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From Galway to Aqaba. Galwayman [ LTC ] Pierce Charles Joyce [ CONN Rangers ] , DSO, 1878-1965, [ CAPT ] TE Lawrence , FAISAL and WEIZMANN

 Instead of  the endless and utterly destructive  mantra of  BDS - *Boycott and DEMONISE and Sanction* ONE Tribe in the Middle East, and also no other People on earth,  Ireland  [  NGOs, campaigners, academics, media and Govt ] could make known - and build on -   the buried story  of the 6 foot 1 inch Galwayman, in 1 Bn, CONN Rangers, Boer War veteran LTC Pierce Charles  Joyce 1878-1965 DSO,   [ who,  as LTC, was to become a life-long friend and admirer but  also OUTRANKED  and formally  commanded the arguably over-famous and flamboyant *Lawrence of Arabia* - Welsh-born Oxfod grad CAPT Thomas Edward Lawrence -1888-1935 - whose father was Irish - Chapman - who had  eloped with TE's mother  ]. 

Joyce was  the Intermediary and Interpreter at the FIRST Meeting on June 4, 1918 at Wahida near Aqaba  of the Arab Leader Emir FAISAL 1885-1933 and the Jewish Leader the Russian-born chemist, Dr Chaim Weizmann  1874-1952 and later  first President of the new UN-mandated State of  Israel 1949-1952 [ the precursor of their historic but tragically never-achieved 1919 Joint Declaration for JOINT Arab-Jewish collaboration ]. Faisal wanted  Jewish investment in an Arab State - scientific, indstrial, agricultural as well as  financial - but his goodwill towards *a Jewish National Home* was depending on the UK delivering all they had already promised in the 1915 McMahon-Hussein correspondence; for Faisal, the implementation  of the UK Nov  1917 *Balfour Declaration* [ prefigured in the Aug 1917 *War Aims* adopted by the then united industrial+political Labour & TUC movement in UK  - and also supported in USA by the AFL trade union umbrella body ]  depended on whether the UK dropped or enforced the notorious and utterly imperialist Anglo-French *Sykes-Picot Agreement* - to carve up the ME Region between them. The cynical  and gross betrayal by the UK Govt -  once again *Perfidious Albion*  [  as the then-former IRISH Unionist Leader the Dublin-born lawyer and MP Edward Henry Carson 1854-1935  finally grasped - but only  in 1922  ]   of the legtimate claims and aspirations of the Arabs whom  they had used to combat  - and defeat  - the Ottomans in WW 1  - killed the prospect  of Arab-Jewish partnership before it could even begin. 

Yet in WW 2, not only 30,000 Jews but also maybe 10,000 Arabs from Palestine still  volunteered for the UK Forces.  As did a Dublin-schooled son of the Chief Rabbi, Chaim Herzog, 1918-1997, in *Hagaanh* in Israel at 16, Col in BA Intel Corps by 1945, later IDF MG and Dir *AMAN* Mil Intel,  Labour Party  MK in Israel  and 1983-1993 6th Pres of Israel. 

And Moshe Dayan 1915-1981 - future IDF Chief of Staff and Labour Party Defence Minister  [ in the *Palmach* f/t elite strike force  = Irish 1920-1921 *Flying Columns*  - of the *Haganah* Jewish citizens army ] lost his left eye  in 1942 fighting near the Litani River in South Lebanon, to liberate Vichy Franch-Occupied Lebanon and Syria  - leading a MIXED Arab-Jewish Recon Platoon to guide the Austalian 7th  Inf Div. Irish Rugby Intl Cap, Boxer, and poetry lover, Blair Robert Mayne  1915-1955 DSO from Newtownards was fighting nearby, then with the Scots Cdo and later in SAS. 

Dayan, Foreign Minister from 1977, resigned in 1979  from the  Govt  of Menachem Begin 1913-1992 in  protest  at the refusal to negotiate with the Palestinians [ 1942-1948 Begin had led the extemist *Irgun* who had broken away  from the mainstream  *Haganah* but in 1978, along with Pres Anwar Sadat,  won the Nobel Peace Prize ] .

Todays people across the the ME Region  need -  more than ever -  to  learn of their REAL history - and be liberated by the possibilities suggested by the stories of  Weizmann, Faisal, and Dayan - and of what Egypt's Pres Sadat 1918-1981  dared to do in 1977 - address the Israeli Parl, and then got back every  inch of the Occupied Sinai, with the civilian Settlement  at Yamit in NE Sinai and all  IDF being withdrawn  -  in return  for recognition of Israel and a substantially   de-militarsied Sinai. Tho' he in Cairo  - like ex-IDF Chief of Staff, Labour  PM Rabin 1922-1995 in Tel Aviv - paid with his  life for his statesmanship. Both murdered by violent fanatics  from their OWN Nation  [ Egyptian Army Arty Lt Islambouli and Yigal Amir ]. Like Collins in Aug 1922 in his native West Cork

Joyce led the UK *OP Hedgehog*  - to train, fund and equip Faisals Arab  Army  liberating OCCUPIED ARAB land from the Turkish Ottoman EMPIRE. After WW 1 Faisal became King of the new State of Iraq  - Joyce was seconded as his Military Advisor. Iraq was arbitrarily  cobbled together [ by UK ] in 1921  from 3 totally distinct Ottoman Provinces  -  Sunni KURDS in the North, Sunni ARABS in the middle [  Baghdad ]  - who completely  dominated Iraq until  the brutal tyrant Saddam was overthrown in 2003  ] -  and in the South SHIA Arabs.