In the Middle East .... Evil was and still is seeding there...
With a quick view on how the "World" dealt with the Region before, we can clearly see how they are re-writing the history of this "sensitive" region.
The Middle East was and still is the historical origin of major religions.
This means continuous struggles between Good & Evil!
Continuous conspiracies, wars, bloodshed and of-course racism, fanaticism, ignorance, idiocy ... you name it.
Throughout its history the Middle East has been a major center of world affairs; a strategically, economically, politically, culturally, and religiously sensitive area, however all these criteria were fora securing an unstable future for Arab countries and |Islamic countries in the region such as Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The earliest civilizations, Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt, originated in the Fertile Crescent and Nile Valley regions of the ancient Near East, as well as the civilizations of the Levant, Persia, and Arabian Peninsula.
The Arab Caliphates of the Middle Ages, or Islamic Golden Age, that would first unify the entire Middle East as a distinct region and create the dominant ethnic identity that persists today.
The Turkic Seljuk, Ottoman and Safavid empires would later dominate the region.
The Seljuk and later Ottoman Empires were medieval Sunni Muslim empires, that controlled vast areas stretching from the Hindu Kush to eastern Anatolia and from Central Asia to the Persian Gulf. Later the Ottoman expansion reached West Mediterranean, north and East Europe.
The Safavids ruled the greatest Iranian Empire since the Islamic conquest of Persia and established the school of Shi'a Islam as the official religion of their empire, marking one of the most important turning points in the history of Islam.
Despite their demise in 1736, the Safavids have left their mark down to the present era by establishing and spreading Shi'a Islam in major parts of the Caucasus and West Asia, especially in Iran.
Most of Arab countries were once occupied by the Turks, and Ottoman rules were established in Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon Etc..
In the aftermath of the war, the Arabs found
themselves freed from centuries of Ottoman Sultanate rule, but under the
mandate colonial rule of France and the United Kingdom.
When Hussein declared himself King of the Hejaz, he also declared himself King of all Arabs (malik bilad-al-Arab).
This aggravated his conflict with Ibn Saud, with whom he had fought before WWI on the side of the Ottomans in 1910.
Two
days after the Turkish Caliphate was abolished by the Turkish Grand
National Assembly on March 3, 1924, Hussein declared himself Caliph.
The
claim to the title had a mixed reception, and he was soon ousted and
driven out of Arabia by the Saudis, a rival clan that had no interest in
the Caliphate. Saud defeated Hussein in 1924.
Hussein continued to use the title of Caliph when living in Trans-Jordan.
Another important incident was building up in the
region. When in1897 Theodore Herzl established the Zionist Movement, he
was actually encouraging Jews around the world, to re-establish their
national state, within Palestine.
He called on all Jews to immigrate to the
territory. Turkey banded the Jewish Immigration but later eased its rule
under enormous pressure from Europe.
By the
end of the First World War, Great Britain had the British Mandate for
Palestine. The issuance of the Balfour Declaration greatly increased the
immigration of Jews to Palestine. In 1947, Great Britain decided to
turn its Mandate over to the United Nations, which, in the same year,
adopted Resolution 181, partitioning the land into two states, one Arab
and one Jewish.
The French made few concessions to Arab
nationalism, and rejected draft treaties, intensifying their grip on Syria and Lebanon.
In Egypt nationalist agitation after World
War I led Britain to proclaim that country an independent monarchy under
King Fuad I (1868-1936). The British, however, still retained the right
to station troops there.
In Iran the Shah was unwilling to give up his traditional powers, and the
British and Russians were unwilling to give up their spheres of
influence. During World War I, therefore, they both stationed troops in
an ostensibly neutral Persia.
At the end of World War I, the League of Nations
granted the area to the United Kingdom as a mandate. It initially formed
two former Ottoman vilayets (regions): Baghdad and Basra into a single
country in August 1921. Five years later, in 1926, the northern Vilayet
of Mosul was added, forming the territorial boundaries of the modern
Iraqi state.
The League of Nations granted Class A mandates for the French Mandate of Syria and Lebanon and British Mandate of Mesopotamia and Palestine.
Parts of the Ottoman Empire on the Arabian Peninsula became what is today Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
During the mandate, British colonial
administrators ruled the country, and through the use of British armed
forces, suppressed Arab and Kurdish rebellions against the occupation.
They established the Hashemite king, Faisal, who had been forced out of
Syria by the French, as their client ruler.
Likewise, British authorities selected Sunni Arab elites from the region for appointments to government and ministry offices.
What is happening today,
despite all sorts of disguising this matter is a clear reflect of a deadly past. What differs today that the
internal conflict between the same people is not only between the Christians
and Muslims, but also between the different Muslim Sects and the different
Christians sects... each of them against each other,
In the past, when the people were engaged with
their religious and political fighting, and all the chaos that was spread all
over the lands, the League of Nations were able to eliminate a whole country
called Palestine at that time and replaced it with a new country called Israel.
The
region began to see series of "military coups" and more rulers toppled
and new rulers came to rule,,, till the people of Egypt revolt against their
King "Farouk" in 1952 and a new Era began with President Nasser who completed the
revolution task and took back Suez Canal from the French and the British.
This
action put Israel in Jeopardy. So the
three states (France, Britain and Israel) declared war against Egypt in
1956,
but was not supported as it should, by the United States. USA at that
time had a different Agenda, and was emerging as a new rich and strong
power, and wanted to befriend the Arab Gulf rulers when oil discoveries
in their lands were announced. USA also was the sole creditor of the
three states
together, after being almost bankrupted after WW2.
Egypt won the war and resumed control on Suez
Canal and its revenues.
Later in 1967 USA supported Israel to win
territories in Egypt, Jordan and Syria. Israel took Jerusalem and made it the
Capital of Israel. Also took Golan Heights in Syria, and most of Bilad Al Sham was under its surveillance.
It also took Sina and secured its South front.
However, it failed to secure passage to
its trade through Suez Canal. And this was Israel main concern till it is fulfilled through a Peace accord reached through President Sadat after he won a 1973 war against Israel. They say Israel agreed to pay such high price for this purpose only; sailing through Suez Canal.
Then USA worked systematically in the region to
eliminate all dangers that are surrounding Israel. It declared war against
Saddam Husein, because he was no more trusted as a "Peaceful Tyrant"
and failed in a test with Kuwait.
It occupied Afghanistan to control the spread
of "Sunni Extremists" and use this with their political and military
dispute with Iran.
It supported the topple of Bin Ali in Tunis and Qaddafi in Libya by their own people, however it left the people to handle a
bigger struggle with each other.
It
permitted the topple of Mubarak in Egypt,
but left Egypt with a new experience that was threatening to make Egypt
weaker, and ready to accept any sort of solution for stability.
When President Morsi was toppled by the support of the Egyptian army, the whole influence of USA in the region was at stake. Iran grabbed this momentum, and put a moderate leader that managed to reach in a short time a kind of understanding with the Americans that angered the Saudis.
What is going on in Syria today, may be
considered as a tough revenge against Assad himself, because he did not completely go
along with USA plans in the region and perhaps tried to take more than what he
was supposed to have.
USA probably does not wish to give Lebanon as a price to
Assad after his strong support to Iran and Hezbollah.
Hezbollah was a strong card to Iran, and a
wild card to USA. However after its military involvement in Syria, it seems the end of its era has begun, with an OK from Iran.
Assad had once this wild card, but lost this "privilege" somehow, when he was pushed to put his country in a civil war crisis.
All what is going on today in the Arab
countries is actually a bloody dialogue between the super powers and USA, (with Europe
against USA “full success” from behind the scenes), with Iran, Turkey and Israel being the "willing" tools, that seem to do anything for the sake of having their "past powers back".
Sadly, it does not really matter to USA what
will happen to Egypt and Syria, or how long their agonies take. Because USA, is
almost the only international country, which has a physical existence in the
heart of the Middle East: militarily (in Afghanistan and Israel), Politically (In
Iraq and Israel) and economically (In Arab Gulf States and Israel).
The longest times Syria and Egypt remain in
their agonies, the best it is for Israel. Because both countries are the direct
powers that can give real threats to Israel, after the Palestinians have already passed this "fighting each other" game successfully and they are now of no stratigic threat to Israel.
The question of Hezbollah in Lebanon can be
solved and probably all Hezbollah would be dissolved with an understanding
between Iran and USA.
The Panoramic View on the region is getting
clearer, and we can almost see the divided states.
Also we can see a more secured Israel and more
weak Arab States and a more hesitant Iran.
Iran will be so busy in this war, and will forget about its nuclear program ...
Turkey will find more internal troubles and disturbances.
Rich Arab countries will pour money to find safety.
Israel will wash its hands from any peace arrangements with the Palestinians.
USA and the super powers will interfere again and as usual, to find solutions between friends, enemies and allies.
And these solutions must be in favour of everybody except the victims.
Who can say this is not Evil Politics? And who can say that those politicians who are running the game are not Evil Politicians?
Sami Cherkaoui
