Long et intéressant article de Nour Samaha dans Newsweek qui fait l’historique des plans de #partition au Moyen-Orient. Même si on regrettera l’angle mort israélien.
On y trouve, parmi bien d’autres choses - dont certaines bien connues, cette anecdote rapportée par Karim Pakradouni selon laquelle durant la guerre du Liban dans les années 80 des cartes d’une Syrie divisée en 3 Etats confessionnels circulaient. Pakradouni attira l’attention de Hafiz al-Assad sur ces cartes qui était inquiet et convaincu qu’il s’agissait d’une manière pour la CIA de sonder les réactions des gens à un tel plan.
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The same happened again during the Lebanese civil war in the 1980s; maps of a partitioned Syria into three minor states—a Sunni state next to Turkey, an Alawite state along the coast, and another Sunni state including Damascus and the South—began circulating amongst journalists and politicians in Lebanon. Pakradouni, a key player among the Lebanese Christian axis during the civil war, saw the maps and brought them to the attention of then Syrian president, Hafez Al Assad.
“He was very concerned when he heard about them,” he says. “He was convinced it was a CIA plan and that the idea was being floated to see how people would react to it.”
Meanwhile, factions in Lebanon attempted to capitalize on the civil war crisis and pushed again to create a Christian statelet within the country’s borders; and this time they were more successful. Yet, as Pakradouni—one of the architects of the Christian state—points out, partitioning the country led to a situation that should be an example to all those today who are thinking of attempting the same.
