Then rose up the horror which would make civilized man shun justice like a plague if he had not the needy to serve him as hangmen for wages. - T. E. Lawrence

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Then rose up the horror which would make civilized man shun justice like a plague if he had not the needy to serve him as hangmen for wages.

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About T. E. Lawrence

Thomas Edward Lawrence [T. E. Lawrence] (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer known for his role in the Arab Revolt and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Commonly referred to as Lawrence of Arabia, he adopted T. E. Shaw as a pseudonym.

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Native Name: Thomas Edward Lawrence
Alternative Names: Lawrence of Arabia of Arabia Lawrence John Hume Ross T.E. Lawrence Thomas Edward Shaw
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"The success of their scheme will involve inevitably the raising of the present Arab population to their own material level, only a little after themselves in point of time, and the consequences might be of the highest importance for the future of the Arab world. It might well prove a source of technical supply rendering them independent of industrial Europe, and in that case the new confederation might become a formidable element of world power." <cite>as quoted by R.Elie Mishel, "Lawrence of Arabia, the Unexpected Zionist"</cite>

"The Jewish experiment is a conscious effort, on the part of the least European people in Europe, to make head against the drift of the ages, and return once more to the Orient from which they came.” <cite>as quoted by R.Elie Mishel, "Lawrence of Arabia, the Unexpected Zionist"</cite>

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