Timeline for Did a British committee in 1907 recommend pushing Middle East into internal wars?
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| May 16, 2017 at 16:01 | comment | added | Henry | The real Arab issue for Britain was any potential negative impact on trade with India. Piracy and the slave trade were suppressed by force and treaty (leading for example to the emergence of the Trucial States). Palestine and most of the Arab hinterland were not an issue as they were not on the way to anywhere interesting to Britain, unlike Egypt and Iran | |
| May 16, 2017 at 2:12 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSkeptic/status/864302553957371906 | ||
| May 15, 2017 at 9:24 | answer | added | Avery | timeline score: 11 | |
| May 15, 2017 at 7:28 | history | reopened | Oddthinking♦ | ||
| May 15, 2017 at 7:28 | history | edited | Oddthinking♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
The words are not attributed to the PM directly. The plan is not attributed to the PM directly.
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| May 15, 2017 at 7:14 | history | closed | Oddthinking♦ | Needs details or clarity | |
| May 15, 2017 at 6:29 | comment | added | Ofir | The phrase "a springboard for the West" sounds unlikely to be written by a British at 1907, the word "West" specifically doesn't fit pre-WW2 colonial thinking - if the sentence was "a springboard for the British empire" it would have been a bit more believable. If you remember that at the time, the area wasn't controlled by Arabs or by a western power, but by the Ottoman empire - the quotation makes very little sense. | |
| May 15, 2017 at 4:45 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | Good question. All Google hits look modern. | |
| May 15, 2017 at 4:02 | review | First posts | |||
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| May 15, 2017 at 4:00 | history | asked | historyexplorer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |