Based on the excerpt, do you think arab leaders were involved in crafting the agreement? explain. did britain and france seem to view the arab lands as colonies that they would possess???or as something else? what details support your answer? how would you describe the tone of the agreement? based on the excerpt, what did britain and france gain from this agreement? what might sykes and picot have argued that the arab states gained? what does this excerpt add to your understanding of the upfront article about the origins of the problems in the middle east?

Beginning with the Paris Peace Conference (1919), Britain not only obtained a mandate in Palestine, but also took Mosul, to which she added Basra and Baghdad to create the kingdom of Iraq. He cut territory to Syria (already occupied by France), which he added to Iraq, and Upper Galilee to be able to transport oil from Mosul to Haifa by pipeline.

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All of these land allocations were in line with the guidelines of the Sykes-Picot agreements.

He compensated the Hussein family for being expelled from Syria, separating Transjordan from Palestine, who gave Hussein's second son, Abd Allah as monarch. Iraq granted it to Faysal as monarch, but always maintaining a mandate or a protectorate over the territories.

A further concern for the British, who had many Muslim-populated colonies, was to remove the power of the Turkish caliph over panislamism. This is one of the reasons why they supported Sherif Husayn ibn Ali in Mecca and left Abdul Aziz ibn Saud in central Arabia to serve as a counterweight to any pan-Islamic movement. They moved to reduce the individual influence of the caliph throughout the Middle East by fostering secular Arab nationalism and creating, when possible, new small states, in a manner consistent with the foreign policy of the British Empire.

Where the plans of the Sykes-Picot treaty were thwarted was in Turkey when the figure of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk emerged to lead the Turkish War of Independence and free that country from the foreign control that was attempted at the end of the war. But in general, the treaty was implemented in the terms for which it was conceived. The consequences of its implementation created the conditions for French and British rule and regional conflicts that have prevented a lasting peace since the

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