"Gaza: UN agencies reject Israeli plan to use aid as 'bait'. "

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5. It is the same old story ever since

oil was discovered. The big powers using factional divisions throughout the Middle East for their own goals. We can be sure that the British and French along with Russia and China are all working behind the scenes plotting how to thwart this effort or that or shore up this or that faction using weapons, money and promises just like they have done for over 100 years.

The way Israel is keeping Syrian factions at each other is an example. The British did it by using the Druze after WW1 when the French were trying to get Syria to become a stronger state under the French Mandate while the British Mandate in Palestine and Trans-Jordan was going on. The weaker the British could make the French effort the more it helped them with their efforts in Palestine. The tale of the oil pipeline during the 1920's is a classic example of how every bit of every action taken by the British, French, US and others had absolutely zero consideration for how it would effect the actual people of the region for which they were supposed to be responsible and in fact was simply about their own strategic and financial interests.

So when Crumb The First is playing kissy-face in the region it is just more of the same of course.