the arabs don t have their own country. for 400 years, they have been a province. they have been subjects of a turkish sultan, ruled from far away in istanbul. and they begin to want independence. so the rise of arab nationalism started with a dream to create some kind of an arab kingdom to combine and unite all the arabs in one nation. but jamal pasha despised arab nationalism. he viewed it as a direct threat to his presence, to the ottoman empire, and crushed it with brutal force. so for arab nationalists, he made sure that they are followed by spies, that their correspondence being opened and checked, and he would use any pretext in order to arrest them and throw them in prisons, and in many cases actually, execute
he was very brutal as a general. everywhere he goes, he left behind him trails of assassinations and executions. jamal pasha executed so many people that his nickname was jamal 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. they were turks. the arabs said, screw them. we should be united ourselves.
them. jamal 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 charge of mecca at the time. they are part of the hashemites,
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36 Reasons Why Hamas Is Waging a Long-Term Jihad Against the Jewish State of Israel
Commentary
The latest concentrated rocket attack on central Israel by Hamas in the functionally (and militarily) independent city-state of Gaza is just the latest round in its long-term war to destroy the Jewish state of Israel.
If you read the “experts,” from the left-leaning New York Times to some of even the most conservative news sites, most of the “experts” dwell on what are called the “proximate” causes of this latest piece of murderous aggression. The New York Times, for example, in one headline argued that leaders from “both sides” might gain from the conflict, each in their own way. Really!