arabia. it is a great movie, it is not true. it is wonderful fiction that plays into the narrative that the west understands. the white guy who helps the not white guys do the right thing because they are not capable of themselves. lawrence of arabia was not at savior of arabia. he was a loyal intelligence that carried out the mission of the team. british intelligence recognizes how valuable lawrence can be. lawrence was sent out to establish the relation and became the liaison between the british brand and faisal. he s going to need british help.
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this is going to swing the entire war in favor of the british. but more importantly, when he gets to cairo, a new british commander in chief has taken over, allenby. general allenby was not a typical british general of the time. he didn t come from a family of generals. he was an aggressive cavalry officer. he commanded great personal loyalty because of his integrity, his courage. he had a tremendous vision and perhaps the static claustrophobic trench warfare did not suit his mind. but as a cavalryman, he could kind of envision how to utilize his cavalry units as well as the british camel corps. at the same time allen bee arrives in the middle east, there are major changes in ottoman-controlled jerusalem. the occupation of aqaba by the forces of faisal was a panic moment for the germans because
faisal is tall, slim and soulful and a bit meladilanconm he has calm. he spoke turkish and spoke english and france. he was educated. he was prepared to be a turkish ruler in his era but loyal to the ottoman empire. he harbored extremely resentment against the ottoman and wanted them out. faisal was interested in liberating the arab, what is
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,