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Directed to the sea, in the opposite direction. >> quickly the turns realized there was no way out. so they surrendered. >> the battle of aqaba, provers the importance of the battle. they knew the land. these were tribabtribables. it would not have been successful had faisal had not been apart of it. >> a aqaba is the turning point. >> at this point, lawrence sees himself as no longer fighting for the british, hes fighting for the arabs. no one heard a word from him in over two months. he was ce...

♪ ♪ general allenby and the british forces have captured jerusalem. but t.e. lawrence decides he must leave the holy city to help prince faisal and the arab revolt claim damascus. >> hes obsessed to get to damascus before the british do. he arrive there is with faisal. they go there and set up a provisional government. >> meanwhile, in italy, the european powers, without arab representation, met to implement the terms of the agreement. >> the legacy of the agreement is very horrible, becau...

Denial and months later the british was playing everybody against everybody. >> it was the great power carving up the middle east and allocating the sliced territory of the modern day of palestine and lebanon and jordan and syria and iraq. >> did they ask the arabs in syria and palestine and lebanon and iraq what they wanted? > absolutely not. you have been fighting all along and hoping to regain this homeland and now it is ripped away from you. >> he ended up with another territory which was cr...

Office, just 400 metres away. taliban fighters replaced normal broadcasts with religious songs. these pictures are of taliban fighters in the centre of lashkar gah just a few days ago, at a roundabout called "peace roundabout". and here are afghan special forces on the ground. the us and afghan forces have been carrying out air strikes in the city. there are a large number of reports of foreign fighters in the country. heres general sadat again. so most of the foreign fighters in the battle of h...

Horrible legacy. we have a way that the arabs or the muslims remember it as a form of modern attack. >> jerusalem is a site that believers fought over whether those believers have been muslims or christians for years because they believe that holding that land is important to their faith. >> if you are a believer, you believe absolutely your faith is the truth. so thats why in the case of jerusalem apply city, people are abso absolute, it is the only city on earth exists twice and it gives it as...

I need to sweep all of this away to get us a government that is more effective and more able to deliver what the people want. >> so ten years after the arab spring, and youve done a lot of research and writing about this. tunisia was the one shining example. does it say something about the arab world that they have not been able to create and sustain one really consolidated liberal democracy? >> certainly thats going to be the temptation. people are going to say im super invested in tunisian dem...

Thousands of years. >> for the jews, jerusalem is wear solomon built the holy temple. >> for christians, this is the place where jesus was crucified. >> for muslims, jerusalem is where the prophet muhammed made the night journey. >> people who are said to have conquered the world swept through this city. >> no other individual changed the landscape in the way herod the great did. >> saladin was determined to take on the christians and throw them out of jerusalem. >> at a time of ottoman/islamic ...

Weve become an extraordinarily technological regional power, maybe global power. were economically thriving. the arabs are making peace with us, even though we havent moved on the palestinian issue. cant israel keep doing what its doing? >> i think thats a very fragile facade, and i say that because, again, when we have wars, and weve seen -- there is a template there. i know whats going to happen over the three weeks and how the loss of life and tragedy on all sides. this last war, i thought, w...

For the ark of the covenant. >> solomons father, david, had brought the ark of the covenant to jerusalem and planted it apparently on a rocky high point overlooking the city. so what solomon does, on top of that rocky outcrop, solomon builds a permanent house for the god of israel. >> temple mount, haram al sharif for the arabs, is the place where the first temple built by solomon stood. almost certainly on top of the rock that today is the foundation stone of the dome of the rock, the gorgeous ...

>> for muslims, jerusalem is where the prophet muhammed made the night journey. >> people who are said to have conquered the world swept through this city. >> no other individual changed the landscape in the way herod the great did. >> saladin was determined to take on the christians and throw them out of jerusalem. >> at a time of ottoman/islamic rule, the british badly wanted to control the holy land. >> the main case of the arabs is against the british government policy in palestine. >> we ar...