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The First Step in the Design of the Middle East:

Sykes-Picot Agreement

Seventeen days after the Kut Al Amara humiliation of Britain, while WWI

was still raging on, the Sykes-Picot Agreement was signed secretly between
Britain, France and Russia, on May 16, 1916, to determine how the Middle

Eastern territories of the Ottoman Empire should be shared between Britain
and France. The deal was exposed to the public when Russia withdrew from

WWI and the agreement in question, as a result of the Russian Revolution in
1917. In other words, with the onset of the communist revolution that the

British deep state had been working to start for years through provocations,
spying and social engineering, Russia, one of the biggest powers to claim

rights on the Ottoman lands, was left out.

According to the Sykes-Picot Agreement, the Eastern Mediterranean, the
coastline of modern Syria and Lebanon, Adana, Antep, Urfa, Diyarbakır and

Mosul provinces, would be given to France. Britain would take the Haifa and

Aqqa ports in the Eastern Mediterranean along with Baghdad, Bara and South
Mesopotamia. An international administration would be set up in Palestine
because it was a holy site. A major part of modern Iraq and Syria would al-

so be handed over to British and French mandates.

However, this sharing scheme with France didn't sit well with Britain, due

to its aspiration of becoming the sole power in the region. Leaving Mosul to
France and losing out on Palestine wasn't in line with the interests of the

British deep state. Since the early 1900s, the British had been sending tech-
nical teams to Mosul and were keenly aware of the rich oil reserves of the re-

gion. Furthermore, they were convinced that if the British took Mosul, the
region could be an important leverage against a potential Islamic Union. The

British deep state also considered it important to take Palestine under its con-
trol to secure the route to India.

Having already captured the Arabian Peninsula in 1915, however, the

most important goal of Britain at the time was building a Britain-dependent
Arab state on the lands of Iraq and Palestine by supporting Sharif Hussein of

Mecca, who they had already provoked to rebel against the Ottomans. There

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