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The "ARAB STATE" (green) as promised to the Hashemites by the Protocol of Damascus (1914), later disrupted by the Sykes-Picot agreement and League of nations mandates.1 The secret societies declared they would support Faisal's father Hussein bin Ali 's revolt against the Ottoman Empire , if the demands in the protocol were submitted to the British. These demands, defining the territory of an independent Arab state to be established in the Middle East that would encompass all of the lands of western Asia, then became the basis of the conversation in the Hussein-McMahon Correspondence .2
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The Damascus Protocol was a document given to Faisal bin Hussein on 23 May 1915 by the Arab secret societies al-Fatat and Al-'Ahd on his second visit to Damascus during a mission to consult Turkish officials in Constantinople . The secret societies declared they would support Faisal's father Hussein bin Ali 's revolt against the Ottoman Empire , if the demands in the protocol were submitted to the British. These demands, defining the territory of an independent Arab state to be established in the Middle East that would encompass all of the lands of Ottoman Western Asia south of the 37th parallel north , became the basis of the Arab understanding of the Hussein–McMahon Correspondence .
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1915 document The Damascus Protocol was a document given to Faisal bin Hussein on 23 May 1915 by the Arab secret societies al-Fatat and Al-'Ahd on his second visit to Damascus during a mission to consult Turkish officials in Constantinople . The secret societies declared they would support Faisal's father Hussein bin Ali 's revolt against the Ottoman Empire , if the demands in the protocol were submitted to the British. These demands, defining the territory of an independent Arab state to be established in the Middle East that would encompass all of the lands of Ottoman Western Asia south of the 37th parallel north , became the basis of the Arab understanding of the Hussein–McMahon Correspondence .
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document given to faisal bin hussein by the arab secret societies al-fatat and al-'ahd on his second visit to d
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document given to faisal bin hussein on 23 may 1915 by the arab secret societies al-fatat and al-'ahd on his se
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