POLS 3060 Chapter Bickerton & Klausner: History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
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History of the arab-israeli conflict bickerton & klausner: In reorganizing the ottoman empire and attempting to strengthen central control by using european engineers and investors, the sultan, paradoxically, encouraged the very european penetration of palestine they were seeking to prevent. Arabs and reawakened a sense of ethnic identity: the young turk revolution of 1908 brought to the forefront turkish nationalists who intended to preserve the. Ottoman empire through ruthless policies of centralization and islamization: groups now formed that were dedicated to achieving political independence as arabs from the ottoman. Empire: as time passed, nationalist sentiment among arabs in palestine also grew, partly in response to the strong nationalist feelings of jews toward palestine. Jews in nineteenth-century palestine: the jewish population of palestine and syria at the beginning of the nineteenth century totalled about. 25,000 most were sephardim, descendants of spanish jewry and ancient local families, and they were.