British policy in the Middle East was not confined to Palestine. Its purpose, though now a defeated anachronism, informs British attitudes even today. It had its genesis in a historic misrepresentation: the inflation, out of all relation to the reality, of the so-called Arab Revolt during the First World War. This hoax was part of the intricate manoeuvres of the great powers at the end of that war. It was at first directed against France. …showed first 75 words of 959 total…

…showed last 75 words of 959 total…The admission in Britain of the Lawrence myth is a confession of the tricking of the French after the First World War and of the falsehoods and fabrications employed to promote the betrayal of the British trust in Palestine and of Britain's undertakings to the Jewish people. That betrayal had far-reaching consequences in fostering and reinforcing the pan-Arab attack on the Jewish restoration, with all the resultant suffering and bloodshed that continue to this day