• But specifically it was an inheritance from a time when straight talk was impossible: the century and a half or more of the Partition when the country was carved up between Russia, Prussia and Austria.
• The process is driven by an elite group of territorial politicians who don't want to share power, but to take it and selfishly carve it up.
• After the campaign ended Lawrence returned to England to promote the cause of Arab independence, but to his dismay the region was carved up between the world powers.

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