Reply #31: You need to read Engdahl's book [View All]

[Coastie for Truth]

and Yergin's book and Unger's book -- or anything about Britain's "Balance of Power" policies or "International Petroleum Politics" especially in the immediate period surrounding the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.

Zionists and Palestinians were pawns sitting on the sidelines in a Big Power (France, United Kingdom) "Balance of Power" charade to preserve western (British, French) hegemony over a strategic region of weak, divided, multi-ethnic states. This was to "protect" the Suez Canal and the OIL.

As long as oil is strategic - and as long as the Suez Canal is strategic - it is in the Big Powers' advantage to keep a level of division burning in the eastern littoral of the Mediterranean (Lebanon, Israel, Palestine).

I think that Her Majesty's government just (deliberately? callously?) under estimated the level of animosity between Maronites and Muslims in Lebanon, and between Zionists and Palestinians in Israel-Palestine --- just as they underestimated the level of animosity between Boers and English in South Africa, and between Francophones and Anglophones in Canada, and Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs in India-Pakistan.

In our history the British colonialists created the "Triangular Trade" and left us with the institution of slavery and racism -- and then took the side of the Confederacy in our Civil War.