The Jerusalem Post · General

Sykes-Picot should be replaced by a new Trump-Netanyahu regional order - opinion

· By YARON SCHWARTZ
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In 1916, as the Ottoman Empire began to collapse, the British and French foreign ministers secretly sat down with a pencil and ruler, drawing lines across the map of the Middle East, dividing its Ottoman territories into British and French spheres of influence.

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