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Thanks for this lessongurey25 wrote:abubaker you need to step back and take a more broad look at the picture.
if you look too close to the picture, what you said is 100% accurate.
if you step back and take the whole picture into account you will see things are more complicated than you think.
The zionists or whoever was behind them in the early days scored their first victory by getting semi - diplomatic protection from the western powers for the freemason temples in the Ottoman Empire, primarily in Salonika.
This victory allowed them to infiltrate Ottoman power structure while protected from Sultand Abdelhamids 6 intelligence agencies
The second victory was recruitment of young ottoman officers , especially secular non-religous and westernized ones into the society. After carefull cultivation you form the beginings of the Young Turk movement.
They launched a coup in 1908 against the last Khalifa Sultan Abdelhamid and locked him up in his palace.
Government was then controlled by the 3 pashas who were all athiests .
1 was even a jew from his grandmothers side.
The first step they did was defeating the counter coup by muslims in the government and executing them in 1909.
After 1909 they pushed for Turkish Nationalism instead of Ottomanism.
Before 1908 if you spoke Osmanli and were muslim you were an Ottoman regardless of if you lived in mecca , damascus ,
Salanika , mustasir, or Istanbul.
If you only spoke turkish( Osmanli was a highly developed language based on turkish, but with mainly persian and arabic words)
you were an ignorant peasant, the same way as if you only spoke arabic.
All educated arabs were Ottomans first there was no such thing as arab nationalism.
Arab nationalism was an alien christian concept and if you talked about it to anyone in Baghdad or Damascus they would look at you with confusion. Arab nationalism was started by christian arabs in Lebanon about the same time as the young turks started
Turkish nationalism in 1908.
The majority of the arab population was behind the Ottomans all the way to 1918 when they were conquered by the west.
The Arab armies and officers in the Ottoman army remained loyal all the way to 1918.
only a minority about a dozen Syrian and Iraqi arab Ottoman Officers joined the arab revolt.
The sharif of Mecca and his family and closest friends where all Ottomans.
The sharif and his wife were part of Ottoman ruling class and where educated in Istanbul.
Him and his wife not only spoke arabic at home but also Osmanli, his wife spoke 6 languages .
So to cut things short as of 1909 the Ottoman empire was no longer run by Muslims,
It was run by anti -muslim turkish nationalists that were led and allied to zionists.
These are the ones that massacred the Armenians, its funny that the choicest property of the massacred armenians
went to jews connected to the young turk movement.
Infact vladimir jabotinsky the founder of the most rightwing isreali movements was part of the Salonika lodge along with the
3 pashas.
He was among the group of men that went to Sultan abdelhamid and took him into custody.
He was the editor of the Newspaper for the Young turks and at one point found himself in charge of the department of food supply to all Istanbul.
Looking at this, the Sharif of mecca hussien bin ali al hashimi, made the terrible choice of siding with one group of Kufaar
the British who made him false promises , against another group of Kufaar the 3 pashas running the Ottoman state.
You can fault him for making the wrong choice , but you cannot accuse him of treason.
