It was 1973 when many Arab nations decided to cut the oil supplies of the West to support Israel during the Arab-Israeli war.
Henry Kissinger told Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud,
King of Saudi Arabia:
“If Saudi Arabia doesn’t lift the boycott, America
will come and bomb the oilfields.”
To which the King replied:
“You are the ones who can’t live without oil. You
know, we come from the desert, and our ancestors lived on dates and milk, and
we can easily go back and live like that again.”
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