{"id":1622,"date":"2011-05-16T17:04:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T17:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/?p=1622"},"modified":"2011-05-16T18:06:31","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T18:06:31","slug":"this-day-in-history-sykes-picot-agreement-%d8%a7%d8%aa%d9%81%d8%a7%d9%82%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%b3%d8%a7%d9%8a%d9%83%d8%b3-%d8%a8%d9%8a%d9%83%d9%88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/this-day-in-history-sykes-picot-agreement-%d8%a7%d8%aa%d9%81%d8%a7%d9%82%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%b3%d8%a7%d9%8a%d9%83%d8%b3-%d8%a8%d9%8a%d9%83%d9%88\/","title":{"rendered":"This Day in History: Sykes-Picot Agreement \u0627\u062a\u0641\u0627\u0642\u064a\u0629 \u0633\u0627\u064a\u0643\u0633 \u0628\u064a\u0643\u0648"},"content":{"rendered":"

“To give what you don’t own to whom it doesn’t belong; <\/strong>This is how you plant Hatred ..!!” \"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Sykes-Picot Agreement, concluded on 16 May 1916, was a secret agreement between the governments of the UK and France with the consent of Imperial Russia. According to the agreement, UK and France defined their regions of control in Western Asia after the downfall of the Ottoman Empire during the World War I. It divided the Arab provinces outside the Arabian Peninsula into areas of future British and French control. Britain was allocated Jordan, Southern Iraq and a small area including the ports of Haifa and Acre. France was allocated control of south-eastern Turkey, Northern Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. Russia was to get the Turkish Straits and some Ottoman Armenian lands. The Agreement was named after the two diplomats who negotiated its terms. The controlling powers were left free to decide on the state boundaries within these areas. Palestine was to be under International Administration.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On November 2nd<\/sup> 1917, the Balfour Declaration was issued. Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour <\/strong>made a formal letter saying the British government “.. view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people<\/span>, and will use their best edeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, <\/span>\u2026” <\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After the Russian (Bolshevik) Revolution of 1917, the Bolsheviks rejected their colonial share of the Arab land and they released copies of the Sykes-Picot Agreement and copies of other treaties. The Manchester Guardian published the full texts on November 26th<\/sup> 1917 As a result, the British were embarrassed, the Arabs were disappointed and the Turks were happy.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On May 14th<\/sup> 1948, The British left Palestine and on the following day Israel was announced as an Independent State on the Palestinian land. Since then, the Arab-Israeli Conflict have started and is not likely to come to an end soon. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Many people see the agreement as a turning point in Western\/Arab relations. It negated the promises made to Arabs through T. E. Lawrence <\/span>for a national Arab homeland in the areas of Greater Syria, in exchange for their siding with the British forces against the Ottoman Empire.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In a 2002 interview with The New Statesman, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw <\/span>observed “A lot of the problems we are having to deal with now, I have to deal with now, are a consequence of our colonial past. .. .. The Balfour Declaration and the contradictory assurances which were being given to Palestinians in private at the same time as they were being given to the Israelis – again, an interesting history for us but not an entirely honourable one.<\/span>” <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The article is translated and adapted from wikipedia.<\/p>\n

The map is also from wikipedia.<\/p>\n

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“To give what you don’t own to whom it doesn’t belong; This is how you plant Hatred ..!!” \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Sykes-Picot Agreement, concluded on 16 May 1916, was a secret agreement between the governments of the UK and France with the consent of Imperial Russia. According to the agreement, UK and France defined their regions…<\/p>\n

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