John Taylor discusses his critical book review on David Fromkin’s widely-read and respected A Peace to End All Peace; how Fromkin minimizes the Arab contribution to Allied victory against the Ottoman Empire in WWI; and Fromkin’s omission of the 1915 British offer of an independent Greater Syria – including Palestine – to the Arabs for fighting the Turks (predating the 1917 Balfour Declaration, in which Britain offered to help establish a Jewish state).
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