{"id":4630,"date":"2008-05-21T23:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-14T19:08:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T17:08:55","slug":"epalestine-blogspot-com-108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2008\/05\/epalestine-blogspot-com-108\/","title":{"rendered":"[ePalestine] Al Jazeera: Balfour to Blair"},"content":{"rendered":"

Al Jazeera English<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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PROGRAMMES GENERAL   <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Balfour to Blair  <\/strong><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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The Israeli-Arab conflict is arguably the most intractable and the most explosive issue in the world today.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Though there may be no end in sight, it does have a beginning. For nearly a century, there have been British public figures who mixed politics with Christianity, seeking to impose their own ‘messianic’ vision on the Middle East, with disastrous consequences for those who live there.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Tony Blair is only the latest in a long list of British political figures who have made the Middle East their business  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Britain’s modern association with the Holy Land goes back to the First World War, and a time when it was looking for new allies against Germany.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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The Arabian Sherif of Mecca was an obvious choice. He promised to unite the Arabs and rise against Germany’s allies, the Ottoman Turks.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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In return, Britain officially promised in 1915 to assist him realise his dream: to be the supreme Arab ruler of an independent Arab kingdom.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Britain sent troops to fight with him, and paid him the equivalent in today’s money of half a billion dollars.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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But at the same time, the British, in conjunction with the French, were busy re-drawing the map of the region, dividing it into ‘spheres of influence’.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Britain would have Iraq and Jordan, France would have Syria and Lebanon.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Contrary to earlier promises, there would be no independent Arab state – though no one told this to the Arabs.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Balfour to Blair<\/em>, a special 30 minute film, investigates the promises made, the motivations of British policy in the Middle East at the time and the impact of the Zionist lobby on this policy.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Al Jazeera asks whether the same underlying principles that directed the policies in the beginning of the 20th century are still at play in the beginning of the 21st.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Watch part one of <\/u>Balfour to Blair<\/u><\/em> <\/span> <\/font> <\/a><\/p>\n

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Watch part two of <\/u>Balfour to Blair<\/u><\/em> <\/span> <\/font> <\/a><\/p>\n

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Balfour to Blair<\/em> aired from Friday, May 17, 2008  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Al Jazeera English PROGRAMMES GENERAL   Balfour to Blair  The Israeli-Arab conflict is arguably the most intractable and the most explosive issue in the world today.  Though there may be no end in sight, it does have a beginning. For nearly a century, there have been British public figures who mixed politics with Christianity, seeking to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-4630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"1","first_name":"Sam","last_name":"Bahour","user_url":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour","job_title":"","description":"Sam Bahour (\u0633\u0627\u0645 \u0628\u062d\u0648\u0631) resides in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He does business consulting as Applied Information Management<\/a> (AIM), specializing in business development with a niche focus on the information technology sector and start-ups.\r\n\r\nBahour was instrumental in the establishment of two publicly traded firms: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He is Co-founder & Emeritus Member of Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy<\/a> (A4VPE) and until recently served as an independent Director at the Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. and a board member at Just Vision<\/a>.\r\n\r\nHe writes frequently on Palestinian affairs and has been widely published in leading outlets. He is co-editor of HOMELAND: Oral History of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993), tweets at @SamBahour<\/a>, and blogs at epalestine.ps.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4630"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=4630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}