The initiator of the question of Palestine: Lawrence of Arabia
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June 4, 1918, British Zionist leaders Haim Weizmann and Faisal ibn Hussein. The following year, thanks to the efforts of the famous Arab Lawrence, the two joined hands at the Paris Peace Conference to demand the establishment of a joint Arab and Jewish state. This effort was eventually sabotaged by the conspiracy of British and French imperialism.
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Lawrence as commander of the Arab Rebel Army.
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During the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, Faisal I's delegation was in Versailles. From left to right: Rustum Haydar, Nuri Saeed, Prince Faisal, Pisani (behind Faisal), T· E. Lawrence, unidentified delegation members, Tasin Kadri.
Assessments of Lawrence and his people are polarized: on the one hand, Lawrence's contribution to the cause of Arab nationalist liberation is recognized and accepted by most people. On the other hand, in some Arab and former socialist countries, there is also the view that he was an intelligence officer and spy working for the British to bring Britain over the rule of the Arab world from the Ottoman Empire.
Arab scholars believe that a large part of the reason for the strife in Palestine today is that Lawrence helped the British occupy it and make it the "Jewish homeland" under British rule.
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Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935), also known as Lawrence of Arabia, was a British officer best known for his role as a British liaison officer during the 1916–1918 Arab Revolts. He became a public icon in part because of the sensational reportage about the uprising written by American traveler and journalist Lovell Jackson Thomas, as well as Lawrence's autobiographical account The Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Many Arabs saw him as a folk hero who propelled their freedom from Ottoman and European domination; Similarly, many Britons regard him as one of Britain's greatest war heroes.
He pushed the Arab rebels to conquer Aqaba and Damascus, and to establish an independent Arab federal state, a federal republic that included the Jews. But the Arab tribes were at loggerheads, and his hopes were dashed.
When the Paris Peace Conference was convened in 1919, he traveled to Versailles with the Arab sheikh Faisal to make a last-ditch effort for Arab independence, trying to achieve the original British promise of a unified Arab state with Damascus as its capital. But in the Arab tribal strife and the tactics of the British and French government officials, Lawrence's efforts at the negotiating table ended in failure.
Syria was transferred to the French Mandate, France expelled Faisal, who had become king of Syria, and Britain then arranged for Faisal to become king of Iraq; His brother Abdullah became the emir of Transjordan.
In 1920, the League of Nations entrusted Britain with the entrustment of the remaining former Ottoman Turkish possessions, including Transjordan (present-day Jordan) and the Palestinian Territories of Inner Jordan (present-day Palestine and Israel).
For the first time in modern times, the Arabs missed the opportunity to establish a unified state, and the consequences were endless.
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