Sykes-Picot Agreement Contradicted Britain’s Arab Independence Promises

Britain promised Arab independence in letters to Sharif Hussein—while Britain and France secretly sketched out spheres of control. 🗺️ The 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement put Palestine under proposed international administration, exposing the contradiction between wartime promises and imperial plans.

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