Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 21:45:55 +0200
Plans for Redrawing the Middle East: The Project for a "New Middle East"
By <http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/mahdi-darius-nazemroaya> Mahdi
Darius Nazemroaya
June 15, 2014
Plans for Redrawing the Middle East: The Project for a "New Middle East"
This article first published by GR in November 2006 is of particular
relevance to an understanding of the ongoing process of destabilization and
political fragmentation of Iraq.
"Hegemony is as old as Mankind." -Zbigniew Brzezinski, former U.S. National
Security Advisor
The term "New Middle East" was introduced to the world in June 2006 in Tel
Aviv by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (who was credited by the
Western media for coining the term) in replacement of the older and more
imposing term, the "Greater Middle East."
This shift in foreign policy phraseology coincided with the inauguration of
the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) Oil Terminal in the Eastern Mediterranean. The
term and conceptualization of the "New Middle East," was subsequently
heralded by the U.S. Secretary of State and the Israeli Prime Minister at
the height of the Anglo-American sponsored Israeli siege of Lebanon. Prime
Minister Olmert and Secretary Rice had informed the international media that
a project for a "New Middle East" was being launched from Lebanon.
This announcement was a confirmation of an Anglo-American-Israeli "military
roadmap" in the Middle East. This project, which has been in the planning
stages for several years, consists in creating an arc of instability, chaos,
and violence extending from Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria to Iraq, the
Persian Gulf, Iran, and the borders of NATO-garrisoned Afghanistan..........
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