Reply #58: You want to go back to the MODERN beginning of the MODERN conflict

[Coastie for Truth]

Google - SYKES-PICOT AGREEMENT -- and read a good history - going back to the relatively simultaneous occurrences of

-"L'Affaire Dreyfus",
-the assassination of Czar Alexander II,
-the intrigues of Rasputin in the Court of Czar Alexander III
e.g., "The Protocols of Zion"
-the discovery of oil
-the invention of the internal combustion engine,
-the "petroleumization" of the world's navies

This is a very compact thirty year period just before WW1 - that continues to shape the 21st Century.

A good history that ties it all together is A Century Of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order


I will let you read it and draw your own conclusions -- but it is all about

-oil,
-protecting trade routes to Britain's East African and Asian colonies
VIA THE SUEZ CANAL
, and
-"Balance of Power."

It is Engdahl's thesis that England and France sought to attain and maintain these objects by establishing a "buffer zone" of weak, warring states on the eastern Littoral of the Mediterranean (i.e., Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, and Trans-Jordan).

Buy into it, or not.

The model fits the data---> the data fits the model ---> all without conspiracy theories.