Iraq 6 dates — 1920: birth of Iraq -> major border disputes that led to 1980-89: Iran-Iraq War 1991: Gulf War May 1920: internal revolts 1921: Faisal made King to ease tensions 1932: independence

Sykes-Picot Agreement

Balfour Declaration

San Remo Conference

Treaty of Sèvres

Mandate System

Turkish War of Independence

Treaty of Lausanne

Syria & Lebanon 4 dates

Zionism

Balfour Declaration impact in Palestine

Haganah

Palestinian riots at the Wailling Wall and Hebron

Great Arab Revolt

Widening gap between the Jewish and Arab communities in the 30s

Impact of the Great Arab Revolt on the Jewish settlers

Impact of the Great Arab Revolt on the British

Passfield white paper

Arab Executive in Palestine

Sir John-Hope-Simpson

Peel Royal Commission

British White Paper

British White Paper : “His Majesty’s Government therefore now declare unequivocally that it is not part of their policy that Palestine should become a Jewish State”

Reactions to the White Paper 1939

The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness.

Loyalty is what makes us trust. Trust is what makes us stay. Staying is what makes us love, and love is what gives us hope.

You can quit if you want, and no one will care. But you will know the rest of your life.

Do not seek death. But do not fear it either. There cannot be life without death, it is inescapable.

There will come a day when the phone doesn't ring as much as it used to.

Directing is not on my agenda, but writing is. I want to write everything from action, superhero films to quiet dramas, smaller films.

My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

Bringing an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may help the young Arab generation to realise their aspirations. Israel is more than willing to offer our experience in building a modern economy in spite of limited resources to the whole region.

Shooting all day in the rain is not where you want to be.

Don't assume your partner knows about everything you expect in a relationship. Let them know. A relationship should be based on communication, not on assumptions.

I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs.

The harder I train every day on the track and in the gym, the more trust I gain in myself.

I never dreamed of being a pop star when I was a child.

Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.

To have a few amazing friends on this side of eternity this sometimes grotesque amusement park is the greatest joy.

Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.

Despite all the dysfunction in Washington, I believe that when it comes to helping veterans and keeping our fundamental promises as a country, we can come together and do the right thing.

It is never too late to be who you might have been.

I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna.

I think I'm more sympathetic to writers, to the work and the struggle and the craft of it, than when I was in graduate school at NYU and was very judgmental.

Chemistry unlike other sciences sprang originally from delusions and superstitions and was at its commencement exactly on a par with magic and astrology.

I never underestimate the power of hot rollers for your hair and eyelash curlers for your eyelashes.

Gandalf's a good guy, and it's a good part. He says the right things, he believes the right things. An actor can have fun with it.