The Middle east is the territory between west of Iran, south of Turkey, east of Egypt and north of Yemen and Oman. Within this are you have the geopolitical battle ground. Made up of the Jordan River valley which is Palestine, Israel and Jordan. Then you have the Northern corridor of Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. Then the Arabian gulf monarchies. The realities are this who ever controls the Northern Corridor controls the Middle east. Since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and creation of the Northern Corridor by the British the middle east has had this geopolitical reality. It was created by the British to Iran or Turkey threatening British oil imports and trade with British India. The North Corridor is to blame for the conflict within the Middle east not, the Jordan River Valley. The conflict between Egypt military dictatorships, Arabia Gulf Islamist Monarchies, Iranian Shiite Persian power and Turkish secularist Sunni power. Within this a Jewish power is nothing more than an after thought.
Return of the Arab, Persian or Ottoman Empire. Instead the British divided the Arabs and played the Turkish and Persians against each other. Meaning the Arabs needed the British giving them a right to keep forces their and protect their interests.
The Ottoman Caliphate was OVER long before the British intervened..... The problem for the British was that they didn't want to pay for the oil they were extracting in Iraq and Iran. Remember, the Brits had converted their navy from coal to diesel around 1912-13.
The Ottoman Caliphate had stopped, but it could have been restarted. The British didn't mind trading as it is cheaper than an a military campaign, stationing forces and supporting a government or protectorate. However when the Ottoman joined the Germans the British saw a need to protect their interests.
There was no way the Ottoman Empire could be reconstituted.. Ibn Saud had chased the Turkish garrisons off the Arabian peninsula ... Turkey was called the "sick man of Europe".
The British think decades and centuries ahead, within that time span the Ottomans could make improvements and threaten British interests in the region. Saudi had help from the British.
Actually the British bet on the wrong horse... They supported the Emir of Mecca Faisel Husseini instead of Ibn Saud.. LOLOL
But then the British supported the Saudi monarchy to keep it in power. While putting its allies in Iraq, Yemen and Jordan to curtail Saudi.
No they didn't support the Saudi monarchy. Don't you know that's why TE Lawrence left Arabia is disgust.
I am talking about after that. Moving into the inter war period the British started to support Saudi and their own Monarchies in the Iraq, Jordan and Yemen.
I think that Aden was ruled by British India, but that was over by 1937. The British never had any presence in Arabia and the Americans outmaneuvered them.. They gave crowns in Iraq and Jordan to Hussein and his sons for their efforts in selling out the Arabs to the Zionists.
