in Armenian – http://crossroadorg.info/hy/wa-21-9-2025-2-hy/
in Russian – http://crossroadorg.info/wa-21-9-2025-2/
in French – http://crossroadorg.info/en/wa-21-9-2025-2-fr/

Source

(in the current crisis, we urge you to carefully read this series of articles prepared in early 2012 and consisting of eight parts)

Just like the And the 2017 article in the magazine “Strategist”: “The US Should Support the Plan to Create a Kurdish State in Iraq”, the 2006 publication “A New Map of the Middle East According to Blood Ties and Similarities in Faith” are about the plan of Western circles to create a large Kurdish state, which pursues two goals:

1. a) to create a Kurdish state on the territory of Western Armenia, sub-mandated to Israel and the collective West, and
2. b) to suspend, once again, for a certain period of time, the implementation of the rights granted to the Armenian people and the settlement of the Armenian Question, following the example of 1920-1921 and 1945.

We have addressed these programs in a number of speeches, publications, and analyses since 2010. Now we find it appropriate to repeat both the publications presenting Western programs and our previously prepared articles on these programs.

State of Armenia (Republic of Western Armenia)

September 22, 2025

Syria in Ralph Peters’ Article and Maps

(Part 2)

In the article by retired U.S. Army officer Ralph Peters, dated June 6, 2006, entitled “Blood Borders: How a Better Middle East Would Look,” the section concerning Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon reads as follows: “As for the Kurds of Syria and Iran, they too would undoubtedly join their kinsmen, if they could, in an independent Kurdistan. The refusal or difficulty of the world’s legitimate democratic states to this day to pursue a decision in favor of Kurdish independence is simply a sin of ignoring human rights, which is incomparably worse than all the sins we encounter in the daily press. Incidentally, an independent Kurdistan stretching from Diyarbakir to Tabriz would also be the most pro-Western state between Bulgaria and Japan.

The correct and just approach in that region would grant the three Sunni-populated areas of Iraq the opportunity to join Syria, which will lose its coastal territories in favor of Greater Lebanon — a phoenix reborn. And the Shiite-populated southern part of Iraq would become the foundation for creating a new Arab Shia state, encompassing much of the Persian Gulf.” (1)

The logic expressed by Ralph Peters boils down to the idea that the new map of the Middle East can and must be shaped “according to religious similarities and blood ties.” And these ties, as Peters arbitrarily imagines them, he arbitrarily presents, placing mainly the Kurds, Sunnis, and at times Shiites at the center of his material — as if attempting to show them the place assigned to them. Ignored on Peters’ map are the Alawites, Armenians, Assyrians… and other peoples living in the region. But following Peters’ logic, we can state that Alawites, Armenians, Assyrians, and other indigenous peoples of Mesopotamia also have the right to unite with their compatriots, not only in Arab lands but also within the Republic of Turkey.

Therefore, let us repeat our recently expressed thought that the Armenians of the region no longer have any place to retreat to, except their Homeland — Western Armenia and Cilician Armenia. (2)

Firstly, because neither the Republic of Armenia, nor the Armenians of Lebanon or any other country are ready or willing to accept the Armenians of Syria or Iran, so as not to repeat the historical mistake of once embracing, in an emotional outburst, nearly half a million Armenians — citizens of Azerbaijan — only to later ignore and hand them over to other countries, failing to protect their civil and other rights, thereby freeing the forces that provoked and organized that humanitarian crisis, including the Azerbaijani state and its political elite, from criminal and other responsibilities.

Secondly, because the full responsibility for that humanitarian crisis must be borne by those same forces that provoked and organized it.

And finally, because the time has come for the Armenians of Syria and Iran to unite with their compatriots living in the eastern territories of the Republic of Turkey — in reality, in the Armenian Homeland: Western Armenia and Cilician Armenia.

This is exactly how things stand.

The same applies not only to Armenians, but also to Alawites and others, who may allow Syrian Sunnis to build their democracy in their own way, in their own places of residence, while they themselves try to re-establish a new Syrian Republic and, moreover, develop forward-looking but rapid programs aimed at uniting with their compatriots in the region.

Thus, the “Arab Spring,” alongside predetermined programmatic provisions and developments, may still bring surprises — and, surprisingly, programmatic surprises of a positive nature…

Public initiative “The Covenant of Ararat” («Ուխտ Արարատի»), freedom fighters and former political prisoners of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia

February 27, 2012

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References

1. Ralph Peters, “Blood Borders: How a Better Middle East Would Look,” translation and preface in the daily Azg, 25.08.2006. All content © 2006, Armed Forces Journal | Terms of Service.
2. “The Armenian people have no other place to retreat to, except their Homeland…,” 9 February 2012, http://oukhtararati.com/