In the name of god, who carries ships upon water as if they are weightless and who uses water to wash away the heavy banks of the river,

In 1860 the suez canal was started and finished by the people of Egypt.  With this project, the Egyptians will forge a doorway for empires and Egypt will hold a new key for the crossroads of four continents where much of the living world exists.  More than one-hundred thousand men had cleared the way for the new suez canal.  The men using explosives to loosen the ground.  Using tractors and horses to move the dirt.  A riverbed was dug for 164 kilometers.  The red sea was connected with the white sea.  When the water began to flow through the small river from sea to sea and the sides of the river bank were washed away making the canal wider.  A special ship named a dredger was used to make the riverbed deeper by scooping up the soft bottom of the river with a hose. Within ten years the suez canal was six hundred feet wide and eighty feet deep, one-hundred and seventy kilometers long from the red sea to the white sea.  

The suez canal secures the fast and large trade corridor for Europe and india and asia.  India and Asia have products very valuable across the world. A natural travel corridor has existed for thousands of years in the crossroads of continents connecting India and Asia with Europe and Africa.  One of the most logical travel routes for trade is to set the weight of the products upon a ship and float it towards its destination.  The suez canal is the fastest, largest, least expensive and most logistical route of trade from the horizons of the eastern continents to the horizons of the westernmost continents.  Five years later the british obtained a share of the profit from the suez canal travel crossing because Egypt sold a piece of the suez canal to the british.

Twenty-five years pass and it is the year of nineteen-hundred.  In 1902 donkeys and tractors carried pipes for drilling oil up the mountain-sides of Iran.  Ten years later Iraq finishes the first oil refinery in Basra.  The british send generals and battle groups to oil fields on the shores of the Persian gulf in iran, to river Euphrates from basra to Baghdad which are oil lands, to control the waterway to the black sea in turkiye, to Palestine, to Arabia.  The ultimate mission of the british was to occupy these strategic places for gas and transportation of trade with a small group of forces and to contract business agreements in those lands for development of the petroleum industry and because each location has a waterway that is part of a system connecting trade to Europe.  The empire of turkieye was strongly connected to each of these middle east countries and the Turkish occupation began to retreat as the british army advanced to each position.  British occupy territories of Palestine and Syria.  At the end of world war one the british were completely immersed throughout the middle east covering all four branches of the crossroad of continents. The middle east represents the heart of the European economy.

Ten years later Germany prepares a plan of war across Europe which would be supported by Russia and Italy.  1939 germany invades Poland and shares half of the country with Russia.  Russia invades Finland, Romania, Latvia, Estonia.  Germany invades France and Denmark.  1940 Germany heavily bombs Britian.  Italy invades Greece and Bahrain and bombs the british occupation in Palestine.  The British trade islands in the pacific to the united states in exchange for battleships.  British take battleships to Africa to capture several territories from Italy including the panhandle, sudan, kenya, Somalia, Algeria.  1941 India goes to Africa to help the british capture all African territories from Italy and France.  The british take Syria and france retreats.  The British take iran including the Avadan oilfields and the soviet union retreats.  The germans enter Ukraine and perpetrate the Ukrainian genocide.  Germans march on Moscow, Soviet union.  1942 united states begins to repel attacks on territories in the pacific ocean.  The united states starts the manhattan project to get intellectual germans to quit the war and migrate while the leader of german is commanding the encirclement of Stalingrad, Soviet union.  1943 the united states bombs Romania’s oil refineries and invades Italy, France, then Germany.  1944 the german army is retreating back to Berlin as the united states and soviet union surge into Germany.  Americans find concentration camps and capture prisoners of war.  1945 Berlin is surrounded and the leaders of Germany and Italy plan escape.  The American president Roosevelt dies of a stroke after his cousin the war minister had died nine months earlier of a heart attack. The vice president Truman takes the office of the presidency and the world war two is finished thirty days later.  The Nuremberg trials are conducted to prosecute german war crimes.  Americans focus on south korea. 

 

1948 Israel declares itself a new country independent of british mandate of Palestine.  The next day arab armies of five countries make war.  1950’s many holocaust survivors from Europe immigrate to Israel and populate settlements.  The Arabs continue to make war on israel by blockade of oil tanker ships and cargo ships. 1953 Stalin dies of a stroke and the soviet union is reverted to the hands of stalin’s helpers.  They change their name to Russia’s Federation.  American president Eisenhower overthrows Iran.  1960’s American president’s Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon try to control Vietnam.  1960 seventy-percent of the oil to Europe comes through the suez canal.  1967 ninety-percent of Israel’s oil came through the straits of Tiran.  Egypt blockades the strait of Tiran completely stopping the supply of oil to Israel.  Israel’s army invades Sinai peninsula to the shores of Egypts Suez canal.  Egypt sets the suez canal full of mines and stops all trade through the suez canal.  Israel invades Gaza, west bank, and Golan heights.  1 million palestinean people began to travel for safe refuge away from the war.  1973 the suez canal has been closed for six years.  Egypt crosses the suez canal to take control of the east riverbank on the Sinai peninsula.  Saudi arabia with a league of arab states declare an oil embargo on the united states to weaken American support of israel.  1974 Egypt clears the mines from the suez canal.  1975 The leader of Egypt Anwar Sadat and the leader of Iran Reza Pahlavi sail down the suez canal together aboard a grand ship in a reopening ceremony for the suez canal after it had been closed for eight years.

From the dawn of the age of oil and gas one hundred years ago the rich oil countries of the middle east are the most influential economic powers in the world.  Iran, Iraq, Arabia.  Egypt holds a key place in trade of oil because it possesses the suez canal waterway.  The middle east is a lifeline for the economic power of Europe.  The Europeans have migrated their influence into the middle east as a result of economic dependence on the resources of the middle east.  Israel is the attempted marriage of Europe with the resources of the middle east. 

To be continued in episode four.