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Originally Posted by nailer
Your putting the cart before the horse here. With Turkey preoccupied with fighting the British, the Hashemite felt the moment was ripe to drive the Turks out of Arabia and attacked Medina. When the British found out about this they sent liaisons, one being T.E. Lawrence, to the Hashemite armies conducting the siege. As a result the Brits and the Hashemite became allies. The direct descendent of the commander of one of these Hashemite armies (IIRC there were three) rules Jordan to this day. The commander of the Hashemite army to which Lawrence was attached ended up as the ruler of Iraq after he was unable to keep the French from taking possession of Syria/Damascus.
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OK, but there's a little more to it than that. It wasn't just some unilateral French occupation of Syria, it was Sykes-Picot. The Hussain family may have finally ended up ruling Jordan but initially all the Hashemites ended up butt-fucked by Messrs. Sykes and Picot. Abdullah I may have been the "ruler" of Transjordan at the end of WWI, but it was as an "Emir" under the control of the British Mandate until 1946 when Jordan became an independent nation as part of the plan for the partition of Palestine. But long before 1946 the British notion existed and was openly promoted that part of Palestine would, at some point, become a Zionist homeland. Initially Christian Europe thought they could just create a Jew homeland in Africa...the "Uganda Scheme" in the first years of the 1900's. Which didn't quite work out.
My point in making these comments is that European Christians were working on plans to happily arrange for and assist as many Jews as possible to move out of Europe and into the Middle East or Africa. Zionism is not just some Jew racist desire to screw with poor, powerless Arab Muslims in "Judea". It was Europeans more than happy to be rid of as many Jews as possible, long before the Nazis, long before the 1947 partition plan.