teddyearp
Gold Member
So many threads always seem to go back to around and/or after the turn of the last century and have always seemed to bring up the same old things. We even have a sticky in this section for it:
The Official Discussion Thread for the creation of Israel, the UN and the British Mandate
But, what if Ismail Enver, Pasha never got the Ottoman Empire into WWI? I got this idea while learning about the oil interest in the region as well during WWI.
So, if the Ottoman Empire never joined the Germans in WWI, we might not have had; the McMahon-Hussein Correspondence and "Lawrence of Arabia", the Sykes-Pichot Agreement, the ever named Balfour Declaration, and (or nor) even the British and French Mandates. Granted, there was already a bit of Jewish 'return' or 'colonization' going on in the area before WWI, but . . .
Let's have some fun. I found an intelligent old thread somewhere else, but let's see if we can have some of that intelligent speculation here about this 'what if'.
Where would we be if the Ottomans never entered WWI? Would this section even exist, lol?
The Official Discussion Thread for the creation of Israel, the UN and the British Mandate
But, what if Ismail Enver, Pasha never got the Ottoman Empire into WWI? I got this idea while learning about the oil interest in the region as well during WWI.
So, if the Ottoman Empire never joined the Germans in WWI, we might not have had; the McMahon-Hussein Correspondence and "Lawrence of Arabia", the Sykes-Pichot Agreement, the ever named Balfour Declaration, and (or nor) even the British and French Mandates. Granted, there was already a bit of Jewish 'return' or 'colonization' going on in the area before WWI, but . . .
Let's have some fun. I found an intelligent old thread somewhere else, but let's see if we can have some of that intelligent speculation here about this 'what if'.
Where would we be if the Ottomans never entered WWI? Would this section even exist, lol?