Faisal's ouster leads to further rioting in…

Faisal's ouster leads to further rioting in Jaffa as a large number of Palestinian Arabs who had been with Faisal return to Palestine to fight against the establishment of a Jewish nation.

The end of Faisal's Greater Syria experiment and the application of the mandate system, which artificially carves up the Arab East into new nation-states, will have a profound effect on the future of the region in general and Palestine in particular.

The mandate system creates an identity crisis among Arab nationalists that will lead to the growth of competing nationalisms: Arab versus Islamic versus the more parochial nationalisms of the newly created states.

It will also creates a serious legitimacy problem for the new Arab elites, whose authority ultimately rests with their European benefactors.

The combination of narrowly based leadership and the emergence of competing nationalisms will stymie the Arab response to the Zionist challenge in Palestine.