Jerusalem 1917: Allenby's Christmas Gift and the End of Ottoman Rule
On December 11, 1917, British General Edmund Allenby entered Jerusalem on foot through Jaffa Gate, a moment that ended 400 years of Ottoman rule and launched a new era of colonial administration. This episode explores the military campaign that brought Allenby from Beersheba to the Holy City — including the pivotal battles of Gaza, the role of the Australian Light Horse, and the use of aircraft in the Palestine campaign. We discuss the political calculations behind the British advance, the competing promises made to Arabs and Jews, and the immediate aftermath: martial law under the military governor Ronald Storrs, the city's dire food shortage, and the first hints of the tensions that would define Jerusalem for the next century. Drawing on the accounts of T.E. Lawrence, the diaries of Storrs, and Ottoman military records, we untangle the conquest that reshaped the modern Middle East.
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