ArabRevolt in #WWI, secret #Arab societies hiding from #YoungTurks unilaterally drafted the #DamascusProtocol and offered it to Grand Sherif #Hussein as a blueprint to negotiate Arab independence with #Britain.
Britain never agreed to the Damascus Protocol and made an offer based on vague borders per #Kitchener's letter.
Hussein was in a hurry. Instead of looking at actual British offer, he got fixated on Damascus Protocol.
#McMahonHusseinCorrespondence ensued.
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#France tells #Israel to halt #GolanHeights incursion and calls military deployment in buffer zone “a violation of the 1974 disengagement agreement” between Damascus and Tel Aviv.
France has coveted #Syria since before #WWI. See #DamascusProtocol (written by secret Arab societies), #ThievesBanquet (#Russia, #Britain, and France), and #SykesPicot Agreement (secretly carving up #MiddleEast between Britain and France, but never implemented because #Bolsheviks blew it up)
⬆️ @ajaykaul10
Nice explanation of #ThievesBanquet — WHY #Britain carved out #Palestine.
#DamascusProtocol was crafted unilaterally by secret Arab societies but Britain never promised Palestine to #Hussein in #McMahonHusseinCorrespondence.
Britain rebuffed #zionism in 1914 & tried repeatedly to get #Turkey out of #WWI in exchange for Palestine, but Turkey refused.
Palestinians never fought for freedom.
@ekis @Properganda @tartley @Lane @chiclet @GatekeepKen @nikatjef @Grant_M @CivilityFan
⬆️ @enoch_exe_inc @rightardia @vgoller @prolrage @redfrog
>> The British promised the Arabs, which included the Palestinians, a free and independent country if they revolted against the Ottoman Empire.
Evidently, you did not read #DamascusProtocol. I am going to give you benefit of doubt one more time
#Arabs did not include #Palestinians and British never offered Palestine to them ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111493950717715613
If you want to engage despite being called out with links, please link to your sources
⬆️ @enoch_exe_inc @rightardia @vgoller @prolrage @redfrog
>> It’s a lot easier to devalue people when you label their political organisations as terrorist groups
It’s a lot easier to blame the wrong group of people when you lack proper knowledge of history. That’s why I pointed you to #DamascusProtocol.
Also a “political” organization does not launch rockets on unarmed civilians. #Oct7 was not a military op but terrorism
Come back when you have read that and are armed with new facts. Thanks
⬆️ @enoch_exe_inc @rightardia @vgoller @prolrage @redfrog
>> In 1947, they’d just been informed that THEIR revolt against their former #Ottoman rulers was for the benefit of outsiders
#Palestinians did not revolt. The #Arabs did, and for that they earned their freedom and #ArabianPeninsula. British never promised #Palestine to Arabs. It was dreamed up by them in the #DamascusProtocol (see hashtag).
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⬆️ @samhkennedy
>> If #Israel had followed any form of legal process, not funded Hamas to undermine any peace process maybe things would have been different
Skipping a lot of #history? My timeline is FULL of that. Look for #TurkishYoke, #ThievesBanquet, #DamascusProtocol, #Arabism, #ArabNationalism, #permanentStateOfWar, #inTheirName…
Before Israel funded Hamas, #Palestinians kicked offer for free state in 1947 & joined Arabs in war. If they hadn’t done that, Israel wouldn’t need to fund Hamas
Root cause is #Arabism
Been since #WWI
#Arab territorial ambition, NOT #Palestinian welfare, drove #DamascusProtocol by secret Arab societies
Arabs promised to help #British against #OttomanEmpire in exchange for Arab independence, but Palestinians had NO agency in that, nor did they do anything to get anything from British in return.
#Britain never promised them that land.
Since root of the problem is #territorial, not #religious, #secular one-state is not solution
Untangling #DamascusProtocol dreamed up by #Arab secret societies on their own from the actual #British offer to Grand Sharif #Hussein of #Mecca — recognizing Arab independence from #TurkishYoke — in exchange for Arabs revolting against #Turks in #WWI
#McMahonHusseinCorrespondence ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111469381209136152
Meme inspired by @8124@babka.social -- Thanks!
⬆️ #OttomanEmpire - 2
Besides #Jews, there were 3 other broad categories of people in the region.
— #Imperial Masters, the #Turks
— #Palestinian #Peasants, #Fellahin
— #Bedouin #Nomads, the "Pure #Arabs"
The boundaries & borders of #Palestine & #Arabian lands were VAGUE TO ALL.
This is why #Kitchener's offer for Arab independence from #TurkishYoke in exchange for Arab uprising in WWI was based on vague borders.
Arabs dreamed up #DamascusProtocol on their own with no regard to Palestinians
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⬆️ The #KitchenerTelegram gained something in translation that #British had not intended — involvement of #Arabs DURING the War
So a "clarification" was sent, which made matters worse
Secret societies of discontented Arabs in #Hejaz (#Arabia) immediately latched on to these signals and drafted the #DamascusProtocol, not for #Palestinians #inTheirName, but for their OWN power
In any case, #Britain did not owe Palestinians anything because the latter never fought the #Turks to help the British
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It was #misfortune compounded by #misunderstanding.
Misfortune was that #Abdullah's initial contact with #British in 1914 had already primed them into choosing #Hussein in 1915 without considering ALTERNATIVES.
The misunderstandings were 2-fold:
1. Misunderstanding on #Kitchener's part about a monolithic homogenous #Islamic bloc & blind spot over the #Shia-#Sunni divide, and
2. Misunderstanding on #Hussein's part in conflating #DamascusProtocol and British offer of Independence
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The #Turkish intrigue with #Germans was separate from its intrigue to depose Grand Sharif #Hussein of #Mecca
These Turkish intrigues collided with:
2. Subsequent #British intrigue to dangle independence to #Arabs, albeit with loosely defined borders, in exchange for their support in #WWI
3. #DamascusProtocol cooked up by secret #Arab societies and presented to #Hussein without British knowledge
#US #imperialism was notably absent when this #MiddleEast mess was created
#Ottoman #Turkey was already scheming to depose Grand Sharif #Hussein of #Mecca
#ThievesBanquet, starting with #Russia coveting #Constantinople (#Istanbul), with #Britain & #France reluctantly agreeing, led to #Kitchener letter offering #Hussein independence from #Ottomans but it was based on vague borders
Separately, #Arab secret societies #AlAhd & #AlFatat jointly conceived #DamascusProtocol, foundation of #ArabRevolt against #Turks, to include #Palestine but British never promised them that
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They reserved areas where #Britain had existing treaties with #Arab chiefs (Aden to Principalities on East Coast)
They reserved territories in which Britain was free to act without detriment to the interests of their ally, #France.
SUBJECT to above modifications, the #British accepted rest of the limits, frontiers, and borders advocated by #DamascusProtocol.
Nov 5, 1915: #Hussein refused to budge on #Arab claims to land west of #Damascus, #Hama, #Homs & Aleppo, including #Alexandretta
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#Hussein was LIVID.
He was under the impression that the #British had agreed to the #DamascusProtocol document, prepared by #Arab secret societies #AlFatat & #AlAhd, declaring that Arabs would revolt in alliance with #UK. In return, UK would recognize Arab independence in the area specified by the Damascus Protocol, as they were ESSENTIAL to the well-being of any future #Arab State
But British had offered VAGUE borders. Immediately after outbreak of #WWI, #McMahon took up the border issue
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