The Arabs Are Not Negotiating, They're Just Negotiating

When violence started to break out, this just reinforced the fact to the arabs that they weren't negotiations at all. So he was on the verge of facing open revolt in his own ranks. He withdrew his agreement and demanded that the french leave syria. That wasn't going to happen. confrontations began to take place between local arabs and french troops. The majority of the british government thought of the balfor declaration as a commitment to facilitate an essentially peaceful process.