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兰国”(Isis)在伊拉克北部发起大规模进攻时，推平了伊拉克与叙利亚边境上的一道土垒。这个圣战组织随即发布了一条推特(Twitter)，声称他们“粉碎了赛克斯-皮科协定”(Sykes-Picot)。这一噱头产生了奇妙的效应，重新引发了一场围绕1916年英法秘密协定的辩论。“赛克斯-皮科协定”瓜分了崩溃的奥斯曼帝国，将其阿拉伯领土分裂成多个国家。
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