The Evil Politics

The Middle East was and still is the historica origin of major religions.

Throughout its history the Middle East has been a major center of world affairs; a strategically, economically, politically, culturally, and religiously sensitive area.

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..

Both Iran and Turkey have their dreams in restoring their historic powers in the region.

It is not a secret that the Sunni-Shia conflict has seen a major uptick, particularly in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

We are already seeing seeds of fatal struggles between Sunni and Shias' religious groups, in different parts of the region; Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain, etc..

Many explain the bloodshed as the work of conspiracies by outsiders.
Others blame the fundamentalists from both sides.

ISIS emerged from all these crisis as a peak of Sunni; extremists with a declared agenda to restore the Khalifa's Reign and drag all Shias and moderate Sunnis out or kill them.
It is not clear how those people got enough power, manpower, technology to occupy over third of Iraq and Syria in an unbelievably short time !

In Lebanon, effortless try-outs to ignite fights between the two Muslim sects, to start a bloody civil war based on this ethnocentrism.

In between, there are the political maneuvers of some leaders here and there to achieve certain benefits.

The removal of Saddam Hussein of Iraq, Muammar Qaddafi of Libya, Abdalla Saleh of Yemen, have created a confusing chaos,unstable governments, ethnic militias and brought international military intervention mainly Iranian,Turkish and Russian. !

The attempt of removing Bashar Assad of Syria by force have turned a full scale civil war that devastated the country, divided it, killed millions of people, driven millions of people out and brought in armies of 2 countries and troops from USA, Britain and France ... all trying to prevent the other to have full control of the country. The Russian army proved to have the upper hand in Syria, despite the fact that Iran spend tremendous money and man force to have this upper hand. The Russian military intervention came as a surprise to the Iranians, but necessary to save them from a predicted defeat in the war against the opposition militias.
Turkey as a major player has supported the Syrian oppositions but let the doors open with Iran and Russia especially after the coup attempt against President Erdogan and the support of USA to the Kurds of Iraq and Syria.

Suddenly, the US Obama administration decided to make the famous nuclear pact with Iran and lift its sanctions against the Iranian OKEY to stop all its activities thought to lead for building a nuclear bomb.
USA Obama administration also did not mind the removal of Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and later supported a Brotherhood of Islam President and Government, But those were all ousted by a coup made by the Egyptian army that managed for its strong military man Sisi to be elected as the new President.
Obama did not have time to work against the new President.

Trump, the new US President supported Sisi, vowed to cancel the US/Iran nuclear pact and restore sanction, and launch full scale war against ISIS and pro Al Qaeda forces in Iraq and Syria.
Strangely enough Trump also showed full tendency to working with Russian President Vladimir Putin to defeat ISIS in the region despite their completely contradicting political agendas in the region.

So what is this conflicting and catastrophic scenario and why ?
And what is Israel doing amidst all the fire around and the obvious approach of their worst enemy Iran that is touching its borders with her direct and indirect military forces?
Who can say this is not Evil Politics?
Sami Cherkaoui