![]() ![]() This project, which has been in the planning stages for several years, consists in creating an arc of instability, chaos, and violence extending from Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria to Iraq, the Persian Gulf, Iran, and the borders of NATO-garrisoned Afghanistan. This announcement was a confirmation of an Anglo-American-Israeli “military roadmap” in the Middle East. Prime Minister Olmert and Secretary Rice had informed the international media that a project for a “New Middle East” was being launched from Lebanon. Secretary of State and the Israeli Prime Minister at the height of the Anglo-American sponsored Israeli siege of Lebanon. This shift in foreign policy phraseology coincided with the inauguration of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) Oil Terminal in the Eastern Mediterranean. The term and conceptualization of the “New Middle East,” was subsequently heralded by the U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (who was credited by the Western media for coining the term) in replacement of the older and more imposing term, the “Greater Middle East.” The term “New Middle East” was introduced to the world in June 2006 in Tel Aviv by U.S. “Hegemony is as old as Mankind…” -Zbigniew Brzezinski, former U.S. It is of particular relevance to an understanding of the ongoing process of destabilization and political fragmentation in the Middle East as well as US war plans directed against Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Yemen. This article by award winning author Mahdi Nazemroaya was first published by GR in November 2006 (barely a few months after Israel’s invasion of Lebanon) ![]()
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