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>One issue that has captured my interest for some years now is the prevalence in
>Arab societies in general, including Egypt, of conspiracy theory. As far as
>many millions of Egyptians and Arabs are concerned, the following propositions
>have become virtual articles of faith:
>
>The blueprint for our recent history and present reality was drawn up by the
>great powers, and what we are now living through is the product of their
>machinations; the powers responsible for this grand design were Britain and
>France in the past and the United States, aided and abetted by its prot�g�,
>Israel, in the recent past and the present; these plans were prepared in great
>detail by the great powers, leaving those at the receiving end little room to
>manoeuvre;
When it comes to the Middle East at least, this isn't fantasy. The
area, being part of the Ottoman Empire, WAS carved up by Britain and
France at the end of WWI, with little if any input from the natives of
the area...rather, the deciding factor was which European power would
gain the most natural resources by the deal, predominantly oil.
After WWII, France for the most part was out, the U.S. was in, and by the
1960s Britain for the most part was out, Israel in, albeit in a less
open manner than Britain had been...
U.S. multinational oil corporations, in partnership with the U.S. spook
agencies, saw to it that they wielded the real power in the Middle East,
with puppet regimes put in as figure-head rulers...regimes that finally
got overthrown in the 1970s...
This is all a matter of record, and not speculation. So as I said,
natives of the Middle East have good reason to believe in 'conspiracy
theory', as most of the history of the area during the 20th century came
about just because of the 'conspiracy' of various western powers to
maintain control of the area...
>In fact, the sources on which the three groups base their belief in the
>conspiracy theory have no basis in fact, history or logic. The history of the
>peoples of our region would have been the same, including their subjugation by
>Western colonialism, had the region been part of the Christian world. The West
>did not colonise us because we were Muslims, but for quite different reasons.
But colonize they did...and continue to manipulate political and economic
matters in the region throughout the 20th century...so as I said, the
natives of the region have good reason to believe in 'conspiracies',
since such conspiracies are in reality matters of record and not
fantasy...
June ;-)
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