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NEW STATESMAN – 100 years ago today, Britain and France carved up what would become Syria, Iraq and Israel. Their imperial mindset still scars the region.
One hundred years ago today, Britain and France drew a line through the Middle East that became the border between Syria and Iraq, with a kink at the end of it that became Israel. You get a sense of the breezy confidence behind the so-called Sykes-Picot agreement from the minutes of the cabinet where the idea was hatched.

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5 thoughts on “100 Years Ago: The Sykes-Picot Agreement: how an arbitrary set of borders created the modern Middle East”
  1. So much misery and death has been the result of not only Israel’s creation… but its earliest conception. Nation states must be based entirely upon the peoples and cultures that intrinsically unite them… not the whims of self-anointed elites.

  2. Take note anyone not understanding …the problems of the Middle East stem wholly from the International Jews empires which originally where Britain ,and France ,and still in play as puppets of the USA .

    Imperialism ….these powers with huge navies ,and overseas armies .

    None of this has ANYTHING to do with ” Fascists ,Nazis Communists ,Reptiles ,or Aliens .”

  3. The idea was “hatched” indeed, in the same chamber that Cameron the gay bastard, sits in today.
    The writer suggests that Sykes did not understand nor take into account the cultural differences, when he drew up the plan. Indeed, Skyes was a Zionist Jew, and knew very well his objective was for the state of Israel. I do not buy the argument that he did not understand. Look at his name: Skyes or Sykes. Simply change the letters which they had a habit of doing even now to disguise the agenda and motives. The Jews were running and infiltrating London in 1917.

  4. Sir Mark Sykes is probably best known for being the joint author of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, an Anglo-French plan to deal with the Middle East after 1918. His life-span was only forty years – he died in February 1919 while attending the Paris Peace Conference – but he was involved in several key issues relating to Britain’s Middle Eastern policy.

    He was, in fact, said to be the first in Britain to use the term ‘Middle East’.1 His influence on British policy in that region was formidable, but what is not fully appreciated even in some Jewish circles is that he became a strong supporter of Zionism and was deeply involved in the diplomacy that led to the Balfour Declaration.

    Sykes has received mixed fortune from the many historians who overlook his support and sympathy for Zionism.

    “Sir Mark Sykes: British diplomat and a convert to Zionism”,CECIL BLOOM,Jewish Historical Studies,Vol. 43 (2011), pp. 141-157

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