(April 21, 2015 at 7:42 pm)Minimalist Wrote: That was 600 years ago....they should have worked that out by now.
The Turks screwed them continuously all the way up to 1918. The Turks were every bit as loathed by the desert Arab in 1918 as we Americans are now by the jihadists, and probably more feared. It wasn't purely through personal magnetism and exaggeration of British honor that T. E. LAurence succeeded do in uniting waring Arab tribes against the Turks.