How Britain Promised Arabia to Three Different People. The Lie That Made the Modern Middle East

The McMahon–Hussein Correspondence, the Sykes–Picot Agreement and the Balfour Declaration: three British promises, made over twenty-eight months, over the same strip of land — and at least two of them were deliberately hidden from the third party. This is the full documented record of how a bankrupt empire spent a country it did not own. Inside: the single Arabic word (wilayat) that four generations of lawyers have never agreed on; the secret back-channel that offered the Ottomans a separate peace — and, weeks later, a pledge that Britain would not annex Palestine; the suppressed King–Crane Commission report; and the 1939 committee where Britain’s own Lord Chancellor read Britain’s own letters and could not say what they meant. We also take apart, carefully and directly, the antisemitic myth that “Britain sold Palestine” — and show what the archives actually say. Sources cited on air include Antonius, Kedourie, Friedman, Kattan, Schneer, Segev, Shlaim, Renton, Vereté, Hughes, Khalidi, Pursley, Gilmour, Morris and Monroe. #BalfourDeclaration #SykesPicot #MiddleEastHistory #BritishEmpire #HiddenDossiers