JimBowie1958
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There are a number of issues that need to be addressed in aggregate as one ties in to the other.
Iraq is a British-French fiction created to balance Imperial interests and not the local ethnicities and preferences. Iraq needs to be shed of its Northern Kurdish areas and its western Sunni areas. The remaining Shiite Iraq will still have huge oil deposits and wealth and a less conflicted government. The Kurds form their own of Kurdistan or what ever they wish, while the Sunni western Iraq joins with Syria.
Turkey-Kurdish relations have to change. The Kurds need to end their support for Kurdish revolt in Turkey and the Turks need to accept an independent Kurdistan. The Turks get a protectorate with a later plebiscite in five years to join Turkey or become an independent nation under Turkish protectorate.
Lebanon was first created as a Christian enclave in the Middle East but their birthrates could not keep up with Muslim birthrates and they lost most of the country to an Arab Muslim demographic. I tried to restructure Lebanon's borders to re-establish the idea of it as a non-Sunni Muslim enclave of Christians, Druze Alawites, etc. Lebanon has its defense and territorial integrity protected by Greece and NATO.
Israel is formally recognized as having its territory intact to include the Golan Heights and West Bank and Gaza. Israel recognizes the rest of the adjustments of the treaty.
The Kingdom of Jordan is given the rebel controlled areas in southern Syria for their protection, and after five years hold a plebiscite to rejoin Syria, join Jordan or remain independent under Jordanian protectorate.
Top goal of this plan is to establish long term peace conditions while providing protection to pro-Democracy Syrian rebels, and secondly compensating the Syrian nation with vastly larger territory from western Iraq and Arab Muslim Syria.
Thirdly it also tries to lay a foundation of mutual interests to pacify Turkish-Kurdish relations, and fourthly it establishes a non-Sunni Muslim enclave in Lebanon as a home for non-Sunni Muslims in the western Levant. Refugees can be encamped in Lebanon, Jordan controlled Syrian territory and Turkish controlled Syrian territory and in Kurdistan until permanent resettlement can be arranged.
Fifthly, Israel is formally recognized as the legitimate government of Israel in return Israel formally recognizes the human rights of its own Muslim and Christian populations to include water rights, settlement rights, etc.
All five of these issues, IMO, need to be resolved simultaneously as the interests of the various nations in the Middle East all clash along these issues and so they have to barter and trade their interests to find peace in a broad agreement.
Meanwhile, everyone focuses on the complete annihilation of ISIS.
Iraq is a British-French fiction created to balance Imperial interests and not the local ethnicities and preferences. Iraq needs to be shed of its Northern Kurdish areas and its western Sunni areas. The remaining Shiite Iraq will still have huge oil deposits and wealth and a less conflicted government. The Kurds form their own of Kurdistan or what ever they wish, while the Sunni western Iraq joins with Syria.
Turkey-Kurdish relations have to change. The Kurds need to end their support for Kurdish revolt in Turkey and the Turks need to accept an independent Kurdistan. The Turks get a protectorate with a later plebiscite in five years to join Turkey or become an independent nation under Turkish protectorate.
Lebanon was first created as a Christian enclave in the Middle East but their birthrates could not keep up with Muslim birthrates and they lost most of the country to an Arab Muslim demographic. I tried to restructure Lebanon's borders to re-establish the idea of it as a non-Sunni Muslim enclave of Christians, Druze Alawites, etc. Lebanon has its defense and territorial integrity protected by Greece and NATO.
Israel is formally recognized as having its territory intact to include the Golan Heights and West Bank and Gaza. Israel recognizes the rest of the adjustments of the treaty.
The Kingdom of Jordan is given the rebel controlled areas in southern Syria for their protection, and after five years hold a plebiscite to rejoin Syria, join Jordan or remain independent under Jordanian protectorate.
Top goal of this plan is to establish long term peace conditions while providing protection to pro-Democracy Syrian rebels, and secondly compensating the Syrian nation with vastly larger territory from western Iraq and Arab Muslim Syria.
Thirdly it also tries to lay a foundation of mutual interests to pacify Turkish-Kurdish relations, and fourthly it establishes a non-Sunni Muslim enclave in Lebanon as a home for non-Sunni Muslims in the western Levant. Refugees can be encamped in Lebanon, Jordan controlled Syrian territory and Turkish controlled Syrian territory and in Kurdistan until permanent resettlement can be arranged.
Fifthly, Israel is formally recognized as the legitimate government of Israel in return Israel formally recognizes the human rights of its own Muslim and Christian populations to include water rights, settlement rights, etc.
All five of these issues, IMO, need to be resolved simultaneously as the interests of the various nations in the Middle East all clash along these issues and so they have to barter and trade their interests to find peace in a broad agreement.
Meanwhile, everyone focuses on the complete annihilation of ISIS.
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