Be prepared

[Deucalion]

So much stuff I'd like to respond to. I've been away from home all weekend, shacked up with a friend of mine; haven't been able to speak with any of my new pals on the board lately due to a car accident I had on Thursday. It's had me going in circles. But I digress.

Ah, Israel. I discussed that fascinating nation with LadyIvanna the first time I met her. Pretty sure she's the same Ivanna, anyway. I'm fixated on the place, I've read two books exclusively about the Israel Defense Forces, the biographies of Moshe Dayan and Ariel Sharon, and I've probably got enough TIME magazines concerning the subject to wipe my ass with glossy paper 'till I'm dead. Planning on visiting sometime before '05 if I can ever get my finances in order, but that's neither here nor there.

Now here's a fun fact most people are unaware of. The country once called Palestine was a lot larger than what is now called Israel; it was split in two by the United Nations and Britain, the larger half for the Arabs, the smaller for the Jews. The Arabic half was dubbed Transjordan, and later simply Jordan.

Jordan is the Palestinian Arab homeland. Always has been. That was its design.

In 1948, before five Arab armies descended on Israel, local moslem civilians were encouraged to flee their homes to escape harm during the coming destruction of the Zionist state. There was no doubt in their mind that Israel would fall, and when it did they were promised to be allowed to loot along with the victorious Arab soldiers. Of course, the forces of Lebanon, Syria, Transjordan, Egypt, and Iraq [along with a number of smaller Palestinian guerilla units and military contingents from Morocco and Saudi Arabia] were destined to fail, and when they did so the Israelis refused to allow the return of the wayward, would-be Palestinian looters. Can you blame them?

The profits Saudi Arabia makes from three days of peddling their oil would buy a home and transportation for every single Palestinian refugee. EVERY ONE. They choose not to, because a bereft, filthy Palestinian minority in Israel suits their purpose. They use them to further their own political gain.

In my opinion, the primary motivation for the Arabs in this struggle is shame. They were utterly humiliated by the Israelis time and time again, always failing against smaller odds, always being outsmarted and outsoldiered. In their culture, the honorable Arab is the Arab who prefers death before dishonor, a la the Japanese. Eventually, though, I'm confident that there will be peace, because someday they're all going to realize that the Zionists aren't going anywhere. They're sitting on one of the most powerful armies in all the world, and I highly doubt they'd hesitate to utilize their nuclear arsenal were they sure they were about to be overrun. Moshe Dayan nearly released a nuclear payload in 1973, when the Syrians and Egyptians came dangerously close to spilling forth into the Holy Land like so much offal.

Damn, I love to type way too much. I'm going to have to keep these fuckers down.

[EvilVegan]

But uh, Back to the message at hand, perfection is perfected so I'm gonna let em understand. . . from a young G's perspective before me digga da trick I gotta find a contraceptive.

http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=5529

OIL OIL OIL YUMMY YUMMY OIL!!!!!

[iblis]

But uh, Back to the message at hand, perfection is perfected so I'm gonna let em understand. . . from a young G's perspective before me digga da trick I gotta find a contraceptive.

http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=5529

OIL OIL OIL YUMMY YUMMY OIL!!!!!

oil's well that ends well.