By this historical hint, Lebanese journalist Khair Allah Khair Allah starts his article in Al-Arab adding that the agreement was just a start to redraw the map of the region after Russia insisted on putting its hand on Istanbul. The Russian attitude forced Britain and France to accept the division of the Ottoman Empire instead of preserving it. This what some historians assure about that period in which more than one agreement was held after WWI to establish new bases for the new Middle East.
Khair Allah continues that in the Arab World there were always many people who cursed Sykes-Picot considering it the root of all crisis in the region.
However, according to Khair Allah the agreement wasn’t the basis of all our defeats as Arabs as much it was a pretext upon which many Arabs used to justify their problems and inability. It was used to justify their backwardness and dereliction.
The region as Khair Allah claims needs a new Sykes-Picot agreement particularly after many countries like Iraq and Syria have ended.
Most Arabs have forgotten that Balfour Declaration was very much connected with Sykes-Picot. However, they couldn’t deal with the power balance in a cold mind. All those who accepted to do that were killed or assassinated.
Khair Allah claims that Sykes-Picot was a blessing that no one Arab regime could preserve or adapt with. He says that it was used by many dictators as a pretext to oppress their peoples in the name of restoring Palestine or Arabs’ unity on other occasions.
Khair Allah concludes his controversial article by saying that Arabs in the Middle East didn’t deserve Sykes-Picot, so, how will they come to terms with what is going to follow Sykes-Picot particularly after the emergence of ISIS and the Iranian expansion in the region?
Khair Allah Khair Allah in Al-Arab
Translated by Orient Net English
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