Middle East (MNN) — The latest changes in the Middle East renew a decades-long discussion about borders and control. Most recently, thought leaders suggested redrawing the region in 2014 and 2024.
Nuna with Triumphant Mercy Lebanon says a secret 1916 treaty called the Sykes-Picot Agreement created the Middle Eastern countries we know today. “The French and the British, after World War I, divided the lands according to their areas of influence,” she explains.
“We are now seeing a new Sykes-Picot; the map of the Middle East is changing.”
Two years of war between Israel and Hamas have led to a renewed push for Palestinian statehood. Shifting power dynamics in Syria and Lebanon leave vulnerable populations in limbo.
“In the midst of this change, there is chaos,” Nuna says. “People are being killed, homes are being destroyed. People are displaced; there are, like, 40 million people in the Middle East that are displaced now.”
Hope amid chaos
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Displaced people sleeping in the streets of Beirut.
(Photo courtesy of Triumphant Mercy Lebanon)
“People are living in fear. They don’t see the hand of God in all this. They’re just seeing destruction and death and wars and rumors of wars,” Nuna says.
“We have to bring this hope to people that God did not forget us, and it’s not out of His control. Nothing that is happening here is out of His control.”
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“Pray for the region in general, for the remapping of the region according to God’s design so that countries would be aligned to His purposes, and not man-made alignments,” Nuna requests.
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