Talk:Sykes-Picot Agreement
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The agreements between the Arabs and the West were not made between the Arabs and T. E. Lawrence. The agreements are documented in the McMahon-Hussein correspondences. Sir Henry McMahon was the Secretary of State in His Majesty King George V's goverment. Sharif Hussein bin Ali was the Emir of Mecca and the proclaimed King of Arabia. It was an agreement between two nations.
[edit] Cleanup Needed
Lots of capitalization errors, and the text of the document needs to be Wikified. I'll try when I get a minute. Iamvered 16:44, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] A question about Palestine
"The area which subsequently came to be called Palestine was for international administration pending consultations with Russia and other powers." - Why? Because all allies wanted it or because noone wanted it? Where can I find info on it?
Ritchie Ovendale gives a good analysis in Chapter 2 of "The Origins of the Arab Israeli Wars" (ISBN 0-582-82320-X). Will see if it could add anything to add to the article, but might take a while as it'll be my first contribution! Dicconb 21:39, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Context for stupid people
Hi,
As someone who knows absolutely nothing about world history, this article was a little hard to get in to. I really think that a paragraph that set the context of why Britain and France were divvying up the middle east would be really helpful. Which country(ies) had that area belonged to before? (There's a list of countries in the third paragraph -- is this the list of modern names, or names at the time?) Were they divvying up part of the Ottoman Empire, or what? Sorry for the complete uneducatedness here. -- Creidieki 15:10, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
