POLI 347 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Utopia, Nabi Musa, Palin Commission

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 347
• Professor: Daniel Douek

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B(cid:396)itai(cid:374)"s (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)it(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts to 1. support arab independence in the husayn-mcmahon. To divide control of middle east after ww1 in the sykes-picot agreements (may 1916), and 3. In immediate post war years, britain tried to promote their interests in the region while minimally satisfying claims and demands of its french allies, and new arab and zionist clients. Debate about whether these different commitments were fundamentally incompatible. Or whether they were overlapping but not necessarily incompatible, just the standard international diplomatic practices based on the imperial calculations of the day. Britain has caused: anti-colonist resentment among arabs after some initial euphoria, and deep mistrust and suspicion among jews. B(cid:396)itai(cid:374)"s e(cid:454)agge(cid:396)ated a(cid:374)d i(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:373)pati(cid:271)le e(cid:454)pe(cid:272)tatio(cid:374)s a(cid:373)o(cid:374)g a(cid:396)a(cid:271)s, palesti(cid:374)ia(cid:374)s a(cid:374)d. After 1920: arabs and zionists became locked into repeating patterns of complaining to. British colonial officers in palestine/london complaining about: the unwarranted or aggressive behavior of the other side, or the unfair treatment by the authorities favoring the other side.