Scottish independence

It’s all on-the-job training. But the same is true for kids trying to grow into adults. No guidelines, just lots of unwritten rules that restrict who our children think they want to be. Ultimately, both parties want the same outcome:

Aug 30,  · Introduction. The War of Independence plays such an important part in American popular ideology that references to it are especially prone to exaggeration and oversimplification.

Transjordan , under the Hashemite ruler Abdullah I , gained independence from Britain in and was called Jordan in , but it remained under heavy British influence. Lebanon became an independent state in , but French troops would not withdraw until , the same year that Syria won its independence from France. Iraq and Transjordan coordinated policies closely, signing a mutual defence treaty, while Egypt, Syria, and Saudi Arabia feared that Transjordan would annex part or all of Palestine, and use it as a steppingstone to attack or undermine Syria, Lebanon, and the Hijaz.

In Palestine, violence erupted almost immediately, feeding into a spiral of reprisals and counter-reprisals. The British refrained from intervening as tensions boiled over into a low-level conflict that quickly escalated into a full-scale civil war. They consolidated their presence in Galilee and Samaria. Having recruited a few thousand volunteers, al-Husayni organized the blockade of the , Jewish residents of Jerusalem.