When it launched its spectacular offensive through northern Iraq in June, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, known as Isis, bulldozed a berm on the border with Syria. “Smashing Sykes-Picot”, the jihadi group tweeted to its followers. The stunt worked wonders, reigniting the debate over the 1916 secret British-French agreement that carved the Arab territories of a collapsed Ottoman Empire into separate states.
今年6月，「伊拉克和黎凡特伊斯蘭國」(Isis)在伊拉克北部發起大規模進攻時，推平了伊拉克與敘利亞邊境上的一道土壘。這個聖戰組織隨即發佈了一條推特(Twitter)，聲稱他們「粉碎了賽克斯-皮科協定」(Sykes-Picot)。這一噱頭產生了奇妙的效應，重新引發了一場圍繞1916年英法祕密協定的辯論。「賽克斯-皮科協定」瓜分了崩潰的鄂圖曼帝國，將其阿拉伯領土分裂成多個國家。
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