Rise of the MIDDLE EAST CONFEDERATION

The Rise 

of the

Middle East Confederation

صعود اتحاد الشرق الأوسط

“We are all very old peoples. We are peoples and tribes who remember. With stiff necks and incredible stubbornness. We all live with memory and tribulation going back several thousand years. This is a treatise co-written by Israeli Zionists; by Kurdish Hevals; by Palestinian Patriots and also the children of Iranian Clerics. By Yemanites, Chechens, Assyrians, Armenians, Maronite  and Sunni and Shia Lebanese, Jordanians and Syrian Arabs, Druze as well. 

“All who wish to see peace and if not peace, separation and long term ceasefire. If not peace, if not understanding; then trade and normality. All peoples in our region have suffered enough. To survive the wars of the last four thousand years, to stop the wars of tomorrow; 

“Enough! Cease fire. Build confidence apart.” 

“Let us separate into our respective camps and return to our lands; let us confederate and dash forever the meddling of outside nations that speak of peace, trade in arms and reduce us to barbarism!”

“These authors and practitioners of a fourth track diplomacy call for an end to false, wasteful peace. An end to all outside invasions. 

If we cannot pray in the same ways, or speak the same languages; this is no impediment to declare HOLLIS! HUDNA! From our many flags let us become a Middle East Confederation from the Western Maghreb to the Indus River.”   

TABLE OF CONTENTS 

PREAMBLE…………………………………………………………………………………….

PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS……………………………………………………………………………………..

CONTEXTUAL SUMMARY OF PRIOR NEGOTIATIONS…………………………………..

PART ONE………………………………………………………………………………………

• Inner Book One: The Judean and Palestinian State…………………………………..

CORE ARGUMENTS……………………………………………………………………………………………………..

PART TWO………………………………………………………………………………….

• Inner Book Two: Homage to Rojava……………………………………………………… 

1. BAKUR [The Northern Cantons]……………………………………………………………..
2. ROJHELAT [The Eastern Front]……………………………………………………………………………..
3. BASHUR [The Southern Cantons]……………………………………………………………..
4. ROJAVA [The Land of the Setting Sun]………………………………………………………..

PART THREE……………………………………………………………………………

• Inner Book Three: A Vision of Life in the Middle East Confederation 

I. [DECOLONIZED JUDEANS: The Eivree back from the exile] ………………………………………

II. [AWAKENED SUNNIS: The majority Arab population and the Turks]……………………………… 

III. [SHI’A REVIVAL: Iran, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Alawites, Houthis]…………………………………..

IV. [KURDS & KURDISTAN: A people without a state]…………………………….

V. [CHRISTIAN ORTHODOXY: Assyrians, Chaldeans, Maronites, Greek Orthodox Arabs, Armenians]………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

VI. [SABEANS: Druze, Yazidis, Samaritans, Zorastrians, and the protection of special minority populations]………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

VIII. [BAHAI]…………………………………………………………………….

VIII. [SECURING EQUAL RIGHTS AND PROTECTIONS FOR CITIZENS, MIGRANTS, and NONBELIEVERS]…………………………………………………………………………………………………….

CONCLUSIONS………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

• Inner Book Four: A Draft Constitution of  the Middle East Confederation 

MAPS & ADDENDA……………………………….……………………………………………

TABLE OF AUTHORITIES……………………………………………………………………………………………. 

PREAMBLE

الديباجه

Excerpts from the Qamishlo Congress

TAMIDA ARTESH

None of us are “pro-peace”; we are pro-survival. Pro-stability. We are invested in possibilities that by the birth of the Confederation stops the flow of blood thrououghout our lands. We have all been taught an endless amount of mythology, based on very little real evidence. It suggests that what occurred between the Tigris and Euphrates, what occurred down Nile was progress. It suggests civilization, and later religion, and even later science all emmanted from our peoples and our lands.  

The Ziggurats of the neolithic age tell a story. Civilization began in the creation of castes and the centalizaiton of power into early state systems. The cradle of all civilization began with specializations of labor; chaining early humanity to useful trades; the conscription of worker slaves. The appointment of Kings. It began with tributes to unseen Gods, all powerful oligarchs, and eventially as cast of priests to preside over mythology, then later religions, later still over sience and this all served one thing: to prevent us from rebellion. The unnatural subjegation of all humanity into productive labor is not a unique story to Mesopatamia. This book is not about about insurrection, or economic development. It’t not a rejection of ethnic identity, or the work of athiests. What is clear:  

The status quo is not sustainable. It is chaotic uncertainty at best. The entire Middle East is awash in an endless war and has expirienced every measure of barbaric atrocity. This state of modern warfare has proceeded without any actual peace since 1920, but the bloody choas existed a long time before that. Almost in perpetuity for as long as we have ever known. Every nation is vulnerable, every nation is complicit in the killing fields today. The Western powers and Eastern powers have used us. They have handed us sophisticated weapons to murder each other in varying combinations while the great transnational corporations harvest the energy supplies in the ground. This has nothing to do with civilizational clashes, or the competing interpretations of Abrahamic religion. That is just the framework for our terrifying division not the cause ot it. The Modern Middle East must cast off its oligarchy, cast off its foreign domianiton, cast off its ethnic particualrism and embrace a peace on its own terms. 

It is not true that the tinderbox of the dying Ottoman erupted via Palestine. Nor is it true that the roads to Jerusalem from Cairo, Damascus, Karaballa, Najaf, Mecca, Medina and Tehran are all guarded by the now flailing American empire. Not all original sins of the region began with Crusaders, Ottomans, Zionists, meddling foreigners and with our oil. 

TAMIDA SOLOMON

The truth is, that any peace process is little more than a short term buy off. Allowing the hegemon powers more time to take, to utilize what lies under our sands until it all runs out. Egypt, Jordan, briefly the PLO were paid off to make peace. Now the UAE, Morocco, Bahrain, Sudan, and soon even Saudi Arabia are paid to stand down because the Americans and Europeans use Israel in Palestine as a forward operating base. Just as the Russians use Syria and Iran. Of course the Iranians and Israelis have their own interests, of course they have their own regional goals; but without external arms and subsidy they could not sustain such aggressive posturing and mount such adventuristic foreign policy. 

It is also a wild deception that the Islamic State (ISIS) has its origins in any normal version of Islam. That its goals were divinely inspired and that its recent defeat brought an end to this type of Wahbai Salafist insurgency. ISIS was an entity countrolled by, supplied by, and supported throughout by Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Pakistan’s intelligence services.

It is time now for the coming generation of the Middle East to take steps to prevent the interventions of foreign powers, as well as to contain the regressive impulses of theocracy.  

In short the road to an actual long lasting peace is not through the conquest of states, the dispersion of the Jews again, or religious fundamentalism. The road to peace is in fact not peace; it is instead about ceasefire, separation into stable units but not embracing the chauvinistic nationalism of outsiders; particularly the meddling of the East and the West; NATO, Russian Federation and rising China. We do not have to commit to anything with these actors. But we must enter a confederation strong enough to repel foriegn aggression, stamp out internal fundamentalism, stamp out ethnic conflicts, and secure the ceasefire. Secure a framework of civil and human rights acceptable to diversity of religions and of course prevent the indefinite traffic of weapons and currency for access to the finite resources of gas and oil. 

The academia, the media and the West obsessively have focused on Palestine, because (a) The Israelis, despite being mostly Jewish are at least half European or Slavic in appearance (approx. 2 million are Ashkanzi/ European and 4 million are Sefardic/ Mizhahi) (b) Israel is without a single doubt a manipulation of several thousand years of collective trauma experienced by the Jewish people into being a modern Otremer: a colony that Europe and America rely on for regional control. But while accepting or refuting that statement; it cannot be denied that so was Pahlavi Iran until 1979. So has been Jordan and Egypt, and the abomination of Wahbbi Salafist extremist Saudi Arabia; as well as each of the Petro-States of the Gulf. Unique in a world where race is the most essential passport to privilege; of  8-9 million Israelies: 3 million look fully European. For the greater part of 800 years since being butchered by Crusaders culminating in the holocaust; the Jews have in essense, or at least the Ashkanzi in charge of Israel have decided they will collaborate with Chrisitan Europe against their Semetic cousins, the people of the region they were expelled from by Romans nearly 1,900 years ago.

The Shi’a also know a great deal about persecution. Iran and the Shi’a have many charchiteristics similar to the Jews. Particularly a feeling of their backs agaist a wall, then the sea. The world’s oldest groups of Christians; the Armenians, Assyrians, and Maronites have survived endless wars by retreat to the moutnains. The Sunni are being held hostage between secualizism and regressive fundimeantlism; Egypt, Turkey, and Pakistan are cught between those feeings. The contradictions of Saudai Arabia and Gulf States are lost on no one.

Thus an unusual realignment is suggested. Five pillars, key stone nations if you will, that if realigned restore the Israelis to their lost homeland indefinitely and return the Jews to being a people of the Middle East. With the realignment of Israel away from her European mixed tribes, abusers of over two thousand years back to the tent of her blood; then there are only four nations left that can sow widespread death, extremism, and disorder and they; Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey will be managed one by one. 

          The five intrinsic incubators of regional instability and endless war behind which the Middle Eastern resources are divided up and plundered: Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan. Each with external pipeline of funds and trade lijking back to a hegemonic power.

The three intrinsic imperialists are external profiteers that secure themselves off of endless war. They steal resources and direct efforts toward Maldevelopment: USA-NATO, Russian Federation and eventually the People’s Republic of China.

The initial geography behind which a Middle Eastern Confederation can be birthed, formed, and fortified: Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Sudan, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Armenia, Kurdistan, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Kashmir.

For the skeptics let us draw on the fact that America is under 300 years old. The virtually complete reliance on fossil fuels for transport and trade less than 100 years. That all of Europe exhibited mass violence and religious atrocity for around 2,000 + years and that the nations of the Middle East have produced all Western religions, writing, science and literacy dating back perhaps 3,000 years. Essential to this document is an understanding that we are proposing the confederation of peoples who have lived beside each other in relative non violence for as long as recorded history existed, and only the interventions of Crusaders, Mongols, and European imperialists have escalated conditions to perpetual war and genocide.

The road between both halves of Jerusalem to Al-Quds runs in fact to the mountains of Kurdistan. To a people without a state, who by historical circumstance were in the last 40 years trained to fight by Palestinians and trained to organize by Zionists. Who, although speaking 11 dialects of Kurdish are linguistically and culturally most similar to the Persian Iranians. The Iranians, who are the only existential threat to Israel, still have over 40,000 Jewish citizens and share a version of Shi’a faith with the Lebanese, Yemanis, Bahrainians, Iraqis and a language with the Afghans; fight East and West via these Proxies.  Finally Egypt is a nation that subsists on Western aid but revolution is always below the surface. Jordan is over 60-70% Palestinian and without American and Israeli support could not exist as a country.

So it is actually not the coexistence of Israel in Palestine that is the lynchpin of peace. Yet in warfare they have drawn in virtually all the actors that are needed to make a Hudna, or a lasting ceasefire in order for the Israelis to form an alliance with the two other powers that ensure the Confederation can raise its flags; Iran and Egypt. Which is to say the historic enemies of the Jews. Nations that as Egypt and the Babylonian and Assyrian Empires; did in fact reportedly attempt to obliterate the Jews, then the “Eivree” or Hebrews. As “Jews’ ‘ is a word invented by Romans, as there is no J sound in Hebrew or Arameic.

Although all our peoples learn and think in several thousand year segments. Although we find almost unceasing war records no matter what empire or confederation was in power. The point of unity for the nations of this proposed Confederation is a historic legitimacy and self-awareness of being largely monotheostic, desert tribes that absolutely no outsider or insider to the region could subjugate completely. Which does not make an argument that Palestinians are actually Canaanites, the Lebanese Phoenicians, or that Jews should not be called Jews but really are the 20-30% intermised survivors of the Israelite tribes Dan, Yehuda and Levy; Eivri, or Yehudeans. Or that of the 13 million worldwide population of descendants of the Jews that perhaps as few as 5 million are remotely even practicing the religion. Which is speculated. 

TAMIDA TABATABAIE

Essentially speaking we are talking about a confederated alliance of states and self-governing cantons that must find common cause for separation and economic development intrinsically linked to a series of strategic agreements between Judeans, Persians, Arabs of all religious confessions and Kurds of all poltical types. Not factoring in whether they have states or not recognized by the world state system.

1. The Confederation is founded by historic tribes, the geographic nation is secondary if not necessary to the parties representing the majority of the tribe who reside in the Maghreb, Middle and Near East. Specifically the fertile crescent with geopolitical implications from Tunisia to the west, to Kashmir in the East, to Sudan in the south and the Caucuses. But rooted deeply in accords between Israel, Palestine, Shi’a Iran, and the Parties of the Kurds.   
2. The Confederation is based on ethnic cantons that will be self governed by religous law, civil law or tribal custom but all cantons must be Universal Human Rights law abiding; which is to allow the exit from any community of those that wish to live under secular civil law.
3. The Confederation is based on democratic autonomy; thus a co-gendered leadership, a census and a system of voting and elections must be in place to implement religious laws that are binding throughout a canton.   
4. The Confederation will conscript and maintain a unified Defense Force and Civil Service that through 3 years of military or civil duty deploy diverse forces amid the Confederation to foster shared values in a complex and diverse society.
5. The ethno-civil administrative capitals of the Confederation pending cessation of military conflict will be Cairo, Jerusalem-Al Quds, Beirut, Damascus, Baghdad, Mecca, Diyarbakur, Istambul, and Tehran.
6. The Israelis and Palestians are not the key element of actualizing the Confederation, but they are capable of indefinitely destabilizing the effort to form the alliance and must be specifically managed.
7. The Israeli, Iranian, Saudi, and Turkish agreement is in fact the only way to militarily secure the confederation.
8. The Kurds (in civil society/ ideology), Shi’a (in security), Lebanese (in trade) and Israeli (in technology, but certainly all sectors) have specific developmental technology as well as governance systems that are integral to this project.
9. The Confederation will pursue non-allignment. 

There are critical security, international relations and domestic crisis issues that threaten the very existence of the Israeli and Palestinian peoples much more so than the ongoing, comparatively low intensity occupation of the Palestinian zones of control in the West Bank and blighted Gaza. The region at large is in an acute state of political and social unrest; the governments of Somalia, Afghanistan, Tunisia, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Egypt and Yemen have fallen resulting in foreign occupations, civil wars and general anarchy. Shi’a Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia are at proxy war throughout the Muslim world.

Many will object to us describing Israel as a “Jewish military Colony”, object to calling the separation barrier “Apartheid Wall” but linguistics and agreement of a shared paradigm are vital to the success out this unit’s objectives. We assure you the credentials of our core research team from Israel is sufficiently grounded in lived experiences of both the intelligence service and defense forces; while our Palestinian team’s Jihadist and patriotic background would be of little question.

Chaos and revolution are spreading while security, what little there was is unraveling. All of this was acutely exacerbated by the 2001 & 2003 American invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq; resulting in the virtual anarchic non-governance of both countries today.

This treatise has been researched and written by a group of Judeans, Arabs, Israelis, Palestinians, and Kurds who are concerned with the collective survival of their respective peoples as they occupy and are occupied in the heart of this massive, un-ending conflict. There is very little hope of this macros-regional war or micro-peace settlement between Israel and Palestine being resolved on the level of government. Palestinians have two competing governments; Hamas and Fatah; Israel has a coalition government, but in reality is controlled as a military oligarchy on the behest of Ashkenazi Judaism and the foreign policy goals of the United States of America. 

For the approximately 16 million humans living in Greater Israel/ Historic Palestine; the scenarios are not optimistic in the slightest. 

Peace is improbable, demographics are not favorable to the 5-6 million categorized Jews and beyond the religious overtone of the landmarks described by three world religions as ‘holy land’; Israel is also a nuclear armed semi-peripheral power aligned completely and dependent on financially a Jewish Lobby and interest in the United States which cultivates the specific and direct interests of two intractable groups; the US military-industrial complex and the 2-3 million Ashkenazi (European) Israeli Jews; which enjoy a standard of living inside the Jewish colony markedly different from the Jews of other ethnic backgrounds.

There has been ceaseless warfare in the Maghreb & Middle East since 1920. All of the scenarios discussed in the treatise are inseparable from the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians, but it is naïve and European to link the peace of the region to our specific peace. A peace that will never be under the dynamics of the current situation, miniscule size of the land and endless regional intrigue. Arms and aid money, for control of energy resources.

Thus we concern ourselves in this first manuscript with Israelis (of all religions and ethnicities) and Palestinians (of all demographics). We are concerned with the broader course of humanity, but this has been authored to ensure that regardless of humanities general course; there will always be Palestinians, and there will always be Jews; and if there are to be “Israelis” an identity that is less than 85 years old; we must engage in radical steps to subvert the course of the mainstream Zionist project; delink ourselves of Euro-American hegemony and stop the inevitable slaughter of our collective peoples.

A new level of atrocity is coming. 

Palestinian demographics will increase to above 50% inside the green line which they trend toward (currently the reality is something like 7 million Arabs to 8 million Jews + others), and or if Israel uses a nuclear weapon of which it has over 500. Or Israel is sucked into or provokes a war with Iran. Or any number of possible scenarious with state collapse, proxy war, Saudi and Iranian warfare, and further misadventures wit hencomous cost in human life. To stop the final floodgates from opening, to address the broad systemic internal contradictions of the Israeli state and to secure a viable Middle Eastern Confederation, a radical policy of reorientation must begin with a realistic assessment of the only other three parties on the ground besides Memshala Yisrael which can broker regional any lasting stability. Israel must deal directly with Hamas, Fatah, Kurdish Parties and most importantly the Islamic Republic of Iran. Only an uneasy truce and allaince of this kind can focus policy and praxis on awakening the concioussness of the Sunni Arab majority.

TAMIDA BASHIR

It is no longer a question of moralizing the conflict, obsessing over past failures or temporarily abating a cycle of degenerating violence. Or conducting moer banal and expensive anthropological studies on identity. 

In the Israeli Knesset, amid the Palestinian resistance factions, amoung the various Persian & Arab power brokers and the para-state organizations on the ground (and in Diaspora) all realize that neither by sheer will nor by force of arms can they destroy one another. Blame for the modern quagmire that is the Middle East may fall squarely on the post-colonial powers of Europe and the United States for proliferation of arms without stipulation or control. However the new reality is that if the third Hebrew Commonwealth of Israel is to survive; if a Palestinian State is to be brought into being; as well as if any measure of regional stability is to be achieved, radical and unorthodox steps must be taken to close the breach. The breach is not simply a result of Israeli defense against Arab aggression, or vice versa; it is a breach in the foundation of the modern security calculus. All parties involved must become more attuned to the heightened stakes via lessons of history and sound political science.  

This treatise offers an objective analysis of the Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya in order to advocate for its recognition as a viable partner, not in immediate peace; but in implementation of separation, economic development and most importantly; Hudna. It makes a fundamental case for supporting Kurdish national ambitions in Turkey, Iraq and Syria. We advocate for a full and lasting partnership between Israel and the revolutionary Shi’a government in Iran. But, we we envision and call for something so much more powerful.

To claim that Memshala Israel has secured its borders, or contained conventional military threats to its existence is to say that glass is made out of sand. The process by which glass is made from sand renders the base substance unalterably changed and requires the release of energy through fire and heat to yield something far more unstable than its original form. While the cousins of Ishmael and Yitzhak, the Israelis and Palestinians, are indeed two peoples intractably bound to a single, tiny piece of land, they are met with a recurring problem. The Israeli public and government (currently) lack the will to commit genocide. The Palestinian Resistance factions cannot (currently) procure or introduce a means to mass murder that won’t render their own homeland a house of ash.

Surely whispered in both camps is the notion that it wouldn’t be ‘objectionable’ for the other and their kind to be ‘pushed into the sea’ or ‘dumped on the other side of the Jordan.’ The survivors of the Shoah cannot (yet) bring themselves to this, nor would international opinion condone genocide in the Holy Land in this day and age. As for the Palestinians, pushing the Jews into the sea has more to do with rhetoric than ability, conscience or even intention. The ancestors of both races defended the holy land against the Christian Crusaders locked arm in arm. 

There are over 1,400 years of precedent for relatively peaceful co-existence and less than 100 to the contrary. Anyone telling you otherwise has a vested interest in your ignorance.

Even the death toll of the First Intifada (estimated at 421 Israeli/1,549 Palestinian) and the more bloody melee of the Second Intifada, which included suicide bombers and collective punishment,  cost only 1,062 Israeli and 5,500 Palestinian lives. The invasion of the Gaza Strip in 2008 resulted in 13 Israeli and 1,417 Palestinians. In the ongoing Gaza Wars in 2010-2015 an estimated 100 Israelis and over 5,000 Palestinians have lost their lives. 

Between 2015 and 2023 mutliple rounds of fighting in Gaza killed several thousands Palestinians and few dozen Israelis. In the same period the Syrian ivil War killed over 500,000 people.  That means that in the entirety of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict beginning in 1948; less than 50,000 people have cumulatively died, comparatively to virtually all other ethnic conflicts that is a foot note, a statistic. The body count of the Palestinian Israel civil war is comparatively low when compared with other global ethnic conflicts like those waged in Sri Lanka, Sudan, Burundi, Rwanda, Chechnya, Iraq, Afghnistan, Yemen, Syria, and the Ukraine.  

Hamas must be directly engaged as the only viable partner capable of securing Palestinian temporary acceptance of the third Hebrew Commonwealth and thereby securing the Jewish National home by buying both sides more time for ultimate reconciliation before more desperate measures are introduced. The Three Parties of Kurdistan must be supported aggressively by both people overtly and covertly. Shi’a Iran is the only semi-peripheral power both sides can count on, as all other states besides Egypt are European inventions; and Egypt is an incredibly unstable place locked between a US backed military dictatorship and the Muslim Brotherhood. The road to peace does not run through Jerusalem/ Al-Quds, but without a full ceasefire between the Judeans and Palestinians no other keystone ally, or tribe or faction can be aligned to the program to build up a Middle East Confederation in our lifetimes. 

TAMIDA DEBUTELIERS

The window of achieving polical and military vicotry within our life times is a narrowing window. If we falter, if we squander possibility in the name of imagined identity and unseen gods; all will be lost. All of of our people no matter waht they pray to, will be facing annihilation together. 

TAMIDA AMRASH

We ask you to read these documents carefully and go back to to your factions, parties, organizations, armies, and places of worship to testify on the nature t of this plan. By the best calculations of our Party we have a window of less than 200 years before the oil reservess run out, but under 40 years to achive the Confederation on the terms of the many peoples of our nations. There is noting n in anyones scripture that calls for this ednless warfare. There is nothing that tells us there must be homogenous practice or uniorm belief. 

TAMIDAH NOORI

Reading from the the Qu’ran:

When the sun (with its spacious light) is folded up;

When the stars fall losing their luster.

When the mountains vanish (like a mirage);

When the she-camels, ten months with young

 Are left unattended. 

When wild beasts are herded together (In human habitations);

When the oceans boil over with a swell;

When the souls are sorted out (Being joined, like with like);

When the female (infant),

Buried alive, is questioned for what crime she was killed;

When the scrolls are laid open;

When the sky is unveiled;

When the blazing fire is kindled to a fierce heat;

And when the Garden is brought near;

(Then) shall each soul know what it put forward;

So verily I call to witness the planets, that recede;

Go straight, or hide.

And the night as it dissipates;

And the dawn as it breathes away the darkness.

TAMIDA ZIVISTAN

We are going to use code. We are going to use metaphor. We will fight on the low roads and high roads, and from the mountain. We will not contradict myth or religious tenet, we will not offer up science as a God.