How the Middle East got its borders, & why the lines in the sand have become blood-soaked

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Even though the Middle East’s border mark some of the world’s bloodiest battlefields, most of the long, straight lines running through the sand didn’t exist even a hundred years ago. ThePrint Contributing Editor @praveenswami explains in #ThePrintExplorer how the Middle East’s nations were created not by shared religion or ethnicity, but colonial ambition and oil.
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00:20 - Term Middle East
02:24 - Creation of Israel in 1948 & the violence that followed
03:12 - Creation of Saudi Arabia
3:49 - World War I & Western support for Arab tribes against Ottoman Empire
04:08 - Discovery of oil in the Middle East & the race to control it
06:03 - Imperialism
07:00 - Napoleon in Middle East
09:05 - Construction of Suez Canal
11:57 - The Arab revolt against Ottoman Empire
13:57 - Sykes–Picot Agreement between United Kingdom and France
15:23 - The Balfour Declaration & what it promised
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