As stated in so many threads now there is more to this than meets the eye. You will notice that that area (even more including Jordan) was entirely
known as The Mandate for Palestine. This was determined by the first attempt at global government known as the League of Nations. The 20 years that
preceded the mandate were spent in WW1 and fighting other sorts of "Savages." The British Mandate lasted officially from 1920 - 1948.
The British defeated Ottoman Turkish forces in 1917 and occupied Palestine and Syria. By looking closely we see that a man named T E Lawrence formed
an Arab army and they did a vast amount of fighting, capturing various areas and controlling entire regions for the British. In the end (1917) after
Lawrence promised the Arabs their land his boss General Allenby reneged.
It turns out that European Jews paid substantial sums of money to the British in order to further their cause and see the destruction of the Germans
in WW1. So, the Balfour Declaration of 1917 had promised to create and foster a Jewish national home in Palestine. Vast numbers of Jewish settlers
began arriving after this and by 1948 had over run the area. You will note that Palestine became Israel even though the Balfour Declaration only
called for a Jewish state in Palestine.
Now the Americans and the British had no intention of loosing control of the Mideast but neither wanted to take the time or expense to exercise that
control through direct military means. They did what our nations do the best and got the indigenous populations of the Mideastern area to fight it
out. We expend minimal effort and manpower and the Arabs fight among themselves. This sort of guerrilla/proxy warfare has gone on now for more than
100 years.
Things in the Mideast were relatively calm till Lyndon B. Johnson got into the drivers seat and crashed the car so to speak.
LINK TO FULL TEXT
It was 33 years ago, on Nov. 22, 1963, that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. While a traumatized nation grieved for its
youngest president, he was succeeded by Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, who was to become the most pro-Israel president up to that time. A sea
change was about to take place in America’s relations with Israel.
Next Richard Nixon picked the car up out of the shop and smacked it up pretty good!
NIXON & THE MIDEAST FULL TEXT
•support for the "dual pillar" of Saudi Arabia and Iran, but also support for Israel -Arab world opposed Israel occupation of the Sinai and West
Bank in the 1967 Six-Day War - Israel ignored UN252
•Nixon Doctrine caused increase in foreign aid, arms exports to Israel under PM Golda Meir
•U.S. did not recognize territory gained by Israel in 1967 Six-Day War
•Russian missiles to Egypt after Six-Day War
•Jordan crisis Sept. 1970 - Syrian tank invasion - PLO blew up 3 airliners Sept. 12 - Israel mobilized to help Jordan with US approval, but Jordan
stopped Syria on its own and Hussein expelled PLO - US aid to Israel increased - F4 Phantom jets
•Nassar died Sept. 28, 1970 - Anwar Sadat hoped to lead Arab world and planned next war with Faisal of SA and Assad of Syria - Russian aid increased
- SCUD missiles with 200-mile range by 1973 - Russian advisers expelled July 18, 1973, when Russia refused increase in aid to Egypt after Nixon's
trip to Moscow in May and the USSR-US grain deal July 8, 1973
This guy took the USA OFF the GOLD STANDARD for crying out loud.
Next we get Ford, Carter, Regan, Bush, Clinton, Bush & Obama and lot's of mucking about in them oil fields but I'm rapidly running out of room to
type. The essential problem for the US is that nearly all of these Presidents got us involved with what George Washington insisted we never should...
FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS!!! Obama is not even in the White House and he was touring around Europe campaigning or pontificating or whatever you want to
call it.
We get involved in this way not to win friends and influence enemies but instead to INTERJECT ourselves as the first in line at the oil pump. We
don't want Russia or China to get in front of us. We are like the Big Guy that cuts in line and thinks he is "all that." When OPEC was created we
were in that too and from that day forward any time oil was bought or sold by any nation in the entire world that sale was conducted in USD
PERIOD!!
This hegemony has given the USA the keys or the check book if you like to want to make all of these Presidents "drive the car" in the desert. We are
in 2 wars and a "Global Meltdown" and I hate to tell you but it was inevitable. The fly in the ointment came in the form of SADDAM HUSSEIN who in
the year 2000 switched from USD to EURO.
ARTICLE IN TIME MAGIZINE YEAR 2000
This one little twist is precisely why we are bogged down in 2 wars and looking for a 3rd with Iran. George Bush told the world about his cut list
known as "THE AXIS OF EVIL" and what he didn't ever say is that all your country need do to get on that list is to even threaten to turn away from
the USD.
Here we are working up a real good sweat slapping the Iraqis around for YEARS in order to send the message that if you trade in anything other than
USD we will "BLANK YOUR BLANK THE BLANK UP!" The dollar is loosing its poll position as the global trade currency. Just the idea is enough for all
involved to loose faith in the USA. Since Richard Nixon the USD is FIAT paper. He dropped the gold standard and the silver and so we just have printed
notes that have no backing and now are suffering a crisis of FAITH.
Now, Iran has expressed major interest in going to the EURO or a "mixed basket" and he is not alone. The idea is to get IRAN to intercede in the
fight for Gaza. Then the USA can surmount a joint attack against IRAN with. We all know about the meeting between Iran and Iraq and then Iraq wants
the USA OUT! I can't state is as a fact but we have been suppling and training the "New Iraqi Army" for years now. Can we guess what their job will
be??
I'm of the opinion that this will grow and the outcome will be tragic for the USA and the world!
occupying Gaza. 
