DrALJONES<p>Interview "The Making of the Modern Middle East: History, Politics, & Today’s Turmoil"</p><p>In 1900, "most of what we now refer to as the Arab world -— the Arabic-speaking areas of the Middle East -— were under the Ottoman Empire, the British Empire, or the French Empire."</p><p><a href="https://www.juancole.com/2025/03/history-politics-interview.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">juancole.com/2025/03/history-p</span><span class="invisible">olitics-interview.html</span></a> </p><p>The British empire created the century-long conflict in Palestine, which now seems to be in its final phase of blatant ethnic cleansing and genocide.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>imperialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/zionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>zionism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>palestine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ww1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ww1</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>israel</span></a> .</p>