Greater Jordan in the New Middle East?

This map has been promoted by almost all tabloid newspapers in Jordan and the Middle East. It is a "theoritical" representation of the New Middle East by Ralph Peters of the "Armed Forces Journal", a commercial American military magzine published an military consulting Company. In this map Jordan is expanded into a double of its current size . The map and article can be read here:

http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2006/06/1833899

This is a very dangerous and imperialistic planning and if it has naykind of linkages to the White House, this will be a disaster to the Arab World, and also to Jordan.

The map goes much more dramatic in dividing Iraq into three countries (Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish). The author says that this new map will be based on blood and ethnic cleansing.

Let us see what his opinion is:

1- For Israel to have any hope of living in reasonable peace with its neighbors, it will have to return to its pre-1967 borders — with essential local adjustments for legitimate security concerns. But the issue of the territories surrounding Jerusalem, a city stained with thousands of years of blood, may prove intractable beyond our lifetimes.

2- The refusal by the world's legitimate democracies to champion Kurdish independence is a human-rights sin of omission far worse than the clumsy, minor sins of commission that routinely excite our media. And by the way: A Free Kurdistan, stretching from Diyarbakir through Tabriz, would be the most pro-Western state between Bulgaria and Japan.

3- A just alignment in the region would leave Iraq's three Sunni-majority provinces as a truncated state that might eventually choose to unify with a Syria that loses its littoral to a Mediterranean-oriented Greater Lebanon: Phoenecia reborn. The Shia south of old Iraq would form the basis of an Arab Shia State rimming much of the Persian Gulf. Jordan would retain its current territory, with some southward expansion at Saudi expense. For its part, the unnatural state of Saudi Arabia would suffer as great a dismantling as Pakistan

4- Mecca and Medina will be removed out of Saudi Arabia and ruled by a rotating council representative of the world's major Muslim schools and movements in an Islamic Sacred State — a sort of Muslim super-Vatican — where the future of a great faith might be debated rather than merely decreed

5- Confined to a rump Saudi Homelands Independent Territory around Riyadh, the House of Saud would be capable of far less mischief toward Islam and the world.

6- Iran, a state with madcap boundaries, would lose a great deal of territory to Unified Azerbaijan, Free Kurdistan, the Arab Shia State and Free Baluchistan, but would gain the provinces around Herat in today's Afghanistan — a region with a historical and linguistic affinity for Persia. Iran would, in effect, become an ethnic Persian state again, with the most difficult question being whether or not it should keep the port of Bandar Abbas or surrender it to the Arab Shia State.

7- The city-states of the United Arab Emirates would have a mixed fate — as they probably will in reality. Some might be incorporated in the Arab Shia State ringing much of the Persian Gulf (a state more likely to evolve as a counterbalance to, rather than an ally of, Persian Iran). Since all puritanical cultures are hypocritical, Dubai, of necessity, would be allowed to retain its playground status for rich debauchees. Kuwait would remain within its current borders, as would Oman.

8- Jordan would retain its current territory, with some southward expansion at Saudi expense. No Palestine is mentioned in the plan but the West Bank stays as "state undetermined".

Personally I do not if the credibility of this magazine is better than the sightings of UFOs and Elvis, but it does reflect a pattern of thinking in jard-line neo-conservative political thinking in the USA. I hope my fellow bloggers living in the USA can help with addressing the credibility of this magazine