A Topsy Turvy Middle East

I found the Middle East Conflict Simulator on the excellent Home of the Underdogs site. It’s worth a look, though it’s incredibly shallow and lacks a lot of the features it could have. Pity no one creates political simulators any more. Go to this thread for more details.

In any case, I was fooling around with it for a while, and ended in about 2002 with this geopolitical map-

Iran: Reconstruction government controlled by the Uprising of the New Born Christ

Iraq: Reconstruction government controlled by the Islamic Fundamentalist Party of God

Jordan: Puppet reconstruction government controlled by Syria

Syria: Puppet government controlled by old gov’t of Iraq, I guess the fundies inherited it.

Libya: Controlled by Egypt

Egypt: Game ended with Islamic fundamentalists coming to power

Lebanon: Government overthrew, controlled by Christian Anarchic Fundamentalists

Anyone care to explain that?
 
Iran is unexplained and unexplainable. :eek:

The rest may be doable, but even the best of us (anyone but me) will need an ingame backstory.

What of Israel and Turkey and the Arabian states? :confused:
 
Well, in the game I mentioned Iraq was beating Iran when the rebels took over. Iraq later fought Syria, won, and put in a puppet gov't. Syria beat Jordan and put in a pup gov, Egypt did the same to Libya. The rest died of natural causes, sometimes aided by me...

Trust me, either read the other thread, or download the thing for yourself.
 
I gave it a try and by 2001 when the game ended, I ended up with Lebanon and Jordan under the control of Israel, Iraq being controlled by Iran, Syria being controlled by Iran via Iraq (Iraq conquered Syria first) and with the Kurdish opposition controlling Iran. The US was sour at Israel and Israel never gave up the "Palestinian problem"..oh and Egypt's government collapsed due to internal revolt.
 
I gave it a try... Iraq was heavily defeated by Iran, Syria occupied Lebanon after it's revolution, Egypt occupied Libya, I attempted an invasion of Jordan, but then Syria broke through the large border guards I had and conqered Israel.
 
I played this game once a while ago. I do remember it. When I was finished, it was just Israel and Egypt left, both of which had nukes and were unable to do anything to each other, no matter how bad relations got. Everything else had collapsed into chaos.
 
Stupid Internet content blocker. :mad::mad::mad:

It's my mother's machine[1], so I can't change the settings. :mad::(

1. my machine hasn't a modem, and I haven't the money to get one :(
 
Seriously, "Uprising of the New Born Christ"? "Christian Anarchic Fundamentalists"? I guess there's the Falange, but they're fascists.

Did anyone else get anything weird as the insurgent faction's name?
 

Leo Caesius

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Well, if the Nusayris could take control of Syria, I suppose just about any odd group out there could carve out a niche for themselves.
 
What do you think of Obadiah Shoher's views on the Middle East conflict?

What do you think of Obadiah Shoher's views on the Middle East conflict? One can argue, of course, that Shoher is ultra-right, but his followers are far from being a marginal group. Also, he rejects Jewish moralistic reasoning - that's alone is highly unusual for the Israeli right. And he is very influential here in Israel. So what do you think?
 
What do you think of Obadiah Shoher's views on the Middle East conflict? One can argue, of course, that Shoher is ultra-right, but his followers are far from being a marginal group. Also, he rejects Jewish moralistic reasoning - that's alone is highly unusual for the Israeli right. And he is very influential here in Israel. So what do you think?

uh, here's the site in question: Middle East conflict
 
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