A New Pathway to World Peace by Becker Polkinghorn

Author:Becker, Polkinghorn [Becker, Polkinghorn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States
ISBN: 9781498243544
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2017-09-25T04:00:00+00:00

What they concealed from their publics was their voracious lust for the spoils of “Mesopotamia” and “Arabia” and “The Levant,” the exact same reasons that they “cared” about Africa, Afghanistan, India, and China. They wanted to “own” these distant lands, i.e., The Middle East—from “Mesopotamia” to Egypt to Saudi Arabia and Persia—for therein and thereunder lay the major energy materiel for certain future economic gains and uncertain future wars that would maintain and bloat their own imperial power. And what was that? Oil and natural gas. Thus, it came down to French and British politicians, generals, and scientists haggling over where a border should be or not be—and who was to get the lion’s share of the wealth that lurked just below all that windswept sand.

This map can be found in an article by Tarek Osman, a highly regarded expert on “Islamism”, which is the title of his latest book published by Yale University Press (2016). In that essay, which he wrote for BBC in 2013, he agrees with what we have said above about the perfidy and ignorance behind the maps that are at the bottom of the conflicts that abound there today. He includes this graphic of the lines that were “drawn with a ruler” and created “without any Arabic knowledge, (which) negated the main promise that Britain had made to the Arabs in the 1910s—that if they rebelled against the Ottomans, the fall of that empire would bring them independence.” (Osman 2013)

Of course, there was the thorny question about what to do with millions upon millions of “backward” people who lived in that part of the world. The Franco-British objective was to create new “nations”, each of which were patch-quilts of small ethnic groups who had little in common and, worse yet, even despised one another. Then they would put the head sheik or chieftain of some small minority in power and back them with their superior military force to harshly repress any dastardly uprisings against this new hierarchical order—usually a monarchy—from that much larger population, who were divided among themselves. That general theory which prevailed until the end of World War II was: conquer, divide, rule, and exploit to the max.

The geo-political mess they made then is plain to see in High Definition today on TV sets each and every day in 2016, ad infinitum. It is hard for either of us to agree with anything said by The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). However, we both concur with what they proclaim as their chief goal in that region, to wit: to drive the final nail into the coffin of the insidious and infamous Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916.

We hope this book is just another nail, albeit a paper and/or cyber one, in that very same coffin. After all, it was that insidious and perfidious agreement, plus The Balfour Declaration, plus the Paris Peace Treaty of 1919 and the League of Nations Mandates of 1920 which together created the spurious and dubious nations that remain at the eye of the current day political cyclone roaring through that region.

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