Comments by "Sam Aronow" (@SamAronow) on "Carving up the Middle East I BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1920 Part 3 of 4" video.

  1. Exactly. This is why the border was drawn so funny– Britain needed Jordan to build a pipeline between Kirkuk and Haifa, which ultimately made the latter one of the most important cities in the Empire during WWII (and boring as hell today).
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  2. There would have been a referendum for Kurdish independence in the north, but it was pre-empted by Ataturk's uprising. Ditto Wilsonian Armenia.
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