Sykes-Picot Agreement

The myth that blames today’s problems on European colonialism.

Nicholas Danforth
Dec. 15 2020 12:01AM

The original nakba had nothing to do with the Zionists.

Feb. 7 2019 12:01AM

Redrawing the map would just repeat the mistakes of the past.

Eugene Rogan
Nov. 19 2018 12:01AM

Tyrants, not borders, are the problem.

Steven A. Cook and Amr T. Leheta
May 16 2016 12:01AM

Don’t blame the treaty for the Middle East’s problems.

Michael Rubin
May 6 2016 12:01AM

If Israel can survive, why can’t an Assyrian Christian state?

Robert Nicholson
Dec. 9 2015 12:01AM

A new book upends conventional wisdom.

Oct. 1 2015 12:01AM

Britain and France tried and failed to divide Turkey.

Nick Danforth
Aug. 14 2015 12:01AM

As the conventional wisdom would have it?

May 18 2015 12:01AM

Toward the end of World War I, Chaim Weizmann, head of the World Zionist Organization and later the first president of Israel, established cordial relations. . .

Israel State Archives
Jan. 21 2015 12:01AM

The terrorist “Islamic State in Iraq and Sham” aims to erase the borders drawn by France and England after World War I. So far, all. . .

Lee Smith
June 16 2014 12:01AM

A group lobbying the British government to apologize for the Balfour Declaration claims not to oppose Israel's right to exist. The claim is empty.

Nick Gray
June 7 2013 12:00AM