HIST 151 Lecture Notes - Henry Mcmahon, Mark Sykes, Ottoman Empire
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5/15/2012 2:54:00 pm the postwar settlement in the political history of the region we are talking about (the modern middle east). They were determined by the postwar settlement. And yet in the negotiation for that settlement (the postwar settlement), middle easterners themselves, had almost no voice at all. Rather the cast of characters in this part of the story that were venturing through. It consist largely a britain"s and french men among them a fellow called sir arthur henry mcmahon, sir mark. These documents have remained after root of controversy over specifically the compatibility of britain"s commitments during the first ww. The notion that the borders for the postwar middle east upon which. Sykes and picot decided in their accord violated the territorial pledges that mcmahon had made to the sharif of mecca. This is a notion that precist [21:31] in both secularly discourse but also political discourse to this day: particularly, of course, with reference to palestine.