By Lateef Farook
During the second half of 19th century the British Empire wanted to ensure the Middle East remains destabilized. It was around the same time that the Zionist Jews were planning to set up a separate Jewish state in Palestine where more than 97 percent of the population were Palestinian Arabs-both Muslims and Christians.
Zionist wanted to bring in Jews from all over and settle them in Palestinian lands which, the migrant Jews have not even seen, after killing and kicking out Palestinians from their lands and homes into refugee camps where they still languish.
It was the time when most of the Middle East was under Turkish Ottoman Empire. This was a hurdle which needed to be removed. The opportunity came during World War 1 when Turkey was defeated by allied forces led by Britain and France.
Anticipating the downfall of the Ottoman Empire, Britain and France began secret talks since 23 November 1915 to divide Middle East and bring the entire region under their control. These talks ended up in Sykes-Picot Agreement. Russia was in decline, but Britain and France got Russia involved.
This was the worst ever western conspiracy from which the Middle East suffers even today. After the war Britain and France, as per the agreement, divided the Middle East and defined the borders of their respective new states and shaped the region to suit their purposes.
As per Sykes-Picot Agreement Palestine in the Mediterranean, Jordan, Baghdad and areas around the Persian Gulf were grabbed by Britain while Syria, Lebanon and Turkish Cilicia were brought under French control. Later Egypt was brought under British control while North African countries Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Mauritania came under French control.
Neither France nor Britain actually ‘owned’ these territories, but they were to effectively control them from London and Paris .This situation continues to date.
British kept the Arabs in dark of these secret negotiations while Zionists were active partners.The Arabs came to know of the Agreement only when the Russian Communists released its contents in the media- Izvestia
This agreement violated assurances given by T E Lawrence ,British Army officer tasked with convincing the Arabs to fight against the Ottoman Empire promising Arabs freedom and their own rule after the war .The Arabs trusted the British but were betrayed .
Documents in the National Archives declassified and published disclosed various assurances of Arab independence provided by Secretary of War, Lord Kitchener, the Viceroy of India, and others in the War Cabinet.
Great Britain never intended to honour the promises that they made. They had used the Arabs to get the Ottoman Empire out of the way protect their own interests.
The entire time Lawrence was negotiating with the Arabs, Great Britain, behind everybody’s back, was negotiating with France, and planning to divide up the Middle East after the war. They needed to make sure there was no united Arab kingdom that would ever get in the way.
In the newly created western European model of the nation-states, Britain and France installed corrupted Arab stooges as rulers giving titles such as kings and created Royal families. This concept of Royal family dividing the people and the rulers were in complete violation of Islam which insists on equality.
These, ruthless dictators were expected not to introduce democracy, freedom and develop their countries, keep the people in poverty and illiteracy especially on Islam and never allow Islam to emerge as a force.
Thus today’s political, economic, religious and social scenario in the entire region is the direct outcome of this British French conspiracy.
In partitioning the Middle East Palestine was brought under British Mandatory Authority which, between 1923 and 1948, did everything possible for the Zionist Jews to drive out Palestinians, grab Palestinian lands and create the required infrastructure for a separate Jewish state. For example Jewish migrants were allowed to use arms while Palestinians were tied to lamp post and killed for using a pen knife.
Even before Palestine was brought under British control , in 1917 the British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour wrote to Walter Rothschild, a leader of the British Zionist Jewish community, stating that: "His Majesty's government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object .
Balfour wrote a memorandum from the 1919 Paris Peace Conference in which he declared that: "The four Great Powers (Britain, France, United States and Soviet Union) are committed to Zionism. And Zionism, be it right or wrong, good or bad, is rooted in age-long traditions, in present needs, in future hopes, of far profounder import than the desires and prejudices of the 700,000 Arabs who now inhabit that ancient land"
On 30 September 1918, disgusted Arabs, religious leaders and other notables in Mecca
declared in Damascus a government loyal to Sharif of Mecca. However Britain supplied weapons and money to Ibn Saud, current ruler of Saudi Arabia, and got Sheriff of Mecca removed and brought the Holy cities of Makkah and Madinah under the control of Ibn Saud family.
“This is the last time the Arab world had a united Islamic State led by a religious leader: the Ottoman Empire, the caliphate,”
Later United States and Soviet Union joined Britain and France, blackmailed member countries in the United Nations and passed a UN resolution establishing the Zionist Jewish state of Israel in 1948, in violation of all known laws, norms and cherished human values.
Britain and France never allowed their stooges, Arab dictators, to be removed .For example in 1956 Egypt’s popular President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized Suez Canal, which was under British control. Britain, France and Israel jointly invaded Egypt but were forced to withdraw due to pressure from US President Dwight Eisenhower.
Avenging this setback in its war of aggression in June 1967 Israel, with the backing of US,UK, France and Russia, annexed Egypt’s Sinai and Gaza, Syria’s Golan Heights, West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan. This was a crippling blow to Arabs.
During the past few decades Arab dictators perhaps under pressure from their US- European masters began establishing secret ties and various deals with Zionists virtually abandoning Palestinians. Israel was behind all subsequent wars in the region. Today’s state of affairs was such that Saudi, Jordan, Israel and Israel’s Palestine authority secretly planned the invasion, destruction and the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza.
In the midst under the guise of fighting a war on terrorism US, Britain France and Russia together with Israel demonized and declared war on Islam and Muslims and turned almost developed Arab countries such as Iraq, Libya and Syria into virtual killing fields besides driving more than 58 million millions of Arabs into refugee camps. For example US-European oil companies grabbed the oil wealth of Iraq besides its billions of investments in the West. In Libya alone they looted 145 tons of Libyan gold besides gaining control over Libyan oil wealth and its investments abroad. Today Iraqis and Libyans are in refugee camps while Syria is emptied of its people.
Thus four powers have created the environment for the creation of Greater Israel with occupied Palestinians lands and parts of Syria and Iraq and Egypt.
The question is how log these crimes will continue?
Latheef Farook is Colombo based senior journalist. He can be reached at E mail-almfarook19@gmail.com 16 MAY 2016
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