The Origins of the World War I Agreement That Carved Up the Middle East

[guno]

And the world is still paying for this imperialism

The color-coded partition map and text provided that Britain ("B") would receive control over the red area, known today as Jordan, southern Iraq and Haifa in Israel; France ("A") would obtain the blue area, which covers modern-day Syria, Lebanon, northern Iraq, Mosul and southeastern Turkey, including Kurdistan; and the brown area of Palestine, excluding Haifa and Acre, would become subject to international administration, "the form of which is to be decided upon after consultation with Russia, and subsequently in consultation with the other allies, and the representatives of [Sayyid Hussein bin Ali, sharif of Mecca]." Besides carving the region into British and French "spheres of influence," the arrangement specified various commercial relations and other understandings between them for the Arab lands.



The Origins of the Sykes-Picot Agreement | History | Smithsonian

 

[whitehall]

American Liberal democrats and international socialists have always sought to create the ideal world democracy. Wilson was a democrat elitist ultra liberal former Princeton college professor and socialism was on the rise in America and internationally after WW1. Imperialism wasn't the problem, socialism and it's demented brother, anarchism were the enemies of the civilized world after WW1. Hitler rose in power in Germany not because of imperialism but because the WW1 victors were convinced that a new world order dominated by the fledgling "league of Nations" would dictate the future of society. True to form the new worlders never paid attention to the rise of Nazism or the inherent conflict between Mid Eastern tribes and the Jewish problem. The league of nations was propped up by the liberal media and it's evolution to the U.N. turned out to be nothing nothing but an extortion racket determined to drain the economy of successful capitalist countries.