Robert Fisk : The old partition of the Middle East is dead. I dread to think what will follow - Middle East - World

Robert Fisk: The old partition of the Middle East is dead. I dread to think what will follow
Robert Fisk Friday 13 June 2014
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/robert-fisk-the-old-partition-of-the-middle-east-is-dead-i-dread-to-t

This break-up may also, of course, engender a new version of the terrifying Iran-Iraq war – a conflict that killed 1.5 million Sunni and Shia Muslims, both sides armed by outside powers while the Arab Gulf states funded the Sunni leadership of Saddam. The West was happy to see these great Muslim powers fighting each other. Israel sent weapons to Iran and watched its principal Muslim enemies destroy each other. Which is why Walid Jumblatt now also believes that the current tragedy – while it has killed off Mr Sykes and Mr Picot – will have Arthur Balfour smiling in his grave.

traduction en français par Jean-François Goulon :
Crise irakienne : le califat sunnite a été financé par l’Arabie Saoudite
▻http://blogs.mediapart.fr/blog/jean-francois-goulon/140614/crise-irakienne-le-califat-sunnite-ete-finance-par-l-arabie-saoudite

Proche-Orient : la fin de l’ancienne partition annonce un avenir effroyable.
▻http://blogs.mediapart.fr/blog/jean-francois-goulon/140614/proche-orient-la-fin-de-l-ancienne-partition-annonce-un-avenir-effro