The British Mandates

[georgephillip]

Almost a century ago the state-nations of the Middle East were inflicted upon Muslim and Christian populations alike across a part of the globe stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf.

The British Mandates consisted of Palestine, Trans-Jordan, and Iraq.

Why didn't the British consolidate all three Mandates into a single Arab state stretching from Israel/Palestine to Baghdad?

Would the level of violence in that part of the world be less today if they had?

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[irosie91]

Almost a century ago the state-nations of the Middle East were inflicted upon Muslim and Christian populations alike across a part of the globe stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf.

The British Mandates consisted of Palestine, Trans-Jordan, and Iraq.

Why didn't the British consolidate all three Mandates into a single Arab state stretching from Israel/Palestine to Baghdad?

Would the level of violence in that part of the world be less today if they had?

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the land mass you describe ------was never a discrete nation in history, Iraq has been Iraq------sorta the way it is today----for a few thousand years -----trans-Jordan---historically was a land separate from that which was called "Palestine since 300 AD----for more than 1600 years when England inherited it. Even Gaza----
was almost a separate issue ----historically The people are different culturally Iraqis are not Jordanians------find an Iraqi and ask him

 

[georgephillip]

Even Gaza----
was almost a separate issue ----historically The people are different culturally Iraqis are not Jordanians------find an Iraqi and ask him

Muslims defined their collective identity by their religion while Europeans defined theirs by their nation state. A Jewish homeland in Palestine would seem like the main reason why Palestine had to be defined as a separate territory a hundred years ago.