How many new Middle East will be announced after!

How many new Middle East will be announced after!

RUBA AYYASH

In 1916, the British and French signed the Sykes-Picot Agreement to share the estate of the sick man (Ottoman Empire) after its fall.

The opinion of the peoples was not taken into account, and national and religious diversity was not taken into account, and the result was states with artificial borders, and social divisions that sowed doubt instead of trust, and disharmony instead of belonging.

The problem was not only in the demarcation of borders, but in the manufacture of fragile states that were left to be vulnerable to explosion all the time.

“All the files that have been exhumed over the past two years, no clear logical solution has been reached for any of them. The significance of this is that the pending files remain complex. From Gaza and the West Bank to Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen, to Iran and the dubious Western relationship, the toxic love and enmity between Tehran and Washington is yet another example of carefully managed chaos.”

Sykes-Picot was not a passing agreement, but a region-management mentality that still exists: the separation of peoples, the division of resources, the fragmentation of identities, and the primacy of sectarian loyalties over nationalism.

Sykes-Picot is essentially still standing to this day, many generations have paid for it, and the reckoning is not yet finished. The region will pay a heavy price in the near future.

Every century, or closer. Maps are redrawn and demographic, geographic and geopolitical shifts are imposed, with blood instead of ink, and according to interests and corporate contracts, not with the freedom of peoples or respect for the privacy of the country. Fractures and conflicts must remain alive as long as chaos is in the interest of those who know how to manage it.

In this troubled corner of the world, nothing is constant but chaos. What is happening in the Middle East is manifested in a crisis without an easy way out, and stability may be very far away in the absence of a near horizon for a solution.

Pessimism or melancholy? Maybe realistic. The crises of the region are not transient, but rooted. Realism is necessary to understand how events move, so that one realizes what can actually change, and to which abyss the boats are heading us.

The Middle East is not left to chaos but is led towards chaos that does not reach total collapse. No one wants to resolve conflicts, because conflict is a reason for survival and influence.

Chaos is not the enemy of the West, but its loud friend, which gives it the means to exist, survive and control. The West does not create chaos to rule, but creates chaos to monitor, negotiate, and justify its existence.

In recent years, the region has experienced a series of crises that have transcended the boundaries of traditional conflict.

Syria has turned into a miniature world war arena, and Yemen is experiencing an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe. Iraq is lost between Iranian influence and American interests. Lebanon is collapsing economically after the collapse of its borders, sovereignty and self-determination. Palestine is striking in Gaza and the West Bank relentlessly, and the world is content to “watch” the tragedy.

What is interesting is that, despite all this collapse, these countries are not left to fall altogether. It doesn’t seem that any party wants to make a decision. Rather, they are maintained as impotent “state structures”, managing their daily crises without a horizon, and being used as a permanent bargaining chip at the tables of adults.
Leaving the Middle East to chaos is not in vain, but in the interest of those who run the game. There is no point in supporting the Lebanese government and its president in reuniting the “Switzerland of the East” and reviving life, economy and culture into it.

There is no point in replacing the Assad regime with a just, powerful, free, and civilian one. There is no point in finding a final solution to the Palestinian question and starting to implement clear steps for just and humane solutions that preserve the right of individuals to a dignified and easy life.

All the files that have been exhumed over the past two years, no clear logical solution has been reached for any of them. The significance of this is that the pending files remain complex. From Gaza and the West Bank to Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen, to Iran and the dubious Western relationship, the toxic love and enmity between Tehran and Washington is yet another example of carefully managed chaos.

RUBA AYYASH: Multimedia Journalist @ Sky News Arabia ; Master’s in Journalism, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates

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