Abid Mustafa: Bush's Plan for the Middle East: No Palestinian State, Iraqi Partition, Cooperation with Syria and Iran

February 12, 2007

Over the past few months, the Bush administration in the backdrop of the Iraq Study Group’s (ISG) report has announced its plan for Iraq—apart from the President's refusal to formally engage Iran and Syria— the plan broadly concurs with the recommendation laid out by the ISG. Furthermore, the US has mobilised its surrogates in Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq and the gulf countries to implement this plan and prepare the ground for the emergence of a new Middle East. What follows is a brief summary of what America is planning to achieve in Palestine, Iraq and Iran.