Flag Mashriq By PathtoEnlighten Watch

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The Flag of Mashriq in an alternate history timeline, as adopted by a secular government. It bears the ancient Mesopotamian symbol of the Star of Venus in the centre of the flag and emphasizes Arab abd Kurdish colours while not including any religious symbolism, and the two white stripes represent the Euphrates and Tigris rivers - symbolizing the place of origin of Mesopotamian civilization. (The flag could be used by secular governments of either a monarchy or a republic, and of either a multi-party system or single-party system).



In the alternate history, Mashriq is the successor to Iraq upon Iraq making an agreement with Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, and Syria to form a common state with its capital in Baghdad and having irredentist territorial claims on the Arab populated territories of British Mandate of Palestine and later the Israeli occupied territory of the West Bank into Iraq; as well as irredentist claims on Arab and Kurdish territories in Iran and Turkey). The Mashriq government promotes the creation of an Arab-Kurdish state in which this flag would become the flag of an Arab-Kurdish Federation seeking to unify all Arab and Kurdish territories into a common state, claiming that Arabs and Kurds have common Mesopotamian heritage. It states that upon unification should the Kurds wish to form their own state that Mashriq would accept their decision and be an ally of an independent Kurdistan, while Mashriq would then focus on leading the unification of Arabs into a united Arabia with its capital in Baghdad.



In the Federation Mashriq would then become a constituent state and end use of the flag that would become the Federation's flag. Mashriq faces opposition to this by Egypt and several other Arab states that accuse it of being Mesopotamian imperialism aimed at Mesopotamian domination of the Arab world. In two variant paths of the alternate history, under either a single-party system or military government, Mashriq in these variants seeks to overthrow the governments of Egypt and these other states and supported allies to replace their governments to push for unification. In a third variant path of the alternate history, under a multi-party system, Mashriq in this variant focuses its promotion of unification in Egypt and these other states though diplomatic conferences with those Arab movements in Egypt and the other countries interested in Mashriq's proposed Federation.



The state of Mashriq holds much of the same territory held by the Neo-Babylonian Empire of Nebuchadnezzar II that the state of Mashriq emphasizes in its education system, showing Mashriq as the heir to the Neo-Babylonian Empire amongst other Mesopotamian civilizations. Nebuchadnezzar II and Saladin are the heroes of Mashriq and the Arabokurdish nation as promoted by the Mashriqi government.

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Published : Dec 10, 2014