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rized the United Kingdom to become the Mandatory Power in Palestine. The Mandate Document, however, inc

27 Article 6. Ma'an News Agency Palestine and Statehood: An historical overview Abdullah Abueid 24/08/2011 -- Until 1923, Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire. In December 1917, British troops entered Jerusalem and ended 400 years of Ottoman rule. In 1922, the League of Nations issued the Mandate of Pale

rized the United Kingdom to become the Mandatory Power in Palestine. The Mandate Document, however, inc

27 Article 6. Ma'an News Agency Palestine and Statehood: An historical overview Abdullah Abueid 24/08/2011 -- Until 1923, Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire. In December 1917, British troops entered Jerusalem and ended 400 years of Ottoman rule. In 1922, the League of Nations issued the Mandate of Pale

al Times and author of Zero-Sum Future: American Power in an Age of Anxiety, available in paperback on F

ns and Christian intellectuals, it sought to reform political life, separate religion from politics, emancipate women, and move past the debris of the Ottoman Empire. Fittingly enough, that great movement, with Beirut and Cairo at the head of the pack, found its chronicler in George Antonius, a Christian writer

public refused to abide the generals' meddling. Power had successfully shifted away from Kemalist elit

TATURK To understand the need for institutional rebalancing, one needs to first understand how the roots of Turkey's present institutions began in the Ottoman Empire. The reach of the Ottoman state was limited in many ways, but the effective political power that did exist -- organized mainly around military con

longed peace allows inertia and decay to set in. Power is already more diffuse than it ever has been. A

go affair, things are different. Even the worst mess has its winners. The Kurds, almost a century after missing out on statehood at the break-up of the Ottoman Empire, are the beneficiaries of Iraq's mayhem. Even their relations with their Turkish nemesis have been commerce- smoothed into something approaching war