Probably known to most lifeboaters but a solid history lesson that can be useful to send to people who don't know it.

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Chapters
00:00 Intro
02:21 The rationale of the Eisenhower doctrine
07:26 How to read history
14:30 Who are Arabs and what is the Arab world?
21:14 The shockingly non-Muslim nature of the early Arab Empire
25:34 Sykes picot and oil
33:09 Sykes picot and WWI map
38:54 Mohamed Ali Pasha, Egypt and Saudi Arabia
44:55 CIA coup in Syria in 1949
49:34 CIA coup in Iran in 1953
57:30 The genesis of the Saudi-US relationship
01:03:55 Nasser's Pan Arab vision
01:10:30 The 1967 War
01:17:30 Israel's creation and zionism
01:30:30 The 1979 Iranian revolution
01:37:25 The Iran-Iraq war
01:44:50 Gulf war 1991 and sanctions
01:53:40 Iraq war 2003 and George Bush
01:56:50 Is Israel using the US playbook on war?
02:02:50 The Abraham accords
02:05:50 Israel's fate