The Arrangement - The Original Deal (Part 1/8)

Part 1 of 8. Before the bombs, before the borders, before the billions, there was a letter. Sixty-seven words written by a British politician to a banker in 1917, on land that wasn't Britain's to give, to people who didn't live there, without consulting the people who did. This is where the modern Middle East actually begins... not in religion, not in ancient hatred, but in a wartime political transaction. In this first episode of The Arrangement, a special 8-part series from Unusual Practice, we trace the original deal: the Balfour Declaration, the Sykes-Picot Agreement that drew the map of every modern Arab state with a ruler and no regard for the people living there, the biblical land claim and what that map actually encompasses today, the 1,500-year cycle of Christian and Jewish persecution that most people have completely backwards, and the extraordinary theological contradiction at the heart of Christian Zionism. Every claim is sourced. Every source is linked below. Don't take our word for it- read them yourself. That's the point.Sources:1. The Balfour Declaration — Full original text   https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/balfour.asp2. Sykes-Picot Agreement 1916 — Full text, Yale Avalon Project   https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/sykes.asp3. Palestine demographic composition 1917 — British Mandate records   https://www.britannica.com/place/Palestine/World-War-I-and-after4. Martin Luther, On the Jews and Their Lies (1543) — Historical record   https://www.ushmm.org/collections/bibliography/martin-luther-and-antisemitism5. Greater Israel — Biblical claim, Genesis 15:18-21   https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+15%3A18-216. Finance Minister Smotrich on settlement expansion — Times of Israel   https://www.timesofisrael.com/smotrich-calls-settlement-expansion-protective-wall-of-israel/7. Christian Zionism theology — Jerusalem Declaration by Holy Land Church Leaders   https://www.oikoumene.org/resources/documents/jerusalem-declaration-on-christian-zionism8. Christians United for Israel membership — CUFI official