In the last week of October 1914, the Ottoman Empire went to war on the side of Germany and Austria-Hungary. The land between the Mediterranean and the Jordan was, as it had been for four hundred years, a set of Ottoman administrative districts. Within a year it was a war zone, and within four it was under British occupation, with its future already the subject of three written undertakings made while the war was on.
This is episode six of The Same Small Land, a grounded, in-depth examination of the history of Palestine and its peoples. I’m Allen Schyf, and this is Polite Disputes.
Music: Truth Be Told by Maarten Schellekens
