the thousand year war continues...

Thousands of years later, the world is still fighting over what was once our land. the strategic importance of this location has remained a constant in geo-politics since the times of pre-recorded history when the early and lush grasslands-- once the norm there AND IN NORTH AFRICA -- started to dry up and the deserts we see now began to form. 

 this area of the world was the hub of ancient global trade routes linking the ancient nilotic blacks of africa with their ancient cousins, the blacks of the early tigris/euphrates rivers civilizations-- the region the greeks later referred to as 'mesopotamia'. the tigris and euphrates rivers meet each other and empty into the persian gulf which is the sea route that leads to the indian ocean and commercially linked the blacks of the ancient black tigris/euphrates civilizations with the ancient blacks of india and the far east.

 in fact, as late as 400 bc the greek historian herodotus referred to the blacks of africa as the 'western ethiopians' and the 'blacks of india' as the 'eastern ethiopians' and portions of the black sea region of northern turkey and the former soviet republic of georgia as the 'second ethiopia.' he wrote that as soon as he saw the hair,skin and features of the people of the black sea area called colchis, it left no question in his mind that they were ethiopians. until about 1000 ad european mapmakers STILL continued the old greek and roman practice of referring to the indian ocean as 'the sea of eritrea'. 

 besides the eastern mediterranean region's strategic crossroads position as the place where europe, africa and asia meet, there's an estimated 122 TRILLION cubic feet of natural gas in the eastern mediterranean off the coast of syria; lebanon; israel ;sinai egypt; cyprus; greece; turkey; ect. of course, the west wants it and we can see from recent events in the news, who the west intends to cut out from sharing in it.

 the mediterranean was once 'a phoenician lake' until the early warlike and uncivilized greeks and romans arrived in the region, looked on in amazement and jealously vowed to usurp the wealth, technology and power of the early africans and the african's extended family of the mediterranean. it took about a thousand years of war--from 1200 bc and the era of the trojan war 'stories', to the final destruction of carthage by rome, for what was a mediterranean dominated by the civilizations of early africans and their extended family to become 'a roman lake' or 'mare nostrum' --'our sea' as the romans nicknamed it in latin.

 in the process, entire groups of the extended black mediterranean family, like the phoenicians, the etruscans and carthaginians, were largely wiped from history by the greek and roman victors. of course the greeks and romans themselves eventually faded and fell and the region was taken over by arab invasions and later the ottoman turks.

 by the time of the euro-conquest of the americas and beginning of 'the modern era', the islamic empire was fading and maritime based empires of western europe were rising to global power on both sides of the atlantic. this european rise led to the industrial revolution followed by the almost complete european global domination of the world --with anglo/iberian; anglo/dutch; anglo/french; and anglo/german/slavic world wars between the major colonial powers along the way as 'side effects'. 

results of the world wars between the colonial powers include the east/west cold war era, the new anglo-american led globalism after the fall of the soviet union, the rise of asian powers china, japan,south korea, iran and india. now the modern day heirs to the roman empire --the Us and Eu --are settling old scores with the arabs and intend on defending and expanding their economic access to old territories in africa. and as a major tenet of their geo-politiks they believe "the mediterranean is a Nato lake" ...ask gaddafi...