-The British man: Mr. Picot, these negotiations have taken too long
-We have been moving in circles for four months now
>The French man: Monsieur Mark, your piece is bigger than mine...
-Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. Listen, Mr. Picot,
>Yes...
-what do you say to ending our dispute and drawing a clear line between us now?
>Show me how... show me!
-I will draw the line from here to here
-Everything north of this line is your zone of influence and what is under it is ours
-and this coastal area in Syria will be yours
-But Mosul and Aleppo will be ours
>And why's that? -Don't worry...
-We will agree on the details concerning influence and governance later.
>Hmmm... In principle, I think this division is appropriate
=The Russian man: But do not forget what we agreed upon
-Sure! You will take Istanbul and cities in eastern Turkey.
-To you a greeting of peace and Allah's mercy and blessings
You must've heard of the "Sykes-Picot Agreement"
which dates back to the year 1916 AD
That it was the starting point for dividing a large portion of the Muslim lands
and turning them into fragmented countries that compete and clash against each other
That is relatively true. But did you know
that the actual division started long before that?
Some areas became independent from the Ottoman Empire
at the beginning of the nineteenth century,
becoming either under British occupation,
French occupation,
or Italian occupation
>Person 1: Ha-ha-ha really?! So why all the outrage over the Sykes-Picot Agreement?
-Narrator: Ha-ha alright.. alright. This agreement
was neither the first nor the last partition conspiracy
But through it, Europeans succeeded on the long term
in putting an end to the Ottoman Empire and paving the way to direct occupation
Then, they only left the region
after dividing it according to the borders they had drawn
In the past, divisions between warring kingdoms
resulted from expansionist greed and status-seeking
but they never reached the point of separation between peoples
or travel prohibition between cities
or the invention of false identities in the name of princes and sultans
But after ''Sykes-Picot'', our nation was divided into independent states,
with different systems of government, different flags, and narrowly-defined nationalities
These "homelands" obtained their own fake identities
and adopted pre-Islamic patriotism
>Isn't this better for you?
-Why?
>Ummm
>Look at your countries, each working diligently for progress and development
>This can only be through separation from other countries
-Narrator: This is a false claim
They're conspiring against each other,
feeding their hunger for power and oppressing the honorable,
while throwing money down the drain
In the past, Muslims were bonded in brotherhood,
joined as one strong body
If one country was occupied,
support would flow in from the rest of the Muslim world
Today, Muslims are under aerial bombardment in Syria,
blockaded in Gaza and posted alone to defend Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Then they say:
''It is all a matter of internal affairs in independent states
and no other state has the right to interfere!''
''Unity is strength!''
America did not become a super power until its states were united,
And Russia could only compete with America
after subjugating other countries under its dominance,
establishing what was known as the Soviet Union (now the Russian Federation)
Europe too hastened after the end of its wars
to establish the European Union
in order to prevent the recurrence of its tragedy and to continue to compete
Now, let's go back to the beginning
We are now in Istanbul. Or rather Islambul
Capital of the Ottoman Empire, whose territory extended
across three continents
It reached its peak during the reign of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent
It was a multi-ethnic empire because of its large expansion
And as is the case with any other empire in history,
it began to collapse at the turn of the nineteenth century
At that time, Muhammad Ali and his children's influence was growing,
until they decided to defy the Ottoman Sultan
by independently ruling Egypt and Sudan for life
The empire was then preoccupied with a number of wars, rebelions and strifes
Some of which secret societies had a major role in
And with support from the Russians, the British and the French,
Serbian and Greek rebels succeeded in breaking away
The Ottoman Empire was deep in debt,
and the creditors were its sworn enemies, waiting for a chance to take it down
Russia, France, Britain and Germany
Sectarian unrest continued in Aleppo, Damascus and Mount Lebanon
while France and Russia seized the opportunity to intervene claiming to protect the Christians
But most importantly, corruption had gnawed away the state's body
and injustice was inflicted by some officials on people
Therefore, internal agents of demise were complete
and the time for partition had arrived
The beginning was in Egypt
which British were quick to take hold of, managing to occupy it entirely,
as it lied in the heart of the Islamic world
and unlocked the trade routes to their colonies in India
The French sensed the danger
and found that the Levant was the right place to compete with the British
But they were countered by Sultan Abdul Hamid II
who was a shrewd man to be reckoned with
He tried to restore his country back to its former prime, but it was too late.
The First World War broke out,
and the vanguards of secularism and Freemasonry
in the Union and Progress Party
managed to drag the Ottoman Empire into the war on the German side
So, Russia, France and Britain declared war on the Ottomans
Arab separatists saw an opportunity during the war
and thought that the West will assist them
in taking the Muslim Caliphate back from Istanbul to Hijaz!
-McMahon: My honourable sir,
-you know that our enemy and your enemy is one,
-and we are about to overthrow these backward Turkish rulers
-You are the noblemen of Hijaz and from the lineage of the Prophet,
-No one is more deserving of leading the nation
-and reclaiming the Caliphate from these foreigners than you
>Al-sharif Hussein: Hmmm... You are right!
>We thank the Kingdom of Great Britain for its support
>We must end the rule of Turkish nationalists
>Their corruption has prevailed and their affliction is widespread
>But what do you offer us?
-McMahon: We will support your right to establish a kingdom in regions
-we agree upon from the land of Hijaz and the Levant,
-and the Caliphate will return to you, my lord
>Al-Sharif Hussein: This is exactly what we are looking for...
>O militant revolutionaries! O seekers of independence and freedom!
>Come on! Attack the Ottomans in Hijaz, Amman and Damascus!
-Ah... what a pipe dream it was! Britain betrayed Al-Sharif Hussein,
and he was even exiled later on
He knew nothing about the partition plan, nor the Arabs had heard about it
until the communists in Russia overthrew the Tsarist rule
and revealed the plot
-Monsieur Picot.. It seems that the Arabs want
-a united kingdom in the Levant...
>Let them dream...
>We will not give up our historical right there
>since the Crusades...
>Hmmm... But what about our promise to them of an Arab Caliphate?
>Ha-ha-ha did you say Caliphate, my dear?!
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
For an entire year,
the Russians, the French and the British negotiated in Cairo
to split what was left of the Ottoman Empire
Eventually, they signed the secret "Cairo Agreement"
in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg,
which later became known as the "Sykes-Picot Agreement"
The British did not waste time,
and only one year passed
before the British Prime Minister, Arthur Balfour, issued
his famous promise to grant Palestine to the Zionists
and sent it to the leader of the Jewish community in Britain:
Lord Lionel de Rothschild
-Weizmann: Mr. Arthur,
-The Jews will not abandon Palestine
-for any other part of the world
-And the day will come when we will succeed in retaking Palestine
-There is no doubt about it
>Balfour: I'll help you with that, my friend, rest assured
-Weizmann: My friend Arthur, Foreign Minister of the Great Kingdom,
-I have assisted you in manufacturing explosives
-and through the support of our dear banker Rothschild to triumph over the Ottomans
-I think the time has come
-for your ministries and government to help us establish our homeland in Palestine
>Balfour: Immediately! I will give you a written declaration for it
Shortly after, the British General
Edmund Allenby
occupied Jerusalem in 1917 AD
which helped fixate lines of competition with the French
Then, the ''San Remo Agreement'' came the following year
to amend the terms of the ''Sykes-Picot Agreement''
and to grant mandating rights of Syria and Mount Lebanon to France
and Jordan, Palestine, and Iraq to Britain
In 1923 AD,
the Treaty of Lausanne nullified the Treaty of Sèvres,
and the secular Turkish Republic with its current borders was established
And with the ratification of the League of Nations in 1922 AD
for the Franco-British occupation of the Arab East
under the label of ''mandate'',
the Zionist movement began to turn the Balfour Declaration into reality,
establishing the state of Israel on the land of Palestine
-Ah... Now we see how they keep scheming and executing tirelessly
and no matter how much they compete and clash against each other,
they eventually come together against us
And here we are today,
more than a century after the signing of the agreement,
still suffering from the aftermath of the partition
In fact, the disaster is still recurring
So, isn't it time for us to reconsider and put things into order again?