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To: tejek who wrote (274668)	2/15/2006 9:27:24 AM
From: AK2004	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570343

no they did not, they got small peace of land. Palestinians got most of the Palestine but that was not enough.... and if you think that is about Israel then you are mistaken that is about hating jews that pre-date Israel here is some reading for you It is comfortable to assume that what occurs in the Middle East is merely a struggle for influence in that region, when time and again it has been part of a larger struggle for strategic advantage. In the great war between Bourbon and Hapsburg for supremacy in Europe, it was Catholic France that allied with the Moslem Turks against the Catholic Holy Roman Empire. In Napoleon's war against England, he asserted as he dispatched an army from Toulon to Egypt, "You are a wing of the Army (against) England," seizing Egypt is to destroy England.35 In 1889, the German Emperor, Wilhelm II and his Empress journeyed to Constantinople to visit Sultan Abdul Hamid. It had been 700 years since a German Emperor had visited Constantinople. In 1898, Wilhelm II went to Damascus and Jerusalem to deliver his message: "The 300 million Mohammedans who, dwelling dispersed throughout the East, reverence H.M. the Sultan Abdul Hamid, their Khalif, may rest assured that at all times the German Emperor will be their friend."36 Once again a European power bent on supremacy on that continent would enter the realm of the Middle East to find an ally there that would render it a strategic theater of war between 1914-1918. German policy toward the Middle East was re-awakened in 1940 with the fall of France. For here, once again, was an opportunity to use the Middle East to advance German strategic interests. This time, it was through an appeal to nationalism to foster resistance to Britain in the Palestine Mandate and Iraq and resistance to France in Syria. Haj Al-Husseini, Mufta of Jerusalem, anti-British and sympathetic to Nazi policy toward Jews, "proposed that the Axis powers…recognize the independence of the Arab states and come to a secret agreement with the Iraqi government."37 In the spirit of the Mufti, then resident in Berlin, Rachid Ali and his generals of "the Golden Square" seized power in Baghdad. The German Air Force began the transfer of some units to Baghdad and Damascus. The German Fuehrer in his directive on the Middle East stated: The Arab Liberation Movement is our natural ally…Strengthening the anti-British forces in the Middle East…disrupting communications and containing British forces and shipping at the expense of other theaters. I have decided to hasten developments in the Middle East by supporting Iraq.38 The overthrow of the Pro-German regime in Baghdad by British forces and the British and Free French resistance to the Vichy French and Germans in Syria left the great number of Germans in Iran as a threat to the supply of war materials to the Soviet Union along the route from the Persian Gulf to the Caspian Sea. Together British and Russian forces entered Teheran on 17 September 1941. That would open the way for the development of the Persian Corridor as the only dependable route for supply of British and American Lend-Lease to the Soviet Armed Forces after the United States entered the war. The Soviet government preferred the route for such supplies to be via the North Cape to Murmansk, a costly route for British and American shipping because of heavy U-boat attacks in the North Atlantic and German air, U-boat and surface vessel attacks on convoys off Norway. The less hazardous route via southern Africa to the Persian Gulf avoided the heavy shipping losses incurred on the Northern route. The Soviet government, however eager to be supplied by the American and British, were not happy about having the British and American involved in Iran and Iraq. But it was the act of succor to Russia that brought the United States into the Middle East to improve railways and highways from Iran to Russia to expand port facilities and construct vehicle assembly plants for the supply of war materials to the Russians. The Middle East became then a U.S. strategic area for the waging of war against the Axis. The supplies sent to British forces fighting in the Western Desert and the Eastern Mediterranean would lay the foundations for driving the Axis out of North Africa and open the door to Sicily and Southern Italy. Those supplies moved past the Cape of Good Hope through the Red Sea, or if aircraft, along the ferry route from Takoradi to the air depots at Cairo. Lend-Lease to the Soviet Union was intended to strengthen that country's forces and keep the Soviet Union in the war against Germany. Both sets of actions were meant to conserve American manpower engaged against the Axis in Europe and Japan in the Far East. But thus did the United States become directly involved in "that shifting, intractable, and interwoven tangle of conflicting interests, rival peoples and antagonistic faiths…"39