{"id":3395,"date":"2026-03-10T18:06:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T18:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=3395"},"modified":"2026-03-10T18:06:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T18:06:44","slug":"sykes-picot-agreement%c2%b9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=3395","title":{"rendered":"Sykes-Picot Agreement\u00b9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two men. One map. One afternoon. That is how the Middle East was promised to three different groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a01915-16: Hussein-McMahon Correspondence \u2192 Britain promises Sharif Hussein an independent Arab state (including Palestine) if Arabs revolt against Ottomans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a01916: Sykes-Picot Agreement \u2192 A secret British-French deal carves up the region into spheres of influence, ditching Arab independence promises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a01917: Balfour Declaration \u2192 Britain expresses &#8216;sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations&#8217; and pledges a &#8216;national home for the Jewish people (Zionism)&#8217; in Palestine\u2014backing the Zionist movement&#8217;s goals while sidelining the Arab majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See? Three separate proposal docs, one land, and one massive contradiction. The man who drew the borderlines\u2014he later called it &#8216;the great swindle.&#8217; He also died before he could see the division happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m sticking with the original promise made to Abraham. (Genesis 12, 15, 17 and Galatians 3:6-9, 29) Which one are you going with?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b9<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/i\/status\/2030708628781715834\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/x.com\/i\/status\/2030708628781715834<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two men. One map. One afternoon. That is how the Middle East was promised to three different groups. \u00a01915-16: Hussein-McMahon Correspondence \u2192 Britain promises Sharif Hussein an independent Arab state (including Palestine) if Arabs revolt against Ottomans. \u00a01916: Sykes-Picot Agreement \u2192 A secret British-French deal carves up the region into spheres of influence, ditching Arab independence promises. \u00a01917: Balfour Declaration \u2192 Britain expresses &#8216;sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations&#8217; and pledges a &#8216;national home for the Jewish people (Zionism)&#8217; in Palestine\u2014backing the Zionist movement&#8217;s goals while sidelining the Arab majority. See?&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3397,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395\/revisions\/3397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}