Treaty of San Remo
Notes
From BWH:
Following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the British ocupied
most of the Arab regions formerly ruled by Turkey. Eventuallly the British
and French together, working through the League of Nations, defined the
boundaries of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine and were awarded
the mandates to rule those territories. There wee a number of consequences.
Firstly the united Arab monarchy which would have combined Nedj and Hejaz
(see Saudi Arabia) with the mandated territories never came into being.
Second, the British allowed Jewish immigration into Palestine in a move
which, thirty years later led to the independence of Israel and the conflicts
which have racked the middle east ever since. Michael Baigent has argued
that the horoscope for the granting of the mandates represents the middle
east as a whole, and the broad sweep of its political life, including
the Arab-Israeli conflict. On 25 April 1920, the League of Nations, meeting
in San Remo, divided the existing large province of Syria into the mandates
of Palestine and Transjordanania allocated to Britain and Syria and Lebanon,
allocated to France. In addition, the three Turkish provinces of Mosul,
Baghdad and Basra were united to form Iraq and allocated to Britain. Most
important, from the present point of view, was that provision as made
for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Agreement was reached at about 11.22
am, and this is the chart for that time. The angles may be relocated for
any of the middle eastern capitals. The Kurds were also promised a separate
state, but this was never fulfilled.
Source
Book of World Horoscopes, Nicholas Campion