There is no such thing as a "Middle East".............
Prior to the opening of the Suez Canal(in 1869), which is essentially a man-made lake or body of water that extends from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, the region of the world now known as the 'Middle East' was actually considered a part of Africa. It was simply the Northeastern most corner of the continent of Africa. There were no geographic, geological, cultural, racial or otherwise empiracal barriers that seperated the two lands. African empires, trade routes, civilization and environmental terrain were not foreign or unfamiliar by any means to the inhabitants of the so-called Middle East, because they were one and the same.
The original inhabitants of the land were Africans, the philosophy and opinions and innovations that were developed in this land are all African, they came from African minds in an African environment. Linguistically, genetically, culturally, African. There have been many invasions by lighter-skinned foreigners into the land, who have set up civilizations and formulated a doctrine concerning their place in that land, however, it still remains at the very root an African land. The usage of the deceptive Euro-centric term 'Middle East' to define this Northeast African landscape is simply another manner in which we were robbed and cut off from our history.
In fact, when we look back historically we see that this term 'Middle East' is actually a relatively new one . It first began to gain popularity in the mid 1950s, with the release of the Eisenhower Doctrine and its report on the Suez Crisis. The exact boundaries have been a give-and-take topic amongst mapmakers and politicians for decades, and controversy still remaining as to the fine details concerning this land.
The far-reaching results of this deceptive ploy have been extremely successful. A primary advantage that the altered perception of this land has given the European is that it removes a huge amount of positive connotations concerning this concept of 'blackness' and 'africa'. Some of the worlds most profound, historically powerful and spiritual significant people places and ideology arose from out of this land. Seeing as to how it has been the Europeans objective to place himself at the center of nearly all great accomplishments throughout history, it became a necessity that he found a way to literally cut Israel off from Africa. They cut Mecca off from Africa they cut the Sinai Peninsula off from Africa. Mesopatamia is considered the 'cradle of civilization', but because of this newly designed construct called 'the Middle East' or 'Near East' or 'Asia Minor' most of the planet has been led to diassociate it with any African presence. They were 'Middle Eastern people'