Precious Star
Junior Member
We should be clear about a few issues. Waleed Ibn Talal, a member of the Saud Family, has admitted Saudi Arabia was a British creation. Documentary evidence from British archives show the first king in the current Saudi State, King AbdulAziz (also known in the West wrongly as Ibn Saud) received a regular stipendiary from the British treasury from 1914 until the 1920s. British arms were supplied from the 1920s and even the RAF was used in the same decade against rebels.
Regular meetings between British intelligence members, political negotiators and memoirs of Gertrude Bell, William Shakespeare [not the seventeenth century famous playwright], Harry St John Philby and Thomas Edward Lawrence provide dates, describe resolutions adopted by both parties, orders given by London for assault on garrisons and cities held by the opponents of King AbdulAziz and demands made on the Saudi monarch in return for additional weapons, further political recognition and support.
Declassified documents from British archives also show King AbdulAziz was given advanced notice of London's desire for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. King AbdulAziz was made aware that the timing of his attacks on his adversaries reflected strengthening British positions in the First World War against the Turkish Caliphate's forces in Palestine. While British forces would engage with the Turkish army away from the Arabian Peninsula, King AbdulAziz was instructed to begin his siege of strategic cities. The documents show he only launched his invasions of territories held by the allies of the Turks or the Caliphate itself only when given the orders to do so.
The documents also show King AbdulAziz was informed Palestine would be divided and some of it would be allocated to the Jews.
Yes but this discussion goes nowhere. Many, many muslim countries were once "British states" in the manner you have described (I don't know if you cut and pasted from another text or if you wrote this yourself). We are obsessed with origins. I think the more relevant question is - what type of state is Saudi Arabia currently? I think we all know the answer to that question.