[#179] THE LAND BELONGS TO WHOM IT BELONGS, Part 6: Ottoman Palestine Before The Deluge, 1900-1913

Subliminal Jihad

Dimitri and Khalid continue their multi-episode journey into the actually existing history of the geographic region known for millennia as Palestine, and the actually existing people who inhabited it under (mostly) uninterrupted Ottoman rule from 1516 to 1918. Part 6: Ottoman Palestine Before The Deluge, 1900-1913 Herzl’s roundabout assimilationism and building a new Europe for Jews in the middle east, parallels to the Young Turk quest towards Europeanization, lighting your torch with someone else’s flame… Swirling precursors to World War 1, the expanding economic and military relationship between Imperial Germany and the Ottomans, the Damascus-Medina-Hejaz Railway line, British fears about German-Ottoman friendship, the German military mission to Istanbul, grooming the future Young Turks, simmering Arab-Ottoman tensions, government surveys of the Palestinian population, and dracular parallels between Herzl and the 17th c. Ottoman Jewish false messiah Shabbatai Zevi. For access to premium episodes, the full SJ back catalog, show notes, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe to the Al-Wara’ Frequency at patreon.com/subliminaljihad.