Reply #54: You missed it [View All]

[Coastie for Truth]

and are on to parsing words and diagramming sentences.

Read Unger and Engdahl (Engdahl can be boring) - I have - and I have been in the (non-main stream) industry.

You may also want to do some serious reading about the "Sykes-Picot" Agreement between France and the UK, and compare and contrast it with "Lawrence of Arabia's" understandings with the Hashemites, all contemporaneous with the Balfour Declaration.

Then ask yourself - "what were the French and Brits up to -- selling the same thing three times?" and put it in the context of the 1910-20 era "high tech" where oil became a necessity -- and the Brits were pumping British and Empire troops into Persia and Arabia and the Persian Gulf (to take the pressure off of Russia on the Eastern Front? Bull crap!). They saw the need for a secure sea lane to India and a secure rail line across the Middle East, and for hegemony over the area. The Arabs, the Palestinians, and the Zionists were tools in the hands of the British for secure sea lanes, rail lines, and oil land hegemony.

The fundamental immorality is the heroin like addiction for ever more oil, and the lengths to which the industrialized west will go, and the games the oil oligarchs and the western political leaders and the "industry" will play.

IMHO (40 years in the non-main stream industry) - the root cause of the conflict is neither Israeli intransigence nor Palestinian intransigence nor Islamic or Haredi fundamentalism. The fundamental issue is grovelling for a shrinking supply of oil and the gamemanship of that grovelling.