The U.S. is being accused of strategizing to divide further the Middle East's Arab regimes into more than a dozen new states, according to a report in Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.
"Nobody can fail to notice that five Arab countries – Iraq, Syria, Libya, Saudi Arabia and Sudan – are to be divided into 13 states," charged a commentary in the Egyptian Al-Ahram daily.
"The ghosts of Sykes-Picot are tangibly present … to divide the Arab region into mini-states along sectarian lines: states for Christians, Shiites, Alawites, Sunnis and Kurds," the warning continued, "The danger is real and threatens all of us..."
The comments come on the 100th anniversary of the Sykes-Picot agreement, the secret deal involving Great Britain, France and Russia (which later dropped out of the deal) "for the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire" at the conclusion of World War I, Britannica reports.
It divvied up lands including parts of Armenia, Kurdish territory, Mesopotamia, several Mediterranean ports, and other lands into areas of influence for France and England, to replace the Ottoman Empire which had sided with Germany in the battles.
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This year is the 100th anniversary of the agreement, and in recognition of that, multiple Arab writers have commented on the division of Ottoman lands then, and the current Middle East situation, where Arab factions are fighting among themselves, including Shiite and Sunni Muslim factions in Iraq, Iraq, Lebanon, Syrian, Libya and more.
The comments have been assembled by the Middle East Media Research Institute, which monitors such reports and offers commentary and analysis.
The charges varied some, but focused on claims that the U.S. and Russia "are formulating a new Sykes-Picot Agreement in cooperation with Israel and some Arab regimes."
The Al-Ahram commentary continued, "The plot is clear. Western research institutes and the American press are openly talking of a new Sykes-Picot that will correct the mistakes of the previous partition."
MEMRI reported a Lebanese strategic analyst, Niza 'Abd Al-Qader, wrote in the Saudi daily Al-Hayat the U.S. has been working to subdivide the Arab regimes for nearly 50 years.
"American plans formulated in the 1970s and in subsequent decades" promoted "corrupt and tyrannical regimes," he wrote. "Apparently, the U.S. administrations also continue to encourage [such plans.]"
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