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December 9, 2015

Saving the Middle East by Creating a Patchwork of Israels

If Israel can survive, why can’t an Assyrian Christian state?

One hundred years after the Sykes-Picot treaty dividing up the territories of the Middle East, the hope that the region will someday consist of peaceable and well-ordered sovereign states within their current borders seems increasingly deluded. Robert Nicholson suggests a different approach, one seeking to build on the internal cohesion of such “organic communities” as Kurds, Druze, and Assyrian Christians:

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