Postlude as prelude

Palestine before World War I

"Ottomanism," "Arabism" and Sharif Hussein

First steps towards the Arab revolt

The next steps

The Hussein-McMahon correspondence

The Sykes-Picot agreement

The revolt begins

Prewar British Jews

Weizmann's first steps

The "assimilationists"

The road forks

Forging the British-Zionist connection

Defining the British-Arab connection

Managing the British-Zionist connection

Sokolow in France and Italy

Revelation of the Sykes Picot agreement

British Muslims, the Anglo-Ottoman society and the disillusioning of Marmaduke Pickthall

The curious venture of J.R. Pilling

Henry Morgenthau and the deceiving of Chaim Weizmann

The man who was "Greenmantle"

The Zaharoff gambit

The ascendency of Chaim Weizmann

Lawrence and the Arabs on the verge

The declaration at last

The declaration endangered

A drawing together of threads.