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The Hussein-McMahon Correspondence 1915/ 16

The Hussein-McMahon Correspondence 1915/ 16. Sayyid Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca. Sir Henry McMahon, British High Commissioner in Egypt. The Ottoman Empire . The Middle East, pre WW1 . WW1: The Entente vs. The Central Powers. The Hussein-McMahon Correspondence.

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The Hussein-McMahon Correspondence 1915/ 16

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  1. The Hussein-McMahon Correspondence 1915/ 16 Sayyid Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca Sir Henry McMahon, British High Commissioner in Egypt

  2. The Ottoman Empire

  3. The Middle East, pre WW1

  4. WW1: The Entente vs. The Central Powers

  5. The Hussein-McMahon Correspondence • Supports Arab independence. (Roughly) modern day Lebanon should be excluded from an Arab state. (This position is attributable to British (GB) consideration of the French, who have a long association with the large Christian population in this area.) GB will protect the holy places against ‘external aggression’. GB will play a ‘state-building’ role. • In return, the Arabs will assist Britain by fighting against the Turks. The Arabs will only adopt as GB as their advisor and mentor and will let GB directly control modern day Iraq. • Proviso: Promises concern that area where ‘Great Britain is free to act without detriment to the interests of her ally, France’.

  6. The Sykes-Picot Agreement, 1916

  7. The Balfour Declaration, Foreign OfficeNovember 2nd, 1917 Dear Lord Rothschild, I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet. His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country." I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation. Yours sincerely, Arthur James Balfour

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