The Arrangement - The Snake Room (Part 5/8)

Part 5 of 8. On the same day Jordan's Foreign Minister publicly condemned Israeli military action, Jordan's air force was in the sky shooting down Iranian missiles.

In this episode of The Arrangement, a special 8-part series from Unusual Practice, we go inside the Arab world's impossible position: the Sykes-Picot lines that made unified resistance structurally impossible, Jordan's water dependency on Israel, the Sunni-Shia split as a management tool used by every outside power that ever needed a reason to divide the region, the Abraham Accords as the moment the performance of solidarity ended, and Saudi Arabia's oil, the weapon that is also a hostage.

Sources:

1. Jordan shooting down Iranian missiles — Associated Press

   https://apnews.com/article/jordan-intercept-iranian-missiles-israel

2. Jordan-Israel water and energy agreements — Al-Monitor

   https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/jordan-israel-water-gas-deal

3. Sykes-Picot Agreement — full text and analysis

   https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/sykes.asp

4. Abraham Accords — full text, White House

   https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/abraham-accords/

5. Sunni-Shia split historical origins — BBC Religion

   https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/subdivisions/sunnishia_1.shtml

6. Saudi Arabia petrodollar arrangement — Congressional Research Service

   https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R47321

7. China-brokered Saudi-Iran normalisation 2023 — Reuters

   https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-iran-agree-resume-ties-reopen-embassies-2023-03-10/