The Haj

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    The Haj

    The Haj was written based on this timeline
  • Rosh Pinna

    Gideon Asch had not ridden into Tabah simply out of nowhere. He had been partnerships with Palestine for a good while.
  • 1901

    Theodore becomes president
  • 1913

    Sixteen Admendment authorizing income tax ratified
  • 1915

    World War 1 begins
  • 1915

    KKK revived and U.S. Troops were sent to Haiti.
  • 1917

    Russian revolution and the U.S. Enters WW1
  • 1917

    Brith forces under General Allenby had conquered Jerusalem.
  • Region

    Britained governed Palestine under a League of Nations mandate from 1920 to 1948
  • Independence

    Egypt gained independence, but British Firces remained to defend the Suez Canal.
  • 1924

    Gideon Asch made his departure from Tabah.
  • Autumn 1929

    Haj Amin al Heusseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem, assumed the pulpit.
  • Arab riots

    A series of riots in the late August 1929 after disputes between Jews and Muslims for access to the Western Wall in Jerusalem escalated into violence.
  • Middle East problems

    United Kingdom maintained a significant measure of control over Egypt
  • 1936

    Ishmael was born in Palestine.
  • Committee

    The Arab Higher Committee called for a general strike and relations broke down with the British authorities.
  • Violence

    An upsurge in inter- communal violence in 1936, 1937, and 1938, due to the persecution of the Jews from the Nazis
  • 1937

    The office of the Waqf served as headquarters for the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.
  • Fight

    The British and their allies fought with the Italians in Libya.
  • Involvement

    Germany became involved, leading to the campaigns in Greece and then Crete in 1941.
  • After the war

    Over three years after the start of the war, the allies had gained a degree of maritime and air superiority over the axis forces.
  • 1944

    Ishmael turned 8 years old and was considered a man.
  • Civil war

    Palestine erupted in civil war which resulted in the creation of the state of Israel.
  • 1946

    Ishmael turned 10 and decided to start going to school.
  • 1949

    Gideon Asch rather enjoyed his liaison with Colonel Farid Zyyad of Jordanian Intelligence.
  • WAR

    From the moment Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser had seized control of Egyptian government two years earlier, he had marched down an irreversible path.