Not too long ago, the know-it-all set was unanimous in its view that Sykes-Picot was dead. The demise of the Middle East’s state system was beyond question. Libya did not survive Barack Obama ...
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The Arab Nakba was namely the Sykes-Picot agreement, which divided much of the Arab world between competing Western powers. A year later, Palestine was removed from the Arab equation altogether and ...
Scroll down for video The bulk of the video - which is titled 'The End of Sykes-Picot' - features Abu Saffiya, an apparent ISIS militant who claims he comes from Chile and speaks in perfect ...
The panel defended the borders created by the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916, imposed following World War I. The Kurdish representative to the U.S., Bayan Abdul Rahman, pointed out that the current ...
The movie also references the Sykes-Picot Agreement which was the British ... and the French lead to another regional war that will end up with another Assad-type in control as a strong man?
Most Americans are unaware that today’s Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats (Sykes and Picot) after World War I to advance their empires’ economic ...
Sykes-Picot: The map that spawned a century of resentment ... In return, the referendum would be postponed until the end of the negotiations.
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A good example of this is the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement and the subsequent Balfour Declaration, which set the scene for the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict all the way back in 1916 and ...