ISRAEL, ISLAM, AND AMERICA : NOT WHAT YOU EXPECTED

[DO NOTE: IF THIS IS YOUR FIRST TIME AT THE TEA ROOM, BE AWARE THAT I USE ALL-CAPS MOSTLY DUE TO POOR VISION, ALSO TO EMPHASIZE, FOR WHICH I ALSO USE RED LETTERS QUITE A BIT, AND BOLD TYPE, AND UNDERLINING...WHATEVER SUITS ME. MY BLOG, MY WAY.
IF THAT OFFENDS YOU, GO IN PEACE.]

HAVING READ THE LATEST ARTICLES ON THE INCREASE IN "ANTI-SEMITISM" IN EUROPE, AND 'POINTS WEST', I DECIDED TO LOOK AT THE FACTS.

I LIKE FACTS. THEY MAKE ME FEEL BETTER AFTER I FIND THEM.

WITH FACTS, I NEVER GET CONFUSED, AND NEVER GET 'FOOLED'.

SO, GOING IN, LET'S GET ONE THING STRAIGHT...NO NATION ON EARTH IS ALL GOOD OR ALL EVIL, SAVE FOR PERHAPS ONE THAT I KNOW OF.

I  BASE THAT, ALSO, ON FACTS, AND HISTORY, AND MOSTLY I BASE IT ON THEIR OWN WORDS, THEIR OWN RECORDED HISTORIES, THESE NATIONS OF PLANET EARTH.

NOTHING LIKE FORMING OPINIONS BASED ON WHAT A PERSON OR A NATION HAS RECORDED ABOUT THEMSELVES, AND THEN TUCKED AWAY FROM 'PRYING EYES'.

FIRST, SOME STATISTICS, JUST TO PUT THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE.

~ISLAM
A comprehensive demographic study of more than 200 countries finds that there were 1.57 billion Muslims of all ages living in the world in 2009, representing 23% of an estimated 2009 world population of 6.8 billion.

While Muslims are found on all five inhabited continents, more than 60% of the global Muslim population is in Asia and about 20% is in the Middle East and North Africa. However, the Middle East-North Africa region has the highest percentage of Muslim-majority countries. Indeed, more than half of the 20 countries and territories in that region have populations that are approximately 95% Muslim or greater.

More than 300 million Muslims, or one-fifth of the world's Muslim population, live in countries where Islam is not the majority religion. These minority Muslim populations are often quite large. India, for example, has the third-largest population of Muslims worldwide. China has more Muslims than Syria, while Russia is home to more Muslims than Jordan and Libya combined.

Of the total Muslim population, 10-13% are Shia Muslims and 87-90% are Sunni Muslims.
Most Shias (between 68% and 80%) live in just four countries: Iran, Pakistan, India and Iraq.
THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE, AS MOST KNOW, THERE HAS BEEN 'INFIGHTING' BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT MUSLIM FACTIONS SINCE 25 YEARS AFTER MUHAMMAD DIED.
<<Fatima's husband Ali, who was the second convert to Islam and was raised like a son to Muhammad, fought a civil war against an army raised by Aisha, Muhammad's favorite wife. 10,000 Muslims were killed in a single battle waged less than 25 years after Muhammad's death.>>
THERE IS STILL INFIGHTING.
OF THE 11 MILLION MUSLIMS KILLED SINCE 1948, 90% WERE KILLED BY OTHER MUSLIMS.
SURPRISED?
“An estimated 11,000,000 Muslims have been violently killed since 1948, of which 35,000, or 0.3 percent, died during the sixty years of fighting Israel. In contrast, over 90 percent of the 11 million who perished were killed by fellow Muslims.” [Just one source: FrontPageMagazine, October 8, 2007. You can find the same stats on thousands of websites, media pages, etc.]

ALSO OF INTEREST, JORDAN ATTACKED THE PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization) BACK IN 1970, CRUSHED IT AND KILLED AT LEAST 25,000 'BROTHER MUSLIMS'. THAT WAS REPORTED ALL OVER THE WORLD.
[Hmmm, I wonder why, since Jordan killed almost as many as have died fighting Israel, why no one is demanding that Jordan be "pushed into the sea"?]

<<The eight-year-long war between Iraq and Iran resulted in almost a million killed>>...that we know of. Islamic nations keep such statistics very close to home, but even those involved in those wars don't know.

<<The sixteen-year-long civil war in Lebanon, from 1975 to 1990, resulted in an estimated 130,000 to 250,000 civilian fatalities. Another one million people (one-third of the population) were wounded, half of whom were left with lifetime disabilities.>>

BACK TO POPULATIONS:
<<These are some of the key findings of 'Mapping the Global Muslim Population: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World's Muslim Population', a study by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life. The report offers the most up-to-date and fully sourced estimates of the size and distribution of the worldwide Muslim population, including sectarian identity.
The Pew Forum report is based on the best available data for 232 countries and territories.
FULL REPORT IN PDF: http://www.pewforum.org/uploadedfiles/Topics/Demographics/Muslimpopulation.pdf>>

AND IN AMERICA? 10% of America's population now claims Islam as their religious affiliation.

2009 MAP OF DISTRIBUTION OF MUSLIM POPULATION, NUMBERS SHOWN ARE MILLIONS.
INTERACTIVE MAP: http://pewresearch.org/files/old-assets/pewforum-muslim-project/weighted-map.htm
NON-INTERACTIVE MAP: http://pewresearch.org/files/old-assets/pewforum-muslim-project/world-distribution-weighted.png

Top 10 Nations With Largest National Muslim Populations
Country    Number of Muslims
Indonesia    170,310,000
Pakistan    136,000,000
Bangladesh    106,050,000
India        103,000,000
Turkey        62,410,000
Iran        60,790,000
Egypt        53,730,000
Nigeria        47,720,000
China        37,108,000

Middle East Population, excluding African nations (estimate – 2009):
Bahrain: 728,709 | 81.2% Muslim
Iran: 66,429,284 | 98% Muslim
Iraq: 28,945,569 | 97% Muslim
Israel: 7,233,701 + 3,070,228 'Palestinians' | 16% Muslim (2004 census)
Jordan: 6,269,285 | 92% Muslim
Kuwait: 2,692,526 | 85% Muslim
Oman: 3,418,085 | 75% Muslim
Qatar: 833,285 | 77.5%
Saudi Arabia: 28,686,633 | 100% Muslim
Syria: 21,762,978 | 90% Muslim
Turkey | 76,805,524 | 99.8%
United Arab Emirates (UAE): 4,798,491 | 96% Muslim
Yemen: 22,858,238 | 99% Muslim
Lebanon: 4,017,095 | 59.7% Muslim
TOTAL Middle East Population, 2009: 278,553,314 million.

~ISRAEL, THE SMALLEST NATION IN THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST.

Israel would fit INSIDE nearly every U.S. state!  In fact, tiny Israel would fit into the United States 768 times! Israel could fit into Florida SEVEN times! The United States is a country surrounded by two vast oceans and two friendly countries, Canada and Mexico. Israel is not so  lucky. She is surrounded by 22 Arab countries that have ALL attacked her repeatedly, and who, ACCORDING TO THE UNITED STATES ITSELF, harbor some very nasty 'Arab Islamic terrorist organizations'.
Had you forgotten that, that all those Arab nations have 'harbored terrorists', or funded them?
ISRAEL'S POPULATION IN 1967 WAS A BIT LESS THAN 3 MILLION.
MORE PEOPLE THAN THAT LIVE IN CHICAGO METRO!

ALMOST THAT MANY LIVE IN HOUSTON, TEXAS!

34 U.S. STATES ARE MORE HEAVILY POPULATED THAN THE NATION OF ISRAEL WAS THEN!

OH, ISRAEL WANTS TO DOMINATE THE MIDDLE EAST, RIGHT...HER LAND MASS IS SO HUGE, SO THREATENING, SO SCARY...
IT'S SCARY ALRIGHT.

MAP LEGEND:

a. 3 miles wide here
b. Golan Heights
c. Sea of Galilee
d. Jordan River... Sea of Galilee
     to Dead Sea
e. 1967 "Green Line"... the 1949
     armistice lines separating
     Israel from its heartland of
     Judea-Samaria when Jordanian
     forces illegally annexed it. After the
     1967 Arab-Israeli war, Israel
      regained that land... at which time
      the world began referring to Judea and
      Samaria as the "West Bank" in order to
      try to erase any Jewish connection
      to this historically Jewish land!
f.  9 miles wide here
g. Tel Aviv
h. Jerusalem
i.  Dead Sea
j.  Gaza Strip: 5 miles x 25 miles

 THERE'S YOUR 'BIG, SCARY ISRAEL'.
REMEMBER, THE ORIGINAL 'BALFOUR DECLARATION' GAVE ISRAEL ALL OF 'JORDAN', BECAUSE THERE WAS NO 'JORDAN' BACK THEN. MANDATED JEWISH LAND, SET ASIDE FOR ISRAEL, WAS THEN GIVEN TO A SAUDI PRINCE, TO PLACATE THE OIL BARONS IN SAUDI ARABIA. BRITAIN HAS ALWAYS BEEN AS BIG A WHORE TO OPEC NATIONS (ESPECIALLY THE HOUSE/BROTHEL OF SAUD) AS THE UNITED STATES IS.

HERE IS THE LAND THAT ISRAEL WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE GOTTEN:

The above is a map of the borders of the 'Jewish National Home in Palestine' after the British cut off the eastern 77% of the demarcated borders (FOR THE NEW "Trans-Jordan").
THIS WAS AGAINST INTERNATIONAL LAW, BUT THEY DID IT!
DID YOU KNOW THAT, IN ORDER TO GET ANYTHING, ISRAEL AGREED TO THIS ILLEGAL LAND TRANSFER TO THE GREEDY SAUDI PRINCE? THAT MADE HIM A NEW KING!
MIDDLE EAST OIL WOULD STILL FLOW!
ISRAEL WAS CUT BY 77%, BUT OIL WOULD FLOW!

THEN THINGS CHANGED, DRASTICALLY!

IT DIDN'T END THERE, NO SIR!

Map of the borders of the Jewish National Home in Palestine as demarcated in the December 1920 Franco-British Boundary Convention.

<<The French were opposed to giving up control of the Roman Catholic sites in 'Palestine'. The Turks who had ruled there for the four-hundred years prior to World War I had limited access to the sites. In the end, the British guaranteed they would protect access of Catholics to their religious sites.
Additionally, the British gave the French administered mandates large amounts of land that were supposed to be included in the Jewish National Home. The land in the Upper Galilee, from what today is the Israel/Lebanon border extending north to the Litani River bend as well as the central Golan Heights was removed from the demarcated borders of 'Jewish Palestine'.>>
GREED AND BRITAIN'S BEHIND-KISSING REALLY WHITTLED AWAY THAT "JEWISH HOMELAND" EVERYONE HAD SAID THEY KNEW THE JEWS HAD A RIGHT TO, EH?
BRITAIN MADE PALS WITH FUTURE OPEC NATIONS, AND ISRAEL GOT THE SHORT END OF THE BIG STICK.
IF YOU CAN 'CLICK', YOU CAN LOOK THIS ONE UP ANYWHERE YOU PLEASE:
<<According to Article 25 of the Mandate for Palestine, the Mandatory (His Britannic Majesty) had the right to separate the administration of the Mandate in Trans-Jordan from the rest of the Palestine territory. This had to be done with the approval of the League of Nations:

"In the territories lying between the Jordan and the eastern boundary of Palestine as ultimately determined, the Mandatory shall be entitled, with the consent of the Council of the League of Nations, to postpone or withhold application of such provisions of this mandate as he may consider inapplicable to the existing local conditions, and to make such provision for the administration of the territories as he may consider suitable to those conditions, provided that no action shall be taken which is inconsistent with the provisions of Articles 15, 16 and 18."

The wording, "postpone or withhold application of such provisions of this mandate as he may consider inapplicable to the existing local conditions"  is, by the nature of the wording, a TEMPORARY ACTION! Such action was only valid UNTIL there was a change in the conditions leading to that decision. It did NOT authorize the British to permanently cut off portions of the land and turn it over to a FOREIGNER (SAUDI OR FRENCH) people.

Furthermore, according to Article 25, the postponement or withholding of the application of the Mandate in Trans-Jordan could NEVER be inconsistent with Article 15 of the Mandate for Palestine which states:

"No discrimination of any kind shall be made between the inhabitants of Palestine on the ground of race, religion or language. No person shall be excluded from Palestine on the sole ground of his religious belief."

The British "White Papers", policies, which prohibited ONLY JEWISH settlement East of the Jordan, while allowing a foreign group of Arabs (the Hashemites) to settle and eventually be given all of Trans-Jordan, was in clear violation of Article 15, as well as Article 5 of the Mandate which stated that "no Palestine territory shall be ceded or leased to, or in any way placed under the control of the Government of ANY FOREIGN Power.

WELL, WE SEE HOW BRITAIN EXPRESSED ITS FEELINGS FOR THOSE PESKY JEWS, YES?
THEY TOOK AWAY 77% OF JEWISH LAND AND GAVE IT TO FOREIGNERS!
BUT THAT MUST BE A-OK, JUST FINE WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD BECAUSE ONLY JEWS HAVE SO FAR COMPLAINED ABOUT THE ILLEGALITY OF THAT BRITISH GIVEAWAY!

The surrounding 22 Arab countries are 640 times larger than tiny Israel yet they expect Israel to turn over all the West Bank, Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights and half of Jerusalem... territory they LOST, JUST AS OTHER NATIONS LOST TO THE EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN NATIONS THAT FORMED THEIR COUNTRIES FROM CONQUERED LANDS, AFTER THEY, THE ARAB NATIONS, STARTED THE 1967 WAR!
THEY STARTED THE WARS EVERY TIME, BUT DOES THE WORLD TAKE NOTICE OF THAT FACT?
DOES ANYONE SPEAK OF HOW ISRAEL WAS FIRST ATTACKED WHEN IT WAS JUST DAYS OLD AS A MODERN NATION, BEFORE IT HAD ORGANIZED A STRONG DEFENSE, WHEN NO OTHER NATION ON EARTH WANTED TO GO TO HER AID?
HOW SOON WE FORGET, AND HOW CONVENIENTLY, YES?

OH, JUST GIVE IT ALL BACK....commit suicide!
For those who wish to have Israel relinquish Judea/Samaria ("West Bank") so that the Arabs can form a SECOND Arab "Palestinian" Nation (the first being Jordan), THINK ABOUT IT. TRY LOGIC. 
The 2,200-foot-high Judean Mountains run North to South 60 miles along the entire length of the West Bank.  Any enemy sniper (of which there are many!) or a rocket launcher would have a bird's eye view of Israel's most densely-populated areas from there. Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport would also be just a few short miles from the edge of any "West Bank Palestinian nation"!  Israel's capital city of Jerusalem would be nearly encased within Palestinian territory, jeopardizing its ability to survive an attack.  In effect, Israel would be reduced to a defenseless nation 9 to 25 miles wide at areas separating Israel Proper from enemies on her eastern flank!  Also, if the Gaza Strip and the West Bank were joined to form a continuous "Palestinian" land mass, Israel would be cut in half!

SAY, THAT'S SORT OF HOW AMERICA WOULD LOOK IF WE GAVE BACK ALL THE LAND WE TOOK, OR 'BOUGHT' FROM 'MEXICO' AFTER WE INVADED, CONQUERED, AND DOMINATED MUCH OF THAT NATION...JUST LIKE AMERICANS ACCUSE ISRAEL OF DOING to 'Palestine'!
WHY DON'T WE DO THAT?
ACTUALLY, 'MEXICO' WAS A REAL NATION FULL OF PEOPLE WITH A COMMON DNA, A GENETIC LINK TO ONE ANOTHER...THERE NEVER WAS A LAND CALLED 'PALESTINE' AND THERE SURELY HAS NEVER BEEN A 'PALESTINIAN' RACE OF PEOPLE WITH COMMON DNA LINKS TO PROVE IT!
AND IF WE GAVE BACK ALL THE LAND AMERICA TOOK FROM ITS 'ORIGINAL INHABITANTS', (i.e.,"ORIGINALS" LIKE MISINFORMED AMERICANS CONSIDER ARAB MIXED-BREED PEOPLE WHO MOVED INTO ISRAEL FROM SYRIA AND EGYPT MAINLY, IN THE 1930s-1940s, THE IMAGINARY "ORIGINAL INHABITANTS" OF ISRAEL), WHY, AMERICANS WHO ARE DESCENDANT FROM THOSE OLD EUROPEAN INVADERS OF THE "AMERICAS" FROM THE 16th-19th CENTURIES WOULD HAVE TO DO WHAT MANY AMERICANS WANT JEWS TO DO...GET OUT...GO HOME...GIVE BACK THE CONQUERED LANDS!
NOOOOO! OH, NO! PERISH THAT THOUGHT!
JUST LOOK AT ALL THOSE 'CESSIONS" IN AMERICA!
LAND CEDED BY SPAIN, FRANCE, BRITAIN...AND THE WHOLE OF IT WAS 'COMPLEMENTS' OF CONQUERED NATIONS AND ACTUALLY FROM INDIGENOUS TRIBES, YES?
WHY, THERE'D BE NO AMERICA IF SHE GAVE IT ALL BACK, LIKE SHE WANTS ISRAEL TO DO, HMMM?
THE MAP BELOW SHOWS WHERE AND HOW AMERICA GOT 2/3rds OF ITS LANDS, AFTER IT TOOK THE FIRST PART FROM INDIAN TRIBES.

FOR ISRAEL TO "GIVE BACK" THE 'GAZA STRIP', THE 'WEST BANK', ETC, IS A PRESCRIPTION FOR SUICIDE! I ASK YOU AGAIN, WOULD THE U.S. GIVE BACK MEXICAN TERRITORY, OR "INDIAN" TERRITORY? HELL, NO!
NO OTHER NATION ON THE PLANET HAS EVER BEEN ASKED TO ARRANGE THE TERMS OF ITS OWN SUICIDE, ONLY ISRAEL. WHY IS THAT, DO YOU THINK?

Any peace-making must be at the negotiating table and not on an AUTOPSY TABLE! 
If Israel were to turn over land of this magnitude, they would be signing their own death certificates.  The Arabs of Judea-Samaria have IMMENSE areas in the Middle East on which to pitch their tents... preferably in what should be remembered as "East Palestine" (a.k.a. Jordan) or in any of the other 21 Arab Nations that surround Israel, FROM WHENCE ALL 'PALESTINIANS' IMMIGRATED FROM IN THE LATE 1930s-1940s, ILLEGALLY FOR THE MOST PART!
ISRAEL WON HER WARS, GOT HER LAND BACK, BACK being the word to note...LAND SHE'D CONQUERED BEFORE.
I'D LIKE TO SEE THE NATIONS OF THE U.N. RECONQUER THEIR LANDS AS MANY TIMES AS ISRAEL HAS HAD TO DO!
I'D LIKE TO SEE THE LOOKS ON THEIR FACES IF THE WHOLE WORLD SET UP A HOWL FOR THE "ORIGINAL INHABITANTS" TO BE GIVEN BACK THEIR LANDS ALL OVER THE GLOBE!
THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING TO SEE, YES?
HOW MANY NATIONS WOULD CEASE TO EXIST?
ALL!

LET'S MOVE ON TO A FEW FACTS ABOUT ISRAELI-ISLAM CONFLICT.
YOU MAY FEEL FREE TO GO FIND THESE ALL ON YOUR OWN.
I DID.
~JUST THE FACTS:
ISRAEL ALREADY GAVE BACK LAND TO EGYPT, TO THE ILLEGITIMATE JORDANIANS.
ISRAEL CONCEDED MORE THAN 77% OF HER DESIGNATED, U.N.-ASSIGNED LANDS BACK IN 1920! ISRAEL NEVER FOUGHT FOR THAT 77%. JEWS EVEN LOST LANDS THEY HAD BOUGHT AND PAID FOR, HAD LEGAL DEEDS TO!
WOULD ANY OTHER NATION ON EARTH HAVE AGREED TO DO THAT?
NO!
YOU DIDN'T KNOW JEWS HAD BOUGHT NEARLY 10% OF THEIR LAND BEFORE ANYONE AGREED TO GIVE HER A "MANDATE"?
REALLY?
THEN YOU ALSO DIDN'T KNOW HOW FEW ARABS STAYED IN ISRAEL BEFORE 1917, DID YOU?
YOU SEE, CITIZENS OF EARTH, THERE WERE CENSUSES EVEN BACK IN THE 1800s IN THAT REGION, AND THEY PROVE HOW UNINHABITED BY "ORIGINALS" ISRAELI TERRITORY WAS EVEN THEN! A FEW NOMADS, SOME JEWS, FEW DOMESTICATED ANIMALS EVEN, WERE COUNTED OVER THERE THEN.
SORRY, BUT FACTS ARE FACTS!
THERE WAS NO "LARGE ARAB POPULATION" UNTIL ARABS SAW ISRAEL GOING HOME, HOME TO HER MANY-TIMES CONQUERED LANDS, TO A LAND KNOWN BY HER NAME FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, BEFORE MOST OF HER NEIGHBOR NATIONS WERE FORMED!
ISRAEL BOUGHT ABANDONED LANDS, DESOLATE LANDS, LANDS VOID OF CITIES OR VILLAGES, LAND THAT ARABS CONSIDERED WORTHLESS. THEY BOUGHT ROUGHLY 10% OF WHAT IS NOW ISRAEL, AND PAID MUCH MORE, MUCH MORE THAN IT WAS VALUED AT, AND THE ARABS THEMSELVES WONDERED AT WHY JEWS WERE WILLING TO PAY EXORBITANT PRICES FOR BARREN LANDS.
THAT IS JUST HISTORICAL FACT RECORDED BY DEEDS FROM THAT ERA.
FACTS...FACTS REVEAL MUCH IF WE BUT WANT TO GO FIND THEM.

THE OTTOMAN TURKS HAD FORBIDDEN JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THE JEWS' FOUR HOLY CITIES ALL THE WHILE THEY WERE IN POWER, AND HAD ALSO FORBIDDEN JEWS FROM BUYING LAND.
DAVID BEN-GURION, AFTER ORGANIZATIONS WERE ESTABLISHED TO BUY LAND THERE (The 'Palestine Jewish Colonization Association' (PJCA), 'Palestine Land Development Company' and the Jewish National Fund), ISSUED A MANDATE THAT NO LANDS OWNED BY ARABIC 'FELLAHIN' (farmers) WERE TO BE PURCHASED BY JEWISH PEOPLE. SO, ONLY LARGE TRACTS ALONG THE SWAMPY, UNCULTIVATED COASTAL PLAIN WERE BOUGHT.
<<There were two main reasons why these [coastal] areas were sparsely populated. The first reason being when the Ottoman power in the rural areas began to diminish in the seventeenth century, many people moved to more centralized areas to secure protection against the lawless Bedouin tribes. This resulted in huge migration to the cities leaving the rural area drastically under populated. The second reason for the sparsely populated areas of the valleys and coastal plains was the soil type. The soil, covered in a layer of sand, made it impossible to grow the staple crop of Palestine, corn. As a result this area remained uncultivated and under-populated. [SEE: PORATH, 1977. "The Palestinian Arab national movement: From riots to rebellion", PG. 80]>>
[ALSO SEE MAP OF JEWISH SETTLEMENT, 1920-1948, shown below.]

<<During a visit to Palestine in 1930, John Hope Simpson, a British politician, noticed: "They paid high prices for the land, and in addition they paid to certain of the occupants of those lands a considerable amount of money which they were not legally bound to pay". It was believed that Jews were paying as much as $1,000 to $1,100 per acre in Palestine for non arable land in 1944. At that same time, one could buy rich arable land in Iowa for a mere $110 per acre.>>
<<As late as 1880, the American consul in Jerusalem reported the area was continuing its historic decline. "The population and wealth of Palestine has not increased during the last forty years," he said. >>

Many Arab landowners had been so terrorized by Arab rebels that they decided to leave Palestine and sell their property to the Jews. Was that to set the Jews up for the same terrorists the Arabs were fleeing from? Or was it simply GREED?

<<The Report of the Palestine Royal Commission quotes an account of the Maritime Plain in 1913:
    "The road leading from Gaza to the north was only a summer track suitable for transport by camels and carts...no orange groves, orchards or vineyards were to be seen until one reached [the Jewish village of] Yabna [Yavne]....Houses were all of mud. No windows were anywhere to be seen....The ploughs used were of wood....The yields were very poor....The sanitary conditions in the village were horrible. Schools did not exist....The western part, towards the sea, was almost a desert....The villages in this area were few and thinly populated. Many ruins of villages were scattered over the area, as owing to the prevalence of malaria, many villages were deserted by their inhabitants." >>
<<Lewis French, the British Director of Development wrote of Palestine:

   " We found it inhabited by fellahin who lived in mud hovels and suffered severely from the prevalent malaria....Large areas...were uncultivated....The fellahin, if not themselves cattle thieves, were always ready to harbor these and other criminals. The individual plots...changed hands annually. There was little public security, and the fellahin's lot was an alternation of pillage and blackmail by their neighbors, the Bedouin.">>

<<Dawood Barakat, editor of the Egyptian paper Al-Ahram, wrote: "It is absolutely necessary that an entente be made between the Zionists and Arabs, because the war of words can only do evil. The Zionists are necessary for the country: The money which they will bring, their knowledge and intelligence, and the industriousness which characterizes them will contribute without doubt to the regeneration of the country." >>

BACK THEN, MANY LEADING ARABS WERE ALL FOR THE JEWS BUYING LAND AND IMPROVING IT!
<<Sherif Hussein, the guardian of the Islamic Holy Places in Arabia WROTE:
    "The resources of the country are still virgin soil and will be developed by the Jewish immigrants. One of the most amazing things until recent times was that the Palestinian used to leave his country, wandering over the high seas in every direction. His native soil could not retain a hold on him, though his ancestors had lived on it for 1000 years. At the same time we have seen the Jews from foreign countries streaming to Palestine from Russia, Germany, Austria, Spain, America. The cause of causes could not escape those who had a gift of deeper insight. They knew that the country was for its original sons (abna'ihi­l­asliyin), for all their differences, a sacred and beloved homeland. The return of these exiles (jaliya) to their homeland will prove materially and spiritually [to be] an experimental school for their brethren who are with them in the fields, factories, trades and in all things connected with toil and labor.">>
NOTE IN THAT STATEMENT THAT THE ARAB 'GUARDIAN OF HOLY PLACES' HIMSELF STATES THAT HIS ANCESTORS HAD ONLY BEEN THERE FOR 1000 YEARS...1000...NOT 4,000, NOT 10,000, ONLY 1000!

FACTS...FACTS ARE AWESOME, YES?
HERE ARE A FEW MORE, IN THEIR OWN WORDS:
<<The Peel Commission's report found that Arab complaints about Jewish land acquisition were baseless. It pointed out that "much of the land now carrying orange groves was sand dunes or swamp and uncultivated when it was purchased....there was at the time of the earlier sales little evidence that the owners possessed either the resources or training needed to develop the land." Moreover, the Commission found the shortage was "due less to the amount of land acquired by Jews than to the increase in the Arab population." The report concluded that the presence of Jews in Palestine, along with the work of the British Administration, had resulted in higher wages, an improved standard of living and ample employment opportunities.>>
NO, REALLY?
YES, REALLY!

<<In his memoirs, Transjordan's OWN King Abdullah, [WHO NEVER WANTED TO ACCEPT 'PALESTINIANS'/REFUGEES INTO HIS COUNTRY], wrote:

    '"It is made quite clear to all, both by the map drawn up by the Simpson Commission and by another compiled by the Peel Commission, that the Arabs are as prodigal in selling their land as they are in useless wailing and weeping.'">>
THAT WAS HARSH, NO?
IT WAS TRUE, THOUGH, AND THE KING KNEW IT.

<<By 1947, Jewish holdings in Palestine amounted to about 463,000 acres. Approximately 45,000 of these acres were acquired from the Mandatory Government; 30,000 were bought from various churches and 387,500 were purchased from Arabs. Analyses of land purchases from 1880 to 1948 show that 73 percent of Jewish plots were purchased from large landowners, certainly not poor fellahin.
Those who sold land included the mayors of Gaza, Jerusalem and Jaffa. As'ad el­Shuqeiri, a Muslim religious scholar and father of PLO chairman Ahmed Shuqeiri, took Jewish money for his land. Even King Abdullah leased land to the Jews. In fact, many leaders of the Arab nationalist movement, including members of the Muslim Supreme Council, sold land to Jews.>>
RECORDED DEEDS ATTEST TO THIS...THE ARABS WHO SOLD AND LEASED LANDS ARE KNOWN, BUT NOW THEY DON'T WANT TO BE KNOWN.
WHAT CHANGED?
ISRAEL WENT HOME, THAT'S WHAT CHANGED.
[SEE: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/Arabs_in_Palestine.html]
OH, BTW, THAT LIBRARY MERELY HOUSES DOCUMENTS, DOCUMENTS BY ARABS, DOCUMENTS BY MUSLIM ARABS, DOCUMENTS BY THE U.N., BRITAIN, ETC....YOU KNOW, IT'S A LIBRARY, LIKE IN YOUR NATION, IN YOUR CITY, NOT A REPOSITORY FOR "JEWISH PROPAGANDA". MANY ARABIC NATIONS HAVE THE SAME DOCUMENTS, BUT THEY DON'T FREELY MAKE THEM AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC..... WONDER WHY?

EVERYONE KNEW THAT JEWS BOUGHT MUCH OF THE LAND, PAID TOO MUCH FOR IT, AND THE RICH ARAB LANDOWNERS SURELY HAD A CHUCKLE WHEN JEWS PAID SUCH HIGH PRICES FOR WHAT THEY CONSIDERED WORTHLESS LAND.
THEY AREN'T LAUGHING NOW...WONDER WHY NOT?

WELL, MOVING ON,THERE'S ONE BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AMERICA/MEXICO AND ISRAEL/ARAB LANDS THAT ARE NOW ONCE AGAIN ISRAEL'S...ISRAEL WENT TO WAR WITH THOSE NATIONS ABOUT 4,000 YEARS AGO AND WON, AND WON AGAIN, AGAIN, AND AGAIN. IN DEFENSE OF WHAT SHE WON BY WAR INITIALLY. 4,000 YEARS AGO, ISRAEL HAS BEEN ATTACKED NUMEROUS TIMES SINCE 1948, AND AGAIN HAS WON, WON,WON.
AMERICA HAS ONLY BEEN OCCUPYING MEXICAN LANDS FOR LESS THAN TWO HUNDRED YEARS, AND HASN'T HAD TO HAVE A "RE-DO" ON THAT IN ALL THESE YEARS.

HERE'S A POIGNANT QUESTION: IF AMERICANS SEE 'PALESTINIANS' (AND ANYONE, ANYONE AT ALL WHO WANTS TO CALL HIMSELF A 'PALESTINIAN' CAN, BECAUSE THERE IS NO DNA THAT EVER WAS CLASSIFIED AS 'PALESTINIAN'), SNEAKING INTO ISRAEL AS A-OK, SEES ILLEGAL BORDER CROSSINGS INTO ISRAEL AS THOSE POOR 'PALESTINIANS' JUST 'GOING HOME', WHY DON'T AMERICANS SEE 'MEXICANS' CROSSING THEIR SOUTHERN BORDER IN THE SAME WAY?
AFTER ALL, ALL THOSE BORDER STATES WERE ONCE 'MEXICO', ALL OF CALIFORNIA, ALL OF TEXAS, UTAH, NEVADA, ETC, ALL WERE MEXICO, SO WHY CAN'T THOSE POOR "DISPLACED" MEXICANS COME BACK TO THEIR NATIVE LANDS???
THAT'S "DIFFERENT", RIGHT?
IT'S DIFFERENT ALRIGHT!

THE UNITED NATIONS (THEN THE 'LEAGUE OF NATIONS'), AN INTERNATIONAL GROUP OF INVADERS, THIEVES AND LIARS, ACTUALLY PROVIDED THE LAND GRANT TO ISRAEL, AND WANTED HER TO HAVE A MUCH LARGER AREA, ALL OF WHAT IS NOW JORDAN, A BIT OF LEBANON, SOME OF THE SINAI PENINSULA.
SINCE EVERY NATION THAT MAKES UP THE U.N. ALSO WON THEIR COUNTRIES BY CONFLICT, BY WAR, BY CONQUEST, I GUESS IT JUST MADE SENSE THAT THEY RECOGNIZED ISRAEL'S CONQUEST OF HER LANDS OVER A PERIOD OF SEVERAL THOUSAND YEARS, OR THAT ISRAEL HAD EXISTED BY THE SAME NAME FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS BEFORE MOST OF THE U.N. FOLKS HAD CRAWLED OUT OF CAVES AND STARTED FIGHTING AND "NATION-BUILDING" FOR THEIRS...MAYBE THAT WAS IT?

MAYBE THE FACT THAT ISRAEL IS MENTIONED BY ITS SAME NAME IN THE HISTORIES OF NEARBY 'TRIBES'/'KINGDOMS' FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS BEFORE OLD AMERIGO VESPUCCI, AMERICA'S NAMESAKE, WAS EVEN A TWINKLE IN HIS DAD'S EYE, MAYBE THAT IMPRESSED THE U.N....BACK THEN?
NAAAAH, SURELY NOT!

I MEAN, AMERICA WAS 'BORN' IN 1787; FRANCE DIDN'T REALLY ARISE AS A STATE UNTIL THE MID-1600s (That area was known as "Gaul" before that, and no mention of "Franks" until about 987AD/CE) ; ENGLAND/GREAT BRITAIN REALLY BEGAN IN 1487 WITH THE TUDORS (though there was a partially unified kingdom by the 11th century AD/CE there, called 'Normans'); GERMANY IN ABOUT 1648 AD/CE (though there was a state referred to as 'Germanic' in 962 AD/CE); ITALY, "officially" IN 1861 AD/CE (though kingdoms of Naples and Sicily existed in 1282 AD/CE); SWEDEN, AS A "KINGDOM" 1000 AD/CE, AS AN EMPIRE LATER IN 1611, AND THEN SPLIT FROM NORWAY IN 1905 ; CANADA IN 1867, SAUDI ARABIA IN 1927 OR 1932, DEPENDING ON WHOSE HISTORY YOU ACCEPT; IRAN IN 1501 OR 1979, DEPENDING ON WHOM YOU ASK, AS THAT WAS KNOWN AS PERSIA IN ANCIENT HISTORY; JORDAN IN 1946; LIBYA IN 1969; SPAIN IN 1492 AFTER FERDINAND AND ISABELLA GRABBED IT BACK ONCE AND FOR ALL FROM MUSLIMS; SWITZERLAND IN 1802 AD/CE as the "SWISS CONFEDERATION", BUT NOT UNTIL 1848 IN ITS CURRENT STATE; AND MIGHTY RUSSIA WAS NOT UNITED UNTIL 1584 OR SO UNDER 'IVAN, THE TERRIBLE'; PAKISTAN WAS 'PARTITIONED' FROM INDIA IN 1947;
[ONE SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_sovereign_states_in_Europe]
[ANOTHER SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_date_of_formation]
SO, WE CAN SEE WHO THE "NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK' ARE, RIGHT? NO OTHER NATION CAN CLAIM IT HAS GONE BY THE SAME NAME FOR ABOUT 10,000 YEARS, OR THAT IT WAS KNOWN BY ITS CURRENT NAME OVER 4000 YEARS AGO.
<<The nation-state developed fairly recently. Prior to the 1500s, in Europe, the nation-state as we know it did not exist. Back then, most people did not consider themselves part of a nation; they rarely left their village and knew little of the larger world. If anything, people were more likely to identify themselves with their region or local lord. At the same time, the rulers of states frequently had little control over their countries. Instead, local feudal lords had a great deal of power, and kings often had to depend on the goodwill of their subordinates to rule. Laws and practices varied a great deal from one part of the country to another. The Treaty of Versailles ended World War I, broke up several multinational empires and created many new nation-states.>>

SURPRISED?
NOW, WHEN DO WE FIRST FIND JEWS OR ISRAEL LISTED IN ANCIENT HISTORY?
The name "Israel" first appears in a text at Ugarit (on the coast just south of modern Turkey, in modern Syria) and dates around 1500 BC/BCE.
The name "Israel" next appears around 1200 BC/BCE on an Egyptian stone monument (known as the Merneptah stele) commemorating victories of Egypt's Pharaoh Merneptah in the region that is now Israel.
An Assyrian inscription (the Kurkh stele) DATED TO 853 BC/BCE refers to King Ahab of "sir-il-la-a-a", i.e. Israel.
According to the annals of another Assyrian king, Sargon II, in 721 BC/BCE, Jewish inhabitants of Ashdod and Samaria in present day Israel were resettled in Media after their failed attempt against Assyrian dominance.
In the fifth century BC, in Nippur documents, 100 Jewish families are identified. They are land owners, tradesmen or were in the royal service. For instance a certain "Hannani, the son of Minnahhin, occupied the post of supervisor over the king's poultry". The Jew Nehemiah was a confidant of Artaxerxes I (465 BC/BCE to 424 BC/BCE) recorded as occupying the important post of royal cup-bearer in the civil service hierarchy.

The Kingdom of Israel is found inscribed on 8 ANCIENT monuments in other nations, all dating back before "recorded history" as we know it, and these name the current king of Israel when the monuments were carved.

In about 732 BC/BCE, history tells us that Tiglath-Pileser III, the king of Assyria, sacked Damascus and Israel, annexing Aram and territory of the tribes of Reuben, Gad and Manasseh in Gilead including the desert outposts of Jetur, Naphish and Nodab. People from these tribes including the Reubenite leader, were taken captive and resettled in the region of the Khabur River system. Tiglath-Pilesar also captured the territory of Naphtali and the city of Janoah in Ephraim and an Assyrian governor was placed over the region of Naphtali. The population of Aram and the annexed part of Israel was deported to Assyria.

SHOULD WE BELIEVE HISTORY, OLD INSCRIPTIONS, THINGS CARVED INTO STONE?
WELL, MAYBE IF IT'S ABOUT ANYONE EXCEPT THOSE JEWS!
WE SURE DON'T WANT TO ADMIT THE JEWISH STATE PREDATES ALL OTHERS IN EUROPE, OR THOSE NEWER STATES OF THE MIDDLE EAST. NOR AMERICA....

AND HOW ABOUT THAT "WEST BANK", EH? THAT WAS CALLED JUDEA/SAMARIA BEFORE MODERN ENGLISH WAS A SPOKEN LANGUAGE! IMAGINE THAT!
THE JEWS CONQUERED SAMARIA IN ABOUT 1030 BC/BCE AND OCCUPIED IT UNTIL ABOUT 730 BC/BCE WHEN THE ASSYRIANS TOOK OVER.
WHERE WAS AMERICA THEN?
OH...THERE WAS NO AMERICA.
NO UNITED NATIONS EITHER.

~AMERICA...NOT A TRUE "FRIEND" TO ISRAEL, NOT AT ALL:
NO AMERICAN TROOPS HAVE EVER BEEN SENT TO HELP ISRAEL IN WARS AGAINST ARABS! ISRAEL HAS PAID CONSIDERABLY FOR ARMS AND PLANES FROM THE U.S., BUT NO AMERICAN SOLDIER HAS EVER STOOD TO FACE ARABS IN THE NATION OF ISRAEL!
IN COMPARISON, ABOUT 3 MILLION U.S. TROOPS HAVE BEEN SENT TO HELP ARABS FIGHT ARABS!
500,000 WENT IN FOR THE FIRST 'GULF WAR', AND IN THE DECADE SINCE 9/11, 2,333,972 AMERICAN MILITARY PERSONNEL HAVE BEEN DEPLOYED TO IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN OR BOTH, AS OF AUGUST 30, 2010!
[http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-veterans-numbers/story?id=14928136#1]

AMERICA SENT HALF A MILLION U.S. TROOPS TO PROTECT 3.6 MILLION KUWAITIS FROM ABOUT 30 MILLION IRAQIS.
WE DIDN'T ONCE SEND A SINGLE AMERICAN SOLDIER TO PROTECT ISRAEL WHEN IN 1967 SHE HAD A POPULATION OF LESS THAN 3 MILLION, AND THE POPULATION OF THOSE NATIONS WHICH ATTACKED HER THEN WAS ABOUT 422 MILLION COMBINED!
KUWAIT MAY HAVE BEEN 'OUTNUMBERED' 10 TO 1, BUT ISRAEL WAS OUTNUMBERED ABOUT 140 TO 1...INCREDIBLE ODDS, DO YOU AGREE?
AMERICA WENT RUNNING TO "SAVE" KUWAIT, SAUDI ARABIA, BUT INITIALLY REFUSED TO SELL ISRAEL EVEN ONE PLANE IN 1967, EVEN THOUGH AMERICA KNEW THAT RUSSIA WAS SUPPLYING ARMS AND PLANES TO ISRAEL'S ATTACKERS!

CONTRARY TO URBAN LEGEND, THE MOST "AID" ISRAEL HAD EVER GOTTEN FROM THE U.S. FROM ITS INCEPTION TO 1967 WAS A $13 MILLION, YES MILLION, PACKAGE THAT ISRAEL HAS MORE THAN REPAID.
FROM 1950 TO 2006, ON THE OTHER HAND, SAUDI ARABIA, ISRAEL'S MOST VOCAL OPPONENT, WAS 'GRANTED' ABOUT $79.8 BILLION IN WEAPONS, MILITARY EQUIPMENT AND "SERVICES".
THAT IS ALMOST TWICE ISRAEL'S "GRANTS" FROM THE SAME TIME PERIOD, AND ISRAEL NEVER PULLED AN OIL EMBARGO ON AMERICA LIKE SAUDI ARABIA DID...OR DID YOU FORGET THAT EMBARGO?
WHAT A CONTRAST, YES?

<<Saudi Arabia has never fought in a modern war. Its ability to repulse an Iraqi attack in 1990, for example, was virtually nil, precipitating the first Bush ('DADDY BUSH') administration’s deployment of 'Operation Desert Shield' to protect the kingdom. >>"'PROTECT THE KINGDOM'"?
OH, MAYBE YOU FORGOT....IRAQ IS MOSTLY SHIA MUSLIM, SAUDI ARABIA IS 90% WAHABI SUNNI.

LET'S TAKE A MOMENT TO GET SOME FACTS ON THAT, SOME HISTORY.
Sunnis are a majority in most Muslim communities: in Southeast Asia, China, South Asia, Africa, and most of the Arab world.
Shia make up the majority of the population only in Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Azerbaijan, and Bahrain (all together called the Shia Crescent), while Pakistan has the second-largest Shia Muslim (aka, Twelver Muslims) population in the world.
'Tensions' between these two islamic 'communities' can intensify during power struggles. Although all Muslim groups consider the Qur'an to be divine, Sunni and Shia have different opinions on hadith. (A ḥadith is a saying or an act or tacit approval or disapproval ascribed either validly or invalidly to the Islamic prophet Muhammad. A hadith isn't an actual statement from the Qur'an.)
 Only 10% of Saudi Arabians are Shia, the remaining 90% are Wahhabi Sunni.
Shias are about 10-to-15 percent of the entire Muslim world. We don't have accurate statistics because in much of the Middle East it is not convenient to have them, for ruling regimes in particular. But the estimates are that they are about 10-to-15 percent of the Muslim world, which puts them somewhere between 165-to-190 million people.The overwhelming majority of that population lives between Pakistan and Lebanon. Iran always had been a Shia country, the largest one, with about 60 million population. Pakistan is the second-largest Shia country in the world, with about 30 million.
The Imamate of the Shia encompasses far more of a prophetic function than the Caliphate of the Sunnis. Unlike Sunni, Shias believe special spiritual qualities have been granted not only to Muhammad but also to Ali and the other Imams. Twelvers believe the imams are immaculate from sin and human error (ma'sūm), and can understand and interpret the hidden inner meaning of the teachings of Islam. In this way the Imams are trustees (wasi) who bear the light of Muhammad (Nūr Muhammadin).
Shiism and Sunni Sufism are said to share a number of hallmarks: Belief in an inner meaning to the Quran, special status for some mortals (saints for Sufi, Imams for Shias), as well as veneration of Ali and Muhammad's family.
THE HOUSE OF SAUD HOLDS THE BELIEFS OF THE WAHHABI SECT OF ISLAM.
Wahhabism is an ultra-conservative branch of Sunni Islam, though some people dispute that a Wahhabi is a Sunni. It is a 'religious movement' among fundamentalist Islamic believers, with an aspiration to return to the earliest fundamental Islamic sources of the Qur'an and Hadith, with inspiration from the teachings of Medieval theologian Ibn Taymiyyah and early jurist Ahmad ibn Hanbal.
The Saudis have spent at least $87 billion propagating Wahhabism abroad during the past two decades, and the scale of financing is believed to have increased in the past two years.
SO, YES, SURE, WAHHABI SAUDI ARABIA FELT THREATENED BY THOSE SUNNI IRAQIS.
AND AMERICA WENT RUNNING TO SAVE THE HOUSE OF SAUD.

THE MISINFORMED BELIEVE THAT AMERICA SUPPORTS ISRAEL, NO MATTER WHAT.
THE MISINFORMED ARE JUST THAT....MISINFORMED.
AMERICA SELLS ARMS AND GIVES FOREIGN AID TO EVERYONE, BUT AMERICA IS VERY CAREFUL TO DO JUST A BIT MORE FOR OPEC NATIONS THAN IT DOES FOR ISRAEL.
AMERICA HAS ALWAYS TRIED TO USE ISRAEL TO CONTROL THE MIDDLE EAST'S "BAD BOYS", HAS ENLISTED ISRAEL IN DEALS LIKE WHEN REAGAN GAVE OR SOLD ARMS TO IRAN, HAVING ISRAEL BE THE 'DELIVERY BOY'.
BUT IF YOU ONLY LOOK ALONG THE SURFACE OF THIS MIDDLE EAST "GAME" YOU SEE AMERICA IS ACTUALLY NEVER GOING TO FULLY SUPPORT ANYONE, ESPECIALLY ISRAEL.
AMERICA, AS IT HAS SINCE ITS INCEPTION, PLAYS BOTH SIDES, AND PLAYS ONE AGAINST THE OTHER.
ISRAEL HAS NO OIL, NO GREAT AMOUNT OF NATURAL RESOURCES THAT AMERICA CAN EXPLOIT.
ISRAEL'S SWORN ENEMIES, ALL THOSE WHO HAVE VOWED TO ERASE HER FROM THE EARTH, ON THE OTHER HAND, HAVE OIL, AND OTHER NATURAL RESOURCES THAT AMERICA NEEDS, THAT SHE MUST HAVE TO FUNCTION.
IT DOESN'T MATTER THAT MUSLIM NATIONS DANCED IN THE STREETS WHEN AMERICA'S 9/11 TOOK PLACE, OR THAT ALL THOSE NATIONS CALL AMERICA "SATAN", BURN HER FLAG, VOW TO ELIMINATE HER AS AN "INFIDEL".
IT DOESN'T MATTER THAT OPEC NATIONS HAVE CREATED OIL EMBARGOES AGAINST THE U.S., OR THAT THEY CONSTANTLY FUND, TRAIN, OR BIRTH TERRORISTS WHOM AMERICA SWEARS ARE OUT TO GET HER.
AMERICA IS A WHORE FOR OIL AND ARAB NATIONS HAVE OIL, NOT ISRAEL.

WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO THE "FINAL ACT" OF THE "PLAY" IN THE MIDDLE EAST, AMERICA WILL THROW ISRAEL UNDER THE BUS (AS IT HAS BEFORE!), ABANDON HER, AND NOT SHED A TEAR.
AMERICA HAS GIVEN AID TO THE 'PALESTINIANS' FOR DECADES NOW,AND AS I SHOWED IN ANOTHER BLOG ENTRY [SEE: http://havacuppahemlock1.blogspot.com/2013/05/bushs-gaza-bombshell-effects-continue.html], HAS ARMED GAZA'S TERRORISTS (MAINLY FATAH) WHOM WE KNOW WOULD HAVE ERADICATED EVERY JEW ON THE PLANET, AND HAS ALSO, DURING REAGAN'S TERMS, ARMED IRAN, WHICH IS DEDICATED TO ISRAEL'S COMPLETE DESTRUCTION.

ISRAEL ISN'T STUPID, SO SHE'S PREPARED FOR THE 'BIG FLIP'..WHEN AMERICA STOPS BEING 'COY' AND JUST TURNS ITS BACK ON THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
IT'S COMING FASTER THAN WE MAY HAVE THOUGHT.

AS THE ECONOMY TANKS OUT HERE, AMERICA WILL LOOK TO THE 'HIGHEST BIDDER' TO SELL-OUT ISRAEL TO.
I'M BETTING ON IRAN TO WIN THAT ONE...WITH MAYBE A LITTLE HELP FROM RUSSIA?
WE OWE THE SAUDIS TOO MUCH, AND BESIDES, BUSH2 KISSED THEIR KING IN THE MOUTH...SEVERAL TIMES...WE'RE PRACTICALLY ENGAGED!
WHY WOULD SAUDI PAY FOR ANYTHING IT WANTS FROM ITS FACE-KISSING AMERICAN SWEETHEART?

NOT WHAT YOU EXPECTED?
YOU'RE NOT ALONE...NOT WHAT I EXPECTED EITHER.






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