Middle East

Middle East (Region)
Of particular geopolitical interest primarily because of the fossil fuel reserves of the Persian Gulf.

The Middle East is a region of the world. Situated between Europe, Asia and Africa, the Middle East is of strategic importance.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Tariq Ali	“and then the NGOs bought off many of the best people with the tacit understanding that they could not engage directly in politics if they wanted to receive funding or assistance. Unfortunately the NGOs have helped remove secular intellectuals from politics - their impact on intellectual life in the Muslim world needs to be tabulated,\.”	Tariq Ali	2005
Donald Trump	“Islamic terrorism is eating up large portions of the Middle East. They've become rich. I'm in competition with them. They just built a hotel in Syria. Can you believe this? They built a hotel. When I have to build a hotel, I pay interest. They don't have to pay interest, because they took the oil that, when we left Iraq, I said we should've taken”	Donald Trump	June 2015
Donald Trump	“When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people. But I speak to border guards and they tell us what we're getting. And it only makes common sense. It only makes common sense. They're sending us not the right people. It's coming from more than Mexico. It's coming from all over South and Latin America, and it's coming probably – probably – from the Middle East. But we don't know. Because we have no protection and we have no competence, we don't know what's happening. And it's got to stop and it's got to stop fast.”	Donald Trump	June 2015
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 Arab nation, formerly part of the British Empire.
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	Middle Eastern kingdom.
Kuwait	Kuwait has the 6th largest oil reserves of any nation state.
Lebanon	Religiously diverse Middle Eastern country.
Oman	The oldest independent state in the Arab world.
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
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:Twenty Years On, We’ve Learned Nothing From 9/11	Speech	17 September 2021	Ron Paul	20 years on from 9/11, Ron Paul says that The Establishment in the United States has learned nothing since the attacks.
Document:US bombs Syria and ridiculously claims self defence	Article	26 February 2021	Caitlin Johnstone	The US can bomb who it likes, whenever it likes, and when it does it is only ever doing so in self-defence, because the entire planet is the property of Washington DC. It can seize control of entire clusters of nations, and if any of those nations resist in any way, they are invading America’s sovereignty.
Document:Western Power And The Middle East	working paper		Denis Healey