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Oil Is the Key
The Suez Canal was the Middle East's great flashpoint until the eight-year war between Iraq and Iran. After that, the map of the conflict changed. The prize became the Gulf's oil, and it has remained the prize ever since. The shift was gradual,... Read more.
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