So can past wrongs be corrected?
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Tuesday, 22 March 2011 - Robert Fisk
From the mildewed, corrupted dictatorships is emerging a people reborn. Not without bloodshed and violence. But now at last, the Arabs can hope to march into the bright sunlit uplands
Robert Fisk: Right across the Arab world, freedom is now a prospect - Robert Fisk, Commentators - The Independent
the Sykes-Picot agreement
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Tuesday, 22 March 2011 - Robert Fisk
From the mildewed, corrupted dictatorships is emerging a people reborn. Not without bloodshed and violence. But now at last, the Arabs can hope to march into the bright sunlit uplands
In the dying days of the Ottoman empire, American diplomats – US consuls in Beirut, Jerusalem, Cairo and other cities – NGOs across the region and thousands of American missionaries, pleaded with the State Department and with President Wilson to create one modern Arab state stretching from the shores of Morocco to the borders of Mesopotamia and Persia. This, they believed, would bring a large part of the Muslim world into the democratic orbit of Europe and the West.
the Sykes-Picot agreement
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