{"id":2096,"date":"2017-06-13T22:05:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T12:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/?p=2096"},"modified":"2017-06-13T22:05:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T12:05:25","slug":"lawrence-of-arabias-comments-on-ummahs-breakup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/?p=2096","title":{"rendered":"Lawrence of Arabia&#8217;s comments on Ummah&#8217;s breakup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an intelligence memo written in January 1916 Lawrence described the Arab Revolt as<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>beneficial to us, because it marches with our immediate aims, the break up of the Islamic &#8216;bloc&#8217; and the defeat and disruption of the Ottoman Empire, and because <em>the states [Sharif Hussein] would set up to succeed the Turks would be ? harmless to ourselves<\/em> ? The Arabs are even less stable than the Turks. <em>If properly handled they would remain in a state of political mosaic, a tissue of small jealous principalities incapable of cohesion<\/em> (emphasis in original).<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/McMahon%E2%80%93Hussein_Correspondence#cite_note-oup-15\">[15]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an intelligence memo written in January 1916 Lawrence described the Arab Revolt as beneficial to us, because it marches with our immediate aims, the break up of the Islamic &#8216;bloc&#8217; and the defeat and disruption of the Ottoman Empire, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/?p=2096\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[11,38],"tags":[107,633,632],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":2145,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ttSq-xO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}