Tag Archives: McMahon Hussain

Book Review: Persecution to relieve persecution

Posted on December 9, 2018 by admin

The Balfour Project is most grateful to the Times Literary Supplement for allowing us to reprint this review of The Arab Awakening, by George Antonius, the review by Harry Pirie-Gordon being published on November 26, 1938. Readers might also like … Continue reading →

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And the best book about the Balfour Declaration is…

Posted on October 22, 2018 by admin

Book review of Palestine the Reality by J.M.N. Jeffries – Skyscraper By John McHugo  Many people trying to get to grips with the Israel/Palestine conflict begin with the First World War and the contradictory promises Britain made at that time. … Continue reading →

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“You cannot ignore the sacred trust of civilisation or disdain the scholarship of Avi Shlaim”: a review of Lord Leslie Turnberg’s Beyond the Balfour Declaration by John McHugo

Posted on September 24, 2017 by admin

In Beyond the Balfour Declaration: The 100-Year Quest for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, (Biteback Publishing, 2017) Leslie Turnberg has tried to grapple with the difficult problem of achieving peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Turnberg is a Labour life peer. He is a … Continue reading →

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Balfour Declaration Centenary, 2017: towards constructive commemoration

Posted on October 16, 2016 by admin

‘I never knew that ……’ Liverpool Hope University 1st October 2016. The use of round tables in the Eden Arbour Room at Liverpool Hope University facilitated a welcome and a warmth to the buzz of conversation as participants in the … Continue reading →

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‘Britain in Palestine’ shown in UK Parliament

Posted on May 27, 2016 by admin

Parliamentarians from all four of Britain’s main political parties sponsored a showing of ‘Britain in Palestine, 1917-1948’ in The Attlee Suite – one of the main conference suites in the British Parliament. The audience of 130 watched the documentary, which … Continue reading →

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McMahon, Sykes, Balfour: Contradictions and Concealments in British Palestine Policy 1915-1917

Posted on April 17, 2016 by admin

by WILLIAM M. MATHEW Lecture given to the History Group of The Norfolk Club, 14 April 2016 to mark the centenary of the Sykes-Picot Agreement 1916 Abstract These three war-time initiatives are presented as part of a compressed, uncoordinated, two-year … Continue reading →

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J.M.N. Jeffries` Palestine Deception: Modern Resonances

Posted on March 21, 2016 by admin

In a recent review article (New Middle Eastern Studies 5 [2015]) on , The Palestine Deception, 1915-1923: The McMahon-Hussein Correspondence, the Balfour Declaration, and the Jewish National Home. ed William Mathew Dr. Nadia Naser-Najjab of the Institute of Arab and … Continue reading →

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Film of Britain in Palestine, 1917-1948

Posted on May 4, 2015 by admin

Now with Hebrew subtitles The Balfour Project is pleased to announce the release of the film ‘Britain in Palestine 1917-1948’ Telling the story of 30 complex years in less than 20 minutes is a challenge, and so the narrative is … Continue reading →

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The McMahon promise to Hussein

Posted on January 26, 2015 by admin

By Roger Spooner In 1915 Sir Henry McMahon, British High Commisioner in Egypt, offered Sherif Hussein of Mecca an independent Arab state if he would help the British fight against the Ottoman Turks. Hussein’s interest in throwing off his Turkish … Continue reading →

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Joseph Jeffries and the ‘Palestine Deception’, 1923 by William Mathew

Posted on September 23, 2014 by admin

In a new book, historian William Mathew publishes a series of articles from the Daily Mail of 1923. These presented a hitherto uninformed British readership  with details of official promises made to the Arabs in 1915-16 of post-war independence for … Continue reading →

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Contradictory Promises, by Peter A Shambrook

Posted on August 23, 2014 by admin

The seeds of 100 years of conflict Britain, the Arabs and the Jews, 1914 – 1918 2014 – 2018: Britain’s opportunity to acknowledge. In 2014, the centenary of the Great War will be marked in a variety of ways right … Continue reading →

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A History of the First World War in 100 Moments: A desert uprising that began in hope but was doomed to end in betrayal

Posted on July 29, 2014 by admin

Robert Fisk on the moment the Arabs, trusting in British good faith, turned on their Turkish rulers The Arab Revolt is all about the Arab Betrayal. The blowing up of Turkish trains, the capture of Aqaba, the camel charges and … Continue reading →

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Contradictory Promises

Posted on January 31, 2014 by admin

See also Contradictory Promises by Dr Peter Shambrook where these promises are explored in more detail. 1915  The McMahon-Hussein Correspondence, • In 1915 Britain promised the Arabs that after the war they would be granted independence in their lands, in … Continue reading →

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Agreement Between Emir Feisal and Dr. Weizmann

Posted on July 6, 2013 by admin

3 January, 1919 Introduction Following the First World War, Emir Feisal,   son of Sherif Hussein (Husayn) of Mecca, and the leader of the Arab movement, met in Aqaba with Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the head of the Zionist Commission to … Continue reading →

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Letter from Sir Henry McMahon to Sharif Hussein, October 24, 1915

Posted on July 4, 2013 by admin

Below is the letter Sir Henry McMahon wrote to Sharif Hussein in October 2015.  Before that are several articles expanding on Britain’s duplicity over WW1 and after. McMahon’s promise to Hussein, Roger Spooner summarises the effective sweeping under the imperial … Continue reading →

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