JUSTICE INTERRUPTED 2
Justice Interrupted
The World War I is essential in Arab political history as it is a precedent for the
formation of the Middle East nation’s political ideas towards democracy, liberation, and self-
determination motivated by President Woodrow Wilson (Thompson, 2009, p. 2). After WW I,
the Arab countries convened a constitutional congress purposed at making the Independent
Ottoman States. The constitution experiment entailed the formation of a constitution for proving
that Arab nations deserved freedom under the leadership of Arab Prince Faysal (Thompson,
2009, p. 4). This action was motivated by the desire to get involved in international law and
setting up independent states. The key players were Prince Faysal of Syria-Arab State and other
100 Arabs representing what are now among others today’s Turkey, Palestine, and Lebanon.
There are essential defining events that escalated during the constitution experiment.
Remarkably, the purpose focused on defining the Arab lands as Free states made up of a
community of nation-states governed by the essential virtues of international law (Thompson,
2009, p. 1). However, with the countries of Russia, Britain, Austria, and France, determined on
protecting Jews and Christians, the members of the Ottoman Empire nullified the constitution
based on the denial of their moral justice on occupying their lands (Thompson, 2009, p. 3, 5).
The actions led to the case of justice interrupted based on the moral and liberal justice
implications of the outside nations like France and Britain. The activities after the constitution
experiment depicted the British and French colonization of the Arab Lands as a significant moral
injustice to Prince Faisal and others (Thompson, 2009, p. 5). The formation of the constitution
was to allow the Arab nations attain control their lands. With the French and British applying
their liberalism, the idea resonated as an interrupted justice to the Ottoman Empire. The Arab
countries felt betrayed of their liberal justice standards (Thompson, 2009, p. 6).
