The Middle East Crack-Up
The horror stories emerging from northern Iraq, as well as the continuing slaughter in Syria point to a tectonic shift in the Middle East. Almost 100 years after World War I, the regional state system that was established following the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire is unraveling.
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JERUSALEM – The horror stories emerging from northern Iraq, as well as the continuing slaughter in Syria’s civil war, point to a tectonic shift in the Middle East. Almost 100 years after World War I, the regional state system established after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire is unraveling.