the names of the officials who first drew that map, mark syches and george picot, still resonate throughout arab world. it is the map which essentially endures today, with one exception, a country of palestine. in 1917, arthur james balfer stood at the pinnacle of the british imperial establishment. shortly after psychos and piko drew their map, he wrote a letter that was to become threats and phone messages that are you know quite unpleasant, so there's that, i mean, there's the hint of violence around there, well yeah, i think that that was he lived with it constantly, and one of the interesting things is that they really, he was so powerful a presence that they couldn't really touch him, it's not that they didn't try, constantly tried, i don't. the result of this action is the awareness of the jewish extremists in america and the re-invocation of the palestinian issue on the academic level, at least, and the students, who are so many questions, why did edward saeed burn the school when there's so much public relations on one side you can't avoid public relations if you're going to have a