Food and Water.
Spices and silk an porcelain/china
Oil is abundant in the middle east Water is scarce in the middle east
The natural resources are already in the ground because of the convenient fact that the Carboniferous Middle East was hearty swampland. No human did anything to put the resources there.
The primary resource that the Middle East offers is PETROLEUM, but the Middle East has other natural resources, like certain crops (olives and citrus), natural gas, and some metals.
The most valuable resources in the middle east, are Water and Oil.
oil
The Middle East and Southwest Asia's economy depend on the export of oil. Several countries in Africa have a dependence on imported oil.
OIL
Kingdom of Jordan has no considerable resources, also Yemen is poor with resources
Oil.
Oil
Because there is no peace between them and not enough land and resources.