{"id":137436,"date":"2014-08-18T19:49:27","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T19:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=137436"},"modified":"2014-08-18T22:32:50","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T22:32:50","slug":"order-chaos-global-elites-plan-middle-eastern-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/order-chaos-global-elites-plan-middle-eastern-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Order Out of Chaos: The Global Elites Plan for a \u201cMiddle Eastern Union\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steven MacMillan<\/em><\/p>\n

The Middle East has been engulfed in a state of chaos for decades now, with the region becoming increasingly unstable in recent years largely due to western sponsored proxy wars. The current map of the Middle East was created in 1916 through the surreptitious\u00a0<\/span>Sykes-Picot agreement<\/a>, a deal which divided the Ottoman-ruled territories of Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine, into areas controlled by either Britain or France. Today the chaos we see in the Middle East is the creation of Anglo-American-Israeli power, which is attempting to redraw the map to meet their present strategic and imperial objectives.<\/span><\/p>\n

Islamic State: A Creation of US Intelligence<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Islamic State (IS) has hit the headlines in recent months due to their latest terror campaign in Iraq, which has led to US airstrikes in the North of the country. What has been omitted from mainstream circles though is the intimate relationship between US intelligence agencies and IS, as they have trained, armed and funded the group for years. Back in 2012, World Net Daily received leaks by Jordanian officials who reported that the\u00a0<\/span>US military was training ISIL<\/a>\u00a0(as it was then known) in Jordan, before being deployed into Syria to fight against Bashar al-Assad. Francis Boyle, a Law professor at the University of Illinois, has described IS as a \u201ccovert US intelligence operation<\/a>\u201d whose objective is to \u201cdestroy Iraq as a state\u201d.<\/p>\n

The strategy in the Middle East is the creation of a perpetual condition of instability and a policy of \u201c<\/span>constructive chaos<\/a>\u201d, where nation states are to be destroyed so that the map of the Middle East can be redrawn. IS provided the pretext to intervene in Iraq once again, with the intervention ensuring the\u00a0oil fields in Erbil<\/a>\u00a0are safely in the hands of multi-national corporations \u2014 as oppose to chaotic and dysfunctional mercenaries. As well as providing the justification for the\u00a0US<\/a>,\u00a0Britain<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0France<\/a>\u00a0to \u201cbolster\u201d the Kurds in the North of the country, which furthers the agenda of destroying \u201cIraq as a state\u201d. As the President of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and Former Director of Policy Planning at the State Department, Richard Hass, wrote in an Op Ed for\u00a0Project Syndicate<\/a>\u00a0last month:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is time to recognize the inevitability of Iraq\u2019s break-up (the country is now more a vehicle for Iran\u2019s influence than a bulwark against it) and bolster an independent Kurdistan within Iraq\u2019s former borders.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As\u00a0I reported in June<\/a>, the policy in Iraq is to split the country into 3 separate religious and ethnic mini-states: a Sunni Iraq to the West, an Arab Shia State in the East and a Free Kurdistan in the North. The objective of dividing Iraq into 3 has been discussed in neo-imperial policy circles since as far back as 1982, when Israeli journalist \u2014 who also had close connections to the Foreign Ministry in Israel \u2014 Oded Yinon, wrote an article which was published in a journal of the World Zionist Organisation, titled: \u201c<\/span>A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties<\/a>\u201d. Yinon discusses the plan for a Greater Israel and pinpoints Iraq in particular as the major obstacle in the Middle East which threatens Israel\u2019s expansion:<\/p>\n

\u201cIraq, rich in oil on the one hand and internally torn on the other, is guaranteed as a candidate for Israel\u2019s targets. Its dissolution is even more important for us than that of Syria. Iraq is stronger than Syria. In the short run it is Iraqi power which constitutes the greatest threat to Israel (p.12)\u2026\u2026\u2026.The dissolution of Syria and Iraq later on into ethnically or religiously unique areas such as in Lebanon, is Israel\u2019s primary target on the Eastern front in the long run, while the dissolution of the military power of those states serves as the primary short term target.\u201d (p.11.)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yinon continues:<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Iraq, a division into provinces along ethnic\/religious lines as in Syria during Ottoman times is possible. So, three (or more) states will exist around the three major cities: Basra, Baghdad and Mosul, and Shi\u2019ite areas in the south will separate from the Sunni and Kurdish north.\u201d(p.12)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Israel is merely an extension of Anglo-American power and has been since its creation in 1948, so any expansion of Israeli territory is synonymous with an increase in Anglo-American hegemony in the region. Arthur James Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary from 1916 to 1919 and author of the 1917 Balfour Declaration \u2014 which declared British support for the creation of a Jewish state (Israel) in Palestine \u2014 was also a member of the Milner Group, according to CFR historian Carroll Quigley in his book the Anglo-American Establishment (p.311). The Milner Group was the precursor to the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA) or Chatham House; the British arm of the CFR, with both organisations sharing the collective objective of creating an Anglo-American global empire.<\/p>\n

The Plan for a \u201cMiddle Eastern Union\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

After funding and being directly responsible for much of the chaos and instability that has been unleashed in the Middle East, western think tank strategists are proposing a centralised, sovereignty-usurping union as the solution to the problem they have created, in a classic deployment of the order out of chaos doctrine. As\u00a0The New American<\/a>\u00a0reported last month, Ed Husain, an Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the CFR, compared today\u2019s Middle East to Europe before the EU was created, and he asserted that the only solution to the ongoing violence is the creation of a \u201cMiddle Eastern Union<\/a>\u201d. This sentiment was echoed by Hass, who compared the Middle East of today to 17th\u00a0century Europe, in his article \u201cThe New Thirty Years War<\/a>\u201d. Hass proclaims that the future will likely be as turbulent unless a \u201cnew local order\u201d emerges:<\/p>\n

\u201cFor now and for the foreseeable future \u2014 until a new local order emerges or exhaustion sets in \u2014 the Middle East will be less a problem to be solved than a condition to be managed.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The idea of an EU-style governing body over the Middle East is not a new concept. In 2008, the Iraqi government called for an<\/span>EU-style trading bloc in the Middle East<\/a><\/span>\u00a0that would encompass\u00a0<\/span>Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kuwait, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Turkey and later perhaps the Gulf states<\/span>, in an address to the US think tank the Institute of Peace.<\/span> The President of Turkey,\u00a0Abdullah G\u00c3\u00bcl, was in attendance at the second meeting in 2011 along with\u00a0Egemen Ba\u00c4\u0178\u00c4\u00b1\u00c5\u0178, the \u2018Minister for EU Affairs and Chief Negotiator\u2019 at the time,\u00a0who gave\u00a0a speech<\/a>\u00a0where he described the EU as the model for the Middle East:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe all know that the EU emerged as the most successful peace and development project of the history after a bloody war. Today, we have the very same expectations for the Middle East.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Whether a \u201cMiddle Eastern Union\u201d will be created is difficult to determine at this point in history, but there is no question that the process of redrawing the map of the Middle East is well\u00a0under way.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Steven MacMillan is an independent writer, researcher, geopolitical analyst and editor of\u00a0The Analyst Report<\/a>,\u00a0especially for the online magazine\u00a0\u201cNew Eastern Outlook<\/a>\u201d.\u00a0This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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