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The Faisal – Weizmann Agreement was signed on 3 January 1919, by Emir Faisal ( son of the King of Hejaz ), who was for a short time King of the Arab Kingdom of Syria or Greater Syria in 1920, and was King of the Kingdom of Iraq ( today, Iraq ) from August 1921 to 1933, and Chaim Weizmann ( later President of the World Zionist Organization ) as part of the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 settling disputes stemming from World War I.
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* 1921 – The British install the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali ( leader of the Arab Revolt of 1916 against the Ottoman Empire ) as King Faisal I of Iraq.
* 1990 – Princess Ayah bint Al Faisal, Jordanian royalty
* 1919 – At the Paris Peace Conference, Emir Faisal of Iraq signs an agreement with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East.
* 1935 – Faisal II of Iraq ( d. 1958 )
* 1975 – Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew.
* 1964 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother King Faisal.
* Faisal bin Turki ( June 4, 1888 – October 15, 1913 )
* Taimur bin Faisal ( October 15, 1913 – February 10, 1932 )
* 1963 – Prince Faisal bin Al Hussein of Jordan
King Faisal ( 1964 – 1975 ) was a " modernist " who favored economic, technological and governmental progress but was also politically and religiously conservative.
* May 31 – Anglo-Iraqi War: British troops complete the re-occupation of the Kingdom of Iraq, returning Prince ' Abd al-Ilah to power as regent for Faisal II.
* July 24 – French troops occupy Damascus and depose Faisal I of Syria as king.
* May 20 – King Faisal I of Iraq ( d. 1933 )
* August 23 – King Faisal I of Iraq is crowned in Baghdad.
* March 25 – King Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by his nephew ; the killer is beheaded on June 18.
* April 25 – Two of the companions of Islam's Last Prophet Muhammad are moved from their graves upon informing of water in the graves in the dream of King Faisal of Iraq in Salmaan Paak, Iraq.
* October 3 – Iraq becomes an independent kingdom under Faisal.
* September 8 – Faisal I of Iraq, king of Iraq
* Tafas – Lawrence's guide to Faisal is based on his actual guide, Sheikh Obeid el-Rashid, of the Hazimi branch of the Beni Salem, whom Lawrence referred to as Tafas several times in Seven Pillars.
* Faisal – Weizmann Agreement ( 1919 )
* Faisal – Weizmann Agreement
* King Faisal II Coronation Medal – 1953
## Faisal ( April 1906 – 25 March 1975 ); reigned 1964 – 1975
Faisal bin Hussein bin Ali al-Hashemi, ( Fayṣal ibn Ḥusayn ; 20 May 1885 – 8 September 1933 ) was for a short time King of the Arab Kingdom of Syria or Greater Syria in 1920, and was King of the Kingdom of Iraq ( today Iraq ) from 23 August 1921 to 1933.
Faisal and Weizmann
These hopes were expressed in the Faisal-Weizmann Agreement, which was signed by soon-to-be Iraqi ruler Faisal I and the Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann, which called for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
January 18: Faisal-Weizmann Agreement between Emir Faisal ( son of the King of Hejaz, Sharif of Mecca Sayyid Hussein bin Ali ), and Chaim Weizmann ( later President of the World Zionist Organization ).
Weizmann ( left ) with Faisal I of Iraq in Syria, 1918
On 3 January 1919, Faisal and Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President of the World Zionist Organization signed the Faisal – Weizmann Agreement for Arab-Jewish cooperation, in which Faisal conditionally accepted the Balfour Declaration based on the fulfillment of British wartime promises of development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and on which subject he made the following statement:
Faisal ( right ) with Chaim Weizmann ( also wearing Arab dress as a sign of friendship ) in Syria, 1918.
Emir Faisal I and Chaim Weizmann ( left, also wearing Arab outfit as a sign of friendship )
Weizmann first met Faisal in June 1918, during the British advance from the South against the Ottoman Empire in World War I.
After his meeting with Faisal, Weizmann reported that Faisal was " contemptuous of the Palestinian Arabs whom he doesn't even regard as Arabs ".
In the event, Weizmann and Faisal established an informal agreement under which Faisal would support dense Jewish settlement in Palestine while the Zionist movement would assist in the development of the vast Arab nation that Faisal hoped to establish.
At their first meeting in June 1918 Weizmann had assured Faisal that " the Jews did not propose to set up a government of their own but wished to work under British protection, to colonize and develop Palestine without encroaching on any legitimate interests ". nd of November, 1917.
Faisal and Agreement
On 3 January 1919, he and the Hashemite Prince Faisal signed the Faisal-Weizmann Agreement attempting to establish favourable relations between Arabs and Jews in the Middle East.
The French army entered Damascus at that time, overthrew King Faisal and put an end to the project of a Greater Syria, put under the French Mandate in accordance with the prior Sykes-Picot Agreement.
The decision of the peace conference itself refused independence for the vast Arab-inhabited lands that Faisal desired, mainly because the British and French had struck their own secret Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916 dividing the Middle East between their own spheres of influence.
* Faisal – Weizmann Agreement ( 1919 )
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On January 3, 1919, future president of the World Zionist Organization Chaim Weizmann and the future King Faisal I of Iraq signed the Faisal-Weizmann Agreement for Arab-Jewish cooperation in the Middle East in which Faisal conditionally accepted the Balfour Declaration based on the fulfillment of British wartime promises of development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
The Faisal-Weizmann Agreement led the Palestinian Arab population to reject the Syrian-Arab-Nationalist movement led by Faisal ( in which many previously placed their hopes ) and instead to agitate for Palestine to become a separate state, with an Arab majority.
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