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from AlJazeera America:

As JFK's assassination anniversary sets off another round of claims and counter-claims over the circumstances of his demise, many in the Middle East will perhaps lament their own political dead, a list that surely overshadows the four sitting American presidents and other high-profile figures of power in the US who met an untimely death at the hands of an assassin.

The bloody realms of the Middle East's most infamous assassinations have laid the fate of the region itself. Egypt, Jordan, Israel and, in too many cases, Lebanon have all played host to shocking political murders that, like the killing of JFK, shook the surrounding region - and even the world.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/11/jfk-death-middle-east-assassinations-20131120123325444773.html

Actually there are many theories connecting the assassination to the Middle East!
(They're not true of course, but they exist.)
Here's wikipedia....

Israeli government conspiracy[edit]
Immediately following Kennedy's death, speculation that he was assassinated by a "Zionist conspiracy" was prevalent in much of the Arab world and the Middle East.[357] Among these views were that Zionists were motivated to kill Kennedy due to his opposition to an Israeli nuclear program, that Lyndon B. Johnson received orders from Zionists to have Kennedy killed, and that the assassin was a Zionist agent.[357]

According to Michael Collins Piper in Final Judgment: The Missing Link in the JFK Assassination Controversy, Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion orchestrated the assassination after learning that Kennedy planned to keep Israel from obtaining nuclear weapons.[358] Piper said that the assassination "was a joint enterprise conducted on the highest levels of the American CIA, in collaboration with organized crime—and most specifically, with direct and profound involvement by the Israeli intelligence service, the Mossad."[359] The theory also alleges involvement of Meyer Lansky and the Anti-Defamation League.[358] In 2004, Mordechai Vanunu stated that the assassination was Israel's response to "pressure [Kennedy] exerted on... Ben-Gurion, to shed light on Dimona's nuclear reactor in Israel."[360] In a speech before the United Nations General Assembly in 2009, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi also alleged that Kennedy was killed for wanting to investigate Dimona.[361]

I don't know about other prominent Mid-East-connected conspiracy theories beyond the Ben-Gurion one, but there's more than enough intrigue in U.S. foreign relations to support them.
Good article on the Kennedy legacy below...

Kennedy’s Middle East legacy lives on
Paul Crompton, Al Arabiya News
Thursday, 21 November 2013
[...] The Kennedy government would have had a “fairly extensive private diplomacy” in the Middle East, particularly with countries in the Gulf, due to U.S. interests in maintain vital oil supplies, said the expert.

As well as rich Gulf fuel supplies, Kennedy’s administration would have begun to develop a “more textured diplomatic relationship” addressing regional issues such as a the Arab-Israeli conflict and the early rise of Nasser’s brand of Arab socialism, Halper added. [...]