any pretext in order to arrest them, put them in prisons, and in many cases actually, execute them. djemal pasha often hung them from the jaffa gates of the old city to show his power. and that only forced these arab nationalists to speak out all the more, which meant he just began banning their symbols, banning their speech. he was going to make more executions. and every time he tried to suppress their speech, arab nationalism only grew. it causes some people to react very strongly against the brutality of these executions. particularly important among those is prince faisal. prince faisal was the son of sharif hussein, who was in
very little mercy and does not look favorably at any sort of dissent. he was very brutal as a general. everywhere he goes, he left behind him trails of assassinations and executions. djemal pasha executed so many people that his nickname was djemal the slaughterman. that s not a nickname of a peaceful man. general pasha s brutal tactics incite the local arab population to rebel against his control. so the ottoman empire was seen as corrupt, was seen as disconnected from the needs and wants of the arab population at the time. i think one of the great ironies of the ottoman rule was that it actually helped spur the rise of arab nationalism. they were not arabs.
Some think of the Palestinian-Israeli dispute as a clash of nationalisms. Others stress religious antagonism, while others yet see an East-West power .