existential threat to the middle east was french and britis h colonial rule and he also recognized that the balfor declaration was fait accompli. what he did on the eve of the paris peace conference, he was working with faisal, the king hussein's son who is the main arab delegate the at arab peace conference. he got faisal and weitzman together and made the faisal weitzmannf agreement. and that agreement was in return for a very large jewish emigration and ultimately control of palestine the scientists, the jews would recognize arab dominion in syria. so lawrence was very, very kind of, he was a tactician and he recognized that palestine was a fait accompli. so since it is fait accompli turn that to use for, for control of syria. it didn't work obviously. put i think lawrence today looking at syria, i don't know if he would be very surprised. what he was always very aware of, lawrence really understood the clan and tribal structure of the arab world as well as any western european of the time. this was always his clarion call of warning to the imperial powers, that you know, you can not go into th