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Britain’s legacy to the tortured Ottoman Empire
Selfish imperial agreements between Britain and France, combined with the publication of the contradictory Balfour Declaration of 1917, fuelled hostilities in the Middle East This article appeared in The Sunday Telegraph on 2 February 2013 Bad times ahead: Sir Edmund … Continue reading
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Tagged Allenby, Balfour Declaration, First World War, French, McMahon, Middle East, Palestine, Picot, Sykes, Sykes Picot, Syria
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