Abstract

Minority Report

The article presents information on most revealing was the deal between the Anglo- French diplomatic team of politicians Mark Sykes and E. Georges Picot on the future dismemberment and sharing of the Ottoman Empire. U.S. Woodrow Wilson, eager to drag the U.S. in on the side of Lloyd George and premier of France George Clemenceau could not continue to posture about a war for democracy in the face of such cynicism. So in January 1918, only weeks after politician Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's revelations, he evolved his "Fourteen Points" on the principles of a postwar world. The best remembered of these points concerns the so-called self-determination of peoples. As a result, the U.S. has been embarrassed ever since by its promise to facilitate self-government for, among other peoples, the Palestinians, the Armenians and the Kurds.