1876 - 1918 The Last Days of Ottoman Rule

I am going to choose from this very long list.. But, for anyone interested all of it is at the link.

1876 - 1918 The Last Days of Ottoman Rule

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1881
•Ottoman government announces permission for foreign Jews to settle throughout the Ottoman Empire, excluding Palestine.

1882
•First wave of 25,000 Zionist immigrants enters Palestine, coming mainly from Eastern Europe.
•Baron Edmond de Rothschild of Paris begins financial backing of Jewish colonization of Palestine.
•Ottoman government adopts policy allowing Jewish pilgrims and businessmen to visit Palestine but not to settle there.
•Ottoman government informs Jewish leadership in Constantinople that it views Zionist colonization in Palestine as a political problem.

1884
•Ottoman government decides to close Palestine to foreign Jewish businessmen but not to Jewish pilgrims.

1891
•German Jewish millionaire, Baron Maurice de Hirsh, founds Jewish Colonization Association (JCA).

1892
•Ottoman government forbids sale of state land to Foreign Jews in Palestine.

1893
•European powers pressure Ottoman government to permit Jews legally residents in Palestine to buy land provided they establish no colonies on it.

1896
•Jewish Colonization Association (JCA) begins operations in Palestine.
•Theodore Herzl, an Austro-Hungarian Jewish journalist and writer, publishes Der Judenstaat, advocating establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine or elsewhere.
•Ottoman Sultan Abd-al Hamid II rejects Herzl's proposal that Palestine be granted to the Jews.
•JCA starts assisting Zionist settlement in Palestine.

1897
•First Zionist Congress in Switzerland issues the Basle Program calling for the establishment of a "home for the Jewish people in Palestine". It also establishes the World Zionist Organization (WZO) to work to that end.
•In response to First Zionist Congress, Abd-al Hamid II initiates policy of sending members of his own Palace staff to govern province of Jerusalem.
•Commission headed by Muhammad Tahir al-Husseini, Mufti of Jerusalem, appointed to scrutinize Zionist land acquisition methods.

1898
•Arabic press reacts to first Zionist Congress: Cairo journal al-Manar warns that Zionism aims to take possession of Palestine.

1899
•Albert Antebi, JCA representative in Jerusalem, observes that program of First Zionist Congress has adversely affected relations between Palestinians and Jewish immigrants.
•Herzl sends letter to Palestinian Mayor of Jerusalem hinting that, if Zionists not welcomed in Palestine, they will go elsewhere.

1900
•Ottoman government sends commission of inquiry to Palestine to study implications of Zionist mass immigration and land acquisition.

1901
•Pressured by European powers, Ottoman government allows foreign Jews to buy land in Northern Palestine.
•Jewish National Fund (JNF) set up by Fifth Zionist Congress in Basle to acquire land for WZO; land acquired by JNF to be inalienably Jewish, and exclusively Jewish labor to be employed on it.
•Ottoman restrictions on Zionist immigration to and land acquisition in Jerusalem district take effect.
•Administrative Council of Jerusalem strongly objects to JCA 's attempts at acquiring in Jerusalem district.
•Palestinian farmers in Tiberias region express alarm at extent of Zionist land acquisition.

1902
•JCA representative Antebi observes that "the ill will of the local population coincides with the creation of Zionism".

1903
•Second wave of Zionist mass immigration to Palestine begins.

1904
•Death of Theodore Herzl.
•Tensions develop between Zionist colonists and Palestinian farmers in Tiberias region.

1907
•First kibbutz, based on exclusively Jewish labor, established.
•Report issued by Ottoman governor of Jerusalem on Zionist evasion of Ottoman immigration and land-transfer regulations.

1908
•Palestinian deputies from Jerusalem, Jaffa, Nablus and Acre elected to Ottoman parliament of 1908 in Constantinople.
•Beginning of "Young Turks" Revolution in Constantinople.

1909
•Tel Aviv founded north of Jaffa.
•Tensions and clashes between Zionist colonists and Palestinian farmers near Nazareth.
•Zionists issue raised for the first time in Ottoman parliament by Palestinian deputy from Jaffa.

1910
•Arabic newspapers in Beirut, Damascus and Haifa express opposition to Zionist land acquisition in Palestine.

1911
•European powers pressure Ottoman government to allow land acquisition in Palestine.
•Palestinian newspaper Filastine begins to appear; addressing its readers as "Palestinians", it warns about consequences of Zionist colonization.
•Two Jerusalem deputies open first full-scale debate in Ottoman parliament on Zionism, charging that Zionist aim is to create Jewish state in Palestine.

1912
•European powers renew pressure on Ottoman government to facilitate Zionist land acquisition in Palestine.

1914
•World War I starts.

1915
•Correspondence between Sharif Hussein of Mecca (leader of the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans) and Sir Henry McMahon (British high commissioner of Egypt) begins.
•Jemal Pasha, Ottoman military governor, hangs 11 Arab nationalists in Beirut.

1916
•Hussein - McMahon correspondence ends in agreement for postwar independence and unity of Arab provinces of Ottoman Empire.
•Sykes - Picot Agreement secretly signed, dividing Ottoman Empire between Britain and France. Agreement revealed by Bolsheviks in December 1917.
•Sharif Hussein proclaims Arab independence from Ottoman on basis of his correspondence with Mc Mahon. Arab Revolt against Constantinople begins.
•Sharif Hussein proclaimed "King of the Arab countries".

1917
•Balfour Declaration. British Secretary of State Balfour pledges British support for a "Jewish national home in Palestine".
•Surrender of Ottoman forces in Jerusalem to Allied forces under General Sir Edmund Allenby.

1918
•Palestine occupied by Allied forces under British General Allenby.
End of World War I.
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[Chronology

 

This link is easier to read.

http://www.endusmilitarism.org/info_related_to_nakba.html

 

1918 - 1920 - More pogroms in Russia

· 1919 - 1923 - Third aliyah.

· 1920 - The San Remo conference in Italy establishes the British Mandate of Palestine .

· 1920 - Histadrut founded.

· 1920 - Haganah founded.

· 1921 - Chaim Weizmann becomes new President of the WZO at the 12th Zionist Congress (the first since World War I).

· 1921 - Autonomy is given to Transjordan under Crown Prince Abdullah . Jewish settlement is outlawed there.

· 1922 - The text from the San Remo Conference is confirmed by the League of Nations .

· 1923 - Britain gives the Golan Heights to the French mandate of Syria.

· 1924 - 1928 - Fourth aliyah.

· 1932 - 1939 - Fifth aliyah.

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1936-1939


The Great revolution;

Palestinians held a six-month General Strike(longest strike

in history )to protest against killing of Izz-aldeen Alqasam & the

confiscation of land and Jewish immigration.

But the strike was stopped by arab leaders thinking that Britain

will give palestinians thier rights.But revolution continues:

-146 palestinians excuted;

-50,000 palestinians arrested for miscellanuous periods;

-2,000 palestinians centanced for long periods;

-5,000 houses detroyed;

-leaders of revolution expeld.

 

You missed a couple of Balkan wars there.
What the British wanted was a corridor of 20km left and eight of the railroad between Bashra and Alexandria (in Syria) .

 

What did they want it for?

 

Transferring oil of course .
You really need to read about Balkan wars and the Anglo-French occupation of Ismir and Cilicia .

 

I can't find an Alexandria, Syria anywhere.

 

There you go

 

I think mutmekep wanted to mean Alexandretta(Which is currently a province of Turkey close to Syria border.)

Alexandria is in Egypt...............

 

Oh thanks.. I knew that Alexandria was in Egypt.. Never heard of the other.

 

The link reflects Arabic(Palestinian wiev) to history which is not always match up with the historical fatcs....

 

There is NO commentary just dates..

 

Your welcome.

It is a rather small province( a county indeed) of Turkey which is located to Turkish-Syrian border.



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