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40 Comments on “Fight for Oil: 100 Years in the Middle East (1/3)”

  1. Mad at ISIS?…maybe you should watch this. Then, as you drive your SUV to
    work, think about who is really to blame.

  2. Mad at ISIS?…maybe you should watch this. Then, as you drive your SUV to
    work, think about who is really to blame.

  4. There’s always root causes for things like terrorism. Shame America doesn’t
    realize that they are the cause. 

  5. Just over 100 years ago, oil was discovered in large quantities under the
    ground of most of the middle eastern states. The motor industry was
    developing and more people all around the world and more and more oil was
    needed to fuel these cars. Oil was also required for machines in
    factories,ships,trains,airplanes and electric power plants as well as
    heating houses in cold countries. Because the middles east had such vasts
    amounts of oil, it soon became one of the richest and most important parts
    of the world. Wars broke out between nations that wanted a share of the oil
    and some Middle Eastern countries waged war against each other for control
    of the industry.

    There are also disputes over areas of land which different groups consider
    to be traditionally their own. In 1948, Jewish people established the
    state of Israel on land that the Palestinians had occupied for generations.
    Continuous wars and confrontation ever since over this issue…..

  6. The writers like to invent a non-existent history: the tank brought an end
    to trench warfare? Says who? Not any of the qualified military historians.
    The tanks used were hopeless failures, e.g. of the 36 used in 1 advance, 24
    failed to reach the front lines, 8 more were inoperable by the time the
    front line was crossed, which only managed to happen after the barrage and
    infantry advance. Of the remaining 4, the farthest distance achieved was
    less than a mile into enemy territory. They were abandoned; hardly bringing
    an end to trench warfare.

  8. Mad at ISIS?…maybe you should watch this. Then, as you drive your SUV to
    work, think about who is really to blame.

  9. CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHERE IS THE MIDDLE EAST AND WHILE YOU ARE AT IT TELL
    ME WHERE CAN I FIND THE MIDDLE SOUTH THE MIDDLE NORTH THE MIDDLE WEST!!!??

  11. Mad at ISIS?…maybe you should watch this. Then, as you drive your SUV to
    work, think about who is really to blame.

  13. Mad at ISIS?…maybe you should watch this. Then, as you drive your SUV to
    work, think about who is really to blame.

  14. Question: at the start of the program the speaker states that certain areas
    were NOT under the control of the Shah of Persia. Why would anyone be
    expected to ‘negotiate a contract’ i.e. pay large sums of money, to someone
    who is NOT in control of the area affected? Wouldn’t that be the same as
    negotiating contracts with Israel covering areas in Jordan?

  16. One correction. @ around 27:30, it is said Darran has largest oil field and
    refinery. Largest refinery is in State of Gujarat, India by its company
    Reliance Oil

  19. Good news for North America in particular the United States, as the fact
    is the USA and Canada will become energy self sufficient in 2014 as
    solar,Natural Gas,Hydrogen and new oil finds will change the face of world
    energy. Big loser will be Russia, as oil is its large income.China will
    benefit from the American technology.

  20. Oil has been on the retreat since we first found oil in the US in the mid
    1800 we have used (til this day) half of all the world oil, and have never
    used as much oil in a year then 2013 and we are still using more and more
    of a resource that can be renewed, the future for us dose not look good as
    no other power surce can mach oil and we only have oil for a few more
    decades.

  21. Hello I have to summarize this video and my english does not very well to
    cath spesefic details and I do not enough time to watch it.Could somebody
    send email which brings his or her summarized ideas about this great
    documentary untill next thursday it makes me to help get a great mark if I
    done.

  22. power: the heart of the matter, power to rule, power to provide energy,
    power to have al the riches. it doesn’t matter who the people are, because
    the human race is always destined to take advantage of the weaker and/or
    the ignorant group/race of human beings… 

  26. What I got from this was basically we need to go back even before the
    Ottoman Empire. By that I mean something like the Kurds get back there land
    which right now is technically in three different countries. Iraq should be
    smaller, similar to the size before ww1 which had less on the north and the
    west of the existing country. Even though i am an American and we almost
    always back Israel I say we officially give the West Bank to a state called
    Palestine but Gaza Strip should be split as well as jeruselum but Gaza goes
    70/ 30 Palestine and jeruselum goes 70/30 Jewish. I could go own but I
    think we could go back to borders where people would jot be as pissed off
    because we all know war there will never go away.

  27. To all the fucking hypocrites calling western countries “greedy imperialist
    pigs” or something to that effect. Why don’t you stop fucking complaining
    every time the price of oil and everything else goes up? Don’t say on one
    hand “Duhr, return the oil to the native people” and then bitch about how
    expensive everything is. Your fucking food takes oil to get to your local
    supermarket, all manufactured good takes oil to produce. You can’t have the
    cake and eat it too fuckers.

  28. that’s it: I’m making a shitload of popcorn and watch “the basis of the end
    of the world”! YOU DO KNOW THAT WHEN OIL AND COALS ARE GOING TO BE VERY
    DIFICULT TO GET, THE WORLD POPULATION WILL GO DOWN TO LESS THAN 1 BILLION ,
    RIGHT? or less…

  29. So this is is the reason for dictatorship in the Middle East. The oil that
    makes the government live independent of his own people.

  30. you are Right the saudi Regime has stole the rich natural resources of
    Arabia to their selves I know that becuase I am From Arabia

  34. Because we Muslims practice Islam so well, right? We have nothing to say to
    the west until we get our own house in order. We have no education, we have
    no peace and we have no vision forward as an Ummah. What in the world are
    we doing?!

  35. this is biased, video has a negative tone of Mossadiq and Nasser when they
    actually represent Arab sovereignty

  36. Those ‘scraps’ must be quite a lot as most of the Western population and
    especially in the US are now obese. lol

  38. They didn’t mention Britain’s undercover shit stirring in Serbia before
    WW1, that whole war was instigated by them together with France & Russia to
    weaken Germany & all because of the Baghdad rail line

  39. re: 4.) I have heard the Gerrymandering of the Ottoman empire was done to
    prevent another one from forming also. Specific evidence I don’t have, but
    I believe it was a verbal claim or quote of a powerful Brit. Re: 3.) Even
    if the house of Saud denied them access to search for water, I don’t
    understand the significance of this point. It takes 2 to tango. Do you have
    any videos you respect here about the early 20th century in Mesopotamia? I
    sensed the story of the female diplomat was embelished

  40. YOU MOTHERFUCKERS ALWAYS FIND A REASON TO GET IN TO OUR COUNTERIES TO STEAL
    OUR GOLD AND OIL FUCKING WHITE BASTARDS GOT NOTHING IN YOUR LAND SO YOU
    STOLE OTHER PEOPLES WEALTH YOU BUILD YOUR WHOLE COUNTRY WITH LIES MUSLIMS
    HAVE GAINED EMPIRES YOU HAVE 1 SHUITTY REIGN WE RULED THE WORLD IF IT WASNT
    FOR THE MUGHAL’S DECLINGING IN INDIA YOU WOULD BE PEASANTS!!

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