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To: TobagoJack who wrote (106062)	5/16/2014 4:41:06 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 219951

Israel isn't so much a matter of historical rights as present day rights based on pragmatic resolutions of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire subsequent to WWI defeat and the aftermath of WWII and displaced people, established by the United Nations according to international law, combined with land purchases from Ottoman landlords during the decades since the mid 19th century, along with legacy survivors of the Islamic onslaught following the Roman Empire depredations, and whatnot and WOT not. There is also the outcome of the surrounding countries trying to conquer and destroy Israel from its founding and for decades afterwards, failing each time, in breach of UN rules every time. Of course Israel should keep the territories they won, if they want them, which they don't. Not all of them anyway. They handed big chunks of Egypt back, despite winning them fair and square by defeating the murderous attackers. It shows how stupid the Arabs are that they want to conquer Israel and extend the Syrian carnage to Israel [Arab murdering Arab]. They would do far better to leave Israel as it is, cease and desist their jihad and enjoy the cash flow and employment opportunities of having Israel in their midst. Note the mass hysteria when Crimeans vote to join Russia, but no fevered mania when Arabs again and again attack Israel. UN members wet their pants over Russia but give a nod and a wink to the mass murderous attacks on a state formed by the UN which was formed independent of others and wishes to remain independent. The UN scum-sucking losers are total hypocrites. Hooray for Putin and Crimea for sticking it to them. Rattling his nukes to warn them that there is in fact an end game if F-bomb Nuland and co want to take it so far, trying to repeat the catastrophes of Napoleon and Hitler by attacking Russia and the gates of Moscow. Perhaps Obama and co should reflect on the fact that they are reminiscent of Napoleon and Hitler and there is no doubt that Russians are mindful of such historical carnage as the "free" [sic] world intends repeating the blundering arrogance on a megaton scale. Meanwhile, as predicted by Mq the Amazing, but I had no idea it would be so quick: time.com <(BEIJING) — China plans to sign a multibillion-dollar deal to buy Russian gas during a visit by President Vladimir Putin next week despite U.S. pressure to avoid undermining sanctions on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis. Washington has appealed to Beijing to avoid making business deals with Russia, though American officials acknowledge the pressing energy needs of China, the world’s second-largest economy. Negotiations that began more than a decade ago had stalled over price. But analysts say Moscow, isolated over its role in Ukraine, faces pressure to make concessions in exchange for an economic and political boost. “We are still exchanging views with Moscow and we will try our best to ensure that this contract can be signed and witnessed by the two presidents during President Putin’s visit to China,” a deputy Chinese foreign minister, Cheng Guoping, told reporters on Thursday. Putin’s visit to China is also likely to highlight the diverging fortunes of the two powers. China is on track to overtake the U.S. as the world’s biggest economy in the next decade and is increasingly assertive in political relations with its neighbors. Russia’s economy is reeling from its dispute with the West over Ukraine’s tilt toward the European Union, a shift that inflamed Moscow’s insecurities about declining influence.> Team USA/Euroserfs were warned [by me]. Russia and they are natural allies, but instead of working in harmony with Russia, they are going to end up fighting each other again, only to find the Mongol hordes once again at the doors of Europe and Turkey. Maybe this time they will take over entirely. Telling Russia to keep their gas might not be such a clever strategy when 2020 cooling gets serious in northern Europe and some more gas would be nice to have. Mqurice

To: TobagoJack who wrote (106062)	5/16/2014 2:36:22 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 219951

Some short remarks; Due to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire the British and French and in part the Russians revised the the Empire establishing many countries without thorough understanding of the tribal nature of most of the Arab population and its minorities by establishing various states from India to the East to Morocco on the Atlantic coast. Therefore the endless frictions since WWI to today with the more recent the civil war in Syria and continued tribal fighting in what we call Iraq and Afghanistan. Russia's Stalin knowing the strength of the Azeri people en.wikipedia.org and the huge crude oil deposits in the Caspian Sea (Baku was already a "Oil Boom" town developed by Shell) asked the allied forces to divide Azerbaijan in two and half went to the USSR and half to today Iran. Tabriz is a old cultural center of the Azeri people. To further weaken the Azeris and Armenians he intermingled their territories to generate strife and hostilities that persist even today. Since the Tzarist times there is no love lost between the Russians and the Azeri people. Within this frame work they also established the forerunner of the State of Israel Palestine the same way they defined most countries in the ME from India to Morocco. As a result, Lord Balfour gave the Jews their homeland consisting of all of Jordan and the land west of the Jordan River. This was called the Balfour Agreement. The 1917 letter that made public the British support of a Jewish homeland in Palestine led the League of Nations to entrust the United Kingdom with the Palestine Mandate in 1922. Text "Foreign Office November 2nd, 1917 Dear Lord Rothschild, I have much pleasure in conveying to you. on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country. I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation. Yours, Arthur James Balfour In 1920, the League of Nations ratified the Balfour Agreement. The U.S. Congress Endorses Declaration (September 21, 1922) The wording "Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled. That the United States of America favors the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which will prejudice the civil and religious rights of Christian and all other non-Jewish communities in Palestine, and that the holy places and religious buildings and sites in Palestine shall be adequately protected." In 1922, under pressure from the Arabs, the British and the League of Nations took away Jordan, which is the actual state of the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians.