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Impressive_Pin_7767 t1_jcpiip3 wrote
Reply to comment by operating5percpower in TIL that a famine in Persia (Iran) between 1917–1919 lead to the deaths of an estimated 2 million people. It's an event that hasn't been studied by many historians. by icantthinkofaname940
Hussein bin Ali al Hashimi named himself the king of those regions after the Arab Revolt. But then once World War I ended Syria and Lebanon were given to France and Palestine was given to the United Kingdom.
The British said that if the Arabs lead a revolt they'd be entitled to an independent Arab state from Syria to Yemen. The Arabs then did in fact lead a successful revolt and the British refused to grant them the independent state that they promised. Do you have a source for you 1/1000 figure?
The British promised Jewish people "a national home in Palestine" in the Balfour Declaration in 1917. The British then arrested Jewish people migrating to Israel up through 1948.
The Soviet Union didn't exist from 1917-1919 when the famine happened. You must be confusing this famine with another event.
Impressive_Pin_7767 t1_jcnsgwf wrote
Reply to TIL that a famine in Persia (Iran) between 1917–1919 lead to the deaths of an estimated 2 million people. It's an event that hasn't been studied by many historians. by icantthinkofaname940
The British really fucked up the Middle East. In order to fight the Ottoman Empire that was in modern day Iran they recruited both Jewish people and Arabs and promised them both land in modern day Israel. Then when they were successful in defeating the Ottoman Empire, they refused to give either group the land they promised and their occupation of modern day Iran was so brutal that millions of people died.
Impressive_Pin_7767 t1_j6bs469 wrote
Amazon Music is a buggy mess. It will downsample everything that doesn't match your Windows sound setting and unlike other apps like Tidal, Qobuz, Foobar, etc. it won't change the bit rate to match the song.
People have been asking Amazon Music to have this very basic feature that other hifi streaming services have for years.
Impressive_Pin_7767 t1_j5xc6v0 wrote
Reply to comment by xGuacamolly in HD600 = absolute Endgame by xGuacamolly
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Impressive_Pin_7767 t1_iyad2wd wrote
This is why the majority of sexual assault doesn't get reported and only something like 2% of rapists ever serve any jail time.
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Impressive_Pin_7767 t1_jcr8vsf wrote
Reply to comment by operating5percpower in TIL that a famine in Persia (Iran) between 1917–1919 lead to the deaths of an estimated 2 million people. It's an event that hasn't been studied by many historians. by icantthinkofaname940
So it sounds like we agree that the British broke their promise then. They agreed to give the Arabs an independent state from Syria to Yemen and then once they war ended they didn't.
The idea that the British just held on to Palestine to keep their promise to the Jewish people is a lie. They arrested Jewish people who tried to travel to Palestine.
You said that the British did "most of the work" taking back land from the Ottoman Empire. That was a lie. It was the Arab forces in modern day Iran who were estimated to be 30,000-50,000, not 5,000 who did most of the work. Trying to compare their numbers to British forces fighting in France as evidence that the British did most of the work in modern day Iran is nonsense.
At least you stopped referring to Russia as "the Soviets". I'll give you credit for that but nothing else in your rant was historically accurate.