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In Chapter 13 of The Book of Trump, Ghost turns his focus to one of the most misunderstood figures in modern geopolitics: Bashar al-Assad, the “Lion of Damascus.” This epic solo deep dive traces Assad's rise from London-trained eye surgeon to defiant Syrian leader, revealing how Western-backed regime change efforts, globalist proxy wars, and pipeline politics converged to ignite the Syrian Civil War. Ghost connects the dots between U.S. and Israeli-backed jihadi proxies, the CIA-funded White Helmets, and the 5C infrastructure vision Assad proposed to create economic unity across the Middle East, before the Arab Spring was weaponized to destroy it. With receipts endorsed by General Flynn, Ghost breaks down the propaganda, chemical weapons psyops, and false flags used to justify toppling Assad, exposing the international coalition that fueled ISIS and Al-Qaeda's rise in the region. Weaving together history from Lawrence of Arabia to the Sykes-Picot betrayal and the current-day gas wars between Qatar and Iran, this episode places Syria at the heart of a global struggle for sovereignty. It's not just Assad they want gone, it's anyone defying the uniparty's monopoly on power. A must-listen for those ready to challenge the mainstream narrative and rediscover the truth behind the war on Syria.

What happens when a proud American, native Gazan, and pro-peace advocate joins Unpacking Israeli History? In this groundbreaking episode, Noam Weissman sits down with Ahmed Fouad Alkatib for a deeply honest and nuanced conversation about Palestinian history, identity, and lived experience. From Gaza in the 1990s to the legacy of Hajj Amin al-Husseini, Sykes-Picot, and the Nakba, Ahmed offers a powerful, personal perspective. In part 1 of a two part series, Ahmed and Noam discuss everything from the failures of pan-Arabism and missed opportunities for peace, to the challenges of anti-normalization, Zionism, and the road ahead. Follow Unpacking Israeli History on Instagram and check us out on youtube. Please note that our email address has changed. You can now email noam@unpacked.media. This podcast was brought to you by Unpacked, a division of OpenDor Media. ------------------- For other podcasts from Unpacked, check out: Jewish History Nerds Soulful Jewish Living Stars of David with Elon Gold Wondering Jews

A version of this essay was published by firstpost.com at https://www.firstpost.com/opinion/shadow-warrior-britains-outsized-malign-role-in-global-chaos-13872084.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialBeing a keen observer of the United Kingdom, I have lately noticed a few apparently unconnected events with dismay. If I were to connect the dots, it begins to appear that Britain has had an outsize influence on international affairs. Maybe the James Bond meme isn't the total fantasy I had assumed it was: a juvenile wet dream about nubile maidens and irresistible heroes bumping off sundry villains.The reality appears to be quite impressive. This tiny, rainy island off Northwest Asia has been running quite a number of worldwide schemes. Its administrative center, Whitehall, manages a global web of intrigue and narrative-building, and has created a number of ‘imperial fortresses', thus punching above its weight-classOne of their principal assets in gaslighting others is the BBC (not to mention their plummy accents that, for example, make Americans just melt). The BBC has a sterling reputation which does not seem well-deserved. There have been many instances of motivated bias (eg. in their Brexit or India coverage), lack of integrity (eg. sexual transgressions by senior staff) and so on. In reality, it is about as unabashed at pushing its agenda as Al Jazeera is about its own.Admittedly, Britain has made one major blunder along the way, though: Brexit, which left them in trisanku mode, sort of adrift mid-Atlantic. They were distancing themselves from the European Union, counting on their so-called ‘special relationship' with the US to sustain them, away from what they perceived, correctly, as a declining and disunited Europe. They also thought they could dominate their former colonies again (see the frantic pursuit of a Free Trade Agreement with India?) without onerous EU rules. Sadly, none of this quite worked out.The reason is a fundamental problem: there is not much of a market for British goods any more. Indians once coveted British products as status symbols, but today, with the possible exceptions of Rolls Royce cars and single-malt whiskey, there's very little anybody wants from them. They still do good R&D, make aircraft engines (India could use that technology), and their apparently for-hire journalism is well-known, but that's about it.On the other hand, they have managed to stay entrenched in the international financial system, starting with colonial loot, especially the $45 trillion they are believed to have taken from India. It is rumored that they used stolen Indian gold to buy distressed assets in the US after the Civil War. It is possible they had the same game plan for Ukraine: acquire rich agricultural land and mineral deposits at distressed prices. Some point to the port of Odessa as another targetUkraine: bad faith actor?It is remarkable how Boris Johnson, then PM of UK, is alleged to have single-handedly ruined the chance of a ceasefire in April 2022 during his visit to Kiev in the early days of the Ukraine war, when there was a chance of a negotiated cessation of hostilities with all parties adhering to the Minsk 1 and 2 agreements.In January, just before President Trump took office, UK PM Starmer signed a minerals agreement with Ukraine as part of a “100-Year Partnership” that appears to pre-emptively undercut Trump's proposed $500-billion US deal. That lends credence to allegations about the UK's coveting minerals, as well as its not being interested in ending the tragic war.Gold: is it all there?The UK does have a thing for tangible assets, including gold. A lot of the world's gold (5000 metric tons) is supposedly held in secure custody in London. But there are fears that this may not physically be there in the vaults of the Bank of England any more. They may have indulged in ‘gold leasing', where the actual gold ends up being replaced by paper promises after it is lent out to bullion banks, from where it may be moved around and be inaccessibleExtraordinary delays in gold deliveries in 2025 (on withdrawals to New York triggered by tariff fears) increase this concern. There is a lack of transparency in transactions in the metal in the UK. Spooked, many countries are taking their gold back. India repatriated 200+ tons of its own gold from London in 2024. Venezuela is fighting a court battle to get its gold back.Then there are concerns raised by the arguably unfair freezing of Russian assets held abroad as part of Ukraine-war sanctions: Starmer recently promised to give Ukraine $2 billion, basically the interest generated by those assets. This doesn't sound quite right, and has dented the image of London as a reliable financial hub. Brexit was a blow; the rise of Dubai, Singapore, Shanghai and Zurich all threaten the City of London, but it is second only to New York, still.Imperial Fortresses galoreAnother win for the British was the selection of Mark Carney, a former Bank of England governor, as the Prime Minister of Canada. The Anglosphere continues to be dominated by the UK, although the Commonwealth is a club that serves no particular purpose any more, except as a curious relic of the British empire.This highlights the concept of ‘imperial fortresses': far-flung outposts that have helped sustain British military power and diplomatic clout despite the loss of empire. Traditionally, these were naval bases/garrisons such as those in Malta, Gibraltar, Bermuda, etc. that allowed Britain to keep an eye on the ‘restless natives'. However, I contend that the entire Anglosphere has been treated as imperial fortresses by them.Canada, Australia and New Zealand still continue to have the British King as their Head of State, which is astonishing for supposedly sovereign nations. But it's far more interesting that, in effect, the US has been treated as another vassal by the Brits, pillow-talked into doing things that are generally only in the interests of Britain. All that pomp and circumstance has beguiled poor Americans. Whitehall, I assert, have been Svengalis to Foggy Bottom.Master Blaster blowback?The other metaphor is from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985), where "Master Blaster" is a literal duo: Master, a cunning dwarf, and Blaster, his brawny, enforcer bodyguard. The Americans unwittingly have provided the muscle to the calculating dwarf's machinations, which generally end up mostly benefiting the latterBut there is yet another imperial fortress that we should consider: Pakistan. It was created expressly to be a geographically well-placed client state for the Brits to continue their 19th century Great Game from afar to checkmate Russia, and incidentally to contain India. From that point of view, Pakistan has been a successful imperial outpost, notwithstanding the fact that it, despite decades of US largesse, is a failing state (see the Baloch train hijack recently).This is part of the reason why Americans have a hard time explaining why they get involved in Pakistan and Afghanistan again and again to their ultimate regret, with painful exits. They have been induced to do this by the clever Brits, who, quite evidently, sided with Muslims against Hindus in the sub-continent, for instance in the British-led merger of Gilgit-Baltistan into Pakistan, contrary to the Instrument of Accession.There is considerable irony in all this, because one could argue that Pakistani-origin Brits have now done a ‘reverse master-blaster' to the Brits. That sounds eerily like the ‘reverse-Kissinger' that Trump is supposed to be doing. Or maybe it is a ‘recursive master-blaster', although the mind boggles at that.Consider the facts: UK rape-gangs are almost entirely of Pakistani origin; several current mayors (including Sadiq Khan in London) and past mayors are of that ethnicity, indicating a powerful vote-bank; they have at least 15 MPs and a large number of councillors.There's Pakistani-origin Sir Mufti Hamid Patel, the chair of the Office of Standards in Education; Shabana Mahmood, the Justice Secretary; Humza Yusuf, the former First Minister of Scotland. This imperial fortress is fighting back, indeed, and winning. The UK may not have quite anticipated this outcome.The American vassal-state is also beginning to rebel. Trump was personally incensed by the fact that Starmer sent 50 Labor operatives to work against him in the 2024 US elections: their interactions have been a little frosty.Khalil, an embedded asset?Then there is the case of a current cause celebre in the US, Mahmoud Khalil, a Syrian-born Algerian citizen of Palestinian descent. He has been accused of leading violent anti-Israel protests at Columbia University, and detained on that count. Interestingly, he had a security clearance from the UK, and was part of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, living in Beirut and leading a scholarship program for Syrians. Yes, Syria.And then Khalil suddenly showed up with a green card (not a student visa), got married to a US citizen named Noor Abdalla, finished his program at Columbia, and so on. To me, all this sounds like it was facilitated, and that he has certain powerful foreign friends. No prizes for guessing who they were.Iraq, Libya and Syria: Humanitarian crisesSpeaking of Syria, Whitehall spent at least 350 million pounds sterling between 2011 and 2024 in regime-change activities targeting the Assad government, according to Declassified UK.The UK's meddling in the Middle East, going back to the Sykes-Picot carving up of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, and mandates in Palestine and Iraq, and even earlier to the antics of T E Lawrence, was clearly intended to advance and sustain British interests in, and influence on, the region. Which is not unreasonable.The sad fact, though, is that it appears the British have actively fomented, or been deeply involved in, a lot of the military misadventures that have turned the region into a mess of human misery. To take relatively recent history, the invasions of Iraq, Libya, and now of Syria were arguably dreamt up or at least actively supported by Britain.The invasion of Iraq was certainly endorsed by Tony Blair's infamous September 2002 dossier about Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction (WMD), which turned out to be imaginary, but then, lo! Saddam Hussein was overthrown and killed.The invasion of Libya saw Britain take on an even more active role. David Cameron and France's Nicolas Sarkozy in effect prodded a somewhat reluctant Barack Obama to invade, even co-drafting the UN Security Council Resolution 1973 in 2011 that was the formal permission for the war. The net result was the killing of Muammar Gaddafi.In the case of Syria, Britain began covert operations in 2012, with MI6 allegedly organizing arms shipments, training and coordination of groups opposed to the Assad regime. The sudden fall of Assad in December 2024, driven by groups like Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) that Britain indirectly supported, underscores the successful outcomes of this policy.In all three cases, a secular dictatorship was overthrown and religious extremists took over. Earlier, civilians had reasonably prosperous lives; women were generally educated and present in the workforce. After the regime changes, all three are bombed-out hellholes, with no rights for women or religious minorities. In particular, the latter have been consistently subjected to massacres, as in the recent large-scale executions of Alawites in Syria.Even though Americans were the principal players in all these cases, the impression is that British Whitehall's gaslighting of their US counterparts in Foggy Bottom could well have tipped the scales and turned skirmishes into outright war and disaster.Thus it is clear that Britain is still a formidable player in the world of international relations, despite the loss of empire and relative decline. It is unfortunate, however, that the net result of its actions is to add to entropy and chaos and the loss of human lives and rights. Perfidious Albion it still is.1950 words, Mar 16, 2025AI-generated podcast from NotebookLM.google.com: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com/subscribe

Until the end of WWI, the Middle East as we know it didn't exist. No Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, or Iraq. Instead, there was the Ottoman Empire, whose dissolution using an arbitrary line on a map set the region on a course of upheaval that's still with us. Listen as historian James Barr speaks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, and how, in the century that followed, the machinations of the French, the British, and the local residents created the modern Middle East and affected the lives of millions.

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Israeli air strikes in Lebanon are creating carnage, and the death toll is now soaring—including many children. One week ago Israel turned thousands of people in Lebanon into human bombs by inserting explosives into their communication devices. Brian and Ghadi discuss the devastation, why Israel and the US can't win, and the secret Sykes-Picot treaty. Brian Becker is joined by Ghadi Francis, Lebanese writer, war correspondent, and host of TV show The West Asia Post. Please make an urgently-needed contribution to The Socialist Program by joining our Patreon community at https://www.patreon.com/TheSocialistProgram. We rely on the generous support of our listeners to keep bringing you consistent, high-quality shows. All Patreon donors of $5 a month or more are invited to join the monthly Q&A seminar with Brian.

Today, we talk with theologian and activist Jesse Wheeler about the rotten fruit of the West's theology in Palestine and the broader region. We get into:-        How everyday Christians can tell the difference between good and bad theology-        Examples of the fruit of bad Western theology in Palestine and the region of the Middle East/North Africa-        How we must acknowledge the horrible effects of the Zionism on both sides of the political aisle, even while rejecting Trump-        What the political witness of Christians should be with respect to how we handle power-        And after the interview, Sy and Jonathan discuss the Christian nationalism and bigotry in faith leaders' response to controversies at the OlympicsMentioned in the Episode-            Our anthology, Keeping the Faith-            Jesse's essay from the anthology, “Bad Theology Kills”-            Jesse's book, Serving a Crucified King-            Jesse's organization, Friends of Sabeel North America-            The new Institute for the Study of Christian ZionismCredits-            Follow KTF Press on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Subscribe to get our bonus episodes and other benefits at KTFPress.com.-        Follow host Jonathan Walton on Facebook Instagram, and Threads.-        Follow host Sy Hoekstra on Mastodon.-        Our theme song is “Citizens” by Jon Guerra – listen to the whole song on Spotify.-        Our podcast art is by Robyn Burgess – follow her and see her other work on Instagram.-        Editing by Multitude Productions-        Transcripts by Joyce Ambale and Sy Hoekstra.-        Production by Sy Hoekstra and our incredible subscribersTranscriptIntroduction[An acoustic guitar softly plays six notes in a major scale, the first three ascending and the last three descending, with a keyboard pad playing the tonic in the background. Both fade out as Jonathan Walton says “This is a KTF Press podcast.”]Jesse Wheeler: The Kingdom of God, or Christians, or those who would seek to be citizens of the kingdom, cannot live in such a way that emulates the kingdoms of this world. What that entails is, I call it the proper use of power. It's not like physical versus spiritual as sometimes we try to kind of get. It's like, no, it's actually how we understand power and why Jesus through going to the cross, he was basically saying, “Okay, empire, the forces of violence and hatred and exploitation, give me your all.” And he took it to the cross and took it on the cross, and he rejected the violent option.[The song “Citizens” by Jon Guerra fades in. Lyrics: “I need to know there is justice/ That it will roll in abundance/ And that you're building a city/ Where we arrive as immigrants/ And you call us citizens/ And you welcome us as children home.” The song fades out.]Sy Hoekstra: Welcome to Shake the Dust, seeking Jesus, confronting Injustice. I'm Sy Hoekstra.Jonathan Walton: And I'm Jonathan Walton. We have a great show for you today, including an interview with another one of our authors from our anthology on Christianity and politics in the era of Trump. This one's on how regular Christians can discern between good and bad theology, and how we can see bad theology playing out in the Middle East. Plus afterwards, hear our thoughts on the interview, and we'll be doing our segment, Which Tab is Still Open, diving deeper into one of the recommendations from our newsletter. This week it's all about the Olympic opening ceremony controversy, trans athletes at the games and the White Christian persecution complex.Sy Hoekstra: [laughs]. We should probably say non-trans athletes at the Olympic Games.Jonathan Walton: I was literally about to be like, “and not?” [laughs] but…Sy Hoekstra: Yeah, that's part of the persecution complex. But we will get to that folks, don't worry. You will hear the whole story on how ridiculous it is. Before we get there, a quick reminder, please, everybody consider going to KTFPress.com and becoming a paid subscriber. We will not be able to continue doing this work beyond this election season if we do not get a lot more paid subscribers. So if you want to see this work continue, please go there and sign up. That gets you all the bonus episodes of this show. It gets you access to our monthly Zoom subscriber chats and more community features. So please KTFPress.com, become a paid subscriber.If you already are a paid subscriber, consider upgrading to a founding member level and please share widely with your friends and family to anyone who you think might be interested in joining our community here. Thank you so much all. All right Jonathan, tell everybody about our guest this week.Jonathan Walton: Yes, we have the amazing Jesse Wheeler. For almost three years, Jesse has served as executive administrator and development director for Friends of Sabeel North America, an interdenominational Christian organization seeking justice and peace in the holy land through education, advocacy, and nonviolent action. Prior to that, he served just shy of seven years in Beirut, Lebanon as a project's manager for the Institute of Middle East Studies at the Arab Baptist Theological Seminary. He also ran the Master of Religion in the Middle East and North African studies program, working also as support instructor for MENA history, politics and economics.He has served in Nazarene, evangelical free and Presbyterian churches, and he holds a PG certificate in baptistic histories and theologies from the University of Manchester, a master of divinity with an emphasis in Islamic studies from Fuller Theological Seminary and a BA in diplomatic in Middle Eastern history with a minor in political economics from the University of California Berkeley. Jesse's wife Heidi is Palestinian-American, and they have three amazing boys. Now, Jesse's essay in our anthology was called Bad Theology Kills: How We Justify Killing Arabs. We actually published that at one point on KTFPress.com, so we'll have the link in our show notes to that. And you can get the entire anthology with all 36 essays at Keepingthefaithbook.com. That link will also be in the show notes.Sy Hoekstra: So we did this interview like we did a lot of our interviews a few months ago, at this point [laughs]. We've been releasing these slowly. This one we did in April, which is relevant. I only say that now because we talk about Biden a decent amount, and when it comes to Palestine, which is what we're talking about when we mention Biden, there's not a lot of distance between Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.Jonathan Walton: Nope.Sy Hoekstra: So [laughs], I just wanted to note that up top so that you know that effectively all the content, all the things that we actually say on the subject don't really change given the candidate switch. But that disclaimer behind us, here we go with the interview with Jesse Wheeler.[the intro piano music from “Citizens” by Jon Guerra plays briefly and then fades out.]Jonathan Walton: Jesse Wheeler, thank you so much for being with us today on Shake the Dust. We really, really appreciate it.Jesse Wheeler: Yeah, no, thank you so much for having me. I'm really happy to be with you guys.How Everyday Christians Can Tell Good Theology from Bad TheologyJonathan Walton: Yeah. We were privileged to publish your essay in our anthology, and you gave us a relatively simple and accessible test for judging the value of the theology that we hear from leaders. Could you talk a little bit about the fruit test?Jesse Wheeler: Yeah. The fruit test, basically, it's taken straight from the Sermon on the Mount. It's no secret that there are different theological systems that exist in the world, different schools of thought, different ways of thinking, and it can be overwhelming, actually. And I'm even thinking of either my own context back when I was in seminary and sort of some of the destabilizing aspects of it, or when I was working at a seminary and working with students who are introduced to new ideas. And it can be overwhelming even epistemologically overwhelming when they're getting ideas that sort of might butt up against core ideas that maybe they were grown up with that are core parts of their identity. It can be very destabilizing.And this question of is there a way to distinguish good theology quote, from bad theology quote- unquote, if, I mean, those are very reductionist [laughs] the terminology itself, of course. But I think it comes straight from the Sermon on the Mount actually. And Jesus in the concluding sections of Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 7, Jesus gives this, “By your fruit you will recognize them.” How to tell true prophets from false prophets on the basis of their fruit. He doesn't necessarily say, go get a doctorate in systematic, [laughs] in dogmatics to determine whether they are… He's like, look at the fruit of what is happening.Jonathan Walton: Right.Jesse Wheeler: And it's for normal people too. This is like normal people without massive theology to say, “Hey, look at this. I see that the fruit of this is leading to hurt and harm and destruction, or the fruit of this is leading to healing and health and flourishing.” It's not to denigrate or dismiss theology. I mean, the title of my chapter is Bad Theology Kills. I think Theology is important.Jonathan Walton: ExactlyJesse Wheeler: [laughs] It's a litmus test for assessing theology. And right there, Jesus chapters five, six, and the first part of seven, he gives a whole list of instructions of teachings in the Sermon on the Mount, and then concludes with, “Therefore do to others what you would want others to do for you. This summarizes the law and the prophets,” which is of course, the scriptures. Basically saying, if you wanna know what the scriptures teach, what God is expecting of you, do for others. And even in other parts of the gospels, when people ask, “Oh, what's the greatest commandment?” And he comes back to, “Love the Lord your God,” it's the Shema.And then right on adds it, and your neighbor as yourself taking that from the Leviticus. And he's like, there you go. Basically says that and then immediately goes into this section on two roads, easy road and narrow road. And then right after that talks about the false prophets who will come, who might speak eloquently, lovely, and yet the fruit is rotten.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah.Jesse Wheeler: The fruit is rotten.Sy Hoekstra: Absolutely.Jonathan Walton: Yeah.Sy Hoekstra: Out of the three of us, I feel like I am the one in the position to most appreciate your point, that you don't need a big theological education to apply this test [laughs]. Because for me and for a lot of the people listening, if you don't have a master's in divinity like Jesse, you haven't been doing ministry and Bible studies and everything for years and years like Jonathan, the more you learn about how little as kind of lay people we know about the whole wide world of theological academics and whatever, the more you realize, I don't feel equipped [laughs]. And so this is, I think, like Jonathan said, it's accessible. It's something that the average person can apply and have some success [laughs] according to Jesus, trying to figure out what's good and bad.Theologies that Have Born Rotten Fruit in the Middle East and North AfricaSy Hoekstra: And then I would like to hear from you, in your work doing work with advocacy in churches in the MENA, in the Middle East and North Africa, sometimes abbreviated MENA region, what have you seen bearing bad fruit? What kinds of theologies have you seen bearing bad fruit?Jesse Wheeler: So, I mean, I could start with the three I listed in my chapter, but I think I kind of want to say like, there is so, so much misunderstanding and prejudice and straight up bigotry that's filtered through a theological system that attempts to justify it.Colonialist PaternalismJesse Wheeler: But I'm going to start with the three I listed in my chapter, and the first one, colonialist paternalism.Jonathan Walton: Yeah.Jesse Wheeler: It's a theology of colonial supremacy. Why one person gets to make the decisions for another person, gets to invade another country, gets to conquer, but it's couched in a paternalistic language, often. In a this is for your own good language.Jonathan Walton: Right.Jesse Wheeler: It's the, I'm not going to attempt to do the French, but the civilizing mission [laughs], hand in hand with the White man's burden from back in the 19th century of bringing our civilization, our Christianity, on one hand… I mean, sometimes it was the church and sometimes it was full on those modern secularists springing [laughs] their enlightened, was just, it was hand in hand with the colonial project too. And that's actually what muddies up the water sometimes in our discourses, especially on more left side of the aisle discourses [laughs].Sy Hoekstra: Yeah, absolutely.Jesse Wheeler: Because you go from there and you go into speaking right in the Middle East, right after World War I, when you had the three competing promises, you had deals, you had The Balfour Declaration on the one hand, you had Hussein McMahon promising the Arabs of the Hajj, the like the Hussein family, a state, an Arab state, if they would help fight against the Ottoman Turks. And then you had the Sykes-Picot which was basically France and Britain getting together and saying, “Okay, here's how we're going to divide up the spoils.” [laughs]Sy Hoekstra: And the Balfour Declaration was Britain's intent to make a Zionist state.Jonathan Walton: Right.Jesse Wheeler: Yeah. Basically a Zionist state in historic Palestine. And so, but you get into afterwards and you had the 14 points, and Wilson came in with, “Oh, we're gonna create a whole new world of peace and…”Sy Hoekstra: The League of Nations.Jesse Wheeler: The League of Nations, yeah. And the mandate system, like the fruit of 2that, where basically it's like Sykes-Picot. It's like Britain takes control, France takes control of Lebanon, Syria, Britain, Palestine, Jordan, Iraq, and they had Egypt too. So it's just, but it's couched in this language of, it's for your own benefit. We are here to provide guidance to these native populations who need to be trained in the ways of democracy.Jonathan Walton: It's framed as benevolence. Like this is a good thing.Jesse Wheeler: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's a good thing. It's like we are colonizing you for your good thing. Of course, land extraction, resource extraction [laughs], all of these marks of colonialism are part of this, right, but this is how it's justified, how it's sold, how it's…Sy Hoekstra: But the theology, like basically you're saying there were always churches and people propping up those colonialist ideas in the Middle East with basically the stamp of approval of the Bible or the church.Jesse Wheeler: Absolutely. Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. And it's not a total. I do need to make the point that sometimes the missionaries were very much… actually in the Middle East and in, or very much part of the colonial project, sometimes they actually would actually fight and counter the colonial project in certain ways, even though they were also facilitated by it. But yeah, these theologies, the colonialist paternalism. But to continue on, you have a theology of the Cold War developed almost of democracy and we'll bomb your entire country, but we will protect you from communism [laughs], you know.Jonathan Walton: Right.Jesse Wheeler: To very much part of my life, the war on terror. We're bringing democracy to the Middle East.Sy Hoekstra: Right. I was going to say that just sounds like George W. Bush, like everything that they were saying post World War I. It hasn't changed a lot.Jesse Wheeler: It has not. It has not. And so that's the first one.Henotheism: My Good God Will Defeat Your Bad GodJesse Wheeler: The second one in my book I describe as, I take this term from a scholar Joseph Cumming, he's a comparative theologian of Christianity and Islam, but he calls, he speaks of Henotheism.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah.Jesse Wheeler: Which is sort of your tribal deity. I don't want… people push back on using tribal as a negative, but sort of the sense of like God is our God and we are the holy ones, and their God is a demon, and we will defeat them and destroy them. And so I even take this quote again from this, the war and terror era where a general speaking about fighting this warlord, whatever, in North Africa, talking about, “We have God on our side, and their god's a demon, and that's why we're gonna win and be victorious.” And this is so much in situations of conflict and situations, you very much have this sense of, “we are the good, our God is the good, they're the evil. And so because they're so evil, any violence is justified against them.”Sy Hoekstra: And that dates like straight back to the crusades.Jonathan Walton: Yep.Jesse Wheeler: Oh, yeah. This is crusades [laughs]. Exactly. Exactly. It's a crusader theology, but it's also when you really dig into it and you ask, well, these are supposed monotheists. And isn't the whole point of monotheism that there's actually one God for everybody, and thus it's to turn the God of the cosmos, the monotheistic God into a territorial idol.Settler Colonialism/ZionismJesse Wheeler: I'll move on to the third one, which I think is very relevant in that what I listed as manifest destiny. But it's the settler colonial theology, where it's different from the colonialist paternalism, because this is really, it's a theology that justifies why I deserve to go into a land, remove the indigenous people and take it for my own, basically.Sy Hoekstra: Which is the difference between settler colonialism and like metropolis, distant ruler colonialism.Jesse Wheeler: Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. And Jim Wallace, once he wrote, the most controversial statement I ever wrote talking about something he previously wrote was how America was founded on the genocide of one people and the enslavement of another. There was a time in my life where hearing words like that would be so deeply, deeply disorienting for me. My identity, my understanding of who I am. I think part of that discomfort, which is very real, because that's part of my background, and is I think what drives people to someone like Trump. Less the logic behind it, but the emotional, the emotions of feeling safe to have this champion on my side. But that's the simple truth. I mean [laughs], there's this belief that we are god's, we have this divine mandate to come into this new territory. And so I'm talking here about America, but of course this happened all over the world, actually. France and Algeria.Jonathan Walton: Right.Jesse Wheeler: That was so utterly destructive of traditional Algerian society. And France would even talk about, “Algeria is fully France. We are one.” And so I don't understand why these people are rebelling because we've given them democracy and freedom, when it's like, no, you've completely disrupted their entire civilization and ruled, but how it affects the news, you have the whole Charlie Hebdo incidents and these attacks in France. And this was violent murderous acts, yes. And morally they should be condemned, but you have to see them in their historical context [laughs] of this, the Algerian conflict. But South Africa, this was a deeply theological Dutch Calvinist movement. Even Argentina was a settler colonial context as well.Sy Hoekstra: I mean, most things in the Western hemisphere are [laughter].Jonathan Walton: Yeah.Jesse Wheeler: Yeah. No, you're absolutely right. But in a way of the natives were cleared out more.Sy Hoekstra: Oh, yes. I see what you're saying. Right. In Argentina, yes.Jesse Wheeler: Compared to like Brazil, just to the north. And then of course, Zionism is right in there with that. I think it's a theology that justifies why one group gets to come in and displace another group. And those three are three big ones.The Rotten Fruit of Colonialism and Zionism is on Both Sides of the Political AisleJonathan Walton: Yeah. I think those three, if we could hold them together as we press into the conversation, all of them are relevant. As we kind of move from the anthology into the present day. So in 2020 you wrote, “If our task is to examine the fruit and avoid falling prey to seductive rhetoric, it is crucial to note that from the vantage point of the Middle East, Republican drones don't look or act much differently than Democrat drones. Biden's record on the Iraq War or Israel-Palestine, while not as appalling or destructive as that of the Republicans is nevertheless quite bad. He's the only viable choice put before us on election day, yet we must remain vigilant in holding a potential Biden administration to account in the weeks, months, years that follow.”Now, I don't think any of us knew when you wrote that [laughs], how relevant, prophetic and important that last sentence would be. Especially when we talk about the settler colonial ideas that you just talked about, and the deep enmeshment and entanglement with Christian Zionism and the colonial state that is Israel. So, can you… I don't know how to say this just in a simple way. Can you tell us a little bit about what you've been up to with the Friends of Sabeel over the past several months, since October 7th? And what are your thoughts about the two candidates? Because they're the same [laughter], as we look towards the election in the Middle East now. And I will also say our thoughts and prayers are with your friends and family in Palestine.Jesse Wheeler: Thank you.Jonathan Walton: And we've been praying that they would be safe in Jesus' name.Jesse Wheeler: Yeah. No, thank you. I'm trying to think of where do I start digging in? First, my wife is Palestinian. Her family, still a lot of family in Bethlehem. My kids therefore are Palestinian. So I have a deep personal connection. And so to your listeners, knowing that [laughs] who is this guy? I definitely have a deep and emotional pull and connection to what's happening right now. But to go back to what you were first saying is, as you were reading that quote, that passage, and you had wrote, Biden is the only viable [laughs] candidate, my heart sank [laughs]. I'm like, “Ugh.” I understand why I said it at the time, but the listeners need to understand the depth of feeling of the pain, the sense of betrayal, especially amongst the Arab and Palestinian-American community and even wider Muslim community. The utter hurt that they felt in these last six months by everything that has happened.And so, it's so hard because Trump, just to get into the politics of, it's like I don't even need to say it. From my perspective, from where I stand, Trump is bad [laughs]. I mean, it's like he's out there saying, re-implement the Muslim ban and all completely bigoted and horrible. His son-in-law's talking about, “Oh, yeah, and there will be prime real estate in Gaza,” and [laughs].Sy Hoekstra: Yes. Right.Jesse Wheeler: You know, back to settler colonialism. And yeah, it's terrifying. But the thing about Biden, and here's where I just have to say, he will in one breath talk about the importance of combating anti-Arab bigotry and Islamophobia, and in the next breath give billion more dollars of armed shipments to a country that the International Criminal Court is saying in their legal language, is very plausibly in the midst of an active genocide [laughs]. I'm not a lawyer. Sy, you're the lawyer [Sy laughs]. And it's just the duplicity is what hurts. So KTF shaped, you talk of Christian nationalism a lot and the dangers of Trump, and that largely the anthology was digging into that. And I remember writing the idolatrous fruit is rotten. I mean, that is like, the man thinks he's Jesus, I mean, or… [laughs] It's just horrifying.Sy Hoekstra: But it's still there with Biden.Jesse Wheeler: It's still there.Sy Hoekstra: Right.Jesse Wheeler: It's like when you are connected to the Middle East, either via family or study, or I lived in Lebanon for seven years, when you're paying attention, it's very hard to cheerlead one political party versus another when it comes to the American presence in the Middle East, which has been incredibly destructive.Sy Hoekstra: And we have come back to that point that you made in your essay. If you listen to a lot of episodes of this show, you will have heard Jesse's name and this point brought up before [laughs].What Should the Political Witness of Christians Be?Jonathan Walton: Mm-hmm. You explained in the essay and just now, drones do not own political parties. The bombs that are dropping are the same. The impact they have is the same, devastation is the same. So the idea of the cross to so many people around the world, particularly in the Middle East, North Africa, the MENA region is a symbol of hatred and violence when it's supposed to be like the ultimate expression of God's holy love. We are recording this just after Easter, contemplating the death and resurrection of Jesus. To you, what should the political witness be of people who carry the cross of Jesus?Self-Sacrifice and a Rejection of Imperial ViolenceJesse Wheeler: Self-Sacrificial love. Quite simply what the cross represents. But at the same time, to dig into it a little more, the cross is what? It's a instrument of imperial violence, that's what it is. There's a reason Jesus died on the cross. It is ultimately a rejection of the Imperial way. Theologically, we need to talk a lot of the kingdom of God and how the kingdom of God exists as a direct challenge to the kingdoms of Pharaoh, of Babylon, of Caesar. And one of the brilliant things of the Hebrew scriptures of the Old Testament is the fact that it's also the kings of Israel and Judah [laughs], who become the Babylonian leaders. So you have the prophets who rail against the injustices of the Assyrians, but also look back at their own kings.And when Jesus comes proclaiming the kingdom of God, and when he comes before Pilate and he's brought before Pilate, what does this show right now? And I'm just pulling straight from N. T. Wright, so don't [laughs] pretend I'm like some great Bible scholar here. No. But you have Jesus, who is the representative of the kingdom of God standing before Pilate, who is the full legal representative of Caesar, son of God as they were known and called. And it's just a straight back and forth. And what does Jesus say? He says, my kingdom, there's the quote that always gets misinterpreted. So if you're talking politics and faith, my people say, my kingdom is not of this world. Well, people tend to say, oh, well, Jesus is, it's a spiritual kingdom.So all we do is sit and pray, and then you just let the world live as what empire, as injustice, like do we have nothing to say? No, he says it's more like, my kingdom is not from this world. It's not in kind to those kingdoms of this world, but it's very much in and for this world. Why?Jonathan Walton: Amen.Jesse Wheeler: Otherwise, Jesus says, going back to the garden, we just came through holy week, otherwise what? My disciples would've fought. They would've picked up arms, they would've become revolutionaries, they would've fought my arrest. They would've holed up in the mountains. They would have… So you have the kingdom, but going full back to the cross, kingdom by way of cross. So the kingdom of God cannot, or Christians, or those who would seek to be citizens of the kingdom, cannot live in such a way that emulates the kingdoms of this world. What that entails is, I call it the proper use of power. It's not like physical versus spiritual as sometimes we try to kind of get… It's like, no, it's actually how we understand power and why Jesus, through non-violence, through going to the cross, he was basically saying, okay, empire, the forces of violence and hatred and exploitation, give me your all.And he took it to the cross and took it on the cross, and he rejected the violent option. He did not take up the swords and the arms. He just said, just previously, those who live by the sword will die by the sword. And so that is the witness of the cross. It's self-sacrificial love. It's not this assertion of like, “Hey, this is mine. This is my space, this is my territory.” This is why, back to America, this is why the Christian nationalism is so idolatrous.Sy Hoekstra: We just had a, our March bonus episode, you're like hitting a bunch of our points, actually [laughs].Jonathan Walton: Yes. Keep going.Jesse Wheeler: Oh, no. Yeah. Thanks [laughs]. It's why it's so idolatrous, is because it's complete rejection of the way of Jesus. It's a complete rejection of what the cross is and what it's supposed to represent. I mean, scrolling through social media, I came across what this is like giant muscle Jesus breaking free from the cross. I'm like, no, that's the complete… no, the cross is the… Like Jesus says, you don't think… back in the garden, he says, you don't think I could call down angels? Call down [laughs] fire from heaven, and just like in an instant, make this all go away? He's like, “No, I'm going to the cross.” It's an example for us to follow.It Takes Faith in the Resurrection to Use Power Like JesusJesse Wheeler: And it's an article of faith. This is where people will come back and say, this is why it is hard for people, because it is a belief in the resurrection.Jonathan Walton: Yes.Jesse Wheeler: All the forces of death and all the things we do to avoid death. All the killing we do of others, the things we… all the hoarding of resources. All the things we do that we try to preserve ourselves and in the process hurt other people. And we build walls and we break them down. He's like, let it go. Let it go. Let it go. Go to the cross because the resurrection is happening. And it's hard for people because if you don't believe in resurrection, in a sense it's very difficult. But it is very much a faith stance and a faith position.The Roots of Sabeel in the Political Witness of Palestinian Liberation TheologyAnd going back to, you asked about Sabeel, you asked about where I work. So Sabeel is an organization founded by Palestinian-Christians out of the time of the first Intifada, the Palestinians uprising. Very much a movement, a spontaneous movement that didn't involve the PLO, which was largely external at the time, or the Palestine political leaders, and was a complete shock to many of the global leaders.And largely involved a lot of nonviolent direct-action, sort of creative actions, creative resistance and great violence actually was to try to throw it down in response. And yet, Naim Ateek, he was the founder of Sabeel, he wrote a book, published it 1989. It's called Justice and Only Justice, A Palestinian Theology of Liberation, basically started asking the question, how does our faith, our Christian faith, does it have anything to say to the situation, to us being under this violent, brutal occupation? And sort of the traditional, across the board, Orthodox Catholic, Protestant theologies weren't really saying much.So they started just, would preach there in St. George's Episcopal Church right in Jerusalem. And after the service, they'd kind of get together and start discussing. Like let's read a passage and let's think and just look. It's very much like you, if you think of the classic liberation theology in Latin America. The base communities just getting together. It's basically kind of got together and started thinking, but it grew from there to, so Naim Ateek sort of was the founder, but then it was really this core group that formed and they started inviting… because even back then, they're like, “We know the narrative imbalance that people are not hearing the Palestinian side of the story. Let's bring people and show them.”And they bring people, they show them, and immediately people are converted once they see the reality. People go on tours with the holy land all the time, they're highly curated and they don't go to those scary Palestinian areas. But the moment you enter Palestinian areas and are greeted with wonderful Arab hospitality and like [laughs]… But then here's what the reality of being under their military occupation is. And it is like, oh, I see it now. So people would go back and they founded, I work for Friends of Sabeel North America, but there's groups all over and it's been still going on. And then there's subsequent groups that have formed and other great partners too that we work with.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah.Jonathan Walton: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.Sy Hoekstra: Thank you so much for being here. I mean, you didn't just write for the book. You were an enormous help in actually getting it published. You did a ton of work for us, source checking and all kinds of other things. You were… and were not running around looking for credit for any of that. So you definitely had your head down and you were doing [laughs] what you needed to do to get the word out. And thank you so much for being here today to talk to us.Jesse Wheeler: Thank you for doing it. I mean, I was really proud to be.Jonathan Walton: Thank you so much, man.Jesse Wheeler: Thank you for having me. And thank you for your witness. I mean, Palestine is a wheat and chaff issue, and I feel like those who've really stood for the truth and stood for justice and stood for what's right in the face of so much that's wrong. And it's just been amazing to see the witness of you guys, and I just want to thank you for that. It's very, it means so much.Sy Hoekstra: No, thank you for everything you do as well. We so appreciate it, man.Jonathan Walton: Amen. Blessings on you and Friends of Sabeel. Amen.Jesse Wheeler: Thank you so much. Blessings to you guys.Jonathan Walton: Amen. Thanks.[the intro piano music from “Citizens” by Jon Guerra plays briefly and then fades out.]Jesse's Social Media and RecommendationsSy Hoekstra: You can find Jesse @intothenoisejsw on Instagram and Twitter. His organization, the Friends of Sabeel North America is at FOSNA.org, and those will both be in the show notes. And also, Jesse wanted us to mention another organization that just kind of had its grand opening over the summer after we recorded this interview. It's called the Institute for the Study of Christian Zionism. It's a really cool new organization with a lot of people involved who you may recognize if you're familiar with kind of the field of that particular branch of theology [laughs]. And basically, they want to be a one-stop shop, a hub, a go-to resource for everything related to fighting the heresy, as they call it, of Christian Zionism.And so, that you can find that organization at Studychristianzionism.org. We'll also put that in the show notes, obviously.Jonathan's and Sy's Reactions to the InterviewSy Hoekstra: Okay, Jonathan. After that interview, what are your thoughts?Jonathan Walton: Bad theology kills people.Sy Hoekstra: Yes. Uh-huh. It's not a joke.How We Resist Institutions Built to Protect and Reinforce LiesJonathan Walton: [Laughs] I think we need to lean into that and say it over and over and over again. We cannot divorce what we believe from what we do. Can't. They are intertwined with each other. And it's baffling to me that particularly American Christians, and this like runs a gamut like Black, White, Asian, Hispanic, native, all the things, how strongly we cling to, I believe this, I believe this, I believe this, how deeply committed we are, how there are institutions, there are studies and conversations, there are all these different things that are built up around things that are just not true. Like just the level of intricacy of every apparatus to hold together a lie is mind-boggling to me.And it is so effective that we can get caught up in all the details and never think about the impact, which is what I feel has happened. Like, oh, all I do is read these books. All I do is write these articles. All I do is do these podcasts. All I do is give money to this organization. All I do is pray. All I do is watch these documentaries. All I do is host these little dinners at my house. Not knowing at all that it is undergirding the bombing of Palestinians and the rampant Islamophobia and the destruction of Palestinian Christian life. Don't even know it because it's just an encased system. So I think for me, I'm reminded of the power of the gospel transformation because the gospel and liberation is also a complete process, just like colonization is and settler colonialism is.So I'm challenged because the next time I think to myself, I'm going to change the world. I'll remember this conversation and realize only Jesus can [laughs] do that. And I need to have just as robust of a theology and apparatus built around me and participating as a follower of Jesus as the forces that are hell bent on destroying people's lives. That was just a thing I've been holding onto, particularly as we were talking about Easter, as we are reflecting on the reality of the resurrection, we need a theology of life, abundance and liberation that is just as robust, just as supported, just as active and engaged as the theology of destruction that we have now.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah. The theology, specifically what he was talking about kind of toward the end about the use of power.Jonathan Walton: Right.Sy Hoekstra: I had that same thought basically that you just said. Like the way that we use power via sacrifice as opposed to using power via dominance. Like that needs to be as emphasized as anything else in our Christian discipleship.Jonathan Walton: Yeah.Sy Hoekstra: Because it is just, it's so absent. You cannot insist to so many Western Christians that that aspect of our faith is as important as the stuff that we'll get into a minute about arguing about like sexuality or whatever [laughs].Jonathan Walton: Right.Sy Hoekstra: We have just so deprioritized these things that were so central to Jesus when he said things like, my kingdom was not of this world. So there's that.We Emphasize the Importance of Theology for the Wrong ReasonsSy Hoekstra: The other thing that I was thinking about was also related to what you just said, which is, you say bad theology kills, and we need to understand how important our theology is in that sense. But we also need to understand the way that our theology is important because we actually do think theology is really important just in the wrong way.Jonathan Walton: Yeah. Right.We think theology is really important for defining who is in and out of Christianity or just for having proper orthodoxy and that sort of thing, just to tick all the boxes to make sure that your beliefs are correct.Jonathan Walton: Right.Sy Hoekstra: Which absolutely pales in comparison to the real reason that theology is important, which is it shapes our behavior, or it can shape our behavior [laughs]. Or it interacts with our behavior and they reinforce and shape each other in ways that create policies and government actions and whole social transformations and systems across the world [laughs].Jonathan Walton: Right.Sy Hoekstra: So yeah. That's what I am coming out of this thinking. We need to stay focused on. And I'm just so happy that there are people like Sabeel and others fighting in that way. And by the way, back on the point of how we exercise power and how important it is to exercise power in the way that Jesus did. Jesse actually wrote to us after the interview and said kind of, “Oh, shoot, there's a point that I forgot to make,” [laughs] that I wanted to bring up here, which is something that, so the founder of Sabeel, his name is Naim Ateek often raises, which is that, like Jesse said, Sabeel was founded after the first Intifada in 1987. But he says, there are two organizations that were founded out of that Intifada.One of them was Sabeel and the other was Hamas. And he said, basically just look at the two approaches [laughs]. There's armed insurrection and then there's non-violent direct action and education and advocacy and whatever. Like it is small what Sabeel is doing. It is certainly smaller than what Hamas is doing. And it is one of those things that probably to the rest of the world looks like it's less powerful, it's less effective. And like Jesse said, it is an article of faith to believe that that is actually the stronger way to go. You know what I mean? That is the more powerful road to take, even though it is the much more difficult one to take. And I just really wish that we could all have a faith like that.Jonathan Walton: Yes. Yes, and amen.Sy Hoekstra: Shall we get into Which Tab Is Still Open, Jonathan?Jonathan Walton: [laughs], all the tabs Sy. Let's go.Which Tab Is Still Open?: Christian Reactions to the OlympicsSy Hoekstra: All the tabs are still open. We're gonna talk about two stories that have to do with the Olympics, that also have to do with Western Christians [laughter], and how persecuted we feel.Jonathan Walton: Yeah.Sy Hoekstra: I'm just, let me quickly summarize what happened here. The details are very silly on the first one. You probably heard about this one, this is probably the more popular story. During the opening ceremonies of the Olympics, well, here's some background. The opening ceremonies to the Olympics are weird. They're always weird. They've always been weird [laughs]. I always come away from them thinking, “Wow, that was weird,” [laughter]. They usually include some kind of tribute to ancient Greece where the Olympics came from. And in this case, one of the things they did was a little tribute to the Festival of the Goddess Dionysus. Wait, goddess? Was Dionysus supposed to be a man or a woman?Jonathan Walton: A man. Dionysus is a man.Sy Hoekstra: [laughs] Okay.Jonathan Walton: No. Diana is a woman, but yeah.Sy Hoekstra: All right, fine [laughs]. So anyways, they had this staging of a feast, and the way it was staged with all of the people sitting at the table facing the audience and the cameras reminded a lot of Christians of the way that Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper is staged with Jesus and all the disciples facing the painter [laughs]. But all of the, or not all, but the most of the people sitting at the table were drag queens. And so Christians took this as a massive insult, that people must be mocking the Last Supper and our religion and our beliefs about conservative traditional sexuality and et cetera. The Olympic organizers came out and said, “This had nothing to do with Christianity, we apologize for the offense. This was about Dionysus, and that was kind of it. We weren't talking about Christianity, but we're sorry if we offended you.”And that was the end of it. But basically Christians said, “We're being mocked, we're being persecuted, they hate us,” et cetera. Second story, a female boxer by the name of Imane Khelif was in a fight with an Italian female boxer and hit her pretty hard a couple of times. And then the Italian boxer quit and said that Khelif is a man who is a trans woman fighting in the women's competition in the Olympics. The only reason that this was a viable thing for the Italian woman to say was because in the year before that, at the 2023 World Championships, the International Boxing Association disqualified Khelif from the competition saying that she had elevated testosterone levels and that she had XY chromosomes and was in fact a man. So she failed the gender eligibility test.The reason this is a ridiculous thing for them to have said [laughs], is that Khelif was born assigned female at birth. Her birth certificate says she's a woman. She has lived her entire life as a woman, she has never claimed to be trans in any way. And they never published the results of the test. And they only came out and said that she had failed these gender eligibility tests after she defeated a previously undefeated Russian boxer. Why does that matter? Well, the president of the International Boxing Association is Russian, has moved most of the IBA's operations to Russia, has made the state-run oil company the main sponsor of these boxing events, has close ties to Putin, et cetera [laughs].Jonathan Walton: Yep.Sy Hoekstra: It has become a Russian propaganda machine. The International Boxing Association, the International Olympic Committee has actually cut ties with them, is no longer letting them run the World Championships or the Olympic games boxing tournaments. They have suffered from corruption, from match fixing by referees, lack of transparency in finances, et cetera. It is a big old mess, and they never published the results of these gender eligibility tests. And it is pretty clear that they were made up in order to preserve the undefeated title of a Russian favorite boxer [laughter]. So it's absolute nonsense is what I'm saying.Jonathan Walton: Right.Sy Hoekstra: But that has not stopped anyone, including people like Elon Musk and JK Rowling from saying, “what we clearly saw here in the Olympics was a man punching a woman. And this is where you get when you follow the transgender agenda,” and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Obviously I just named, well, Rowling is a Christian, but lots of Christian leaders jumping on this same train. Jonathan, these were yours.Jonathan Walton: [exasperated exhale] These are mine.Sy Hoekstra: Why did you include these? You have been, I'll say you have been very focused on these, the Christian reaction to things going on in the Olympics has been on the brain for you. Why [laughs]?Fusing Faith with American PowerJonathan Walton: Because I think there's a couple things because bad theology kills people. Sy, we talked about this and like…Sy Hoekstra: Well, no, wait. How is this, explain the relation there, please.Jonathan Walton: Gladly. Gladly. So I think [laughs], I'm gonna read this quote by Andy Stanley who posted this after the Dionysus thing and then took it down because I think he realized the err of his ways. But I am grateful for the interwebs because somebody screenshot it. Here we go [Sy laughs]. “Dear France, the Normandy American Cemetery is the resting place of 9,238 Americans whose graves are marked by 9,238 crosses. American soldiers, who in most cases volunteered to come to your shores in your time of need. Their final prayers were to the God whose son you mocked in front of the entire world. It was during the very meal you went to such creative pains to denigrate, that Jesus instructed his followers to love one another and then define what he meant. Quote, greater love has no one than this, that one laid down his life for his friends, end quote. While you host the Olympic Games, remember your nation hosts 172.5 acre reminder of what love looks like. You don't just owe Christians an apology. You owe the West an apology.” End quote.Sy Hoekstra: It's so much Jonathan [laughs].Jonathan Walton: It is. That's a book. That is a book. It's called 12 Lies.Sy Hoekstra: That's your book, yeah [laughs].Jonathan Walton: And then it's an anthology that like [laughs] called Keeping the Faith, right? So that to me, and what's happened in this season of the Olympics has crystallized something for me that I think about. But these are such concrete, clear, succinct, edited examples of like, here is what happens when geopolitical power of the American apparatus is just completely inseparable, completely fused, completely joined together with the Jesus of empire.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah.Jonathan Walton: So much so that minutes after this ceremony was completed and broadcast, you have people with the language, you have people with the vocabulary, you have people with statistics. He's like, this is the number of crosses. That means he Googled something, he don't just know that.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah [laughs].Jonathan Walton: We are primed as… not me, because I'm not. But the White American church and folks affiliated and committed to White American folk religion, like this race-based, class-based, gender-based environmental hierarchy that dominates this false gospel of the merchant, the military and the missionary all coming together. Like that is just so frustrating to me. And it's not going to stop because the apparatus is in like, I feel like a full maturation right now because it is under threat and constantly being exposed. So what tab is still open for me is the reality that the people who are armed with a false gospel are finally being met online and in real life by people who are willing to challenge them.And so what was amazing to me was watching a Fox News segment where someone came on and said, “Hey, Imane Khelif was born a woman, is a woman. This is not a trans issue.” There are people willing to go on and say the things. There's an online presence of people willing to go online and say the things. And I think we have an articulation of faithful followers of Jesus who are willing not just to say this is wrong, but name the connection that when we have conversations about Christians being persecuted, boom, here's a picture of Christians actually being persecuted, Palestine. Right?Sy Hoekstra: Yeah.Jonathan Walton: When we have conversations, oh, we are being persecuted and violence is being committed against us. No, no, no. Violence is actually happening to trans people at a staggering level. And it correlates with when we have these nonsensical conversations that actually create environments that are more dangerous for them in the bathroom, in schools and wherever they go. And so, I can have a conversation with someone and say—this was a real conversation—we have the luxury of having this conversation as people who are not involved directly, but we do not have the luxury of as followers of Jesus is not then following up and saying, “I was wrong.”So I had conversations about Imane Khelif with Christians who said, “You know what? Oh, I didn't know that. Let me go back and post something different. Let me post an apology. You know what, I see what you're saying. I clicked on the links. Yeah, we shouldn't be doing that. I'm gonna go and have a conversation with these people.” That to me is hopeful, and at the same time, I know that this will not stop because my mama would say, “When the lights come on, the roaches run everywhere.” I fully suspect that there will be more examples like this leading up to and beyond the election.Sy Hoekstra: Oh, for sure.Jonathan Walton: …as there is more light on the sheer nonsense that Andy Stanley and these other people are propagating on a regular basis.Christians Demonstrated How Christian Nationalism is Common and Acceptable in White ChurchesSy Hoekstra: And people who jumped on this by the way, were like, Ed Stetzer and people who are kind of like in the middle politically in America and in American politics at least. They're not Trumpers. These are regular Christians [laughs].Jonathan Walton: Right. And that's the thing that we talked about a few episodes ago. This is the soft Christian nationalism, socially acceptable American exceptionalism. All these things are totally normal, totally fine in quote- unquote. that normal Christianity.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah. And actually, so one of the things I want to emphasize about that thing you, that someone screenshotted from Andy Stanley, was that his idea of love in that post is like, I'm gonna sacrifice myself for you and then in exchange I get control over your culture so that you will not insult me.Jonathan Walton: Yes.Sy Hoekstra: Which is not the love of Jesus. The love of Jesus is laying down your life for your friends, period, end of story. Jesus laid down his life for people who have nothing to do with him. You know what I mean? Who can't stand him, who don't like him, whatever.Jonathan Walton: Who desired to kill him [laughs]. Right.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah, exactly. And did not demand then that they conform to his way. He let them go on their way.Jonathan Walton: Yes.Sy Hoekstra: The quote unquote love that says, all these soldiers at Normandy sacrificed, therefore you cannot insult us, is not Christian. Has nothing whatsoever to do with Jesus. And it does have everything to do with tying your faith to an empire that uses military might to demand conformity. That is colonizing faith, period.Jonathan Walton: Yes.Why White Christians Invent Enemies Where None ExistSy Hoekstra: That aspect of it then kind of plays into some of the stuff that I was thinking about it, which is that like if you are someone who has so fused your faith with dominance like that, then you are constantly looking for enemies who don't exist to come and defeat you because that's your way of living. You live by the sword. So it's almost like a subconscious, like you live by the sword, you expect to die by the sword. You live by cultural dominance, you expect people to culturally dominate you. So you're going to find insults against one European artist's rendering of a scene from the Bible where none exist. Just because they had drag queens you don't like.You are going to find trans women who don't exist [laughs] and argue that they are a sign of the things that are destroying the culture that you built in the West. And I just think that is so much more revealing of the people who say it than it is of anything that they were trying to reveal through what they said.Jonathan Walton: Absolutely. I wonder if there were followers of Jesus who when da Vinci painted what he painted, said, “This is not my savior.”Sy Hoekstra: I can think of one reason, but why would they have said that Jonathan?Jonathan Walton: [laughs] Because the Last Supper is a parody of an event in the scriptures. The reality is Jesus is not a Eurocentric figure sitting with flowing robes with people surrounding him. That's not how it happened. That's not how Passover looks[laughs]. So I mean, the reality of them being these American insurrectionist pastors who say, “You know what, we are going to get angry about a parody that isn't a parody, about a parody that we believe is actually sacred.”Sy Hoekstra: [laughs]. Well, okay. Calling the Last Supper parody I think is a little bit confusing.Jonathan Walton: No, the…Sy Hoekstra: Because I think da Vinci meant it the way that he… [laughs].Jonathan Walton: No, I'm sure da Vinci reflected his cultural reality on the scripture, which is something we all do.Sy Hoekstra: Right.Jonathan Walton: But to then baptize that image to be something that can be defiled and then demand capitulation because of our quote- unquote military might, those lines are bonkers to me. So I can be frustrated that I feel mocked, because that's a feeling, I feel mocked. But what should happen is we say, I feel mocked because I don't actually have cultural understanding and acuity to be able to differentiate my own emotional realities from the theology of the Bible when we don't have those skills. And actually we don't have that desire because we desire for them to be one and the same, like you said. I desire to feel affirmed and good and empowered all the time.And if that comes under any threat, then it's either the merchant, let's take money from you. Let's sanction you, let's get you out of the economic system so you cannot flourish in the way that we've defined flourishing to look. We will bring missionaries and people and set up institutions to devalue and debunk your own cultural narratives and spiritual things that you hold dear. And if that doesn't work, we'll just shoot you and make sure it does. Anyway, that's was more forceful than I expected it to be.Sy Hoekstra: [laughs] It wasn't for me because you keep putting these Olympics things in the newsletter and you keep telling me how frustrated you are about them, but it goes to stuff that is extremely important and I appreciate you bringing up and bringing us into this conversation.Outro and OuttakeSy Hoekstra: We have to go. You specifically have to leave in a couple minutes, so we're going to wrap things up here. Even though you and I could talk about this subject forever [Jonathan laughs]. Maybe Jonathan, maybe we'll talk about it more at the next monthly Zoom conversation.Jonathan Walton: Yes.Sy Hoekstra: …on August 27th that people can register for if they become paid subscribers at Ktfpress.com, which you all should please go do if you want to see this work continue beyond this election season, get access to all the bonus episodes of this show, the ability to comment, other community features like that. The anthology, again, is at Keepingthefaithbook.com, that's what Jesse wrote for and what 35 other authors wrote for trying to give us a faithful path forward as so much of the church idolizes Donald Trump and the power that he brings them in this particular political era. Our theme song is Citizens by Jon Guerra. Our podcast Art is by Robyn Burgess, transcripts by Joyce Ambale, editing by Multitude Productions. Thank you all so much for listening and we will see you in two weeks.Jonathan Walton: Bye.[The song “Citizens” by Jon Guerra fades in. Lyrics: “I need to know there is justice/ That it will roll in abundance/ And that you're building a city/ Where we arrive as immigrants/ And you call us citizens/ And you welcome us as children home.” The song fades out.]Jonathan Walton: The White Christian persecution complex. [Jonathan lets out a deep, croaky “Maaaaaaaah”].Sy Hoekstra: I really should have… what was that noise [laughter]?Jonathan Walton: I think it's appropriate [Sy laughs]. It was the exasperation of my soul. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.ktfpress.com/subscribe

The debate about the supposed “colonial” foundations of Israel goes on and on. But I wonder whether Jehuda Reinharz's definitive new biography of Chaim Weizmann might help clarify the unintentional colonial foundations of the Zionist project. Reinharz explains that Weizmann made his name as a brilliant chemist in the UK, where he leveraged his equally glittering social networking skills into the publication of the 1917 Balfour Declaration. As Reinharz told me, it was Weizmann's ability to appear like a British aristocrat that enabled him to successfully schmooze imperial Brits like Lloyd-George, Balfour, Astor and Mark Sykes (of Sykes-Picot fame). So even if his Zionist dream wasn't formally designed as a colonial project, the fact that Chaim Weizmann had to dress up like British colonialist to get his way might have unintentionally resulted in Israel becoming a spooky replica of a European colony. To remix Marx, great men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please.Jehuda Reinharz was a long-time professor at Brandeis University, serving as Richard Koret Professor of Modern Jewish History in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies; Director of the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry; founder of the Jacob and Libby Goodman Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel; Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs; and University President. In January 2011, Dr. Reinharz assumed the presidency of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation. Dr. Reinharz is the author or co-author of more than one hundred articles and thirty-one books in various languages and the recipient of eight honorary doctorates. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He earned his master's degree in medieval Jewish history from Harvard and his doctorate in modern Jewish history from Brandeis University.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.Keen On is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

As the conflict in Gaza and the protests command our attention, a better understanding of the deep divisions in the Middle East might increase our confidence as we make key investment decisions. Confluence Associate Market Strategist Daniel Ortwerth joins Phil Adler to help us gain perspective.

En 1914 el Imperio Otomano se encontraba en la fase final de su prolongada decadencia, pero seguía siendo una potencia digna de tener en cuenta en tanto que ocupaba una gran extensión geográfica de 2,5 millones de kilómetros cuadrados y tenía unos 25 millones de habitantes. En la segunda mitad del siglo XIX y los primeros años del siglo XX había perdido prácticamente todos sus territorios europeos, pero aún controlaba los estrechos del Bósforo y los Dardanelos y se extendía por todo Oriente Próximo y parte de Oriente Medio. Los actuales Turquía, Siria, Líbano, Israel, Jordania, Irak y parte de Arabia Saudita y Yemen integraban el imperio. Era económicamente débil y padecía una gran agitación política tras la revolución de los jóvenes turcos de 1908. Las potencias occidentales no esperaban gran cosa de los otomanos más allá de perseverar en su lento pero imparable ocaso, aun así, era un aliado interesante en tanto que controlaba el acceso al mar Negro y la encrucijada del levante mediterráneo. Con el estallido de la guerra en agosto de aquel año el Gobierno otomano se mantuvo al principio a la expectativa, pero pronto tomó partido. Escogió el bando de las potencias centrales acaudillado por la Alemania imperial. A finales de octubre atacó junto a los alemanes el puerto de Odesa, en la costa ucraniana del mar Negro ocasionando que el imperio británico y Francia le declarasen la guerra. Los otomanos poco podían decidir en el frente occidental, pero sí que podían hacer daño al comercio británico en el Mediterráneo oriental y presionar a Rusia desde el sur. Unos meses más tarde los británicos concibieron un plan para sacarles de la guerra desembarcando tropas en los Dardanelos para que ocupasen Constantinopla. Ese plan salió mal, pero no otros que se habían trazado en Londres para neutralizar al imperio otomano. En 1916 estalló la revuelta árabe instigada por los británicos que llegaron a un acuerdo secreto con los franceses para repartirse los restos del imperio. En ese acuerdo, conocido como tratado Sykes-Picot, se preveía el reparto de los restos del imperio en medio oriente dejando para el tratado posterior al final de la guerra el destino de Anatolia. Ese tratado se negoció en Sèvres y fue ratificado por los delegados del sultán en agosto de 1920. Sèvres no marcaba el fin del imperio otomano, pero si su renuncia a todo territorio que no estuviese poblado por comunidades de etnia turca. Todo lo demás quedaría bajo administración de las potencias vencedoras o se conformarían nuevos Estados. Siria y el Líbano pasarían a control francés, Mesopotamia, Jordania y Palestina al del Reino Unido. En la península arábiga surgieron dos reinos que darían lugar años más tarde a Arabia Saudita. La actual Turquía quedaba dividida entre Francia, el Reino Unido, Grecia e Italia con un imperio otomano muy reducido en el centro de la península de Anatolia. Pero el tratado nunca llegó a entrar en vigor. Los nacionalistas turcos capitaneados por Mustafá Kemal se rebelaron contra sus disposiciones y declararon la guerra a los aliados y al Gobierno del sultán. Esa guerra duró más de cuatro años y dio lugar a la República de Turquía que consiguió establecerse sobre la península. En 1923 se firmó la paz en Lausana y quedó abolido el sultanato, ultimo resto de un imperio que había durado más de 600 años y que en su momento álgido a mediados del siglo XVII se extendía por tres continentes desde el Danubio a las costas del océano Índico. 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Dimitri and Khalid continue their exploration of the 1916 Arab Revolt, including: Sharif Hussein's brutal (and British-approved) new interpretation of the Sharia in Mecca, stamp collectors vindicated, the British origins of the Arab national flags, the Charlie Wilson's War vibes of “Lawrence of Arabia”, the predictive programming novel “The Green Mantle”, WW1 as the first modern MindWar, and the “shocking document” of imperial treachery known as Sykes-Picot. For access to premium episodes, NOID-FM mixes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe to the Al-Wara' Frequency at patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

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Inbördeskriget i Syrien har pågått i tio år. Konfliktens ursprung går att spåra till Frankrikes hårdhänta kolonialpolitik under 1900-talets första hälft. Gränserna var dragna helt utan hänsyn till historien och de olika folkgrupper som levde i det franska protektoratet. Dessutom verkade Frankrikes kolonialherrar utifrån principen söndra och härska.Efter självständigheten år 1946 lämnade Frankrike efter sig en dysfunktionell stat där militärkupperna avlöste varandra tills Hazef al-Asad skapade Mellersta Österns hårdaste diktatur. En diktatur där korruptionen genomsyrade alla nivåer av samhället.Det kalla kriget cementerade sedan en regim som saknade en bredare folklig förankring. Utanför kalla krigets ramar levde etniska och religiösa motsättningar kvar för att senare förstärkas av områdes stormakter.I denna nymixade repris av podcasten Historia Nu samtalar programledaren Urban Lindstedt med historikern Tomas Andersson samt författaren Stefano Foconi. Tillsammans har de skrivit en rad böcker om Mellersta Östern, bland annat Levanten - Mellersta Östern utan gränser samt I skuggan av muren – Israel/PalestinaSommaren år 2011 utvecklades protester mot regimen i Syrien till ett regelrätt inbördeskrig.Trots att det styrande Baathpartiet är sekulärt kom konflikten att brytas mellan shia och sunni då regimen dominerades av den shiitiska sekten alawiter.Syrien artificiella gränser skapades av de europeiska kolonialmakterna genom en hemlig del av Sykes-Picot-avtalet som slöts 16 maj 1916 mellan Frankrike och Storbritannien, och som godkändes av Ryssland senare samma år. Det franska mandet Syrien kom att utgöras av dagens Syrien, Libanon samt den turkiska Hatayprovinsen. Det som senare blev Syrien hade aldrig tidigare existerat som en självständig stat.Under Frankrike som styrde enligt principen söndra och härska tvingades en blandning av olika religiösa och etniska grupper ihop. Frankrike gav makten till den alawitiska minoriteten vilket ledde till sekteristiska spänningar.De flesta syrier är sunniaraber, men landet styrs sedan en statskupp år 1963 av medlemmar av den alawitiska minoriteten. Den alawitiska regeringen ger den egna etniska gruppen särskilda privilegier, en maktfördelning som eldar på missnöjet hos missgynnade grupper som sunniaraber och etniska minoriteter som kurder och kristna araber. Dessutom är många syriska städer och samhällen redan organiserade i etniska eller religiösa enklaver, vilket innebär att lokala miliser också är sekteristiska, något som kan förklara varför så stor del av dödandet i Syrien har utvecklats längs sekteristiska linjer.Musik: Arabic Instrumental av MEDIA-MUSIC GROUP, Soundblock Audio Bild: Karta från Sykes–Picot avtalet som visar britternas och fransmännens intresseområde. Signerad av Mark Sykes och François Georges-Picot, den 8 maj 1916.The National Archives MPK1/426. Public Domain Vill du stödja podden och samtidigt höra ännu mer av Historia Nu? Gå med i vårt gille genom att klicka här: https://plus.acast.com/s/historianu-med-urban-lindstedt. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guardians of the Holy Land - Episode 14: The Original Nakba As an issue that is central to the entire Ummah, it is important to understand the catastrophe in Palestine not just through the lens of the territorial losses of 1948 or 1967. The loss of Al-Quds to the British in 1917, the fall of the Khilafah and the dismemberment of Muslim Lands thereafter are all most significant developments in the shaping of modern Palestine. This episode chronicles World War 1, Sykes-Picot, the Balfour Declaration and the British Mandate, together with the spirited resistance of the likes of Sheikh Izzedeen al-Qassam that challenged the theft of Palestine, even prior to the establishment of the Zionist State.

Early in the Great War Britain decided to dismantle the Turkish Empire and made promises to Arab leaders of independence if they would rebel against Britain's Turkish enemy. While one British leader was making these promises, another, Mark Sykes, was making a deal with other imperialists for the division of Arab lands between them. Follow … Continue reading "World War Civ 32: Britain's plans for Arab lands – Sykes-Picot, 1916"

Des accords Sykes-Picot en 1916 aux accords dʹOslo en 1993, en passant par la déclaration Balfour en 1917 et par le partage de la Palestine par les Nations Unies en 1947, les grands Etats dʹEurope occidentales et les Etats Unis, anciens alliés vainqueurs des deux guerres mondiales, sont directement impliqués dans lʹapparition du conflit au Proche Orient. Loin de nʹêtre quʹun conflit régional, la guerre entre Israéliens et Palestiniens intéresse et embrase une bonne part de la planète. Jean-Claude Lescure, Professeur à lʹUniversité de Cergy-Pontoise et spécialiste du Proche-Orient est au micro dʹAnaïs Kien.

The crisis in Israel - Palestine continues, currently unfolding with the Israeli attack on Gaza, immediately preceded by the Hamas-led massacre in Southern Israel. Unpicking the history and origins of these events remains a particularly difficult task, with history used and abused by people with points to prove on all sides. For that reason I was particularly happy to be able to conduct an extended interview with the historian James Barr, whose books on the history of the Middle East, including A Line in the Sand and Lords of the Desert are some of the best regarded guides to the region, particularly in the early years of the twentieth century.With James, in this first episode, we got to the bottom of famous moments in the Levant region in the early twentieth century, including the Sykes-Picot agreement and the Balfour Declaration, as well as the underlying colonial tensions, notably between Britain and France that drove much of these events. In a subsequent episode we will talk about Jewish militancy in the mid-twentieth century, the events of 1948 including the Nakba and the establishment of the State of Israel. You can follow James via his website https://www.historythatmatters.org/ as well as on Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/jamesbarr.bsky.socialI am on Twitter @snellarthur, Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/snellarthur.bsky.social and arthursnell.substack.com If you've enjoyed this podcast why not subscribe, and give us a positive review.Also, please check out the podcast Disorder, featuring Jason Pack and Alex Hall Hall Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Vi behövde bara tjata i 10 år innan SvD av alla jäkla tidningar kom ifatt, detta samtidigt som Tony Blair efterfrågas som humanitär koordinator i Israel-Hamas konflikten och David Cameron blir brittisk utrikesminister... "Efter förra söndagens krönika om antisemitism har frågan kommit upp om rötterna till dagens konfliktscenario mellan israeler och palestinier, inte minst vilken skuld de västerländska kolonialmakterna i allmänhet och britterna i synnerhet har till att det blivit som det blivit. Därav denna krönika. Låt oss börja med första världskriget – som så många andra av nutidens eländen kan den moderna Palestinakonflikten härröras till denna ”urkatastrof”, låt vara att den som så önskar kan spåra rötter ännu längre tillbaka. Den 16 maj 1916 slöts ett av nutidshistoriens mest beryktade fördrag. Det benämndes officiellt Mindre Asien-avtalet men har gått till historien som Sykes-Picot-avtalet, efter den brittiske diplomaten Mark Sykes och hans franske kollega François Georges-Picot. I och med detta kulminerade den uppstyckning av världen i kolonier och intressesfärer som hade eskalerat under andra hälften av 1800-talet och som medförde att engelska och franska i dag är världsspråk. Syftet med 1916 års fördrag var att förebygga framtida gräl kolonialmakterna emellan genom att i förväg stycka upp Osmanska riket, så att man visste vem som skulle ha vad när första världskriget var vunnet. Genom att lova land åt båda folken hade britterna sått ett farligt frö till framtida fejder. Resultatet av överläggningarna, som också Ryssland godkände, gick ut på att Stor­britannien skulle få kontroll över vad som i dag är södra Irak, Jordanien och vissa delar av Palestina, medan fransmännen skulle få Syrien, Libanon, norra Irak och en bra bit av sydöstra Turkiet. Armenien, Konstantinopel och sunden mellan Svarta havet och Medelhavet gick till Ryssland. Man lämnade också utrymme för några internationella zoner, dels i Palestina och dels vid Alexandretta i nuvarande Turkiet. Avtalet låg till grund för uppstyckandet av Mellanöstern i brittiska och franska zoner i början av 1920-talet. Alla berörda utom de europeiska politikerna ignorerades. De sionistiska judarna hade utlovats ett nationellt hem i Palestina som tack för att de stödde Storbritannien i kriget (”Balfour­deklarationen”). Araberna hade också utlovats självständighet som tack för att de gjorde uppror mot turkarna. Genom att lova land åt båda folken hade britterna sått ett farligt frö till framtida fejder, men när avtalet blev offentligt kunde både judar och araber konstatera att de blivit lurade. De europeiska stormaktsledarna hade ingen tanke på att lämna ifrån sig krigsbytet till de människor som bodde i det. Invandringen och bosättningarna resulterade i en växande arabisk vrede, och de båda folken drabbade vid flera tillfällen samman i våldsamma uppgörelser. När Palestina lösgjordes från Osmanska riket blev det alltså varken judiskt eller arabiskt utan brittiskt, men detta hindrade inte de förfördelade från att planera inför framtida självständighet. Under mellankrigstiden immigrerade många sionistiska judar, som drömde om ett nationellt hem i Israel, till området och bosatte sig på marker som man köpt från lokala godsägare. Invandringen och bosättningarna resulterade i en växande arabisk vrede, och de båda folken drabbade vid flera tillfällen samman i våldsamma uppgörelser. Allt detta gjorde britterna – som ju inledningsvis hade godkänt immigrationen till det ”nationella hemmet” – skeptiska gentemot sionisterna, som uppfattades som bråkstakar och potentiella rebeller. Vid tiden för andra världskriget yrkade många brittiska politiker därför på kraftiga begränsningar av judisk invandring. Enligt ett förslag, som vann Londonregeringens gillande, skulle inga få flytta dit efter 1944. Som bekant blev denna politik omöjlig när kriget var slut. Den moraliska indignationen över nazistiska dödsläger som Auschwitz och Treblinka, där sex miljoner judar mist livet, gav sionisterna starkast möjliga vind i seglen, och USA stod på deras sida. Britterna kunde inte stoppa en stor invandringsvåg av statslösa judar som överlevt andra världskriget. Med facit i hand är det lätt att se hur politikerna åtminstone hade kunnat försöka bygga en fredligare framtid. Araberna hade kunnat acceptera 1948 års delning; i så fall hade ett självständigt Palestina med mycket större territorium än den palestinska myndigheten kontrollerar i dag blivit verklighet. Men då glömmer man en gammal latinsk sentens, som för svenskt vidkommande brukar förknippas med Axel Oxenstierna: An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur? – ”Vet du inte, min son, med hur litet förstånd världen styrs?”"

3. odcinek "Opowieści arabskich Jana Natkańskiego" zabierze nas, na tereny współczesnego Iraku, gdzie narodziła się najstarsza cywilizacja. Zawdzięczamy jej: pismo klinowe, kalendarz księżycowy, koncepcję raju i epos „Gilgamesz”, ale przodkowie współczesnych Irakijczyków wymyślili też wbijanie na pal i wyjątkowo bestialskie metody mszczenia się na wrogu. W historii Iraku od Mezopotamii po traktat Sykes Picot z 1916 roku - w którym Wielka Brytania wraz z Francją dokonały podziału Bliskiego Wschodu - piękno przeplata się z okrucieństwem. Prowadzi: Agata Kasprolewicz Gość: Jan Natkański Realizuje: Kris Wawrzak

Il y a plus d'un siècle, Français et Britanniques se partageaient les dépouilles d'un Empire ottoman à l'agonie en concluant des accords connus aujourd'hui par le nom de leurs signataires : Sykes et Picot. Comment en est-on arrivé là? Comment cet empire tricontinental s'est-il effondré et dans quelles circonstances les entités qui lui ont succédé ont-elles vu le jour? Mais surtout, dans quelle mesure ces accords ont-ils effectivement contribué à délimiter les frontières de la région et à devenir le symbole, à eux seuls, de la duplicité des puissances coloniales? C'est ce que Gaétan du Roy cherche à expliquer dans ce nouvel épisode de Passé Ressuscité. Avec Simon Desplanque Invité : Gaétan du Roy de Blicquy Suivez le podcast ! Il est désormais sur Twitter : @20MPC_podcast    Générique : www.musicscreen.org/Royalty-free/Mu…esla-Jingle.php.Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

3 characters. 2 nations. 1 disastrous deal. The Sykes-Picot agreement is often blamed as the cause for much of the unrest in the Middle-East today, but what was it exactly? Listen as William and Anita are joined by James Barr to discuss this historic agreement to carve up the Middle-East. LRB Empire offer: lrb.me/empire This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/empirepod. Twitter: @Empirepoduk Goalhangerpodcasts.com Producer: Callum Hill Exec Producer: Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Et si la Méditerranée comme concept était une construction des pays du Nord; leur représentation d'un ensemble s'appuyant sur leur histoire coloniale? La Méditerranée comme élément de cohésion est présentée comme une référence de l'action publique européenne en direction des pays riverains, mais cette représentation relève-t-elle d'un mythe? Pour certains, la rhétorique des discours de l'Europe sur la Méditerranée semble manquer singulièrement de sens pour la rive sud. Avec Jean-Yves Moisseron, socio-économiste, directeur de recherches à l'Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, rédacteur en chef de la revue Maghreb-Machrek, au micro de Laurent Huguenin-Elie. Photo: le général français Henri Gouraud proclame l'Etat du Grand-Liban le 1er septembre 1920. Quatre ans plus tôt, le 16 novembre 1916, deux diplomates, le Britannique sir Mark Sykes et le Français François Georges-Picot concluent l'accord secret "Sykes-Picot". Celui-ci prévoit le partage, au terme de la Première Guerre mondiale, des dépouilles de l'empire ottoman, allié de l'Allemagne et de l'Autriche-Hongrie.

Vi runder (indtil videre) Great Statesmen serien af ved at snakke om det tredje spil i serien, nemlig Versailles - et spil om forhandlingerne i kølvandet på Første Verdenskrig, om nationale interesser, og en verden der er ved at eksplodere. Og i slutningen deler vi lidt insider viden om hvad der ligger i Great Statesmen seriens fremtid! Historienørd rettelse: Henrik kommer til at sige at Sykes-Picot traktaten var i forbindelse med Versailles forhandlingerne. Det passer naturligvis ikke, da Sykes-Picot allerede blev aftalt i 1916, to år før krigen sluttede. Fedt med det der hemmelige diplomati.

The Sykes-Picot agreement was the sticky wicket Max mentioned.  (Though it's not the sticky wicket responsible for this specific situation). Late-stage capitalism - are these, like, cancer-stages we're talking here? Outsourcing the things that got you to the top isn't a great long-term strategy. The Buddha must be stopped!  *** Topic - Afghanistan, graveyard of [...]

Roey Pinto's family has been in Jerusalem for generations. They've lived under Ottoman rule and British administration and finally under an Israeli government. But self-determination takes sacrifice. This is the story of what one family gave up for a state. ~~~~  For more information on the events of this episode, check out these resources: Sykes-Picot and San Remo (1916 - 1920) The Balfour Declaration (1917) The Hebron Massacre (1929) Black Saturday (1946) The Altalena Affair (1948) The True Story Behind the Beauty Queen of Jerusalem ~~~~  This show was made possible by support from the Koum Family Foundation, the Crain-Maling Foundation, the Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation, and the Skolnick Family Charitable Trust.

Roey Pinto's family has been in Jerusalem for generations. They've lived under Ottoman rule and British administration and finally under an Israeli government. But self-determination takes sacrifice. This is the story of what one family gave up for a state. ~~~~  For more information on the events of this episode, check out these resources: Sykes-Picot and San Remo (1916 - 1920) The Balfour Declaration (1917) The Hebron Massacre (1929) Black Saturday (1946) The Altalena Affair (1948) The True Story Behind the Beauty Queen of Jerusalem ~~~~  This show was made possible by support from the Koum Family Foundation, the Crain-Maling Foundation, the Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation, and the Skolnick Family Charitable Trust.

Sykes-Picot: voor velen in het Midden-Oosten klinkt het als een vloek. Logisch ook, want in dat verdrag werd na de Eerste Wereldoorlog de hele regio met één pennenhaal hertekend volgens de koloniale wensen van het Westen. Heel wat conflicten die de streek tot vandaag teisteren, zijn toen ontstaan. De gast van deze week, historicus Pieter Trogh, weet er alles van. Hij maakte er voor het In Flanders Fields-museum een tentoontstelling over.

The First World War put an end to 600 years of Ottoman rule. Buoyed by promises of self-determination on the part of the victorious powers, the region's peoples prepared for a future free of imperial rule. They were to be bitterly disappointed. European rhetoric about self-rule had never been sincerely intended to apply to non-Europeans — which was made brutally clear by Britain and France as they divided the post-Ottoman Middle East between themselves in the infamous Sykes-Picot agreement. “It was a secret deal to carve up the Levantine part of the Ottoman Empire between France and Britain,” explains historian James Barr, author of “A Line in the Sand and Lords of the Desert.” “There was a diagonal line drawn, in Sykes' infamous words, from the ‘E' in Acre to the last ‘K' in Kirkuk.” In this follow-up to our episode with Eugene Rogan on the Ottoman collapse, Barr joins New Lines' Faisal Al Yafai to talk about how European colonial powers attempted to take their place, why the region seems to be so attractive to foreign imperial powers and why their efforts to control it are almost always doomed. Produced by Joshua Martin

Durante los años posteriores a la Primera Guerra Mundial surgieron nuevos países en el Medio Oriente, resultado de la derrota del imperio otomano en manos de los británicos y franceses, principalmente. La moderna Turquía y las fronteras para Siria, Líbano, Palestina, Irán y eventualmente Jordania fueron trazadas. Gran Bretaña y Francia ganaron el control de las regiones árabes del Medio Oriente y África del Norte. Antes de la guerra, ambos poderes tenían sus ojos puestos en el Medio Oriente como un área de interés político y comercial. En mayo de 1916, el diplomático británico, Sr. Mark Sykes, y el ex cónsul francés en Beirut, Charles George Picot, negociaron un tratado secreto para dividir los territorios otomanos entre sus dos países. Gran Bretaña, que controlaba el Canal de Suez por su presencia en Egipto desde 1881, estaba muy interesada en proteger el comercio entre Europa e India y acceder al petróleo en el Golfo Pérsico. Francia quería preservar su larga historia de vínculos con Siria y el Líbano y mantener el acceso al suministro barato de algodón y seda de la región. El Acuerdo Sykes-Picot fue ratificado y aceptado por la Liga de las Naciones. Gran Bretaña tomó el control de Palestina, Irak y Transjordania, y Francia tomó control de Siria, y después del Líbano.

It's 1916 and World War I is raging. Countries are fighting for resources, land and power and the Ottoman Empire is on its deathbed. With all eyes on the Empire's Middle Eastern territory, who will decide who gets control over what will become Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Iraq, and parts of Saudi Arabia? In this episode, Noam explores the secretive Sykes-Picot Agreement and the fallout it caused at the San Remo Conference.   ~~~~   This season of Unpacking Israeli History is generously sponsored by Barbara Sommer & Alan Fisher, and Marci & Andrew Spitzer, and this episode is generously sponsored by ​​the Jewish Federation of Northeastern New York, and the Jewish Federation of Northern NJ. ~~~~   Learn more about Unpacked: https://jewishunpacked.com/about/ Visit Unpacked on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/unpacked  Unpacking Israeli History about Black Saturday: https://jewishunpacked.com/black-saturday-how-far-would-you-go-for-a-homeland/ ~~~~ Bibliography: Background info for WWI:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/11/12/what-everyone-gets-wrong-about-start-world-war-i/ https://www.history.com/topics/middle-east/ottoman-empire https://www.britannica.com/topic/Black-Hand-secret-Serbian-society https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-assassination-franz-ferdinand On the major players: Ottoman Empire: https://www.timemaps.com/history/middle-east-1914ad/,  Hussein ibn Ali: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Husayn-ibn-Ali; https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-hussein-mcmahon-correspondence-july-1915-august-1916; https://www.britannica.com/topic/Husayn-McMahon-correspondence Chaim Weizmann: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Chaim-Weizmann Sir Mark Sykes: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/sir-mark-sykes-the-man-who-changed-the-face-of-the-middle-east-1.1958009; Christopher Simon Sykes, The man who created the Middle East : a story of empire, conflict and the Sykes-Picot agreement (Sykes' grandson!)  Background on Sykes-Picot:  https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2016/sykes-picot-100-years-middle-east-map/index.html https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/britain-and-france-conclude-sykes-picot-agreement https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/euro-hist/middle-east-20th-century/v/sykes-picot-agreement-and-the-balfour-declaration https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/learning-sykes-picot https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/05/13/sykes-picot-isnt-whats-wrong-with-the-modern-middle-east-100-years/ Danny Gordis, Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn Howard Sachar, A History of Israel from the Rise of Zionism to Our Time Sound clips: https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/video-news/video-islamic-state-media-branch-releases-the-end-of-sykes-picot-30397575.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHOg7RPBDqc&ab_channel=RANE https://espresso.economist.com/1fe46a07a9ba5f05129cab882582d907 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeIXu7yw6J8&ab_channel=UKLFICharitableTrust San Remo: Meeting minutes: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/Minutes_of_the_1920_Conference_of_San_Remo.pdf Background: https://israelforever.org/interact/blog/why_you_should_know_san_remo/ International law: https://besacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/172-MONOGRAPH-San-Remo-Conference-Karsh-FINAL.pdf Mandate for Palestine, 7/24/22: https://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/foreignpolicy/peace/guide/pages/the%20mandate%20for%20palestine.aspx#:~:text=No%20discrimination%20of%20any%20kind,ground%20of%20his%20religious%20belief. Anti-Zionist narrative on San Remo: https://www.arabnews.com/node/1669396 Right-wing narrative on San Remo: https://israelforever.org/interact/blog/why_you_should_know_san_remo/ Israel Policy Forum on San Remo: https://israelpolicyforum.org/2020/04/27/unpacking-san-remo-the-centerpeice-of-israels-annexation-narrative/ On stories: https://www.rabbisacks.org/covenant-conversation/ki-tavo/a-nation-of-storytellers/

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Inbördeskriget i Syrien har pågått i tio år. Konfliktens ursprung går att spåra till Frankrikes hårdhänta kolonialpolitik under 1900-talets första hälft. Gränserna var dragna helt utan hänsyn till historien och de olika folkgrupper som levde i det franska protektoratet. Dessutom verkade Frankrikes kolonialherrar utifrån principen söndra och härska.Efter självständigheten år 1946 lämnade Frankrike efter sig en dysfunktionell stat där militärkupperna avlöste varandra tills Hazef al-Asad skapade Mellersta Österns hårdaste diktatur. En diktatur där korruptionen genomsyrade alla nivåer av samhället.Det kalla kriget cementerade sedan en regim som saknade en bredare folklig förankring. Utanför kalla krigets ramar levde etniska och religiösa motsättningar kvar för att senare förstärkas av områdes stormakter.I avsnitt 170 podcasten Historia Nu samtalar programledaren Urban Lindstedt med historikern Tomas Andersson samt författaren Stefano Foconi. Tillsammans har de skrivit en rad böcker om Mellersta Östern, bland annat Levanten - Mellersta Östern utan gränser samt I skuggan av muren – Israel/PalestinaSommaren år 2011 utvecklades protester mot regimen i Syrien till ett regelrätt inbördeskrig.Trots att det styrande Baathpartiet är sekulärt kom konflikten att brytas mellan shia och sunni då regimen dominerades av den shiitiska sekten alawiter.Syrien artificiella gränser skapades av de europeiska kolonialmakterna genom en hemlig del av Sykes-Picot-avtalet som slöts 16 maj 1916 mellan Frankrike och Storbritannien, och som godkändes av Ryssland senare samma år. Det franska mandet Syrien kom att utgöras av dagens Syrien, Libanon samt den turkiska Hatayprovinsen. Det som senare blev Syrien hade aldrig tidigare existerat som en självständig stat.Under Frankrike som styrde enligt principen söndra och härska tvingades en blandning av olika religiösa och etniska grupper ihop. Frankrike gav makten till den alawitiska minoriteten vilket ledde till sekteristiska spänningar.De flesta syrier är sunniaraber, men landet styrs sedan en statskupp år 1963 av medlemmar av den alawitiska minoriteten. Den alawitiska regeringen ger den egna etniska gruppen särskilda privilegier, en maktfördelning som eldar på missnöjet hos missgynnade grupper som sunniaraber och etniska minoriteter som kurder och kristna araber. Dessutom är många syriska städer och samhällen redan organiserade i etniska eller religiösa enklaver, vilket innebär att lokala miliser också är sekteristiska, något som kan förklara varför så stor del av dödandet i Syrien har utvecklats längs sekteristiska linjer.Musik: Arabic Instrumental av MEDIA-MUSIC GROUP, Soundblock Audio Bild: Karta från Sykes–Picot avtalet som visar britternas och fransmännens intresseområde. Signerad av Mark Sykes och François Georges-Picot, den 8 maj 1916.The National Archives MPK1/426. Public Domain See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

El 2 de noviembre de 1917, en plena Primera Guerra Mundial, en la se enfrentaban los imperios centrales de Alemania, Austriahungría y el Imperio Otomano contra una numerosa coalición capitaneada por ingleses y franceses, el ministro de Asuntos Exteriores británico Arthur Balfour remitió una carta a lord Rothschild, líder de la comunidad judía inglesa, la llamada declaración Balfour, que anunciaba el apoyo británico a la creación de un hogar nacional judío en Palestina. Con esta medida, los británicos buscaban la alianza de las comunidades judías repartidas por el mundo. Querían que los judíos establecidos en Estados Unidos apoyasen el esfuerzo bélico estadounidense, que acababa de entrar en guerra. Pero, sobre todo, querían que los judíos residentes en el Imperio Otomano, también muy numerosos desde muchos siglos antes, actuasen como una quinta columna dentro del imperio. Los otomanos controlaban Palestina desde el siglo XVI, la Palestina que Balfour prometió a los judíos. Pero sólo dos años antes, en 1915, Henry McMahon, el alto comisario británico en Egipto, había remitido una serie de cartas al jerife de La Meca, Husayn ibn Ali, para promover una revolución árabe contra el dominio otomano desde Arabia hasta Siria, territorios que, una vez finalizada guerra, quedarían bajo el control de Husayn, incluida Palestina. Los británicos, como vemos, prometieron a dos grupos diferentes el mismo territorio para que sobre él se articulasen sus futuros Estados. Pero sucedió que, al concluir la Primera Guerra Mundial a finales de 1918, Francia y el Reino Unido, desmembraron el Imperio Otomano y se lo repartieron. No fue una solución buscada en el último momento, sino algo planificado con mucho tiempo. En 1916, justo entre las cartas de McMahon a los árabes y la declaración Balfour, el Gobierno francés y el británico sellaron un pacto secreto, conocido como acuerdo Sykes-Picot en virtud del cual si la suerte de la guerra les era favorables, procederían a apoderarse de todo Oriente Medio. Los actuales Siria y el Líbano pasaron a manos francesas mientras que lo que hoy es Irak, Jordania, Israel y Palestina se convetiría en un protectorado británico. Pero ni los árabes ni los judíos estaban dispuestos a renunciar a lo que, en diferentes momentos y diferentes personas -pero el mismo país- les habían prometido. Ese es el origen de un coflicto por un pequeño territorio entre Egipto y Siria que perdura hasta nuestros días. Hoy con Alberto Garín vamos a indagar en los orígenes no tan remotos (están a sólo un siglo XX) para descubrir las claves de un problema que se fue enquistando a lo largo del siglo XX y que todavía vive entre nosotros. Bibliografía: - "El conflicto palestino-israelí: En cien preguntas" de Jean-Claude Lescure - https://amzn.to/34BYRXn - "Una historia contemporánea de Palestina-Israel" de Jorge Ramos Tolosa - https://amzn.to/3usdRBs - "La guerra de Palestina de 1948" de VVAA - https://amzn.to/3urUMzl - "300 Preguntas en 300 Palabras" de Gabriel Ben-Tasgal - https://amzn.to/3c1iewO - "El interminable conflicto en Israel y Palestina" de Antoni Segura i Más - https://amzn.to/3p7ZUI1 Apoya La Contra en: · Patreon... https://www.patreon.com/diazvillanueva · iVoox... https://www.ivoox.com/podcast-contracronica_sq_f1267769_1.html · Paypal... https://www.paypal.me/diazvillanueva Sígueme en: · Web... https://diazvillanueva.com · Twitter... https://twitter.com/diazvillanueva · Facebook... https://www.facebook.com/fernandodiazvillanueva1/ · Instagram... https://www.instagram.com/diazvillanueva · Linkedin… https://www.linkedin.com/in/fernando-d%C3%ADaz-villanueva-7303865/ · Flickr... https://www.flickr.com/photos/147276463@N05/?/ · Pinterest... https://www.pinterest.com/fernandodiazvillanueva Encuentra mis libros en: · Amazon... https://www.amazon.es/Fernando-Diaz-Villanueva/e/B00J2ASBXM Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

The First World War made its way onto the show again, this time explaining the ridiculous European division of the middle east, and how its impact is still being felt to this day. We also discuss the big reveal coming on June 1st & the Department of Defense releasing information regarding aliens and UFOs. Crypto took a big hit this week & we get into that & more! www.protocol.com/fintech/bitcoin-cryptocurrency-regulations www.fox13news.com/news/report-on-government-knowledge-of-ufos-to-be-turned-over-to-senate-june-1    Youse Guys are (support us on Twitter & spread the word!): @youseguyspod @angel_soundgirl @thebloodletting @jaycoleau @bryanp789 Check out our newest sponsor! We are proudly sponsored by www.agoristnexus.com/  be sure to check out the awesome directory of fellow Agorists & Anarchist with a wide range of products & services!! https://www.etsy.com/shop/AkronApothecary   Check out our sponsor! Enjoy our content? Want exclusive content? Please support us on Patreon: patreon.com/Youseguyspod Youse Guys are on: youseguyspod.com  check out our merch!! insta, facebook, twitter email: youseguysandthat@gmail.com & info@youseguyspod.com Youse Guys and that YouTube Channel Youse Guys and that BitChute Channel Youse guys can be listened to on: iTunes, podbean, spotify, google podcasts, Audible, iHeartRadio, stitcher & Tune In (Amazon/Alexa)

Another Ramadaan, another attack on our brothers and sisters in Palestine. This time the haughtiness of the Jews reached new heights as they attacked Muslims during the Taraweeh prayer using rubber bullets and stun grenades, injuring hundreds. The brothers discuss these events, the forced evictions of Palestinian families from Sheikh Jarrah in occupied East Jerusalem and the anniversary of the Sykes-Picot Agreement which paved the way for the carving-up of Muslim lands and led to the calamities the Ummah continue to face; including this latest attack at Al Aqsa. Special Guests: Aftab and Rashel.

Arab Identity Eps. 6: Sykes Picot and the Division of the Arab State w/guest Prof. Saeed Khan, Senior Lecturer of Near East & Asian Studies and Global Studies, and Director of Global Studies at Wayne State University The Sykes–Picot Agreement was a 1916 secret treaty between the United Kingdom and France, with assent from the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Italy, to define their mutually agreed spheres of influence and control in an eventual partition of the Ottoman Empire.

Dr. Tim Seidel has played an integral role in the fields of strategic peacebuilding, global studies and interfaith engagement at Eastern Mennonite University. He brings practical experience in all three fields, having lived and worked in Palestine, Israel, and served as Mennonite Central Committee’s director for peace and justice ministries in the United States.Seidel shares his journey to EMU, where he has helped to start an undergraduate global studies major and an interfaith studies minor. He also teaches graduate students at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding and serves as director of EMU’s Center for Interfaith Engagement. Seidel brings four topics to the podcast conversation and unpacks them in discussion with Kamau: transnational and anti-colonial connectivity and the politics of solidarity, critical political economy, violence, non-violence and resistance, and religion, interfaith, and the post-secular in politics, peacebuilding, and development. The conversation includes probing questions, ranging throughout hundreds of years of global history, touches on popular culture and current events, and follows a critical thread of colonialism into each of the topics.In a nutshell: “How do we pay attention to the world that we live in today and its colonial constitutions? How do the colonial legacies persist into the present and what are the ways in which people inhabiting this world are struggling and resisting?”If you’re one of those listeners who thrills to the intellectual “chase,” you will want to come to this 55-minute podcast with some paper and a pen to jot down words and names for further investigation, including the several indigenous and BIPOC scholars, authors, political figures and activists who are referenced.Many of the ideas and explorations discussed in the episode are explored in Seidel’s scholarly works and associated presentations. For a full list and links, visit his EMU webpage.Seidel previously taught at American University and Lancaster Theological Seminary. He holds an MTS from Wesley Theological Seminary and a PhD from the School of International Service at American university in Washington DC. At Messiah College, he earned a BA in biochemistry with minors in cultural anthropology and mathematics.

Două dintre cele mai temute organizații teroriste din ultimul deceniu au adus multă discriminare asupra oamenilor din lumea arabă. Mulți dintre noi, privim cu o anumită reticentă către Orientul Mijlociu, având în vedere cele întâmplate în ultimii zece sau chiar douăzeci de ani. Aflăm în acest episod cum stă treaba, într-o scurtă istorie despre credința persoanelor din lumea arabă, despre acordul Sykes-Picot și despre diferențe/asemănări între cele două organizații (+istoric despre acestea și liderii lor). Mulțumesc pentru atenție, Stay safe. . . . . . #Podcast #Weekly #GogCast #Episod #Terrorism #Organizatii --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alex-do-it/message

The U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 is one of the great crimes in modern history. No one has been held to account. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have died, many more wounded and millions became refugees. Washington’s insane action unleashed a cascade of disasters across the Middle East from Syria to Libya and sparked the rise of jihadi groups. But Western intervention in the region has a long history. One can mention the 1916 Sykes-Picot agreement or the Balfour Declaration the following year and right down to the inheritor of European imperialism: the United States. Any country that says no to Washington’s diktats is threatened with “obliteration” as the current occupant of the White House warned Iran. The Empire’s subjects at home, the American people, are largely kept in the dark about what their country is doing abroad.

En este episodio, vamos a entender cuán grande es la influencia de las tres promesas que los británicos hicieron durante la Primera Guerra Mundial. Estas tres promesas son Sykes-Picot, La declaración Balfour y los acuerdos Hussein-McMahon. Esta guerra cambió al Medio Oriente drásticamente, y es importante entenderla para entender la actualidad de esta región.

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CONTENT WARNING: The following episode includes discussion of violent themes, specifically war and genocide. Listener discretion is advised. This multi-episode series is about the history of relations between the United States and the Middle East, including both US foreign policy and the Middle Eastern immigrant experience. In this episode, Jaye discusses the decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire, including World War I and the Sykes-Picot Agreement, which set into motion the partition of the Middle East after the war. How is the decline of the Ottoman Empire a cautionary tale of the dangers of nationalism? Also, how did Sykes-Picot affect relations between the Middle East and the West for decades to come? Middle East under Ottoman control: Sykes-Picot Agreement: Middle East Partition (Conference of San Remo): Upcoming Episode - Interview with Author Allison K. Garcia Preorder Finding Seguridad Twitter: @potstirrercast IG: @potstirrerpodcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/potstirrerpodcast/ Website: PotstirrerPodcast.com Source Material: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrSphs_YpAk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFEPASueKdQ https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/575e498fbfea463a9aa5247182f5345f https://www.history.com/news/ottoman-empire-fall https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/world-war-i-history https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/britain-and-france-conclude-sykes-picot-agreement https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.7591/j.ctt1w0d9w9.9.pdf?ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3Ae8a8233a79ddc4ffe76c26dc90a03fcd https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm https://www.britannica.com/biography/Enver-Pasa https://www.britannica.com/event/Sykes-Picot-Agreement https://www.britannica.com/place/Ottoman-Empire/Dissolution-of-the-empire https://www.britannica.com/event/Conference-of-San-Remo https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2016/sykes-picot-100-years-middle-east-map/index.html https://www.thenational.ae/world/lebanon-s-dark-days-of-hunger-the-great-famine-of-1915-18-1.70379 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-16352745 https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-turkey-destroyed-its-christians-11558109896 https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP5.HTM https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231537076_Cultural_Homogenization_Ethnic_Cleansing_and_Genocide https://www.armenian-genocide.org/genocide.html https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-the-curse-of-sykes-picot-still-haunts-the-middle-east https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/how-the-first-world-war-shaped-the-borders-of-the-middle-east-1.785667#1 Music: Potstirrer Podcast Theme composed by Jon Biegen from Stranger Still http://strangerstillshow.com/ http://jonathanbiegen.com Four More Weeks composed by Vans in Japan Sunday composed by TrackTribe Ascent to the Station composed by TeknoAXE Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License Rain Cloud Music composed by Emily A. Sprague The Emperor's New Nikes composed by DJ Williams

In this episode, we talk about how much of the modern Middle East got the borders we see today, from Iraq to Syria to Jordan to Israel. While there are exceptions to this (notably Saudi Arabia and some of the eastern countries), I track the national borders back to World War I and discuss the Sykes-Picot agreement that allowed for the current national partitions. This sets the stage for much of the conflict and struggles with identity (ethnic vs religious vs national identities) that we see in the region today. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nutshell-politics/support

When the British finally captured the Middle East from the Ottomans in October 1918, under the command of General Edmund Allenby, with the support of TE Lawrence and his Sharifians, Hussein and Faisal, the British immediately tried to walk back on the Sykes-Picot agreement.  They figured they did all the hard work, so fuck the French. 

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Bro History Sykes-Picot – The Secret Deal to Divide the Middle East During WW1, the British and French made a secret deal to split up the Ottoman Empire’s Middle Eastern territories. They did this by drawing a diagonal line on a map that ran from the Mediterranean Sea to the Mountains in Persia. This secret deal is called the Sykes-Picot Agreement. Today, we explore this history and […] Sykes-Picot – The Secret Deal to Divide the Middle East szamotah

Host Dennis Leap discusses Lawrence’s view of the Sykes-Picot agreement, his private plan for an Arab future.

Injusticia, quizás esa sería la palabra que más podría resumir la historia de las últimas décadas del pueblo kurdo. Aunque estamos hablando de una población con más de 5.000 años de historia en la región y que aporta un gran valor cultural e histórico, lo cierto del caso es que si ha habido un pueblo al que se le ha negado la posibilidad de autodeterminarse, ahí sin duda se debe obligatoriamente hablar de los kurdos.

Chris Spangle explains the many reasons the first World War still matters today. World War I unleashed a revolution of big government into the American system. We start with a general overview of World War I and its significance to those living 100 years later. He explains the 14 reasons why World War I took place and the striking parallels of today. Next, he outlines the many ways Woodrow Wilson expanded the federal government. We end with the fruit of the poisonous tree that was the Sykes-Picot agreement. Overall, this episode is the perfect explanation for why every libertarian must be anti-war. Show Notes https://wearelibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/WW1.pdf 14 Reasons WWI Happened (And Four Things That Could Have Stopped It) - http://mentalfloss.com/article/57319/14-reasons-world-war-i-happened-and-four-things-could-have-stopped-it World War I on the Home Front - https://mises.org/library/world-war-i-home-front Time Stamps: 00:00:00 - Overview of WWI and the birth of the Liberal International Order 00:34:40 - The 14 Causes of World War I 01:29:41 - Woodrow Wilson's Expansion of Government 02:35:08 - The West Draws the Modern Middle East

An exhibition that is part of the French centenary commemorations for the end of World War I provides a fascinating historical and geographical eye-opener, centred on the peace treaties signed after the war and what came next in central and eastern Europe, as well as in the Middle East. The Museum of the Armies, set in Paris's imposing Invalides complex built in the 17th century under Louis XIV, has brought together rare documents and artefacts, parts of uniforms or weapons, propaganda tools like posters from some 20 collections in France and Europe, east and west. The museum's film department has joined Gaumont-Pathé in digging out and restored some rarely seen footage. As part of the many events being organised in France this year for the centenary of the end of World War I, on 11 November 2018, the exhibition sheds light on the lesser known consequences of the devastating war on countries west of France and Italy. Without ignorng the suffering of the soldiers and their families in the Flanders fields, the exhibition, put together by military historians and geographers, looks at what happened after the fall of four great empires, the Russian, Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian and German. It shifts the historical emphasis to the east and reveals that after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28 June 1919 conflict and crises were not over. Geographically, the show moves from the treaty room on to Germany, Poland and the Baltic States and Russia. It pursues its course in Mitteleuropa, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, Slovenes and Albania. The last room's focus is on the Levant, on Greece, Turkey, Syria and Lebanon (including Sykes-Picot sketches and a costume worn by TE Lawrence, known as Lawrence of Arabia). Visitors can take in European border changes in the first room, since the 13th century. Then they can contemplate the question of nationalities and borders, revolutions, counter-revolutions, civil wars and civilian casualties. Finally they can examine the role of France, a country which emerged as a military power to be reckoned with, whose ambassadors and soldiers were highly influential in reestablishing stability.

An exhibition that is part of the French centenary commemorations for the end of World War I provides a fascinating historical and geographical eye-opener, centred on the peace treaties signed after the war and what came next in central and eastern Europe, as well as in the Middle East. The Museum of the Armies, set in Paris's imposing Invalides complex built in the 17th century under Louis XIV, has brought together rare documents and artefacts, parts of uniforms or weapons, propaganda tools like posters from some 20 collections in France and Europe, east and west. The museum's film department has joined Gaumont-Pathé in digging out and restored some rarely seen footage. As part of the many events being organised in France this year for the centenary of the end of World War I, on 11 November 2018, the exhibition sheds light on the lesser known consequences of the devastating war on countries west of France and Italy. Without ignorng the suffering of the soldiers and their families in the Flanders fields, the exhibition, put together by military historians and geographers, looks at what happened after the fall of four great empires, the Russian, Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian and German. It shifts the historical emphasis to the east and reveals that after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28 June 1919 conflict and crises were not over. Geographically, the show moves from the treaty room on to Germany, Poland and the Baltic States and Russia. It pursues its course in Mitteleuropa, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, Slovenes and Albania. The last room's focus is on the Levant, on Greece, Turkey, Syria and Lebanon (including Sykes-Picot sketches and a costume worn by TE Lawrence, known as Lawrence of Arabia). Visitors can take in European border changes in the first room, since the 13th century. Then they can contemplate the question of nationalities and borders, revolutions, counter-revolutions, civil wars and civilian casualties. Finally they can examine the role of France, a country which emerged as a military power to be reckoned with, whose ambassadors and soldiers were highly influential in reestablishing stability.

The Middle East and America: LNS 09/05/18 Show Vol. 5--#144Today we get into why the Middle East looks the way it does, from its borders to its people and why the US is so against the use of chemical weapons.*Yesterday's Circus*T.E Lawrence and Sykes Picot*ISIS and The Obama Speech*Oil, Gold and Blood*One Last Word: NikeToday’s Bumpers:I Don't Remember- Peter Gabrielhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_X13P7V2x0Games Without Frontiers- Peter Gabrielhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xZmlUV8muYYou Can't Always Get What You Want- Rolling Stoneshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqMl5CRoFdkBand on the Run- Paul McCartneyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qdpWykfMnkSilly Love Songs- Paul McCartneyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap87QgZKTNwI Love the Night Life- Alicia Bridgeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umAurdHLNzUClosing Theme- Batman Dark Knight Rises 2012 House Remix feat. Hanz ZimmerIt can be found at http://www.hulkshare.com/praktikos/dark-nights-riseMore at: http://www.hulkshare.com/praktikosThe money pledged thru Patreon.com will go toward show costs such as advertising, server time, and broadcasting equipment. If we can get enough listeners we will expand the show to two hours and hire additional staffAll bumper music and sound clips are not owned by the show, are either under Creative Commons Attribution Licensing, is for commentary and educational purposes, of de minimus effect, and not for monetary gain.No copyright is claimed in any use of such materials and to the extent that material may appear to be infringed, I assert that such alleged infringement is permissible under fair use principles in U.S. copyright laws. If you believe material has been used in an unauthorized manner, please contact the poster

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Historien et professeur au Collège de France, Henry Laurens est intervenu à l'ILERI dans le cadre des 100 ans des accords Sykes-Picot. Cette conférence s'est tenue le mercredi 30 novembre 2016 et est aussi disponible sur Youtube : https://youtu.be/ApteLjYrZWA Pour découvrir les conférences de l'ILERI : http://ileri.fr/actualites/conferences/ Retrouvez-nous sur Facebook : http://facebook.com/ileriparis/ Retrouvez-nous sur Twitter : http://twitter.com/ileriparis Retrouvez-nous sur Instagram : http://instagram.com/ileriparis/ Pour plus d'informations sur l'ILERI : http://ileri.fr/

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CptBuck gives us the first of two episodes looking at WW1 in the Middle East, discussing the political intrigue and wrangling between the Ottomans, British, French, and Russians, among others. This episode focuses primarily on the Turkish area of the Ottoman Empire, and the various plans hatched both before and after Armistice to divvy up the Ottoman state. Along the way we talk about the Sykes-Picot, the Young Turks, the Greco-Turkish War, and Lawrence of Arabia. (59min)   Join the Discussion!

History Professor Wm. Roger Louis of the University of Texas at Austin, a world-renowned expert in British imperial history, discusses the repercussions of two WWI British foreign policy decisions - the Sykes-Picot agreement and the Balfour Declaration - that are still felt across the Middle East to this day. Prof. Louis participated in an international symposium at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute upon the 100th anniversary of the Sykes-Picot agreement. Song: Yael Dekelbaum - Tfilat HaImahot   This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.

In this week's POMEPS conversation, Marc Lynch speaks with David Patel about the borders of the Middle East and the legacy of Sykes–Picot. "When Westerners talk about reimagining the borders of the Middle East, what they're thinking of is smaller states." But, says Patel, "we should be careful when we talk about 'reimagining the borders.'" Patel is a lecturer in the department of politics and senior research fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University. Looking at the rhetoric of Sykes-Picot. "ISIS isn't a secessionist movement. It's not trying to break away from Iraq or Syria. ISIS talks about Sykes–Picot and the conspiracy of it." "People don't know what to call ISIS now. Calling it a 'state,' even if it dies and becomes a 'failed state,' is a political statement. But it's been there for three years, governing lives... you can travel from one end of the Islamic State to the other with a piece of paper that says, 'This person is allowed to transport agricultural goods. Those are state-like features, and it's survived for quite a long time."

The guys talk about pretty much everything else but Sykes-Picot. 

Dr. Ahmet K. Han, faculty member in the Department of International Relations at İstanbul’s Kadir Has University explains Turkish foreign policy as it relates to the Sykes-Picot agreement.

Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, Director of the Project on Regional Middle East Developments at the Jerusalem Center discusses strategic and geopolitical aspects of the Sykes-Picot agrement.

Col. (ret.) Dr. Jacques Neriah, senior fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and Former Deputy Head for Assessment of Israeli Military Intelligence discusses the history and ongoing repercussions of the Sykes-Picot agreement, and the modern political unrest in the Middle East across border lines, such as the influence of ISIS and the war in Syria.

Professor Efraim Karsh of King’s College, London subverts the established narrative of Sykes-Picot, explaining how French and British interventions led to pan-Arab nationalist movements.

Dr. Richard Rossin, Former Head of the European Academy of Geopolitics, on the French historical perspective of Sykes-Picot’s legacy.

President of Shalem College, Dr. Martin Kramer, reveals how Sykes-Picot was an obstacle to the creation of the Jewish state and the Zionist dream.

Ambassador Freddy Eytan introduces Professor Shlomo Avineri of Hebrew University on the historical legacy of Sykes-Picot.

This is Episode 18 of the State of the Theory Podcast. Politics. Power. Popular Culture. And other stuff, probably. In this series, we’re like super nerdy philosophical DJs: mashing up Serious Academic Questions with the most topical news and trends in pop culture. Each week, we’ll tackle a new topic and collide it with ‘critical theory’ (we’re pretty loose with our definitions, though, so expect the unexpected). Our aim is to destroy the stuff we know, explore the stuff we don’t and unsettle everything we think we know about the world. We take the obvious, the commonsensical, the certain, and then we rip it all to shreds. We are your theory doctors and we are always on call. In this episode, we look at the history and politics of mapping. Using the theories of Brian Harley and Sumathi Ramaswamy, we explore the power dynamics of maps, and how nation-states seek to control the production and reception of maps. The texts we refer to are: “Geography and Some Explorers” by Joseph Conrad (http://www.ric.edu/faculty/rpotter/temp/geog_and_some.html) “The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography” by J.B. Harley (https://www.amazon.co.uk/New-Nature-Maps-History-Cartography/dp/0801870909) "Goddess and the Nation" by Sumathi Ramaswamy (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Goddess-Nation-Sumathi-Ramaswamy/dp/0822346109) You can read about India’s proposed new laws about maps here: http://thenextweb.com/in/2016/05/09/indias-plan-regulate-mapping-data-will-hurt-every-app-uses-location-data/ You can read about ISIS and the Sykes-Picot line here: http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2014/06/25/map-isis-hates/ Our theme music is "The Face of God" by The Agrarians (freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Agra…he_Face_of_God) State of the Theory is brought to you by Hannah Fitzpatrick (@drhfitz) and Anindya Raychaudhuri (@DrAnindyaR) Find us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/stateofthetheorypodcast) or Tweet us @TheoryDoctors

Escuche la historia de la repartición del Imperio turco otomano.

Escuche la historia de la repartición del Imperio turco otomano.

Joel Wing of Musings on Iraq guests to talk about the 100th anniversary of Sykes-Picot; the spring bombing offensive; the future of Islamic State; whether the Kurds will get independence; and whether the Surge could have ever achieved its political objectives.

A 100-year-old Agreement with a Bad Rap called “Skyes-Picot” and even a century later this one agreement still drives conflict engulfing the Middle East today.

People in the news: it's a hundred years since the signing of the secret Sykes-Picot agreement under which the British and French agreed to divide up the Middle East, and now the President of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, Masoud Barzani, says it's time for outright independence for the Iraqi Kurds. Jim Muir considers the Kurds' flight from Saddam Hussein 25-years ago and what has happened to some of the people he encountered back then. Bethany Bell is in Austria where voting could result in the country getting Europe's first far right president. The French leader Francois Hollande's again said he wants the new nuclear plant in the English county of Somerset to go ahead. It's to be built by the French. David Shukman's been to a construction site in Finland where the French are building a similar reactor - amid some controversy. Have you had a 'camelccino' yet? Hannah McNeish in Kenya tells us camel milk could be the next big thing and that could mean huge benefits for the country's economy, and its camel herders. And vitriol from the presidential campaign might have given people reasons to be discouraged about America, but Robert Hodierne tells a story which he says illustrates the basic goodness of folks in that country

1-Le elezioni in Austria. Ben oltre il destino di un singolo paese. Favorito il candidato dell'estrema destra Hofer. A Vienna ultime battute di campagna elettorale (Flavia Mosca Goretta).2-Altri confini avrebbero salvato il Medio Oriente? Cento anni fa gli accordi di Sykes-Picot. Quando Francia e Gran Bretagna si spartirono a tavolino i territori dell'Impero Ottomano (Massimo Campanini, Università di Trento).3- Costa d'Avorio. La rivoluzione del cacao. Il primo produttore mondiale apre la sua prima fabbrica di cioccolato. Un modello per i grandi esportatori di materie prime (Simona Saccaro).4-Come valorizzare Hong Kong.La Cina punta sulla ex-colonia britannica per lanciare la nuova via della seta (Gabriele Battaglia).5-50 anni di proibizionismo. ..Tra cartelli della droga, paradisi fiscali e violazioni dei diritti umani (Alfreso Somoza)

1-Le elezioni in Austria. Ben oltre il destino di un singolo paese. Favorito il candidato dell'estrema destra Hofer. A Vienna ultime battute di campagna elettorale (Flavia Mosca Goretta).2-Altri confini avrebbero salvato il Medio Oriente? Cento anni fa gli accordi di Sykes-Picot. Quando Francia e Gran Bretagna si spartirono a tavolino i territori dell'Impero Ottomano (Massimo Campanini, Università di Trento).3- Costa d'Avorio. La rivoluzione del cacao. Il primo produttore mondiale apre la sua prima fabbrica di cioccolato. Un modello per i grandi esportatori di materie prime (Simona Saccaro).4-Come valorizzare Hong Kong.La Cina punta sulla ex-colonia britannica per lanciare la nuova via della seta (Gabriele Battaglia).5-50 anni di proibizionismo. ..Tra cartelli della droga, paradisi fiscali e violazioni dei diritti umani (Alfreso Somoza)

1-Le elezioni in Austria. Ben oltre il destino di un singolo paese. Favorito il candidato dell'estrema destra Hofer. A Vienna ultime battute di campagna elettorale (Flavia Mosca Goretta).2-Altri confini avrebbero salvato il Medio Oriente? Cento anni fa gli accordi di Sykes-Picot. Quando Francia e Gran Bretagna si spartirono a tavolino i territori dell'Impero Ottomano (Massimo Campanini, Università di Trento).3- Costa d'Avorio. La rivoluzione del cacao. Il primo produttore mondiale apre la sua prima fabbrica di cioccolato. Un modello per i grandi esportatori di materie prime (Simona Saccaro).4-Come valorizzare Hong Kong.La Cina punta sulla ex-colonia britannica per lanciare la nuova via della seta (Gabriele Battaglia).5-50 anni di proibizionismo. ..Tra cartelli della droga, paradisi fiscali e violazioni dei diritti umani (Alfreso Somoza)

  Vor einem Jahrhundert haben ein Engländer (Sykes) und ein Franzose (Picot) beschlossen, wie der Nahe Osten aussehen soll – und damit den Nahost-Konflikten von heute den Boden bereitet. (An der Klangqualität arbeiten wir noch. Ich bitte um Geduld)

  Vor einem Jahrhundert haben ein Engländer (Sykes) und ein Franzose (Picot) beschlossen, wie der Nahe Osten aussehen soll – und damit den Nahost-Konflikten von heute den Boden bereitet. (An der Klangqualität arbeiten wir noch. Ich bitte um Geduld)

On the centenary of the Sykes-Picot agreement, historian Catriona Pennell reflects on this secret 1916 Anglo-French agreement to divide up the Middle East. Meanwhile, we talk to Joe Moshenska, author of A Stain in the Blood, which describes the amazing adventures of Sir Kenelm Digby. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Americans are coming, but will the war be over by the time they get there? Germany throws everything into a last series of stupendous attacks in the West while hoping to avoid getting burned by a fire in the East they helped fan.

Speaker: Jonathan Wyrtzen, Yale University Chair: Toby Dodge, LSE Against a dominant historical narrative emphasizing the importance of war-time agreements (Sykes-Picot and others) and the post-World War I peace settlement in "making" the modern Middle East, Jonathan wyrtzen shifts the focus to the post-war decade, examining a set of synchronic "revolts" in the mid-1920s from Morocco to Turkey that were critical in negotiating new political topographies in North Africa and the Middle East. This comparative analysis looks at different typologies of state formation (both by the British, French, Italian, and Spanish colonial powers and by local actors including Ataturk, Ibn Saud, and Abd al-Krim) and of anti-state resistance, emphasising the importance of transregional linkages during this critical historical juncture. Recorded on 17 March 2015. Image Credit: Wikipedia. Sheikh Hilal al-Atrash, Druze rebel leader, during The Great Syrian Revolt.

Om terrorns kopplingar till Syrien, där det blodiga inbördeskriget fortsätter med oförminskad styrka. Samtidigt vänder västvärlden sina blickar och vapen mot IS. Men kan man verkligen skilja på kriget och terrorn? Måste man inte göra något åt Assad för att komma åt Baghdadi och radikaliserade terrorister? Hör röster från Dubai, Aleppo, Genevé och Göteborg om våldet som göder terrorn. Kriget i Syrien har krävt mer än 200 000 döda, en miljon skadade, nästan elva miljoner på flykt och inget ser ut att få stopp på det. Samtidigt vänder Europa och USA sina blickar inåt. Efter attentatet mot Charlie Hebdo i Paris och tillslaget mot misstänkta jihadister i Belgien är det hotet mot oss själva som står i fokus. Hur ska kriget då tvingas till ett slut? Konflikt beger sig till Malmö där frilansjournalisten Petra Quiding möter Nael Bitarie i stadsdelen Nydala. Han visar motvilligt våldsamma videoklipp från kriget i Syrien. Både från staden Raqqa, som är under den extrema rörelsen Islamiska Statens kontroll och från Yarmuk, den förort till Damaskus som Nael kommer ifrån. Två filmer från samma land, en från livet under den islamska statens terror, den andra av människor utsatta för assadregimens grymhet. Nael tycker att ingen längre pratar om regimens brutalitet, bara om terrorismen som hotar oss i väst. Med i Konflikt finns Sveriges Radios utrikeskommentator Agneta Ramberg och Aron Lund, journalist som skrivit flera böcker om Syrien. De samtalar bland annat om det som Ali Khedery har att säga. Han var länge central i att forma USAs politik i regionen, framförallt i Irak. Mellan 2003 och 2009 var Ali Khedery nära rådgivare åt såväl dom amerikanska ambassadörerna i Baghdad som USAs militära befälhavare i regionen. Idag är han chef för en konsultfirma i Dubai, där Konflikts Ivar Ekman nådde honom. Ali Khedery är mycket kritisk mot både rollen USA har spelat, och den roll man spelar idag. Han anser att man behöver ett nytt Sykes-Picot, och syftar på den koloniala uppgörelse mellan Frankrike och Storbritannien från slutet av första världskriget som skapade det moderna Mellanösterns gränser, gränser som nu är på väg att lösas upp. Alternativet är blodig, okontrollerad fragmentisering – och ökad radikalisering. FN-sändebudet och svensk-italienaren Staffan de Mistura har fått i uppdrag att försöka hitta en väg mot fred i Syrien. Han tog över uppdraget som fredsmäklare i Syrien i juli förra året, efter att både förre FN-chefen Kofi Annan och den respekterade FN-veteranen Lakdhar Brahimi hade misslyckats. Men det finns sånt i Syrien som har ändrats, säger de Mistura, sånt som gör att det idag åtminstone finns en glimt av hopp. Han säger till Ivar Ekman att han vill börja bygga freden lokalt, i små eldupphör som i sin tur ger utrymme för politiska kompromisser. Tanken är att det ska börja med storstaden Aleppo. Längre ner här på sidan finns också en längre intervju att lyssna på med Staffan de Mistura. Den oro som Europa känner över hoten om attacker är välgrundad, mycket beroende på den mängd européer som åkt till Syrien för att strida för olika grupper. En av dem som ville åka till Syrien kallar vi för Josef och kommer från Göteborg. Han berättar i Konflikt för reportrarna Karwan Faraj och Kajsa Norell om hur han kom i kontakt med religionen trots konflikter om det med sina föräldrar. En vän som dog i Syrien inspirerade honom sen att åka dit själv för att slåss mot Assad-regimen. Men hans föräldrar, folk i moskén och en religiöst lärd avrådde honom och till slut avstod han. De frihetskämpar han från början velat ansluta sig till slåss nu mot varandra, de utför grymheter han inte står bakom och viktigast av allt, hans föräldrar vill inte ge honom sitt tillstånd. I slutet av konflikt hör vi den syriska journalisten Zaina Erhaim från Aleppo som berättar om hur rädd hon är när hon passerar genom vägspärrar som hålls av utländska islamistiska krigare. Hon berättar för Konflikts Jesper Lindau om att de kommer från våra länder i väst medan den solidaritet som världens ledare visade efter attackerna i Paris mot Chralie Hebdo och en judisk affär helt uteblir när hennes folk dör dagligen i Syrien. Lyssna på en längre intervju med Zaina Erhaim om hur man såg på det som hände i Paris i Aleppo, längre ner här på hemsidan. Programledare: Kajsa Boglind kajsa.boglind@sr.se Producent: Jesper Lindau jesper.lindau@sr.se Medproducenter: Petra Quiding petra@q-media.se Ivar Ekman ivar.ekman@sr.se

Hvorfor gikk det så forferdelig galt i Midtøsten? En hemmelig avtale fra 1916 kan være med og forklare nesten alle konfliktene i Midtøsten i dag. Alt fra ISIL-herjingene, borgerkrigen i Syria til Israel/Palestina-konflikten. Navnet på avtalen er Sykes-Picot.

Chuck Morse is joined by radio host and blogger Thomas Purcell in a talk about modern Arab history as a background to the crisis in Iraq. Website: http://www.thomas-purcell.com/

Om sönderfallet som sprider sig. Fler och fler blandar sig i kriget i Syrien. Samtidigt tar det sekteristiska våldet fart, från Beirut i väster till Bagdad i öster. Finns risken att hela det moderna Mellanöstern går mot en våldsam upplösning? Hör röster från Libanon, Qatar, Kairo och Malmö om kolonialgränser, katastrofscenarier och ett krig där alltmer står på spel. Under våren har rapporterna kommit i en strid ström,  lösryckta bitar om vapenleveranser från Saudiarabien, om irakier som beger sig till Syrien för att kriga, om ryska luftvärnsraketer, om bomber i Bagdad, granater i Turkiet och raketer i Libanon. Nu senast, i torsdags, kom det rapporter om att USA planerar att börja förse rebellerna med vapen. Vad är det som är på väg att hända? Är det, som alltfler varnar för, ett storkrig som är under uppsegling, eller - ett storkrig som redan har börjat? I Libanons södra, shiitiska förorter, har kriget i Syrien börjat sätta djupa spår. Här vilar hizbollah-krigaren Hassan efter att ha varit inne i grannlandet och slagits på den syriska regimens sida. Bland Beiruts medelklass sprids oron för att landet kan dras in i kriget. "Vi är som en liten flotte, i ett hav av krig" säger restaurangägaren Wael som börjat lägga pengar åt sidan ifall han skulle behöva stänga sin rörelse. Alexandra Sandels rapporterar från Beirut.  Historien är hela tiden närvarande i Mellanöstern - å det av goda skäl. I det här fallet, när vi pratar om folk och länder och gränser och konflikter, så har historien också ett namn. Eller egentligen två: Sykes-Picot. Författaren och tidigare turkietambassadören Ingmar Karlsson berättar om den hemliga fransk-brittiska uppgörelsen som drog upp huvudlinjerna till dagens instabila Mellanöstern. Men vad kan hända framåt? En av dom mer respekterade rösterna när det gäller konfliktsituationen i Mellanöstern är Robert Malley, programchef för Nordafrika och Mellanöstern på International Crisis Group. I en intervju med amerikanska NPR säger han att kriget i Syrien är inte längre ett inbördeskrig. Det är numera ett regionalt, sekteristiskt krig, menar Malley. Men att konflikten i Syrien har blivit en gränsöverskridande, regional angelägenhet - betyder det verkligen att nationsgränserna håller på att lösas upp, att Syrien som stat är hotat?? Vår reporter Daniela Marquardt återvände till en av de Syrienkännare som har gästat oss här i Konflikt några gånger sedan revolten mot Assad-regimen inleddes för drygt två år sedan. Statsvetaren Emma Jörum är inte alls lika övertygad - som Robert Malley - om att vi ser nationsgränserna utmanas.  Det civila lidandet som orsakats av kriget i Syrien är enormt – den senaste officiella siffran på antalet dödade är 93 000, nära en å en halv miljon människor har flytt från Syrien, framförallt till grannländerna. Fyra och en halv miljon syrier är på flykt inom landet. För en vecka sen gick FN ut med sin största appell någonsin, på 34 miljarder kronor, för hjälp till både civila i Syrien å till syrier på flykt i regionen. Hur påverkar det då oss här i Sverige? Migrationsverkets omvärldschef Christer Zettergren om hur flyktingarna försöker hitta vägar från våldet. Programledare: Ivar Ekman Producent: Nina Benner