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[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago (1 children)

24 years?

They've been at it since WW2 ended.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hey hey now, that was the limeys and the frogs:

Levant Crisis

Intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine

The yanks didn't get involved in all that until 1973:

Arab-Israeli conflict

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

The US was intimately involved in getting the Shah into power in Iran alongside the Brits in the 1950s.