Quote from: K-Dog on Jan 10, 2024, 03:09 AMI don't think this one can really be blamed on the oil companies.

I think the better film to grasp MENA history than Exodus is Lawrence of Arabia.  Of course it was about the Oil, why do you think the Brits and French wanted to destroy the Ottoman Empire?  After that, they just had a bunch of different tribes, no real nations to deal with.  A few royal families were made rich by giving them control over various parts of the Empire.  Everybody wanted control over as much land as they could negotiate, butt they didn't want many of the people inhabiting it.  The Brits had control over Palestine as a protectorate, and that neighborhood was filled with the people everyone surrounding them didn't want.  When the state of Israel was created for Jews displaced in Europe during WWII, that divided the Palestinian region, which had no government at all when the Brits left. The King of Jordan didn't want those people, so it's been run over the years by a variety of different factions.  They don't like the Israelis and vica versa.  The Israelis want the land they live on though, so they've been fighting for it ever since.  They took a big chunk of it during the 6 day war.

Why do you think the State of Israel was put there?  That's where all the major international Banks operate from.  That's who really is in charge there, the banks and the oil companies.  The historical animosity has been a useful tool in keeping the neighborhood in a perpetual state of war.  It's good for bizness.

RE