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wealth of the Middle East reached the West via these trade routes, and
western goods and weaponry reached its ports in return. There was
much conflict in this important territory. Ottoman governance reined
that conflict in, but the collapse of the Ottoman Empire triggered it once
again. Even before the end of Ottoman rule, the Middle East was carved
up in secret agreements by the Western powers, and plans based on
self-interest were set in motion: During the First World War, the Entente

powers were able to draw lines dividing the Middle East up among
themselves and to control those borders before the fighting had even
ended. Newly emerging countries were established on the basis of com-
passes and rulers as the Middle East was being apportioned, and all
the peoples of the Middle East had little choice but to recognize those
artificially drawn borders.

Ever since, the Middle East has in fact been under the hegemony
of the West. At first, the West wished to govern these countries directly;
when it was unable to handle the difficulties, it resorted to dictators
and various other players. Some of these dictatorships were overthrown

in popular uprisings and others were invaded by the U.S. and coali-
tion forces on a variety of pretexts, although none of these invasions,
which resulted in the deaths of millions of people, were regarded as
war. Western rule brought hatred with it. The radical forces that the
West initially supported against the former Soviet Union during the
Cold War split up, branched out and turned into an anti-Western terror
movement involving the whole of the Middle East. Looking at the cur-

rent picture, the once-lovely Middle East is now a battleground of con-
flict, rage and hatred. Nations angry with the West have fallen out with
one another, and Muslims unable to be each other's allies are slaugh-
tering one another instead.

The surprising thing is that this picture is part of a plan drawn up
many years ago. The bloodshed in the Middle East is not the result of
entirely mistaken administrations and policies, but part of a specially
designed scenario that is still operating today. The dead bodies in the

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