I do not believe borders will be re-drawn in the greater Middle East. It is true that a “relatively unknown map… has been circulating around strategic, governmental, NATO, policy and military circles since mid-2006. It has been causally allowed to surface in public, maybe in an attempt to build consensus and to slowly prepare the general public for possible, maybe even cataclysmic, changes in the Middle East.” Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, a specialist in Middle Eastern and Central Asian affairs and a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG) recently wrote, “The redrawing and partition of the Middle East …responds to broad economic, strategic and military objectives, which are part of a longstanding Anglo-American and Israeli agenda in the region.”
He continues, “The overhaul, dismantlement, and reassembly of the nation-states of the Middle East have been packaged as a solution to the hostilities in the Middle East, but this is categorically misleading, false, and fictitious. The advocates of a “New Middle East” and redrawn boundaries in the region avoid and fail to candidly depict the roots of the problems and conflicts in the contemporary Middle East -American strategy of “divide and conquer.’”