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| Of particular geopolitical interest primarily because of the fossil fuel reserves of the Persian Gulf. |
 Middle East(Region)       | |
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Related Quotation
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| US/Foreign policy | “The US/Saudi/Israeli alliance against Iran is the most important geo-political factor in the region today. It is high time this alliance stopped both funding ISIS and pretending to fight it; schizophrenia is not a foreign policy stance.” | Craig Murray | 20 December 2018 |
Nation states
| Nation state | Description |
|---|---|
| Bahrain | Oil rich |
| Egypt | Strategically important due particularly to the Suez canal. |
| Iran | Iran possesses the 4th largest oil reserves of any nation state. |
| Iraq | Iraq possesses the 5th largest oil reserves of any nation state. |
| Israel | Renewing the Memorandum of Understanding in September 2016, whereby the American taxpayer agreed to pay Israel $38 billion over a 10-year period |
| Jordan | |
| Kuwait | Kuwait has the 6th largest oil reserves of any nation state. |
| Lebanon | |
| Oman | |
| Palestine | |
| Qatar | Oil rich, gas richer! |
| Saudi Arabia | Longtime political ally of the USA, Saudi Arabia possesses larger easily accessible oil reserves than any other nation state. |
| Syria | A nation state in the Middle East being targeted by NATO countries and their terrorist proxies with a "humanitarian intervention"/"War on Terror" campaign to effect 'regime change'. |
| Turkey | Turkey is a nation state at the south east corner of Europe. |
| United Arab Emirates | The United Arab Emirates has the 7th largest oil reserves of any nation state. |
| Yemen | A war torn country in the Middle East |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:Arabs Beware the Small States Option | article | 29 July 2013 | Sharmine Narwani | A succinct introduction to proposals, widely canvassed among Western Elites but otherwise largely suppressed, to impose a new political settlement on the entire Middle East involving the re-ordering of its national borders along sectarian lines. These proposals represent the increasingly dominant leitmotif of 21st century Globalist driven Middle-Eastern policy. |
| Document:Backing the Wrong Horseman | blog post | Craig Murray | The neo-con drive to dominate the Middle East, in alliance with Saudi Arabia and Israel, has caused an apocalyptic level of death and destruction, which I put (an extremely conservative figure) at 5 million dead. Now compare that to the worldwide death toll from coronavirus: 220,000. Let me say that again. Western aggressive wars to coronavirus: 5,000,000 versus 220,000. | |
| Document:Bitter Roots - The Bases of Present Conflicts in the Middle East | speech | 1977 | J. Rives Childs | |
| Document:Syria Turkey Israel and a Greater Middle East Energy War | report | 12 October 2012 | William Engdahl | A comprehensive report on the struggle to control Middle East oil and gas, exposing the plans behind Western/Israeli diplomatic and military activity towards Syria & Iran. The current state of affairs accords very closely with a publication of the Brookings Institution's "Saban Centre for Middle East Studies" - the PDF of which was removed from the Brookings web site in early October. |
| Document:Western Power And The Middle East | working paper | Denis Healey |
