Hashemites
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Sep 24, 2026
John BatchelorHOST
I learned looking at the 2,000-year history of Yemen that your remarks about the Saudi vulnerability are completely accurate.
John BatchelorHOST
The Saudis-- The Ibn Saud's claim to the two cities from 1925, the Hashemite claim to the guardian of the two cities, the Sharif of the Hejaz, is 1,000 years old.
John BatchelorHOST
So we're looking at something that's in the minds of the Ye- North Yemeni and the Saudis, and replacing the House of Saud with a Hashemite link to a Yemeni is not, not only not imaginable, it would be logical to much of Islam.
John BatchelorHOST
Do I say that correctly?
Jonathan SchanzerGUEST
I, I suppose so, John, but of course there, there is the status quo.
JeffHOST
Jordan got their independence in the late 20s, in the 30s.
JeffHOST
And they got it because the Hashemite kingdom wasn't from Jordan.
JeffHOST
And the Hashemite kingdom and King Hussein, you heard him at the UN.
JeffHOST
He's not from Jordan.
JeffHOST
His family's not from Jordan.
JeffHOST
You know, they kind of get what reap what they sow.
JeffHOST
But the mandates and the carving out of two-thirds of the Palestine mandate, which was supposed to be the Jewish national homeland, so you had the full package, and then they took two-thirds of it and created Jordan, and there was going to be a separation.
JeffHOST
You had the Palestinian Jews and the Palestinian Arabs at the time, and there was going to be two nations, and then the Hashemite Kingdom, so the British were trying to manipulate the Arab kingdom under the British crown, And so they kind of backstab the Assad family and they put that put them in Syria.
Dave RubinHOST
Another one of these wizards is Jordan's King Abdullah.
Dave RubinHOST
Now, this guy, King Abdullah II, he's the Hashemite king of Jordan.
Dave RubinHOST
He is an apartheid ruler because he rules over a majority of Palestinians in Jordan.
Dave RubinHOST
That is the Palestinian state, but he doesn't wanna focus on that because he wants his kingdom to continue to exist, which only exists because the US allows it to exist.
Dave RubinHOST
Again, he needs to blame Israel for his sins.
Dave RubinHOST
60% of Jordan's population is Palestinian.
Dave RubinHOST
They have-- There is a Palestinian state, it's called Jordan, and it is ruled by the Hashemite king.
Dave RubinHOST
And by the way, his dad, the original King Abdullah, well, in September of 1970, he had the Jordanian army kill probably, the numbers are hard to know, probably somewhere between 10 and 25,000 Palestinians, basically in a weekend.
Cozmo ElGUEST
It is considered a dishonor to not know your father, not know your lineage.
Cozmo ElGUEST
In fact, the Prophet Muhammad was known to be proud, and not overly proud, but proud of his bloodline, of his Quraysh and Hashemite heritage.
Cozmo ElGUEST
However, he never placed it above the bonds of faith.
Cozmo ElGUEST
So knowing your lineage is very important, not only for respect and honor, but also for heritage, also for inheritance, estate.
John BatchelorHOST
Edmund, I turn to you, I appeal to you, I learned that North Yemen or Yemen itself, maybe the word means south, maybe there are other meanings, but it's South Arab, South Arabia.
John BatchelorHOST
For a thousand years, They were charged with the responsibility of Mecca and Medina, led by people who we know as the Hashemite kingdom.
John BatchelorHOST
But in any event, for a thousand years from...
John BatchelorHOST
Well, you said there was a formation of a Mamamite at the end of the 9th century.
John BatchelorHOST
All right, the British Foreign Office, somebody in there knows something.
John BatchelorHOST
In 1916, it was the ambition of the British Foreign Office to consolidate all of the Arab kingdoms, the fractious Arab kingdoms and Arab imamates and claims in the peninsula, the Gulf.
John BatchelorHOST
And the ambition included making certain that the Hashemite kingdom wherever it was, but the Hashemite claim included the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
John BatchelorHOST
That turned into the Hashemites having the kingship of Iraq, Jordan, I believe what is now Lebanon, but I'm not sure, and the sheriff of Ijaz.
John BatchelorHOST
They're also capable of marching on in their way, and taking Riyadh.
John BatchelorHOST
They have claimed the two cities, Mecca and Medina, dating from a thousand years ago via the Hashemite family.
John BatchelorHOST
What we have here is the legitimacy of Saudi Arabia being called into question by its enemies.
John BatchelorHOST
The enemies include Iran, but the agent right now that everybody's focused on are the Houthis.
John BatchelorHOST
We're about to turn to something that's much older, a thousand years old.
John BatchelorHOST
The Hashemites, the Hashemite family, the Hashemite kingdom was given charge of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina at least since the 10th century, if not before.
John BatchelorHOST
This has to do with a sense of spirituality at the same time, possession, territory.
John BatchelorHOST
Mecca and Medina are territory.
John BatchelorHOST
They're in what is called the Hejaz, the coastal region of the Saudi peninsula.
John BatchelorHOST
They remained under the hands of the responsibilities of the Hashemite kingdom for a thousand years until 1925.
John BatchelorHOST
And the Mecca and Medina were stolen by something called the Ibn Saud family from the mountains of the country.
John BatchelorHOST
The highlands, actually, not even mountains.
John BatchelorHOST
And the ambition included making certain that the Hashemite kingdom wherever it was, but the Hashemite claim included the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
John BatchelorHOST
That turned into the Hashemites having the kingship of Iraq, Jordan, I believe what is now Lebanon, but I'm not sure, and the sheriff of Ijaz.
John BatchelorHOST
I'm learning this for the first time, so help me if I stumble.
John BatchelorHOST
Ijaz included the coastline of the Red Sea.
Edmund Fitton-BrownGUEST
So you just had some key port cities.
Edmund Fitton-BrownGUEST
And, of course, the Brits had sort of made their own, you know, had their own sort of interests in those around the various ports around the Arabian Peninsula.
John BatchelorHOST
1925, Ibn Saud is the man to take possession of the Hejaz from the Hashemites.
John BatchelorHOST
What is the connection between the North Yemeni, the people whose subset is now the Houthis, who are revolutionary, as you say correctly.
Leith MaroufGUEST
Of course, with the coming of colonialism and the discovery of oil, the British and the Americans after them had the primary goal of kind of bringing down the civilization shelters and birthing new ones in the middle of the desert, as we saw.
Leith MaroufGUEST
So the Saud regime was given weapons in the 1930s to invade Hejaz, where Mecca and Medina is, and that happened, and they expelled the Hashemites that were ruling the Hejaz to Jordan, and at the same time invaded what is now the south of Saudi Arabia, which was provinces of the Yemen, and kind of ethnically cleansed those regions in 1934.
Leith MaroufGUEST
And since then, the Saudis have the interest of maintaining Yemen at an impoverished state because it is the biggest population center in the Arabian Peninsula.
Leith MaroufGUEST
It has the geography that gives it control of the strait.
Simon Sebag MontefioreGUEST
There were many, many different concepts of what they wanted.
Simon Sebag MontefioreGUEST
In, in 1915, the Emir of Mecca, Hussein bin Ali, who was one of the Hashemite family who descended from the prophet, started to negotiate with the British, and this is one of the promises that's negotiated.
Simon Sebag MontefioreGUEST
What's often not realized is that- Hussein of, of Mecca had literally ruled Mecca since 1908.
Simon Sebag MontefioreGUEST
That was his only experience of ruling anything.
Simon Sebag MontefioreGUEST
But what actually happened was the British negotiated with them and deliberately engaged in a negotiation in which both sides, Hussein and the British, sort of tricked each other and agreed a series of letters that really blurred what, what was being agreed.
Simon Sebag MontefioreGUEST
So after World War I, sure enough, it turned out that none, none of these agreements were quite what they'd been promised.
Simon Sebag MontefioreGUEST
The key part of the promise to the Hashemites was that the British said, "And, and everything's subject to what we've promised to France." And actually they'd promised half of the Middle East to France.
Simon Sebag MontefioreGUEST
But the answer to your question, what did the people of the Middle East think of these agreements, they were very disappointed by them.
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