The Plight of Palestinian Refugees is Holding Back Palestinians from Negotiation With Israel.

Earlier this year, I wrote a piece on my blog speculating why the Palestinians work so hard to not negotiate. After all, my feeling is that if you are a Palestinian leader and you are sincere about wanting a future for your people, then you talk to Israel, and you keep talking - you do it for days, weeks...hell you do it for years, whatever it takes. You keep the lines open, because one day you'll get there. You don't set preconditions, agree to meet & then cancel, talk about talks, send delegates, but refuse to be in the same room and you don't make inflammatory public statements at the start of a negotiation process, to scupper any hope of success at the outset.

My conclusion then as to why the Palestinian leaders don't negotiate was that they simply don't want an agreement with Israel, because it isn't in their own personal interests. At the moment Palestinian Authority leaders are widely seen as being ridiculously corrupt, to a point where despite more than enough income from foreign aid to pay for their fiscal responsibilities, the PA recently needed Israel to step in and pay Palestinian Authority wages. The money had gone! Of course, in the current climate the PA can blame Israel for any failure, but where they an actual independent government, the Palestinian people would only have their own government to blame, probably leading to a Jihadist / Hamas takeover and a return to war with Israel.

I stand by that opinion, and I strongly believe the corrupt avarice of PA officials is a reason for them to not negotiate with Israel, but I have come to realize that there's another fundamental reason that a peace agreement would be a disaster for the Palestinians - It is The "Refugees":

The Arab world has climbed a tree of "Right of Return" for so called refugees and it is now so ingrained into Palestinian psyche that a future state will have to allow the 'return' of the refugees. Indeed, as they languish for generations without homes and work, it is their only hope. This is a demographic nightmare for Israel, but it would spell total disaster for any fledgling Palestinian state. Here's the issue:

Starting at the beginning, in 1948, the Arabs of Palestine (at the time nobody identified any ethnic race as Palestinian) left their homes. Their claim is the "zionists" forced them out in an act of ethnic cleansing, but there is a mass of historical evidence from Arab leaders , arab media, international observers and the UN itself, that the Arab League & Palestinian leaders urged them to leave for a few days, so as not to get in the way of the planned genocide of the Jews of Palestine by the combined armies of the Arab world.

How many left? The Palestinians claim 1,000,000 refugees fled the fighting. This is a blatant lie. The census of residents of Palestine from 1945 shows there were only ever about 850,000 Arabs in the land, and after the War of Independence, around 160,000 remained (and became full citizens of The State of Israel!). The UN at the time estimated there were no more than 450,000 refugees. In any case, what happened after has been a greater disaster for those people and their descendants, as the Arab world manipulated the UN (and its agency established to deal with this issue, UNRWA) into creating a refugee population that would never find homes, never settle and always be an angry pawn of the Arab League and their own Palestinian leadership.

The Palestinian exiles fled to their Arab brothers in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Egypt etc. The normal process in cases of refugee exile would have been settlement, and citizenship over time, which is why despite mass displacement after WW2, there are no "refugees' from that period today- the idea is absurd! Indeed, there are no Jewish refugees from Arab lands after they were kicked out of those countries after 1000s of years merely for sharing the same religion as Israelis. There were 850,000 Jewish refugees in the 40s and 50s, but none exist today. Their descendants are now Israeli and some are European, American, Australian...but none are "refugees" 60+ years later. Again, the idea is absurd. As the Executive Vice President of Justice for Jews from Arab Countries wrote this week in The Jerusalem Post, "Israel, opened her doors to hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from Arab countries, granted them citizenship, and tried, under very difficult circumstances, to absorb them into Israeli society...by contrast, the Arab world, with the sole exception of Jordan, turned their backs on displaced Palestinian Arabs."

Today there are now around 5,000,000 Palestinian refugees in 2012. With laws borrowed from Hitler's Germany of the 1930's, where ironically they were enacted against Jews, these people have been denied citizenship, denied building rights or property ownership, and in many Arab countries, it is illegal for Palestinians to work in most professions. They have been trapped in this hopeless situation for 65 years!

Sir Alexander Galloway, the head of UNRWA in 1958 said,"The Arab nations do not want to solve the Arab refugee problem, they want to keep it as an open sore...as a weapon against Israel". Nothing has changed in the intervening 50 years.

Certainly Sir George has been proven correct: the Palestinian refugees have indeed been used as a weapon against Israel: they have been a moral argument thrown at the Jewish state, claiming ethnic cleansing, colonialism, fascism etc. Worse, these desperate people, denied basic rights for 3 generations produce very angry youth, indoctrinated with hate and antisemitism, ready to provide terrorists and martyrs for 'the cause'.

However, as the world seriously contemplates some kind of Palestinian state in the near future, the refugees have become a double edged sword, because how can any future Palestine deny them the "right of return" promised for so long? To make matters worse for the hapless Palestinian leaders, this very right is sown into the hated zionist state, allowing Jews instant citizenship of Israel, so it is obvious that 5,000,000 desperate arab refugees will start to pack their bags the moment a Palestinian state becomes reality. They will outnumber the local population 3:1 ! No country can hope to absorb that many people, and certainly not a tiny Palestinian country, which will almost certainly be full of corruption, reliant on world aid, with no industry, no infrastructure and riven by violent splits.

Until this reality is recognized by the world, and the Arab world is made to face the shame of its treatment of Palestinians, there can be no solution in the Middle East. The Palestinian cause constantly moves the goal post of debate, indeed the entire playing field away from the real issues we face here. They talk settlements, they talk apartheid, they talk about water rights, but the real issues such as the refugee problem are barely mentioned. Substantive talks are not even on the horizon. Meanwhile, millions of people languish for another generation, without any hope of a future for their children.

Addendum: July 2013:
Nothing has changed in the 15 months since I first wrote this piece. As I write this, the US has been involved in shuttle diplomacy and seemed to be getting some movement from both the Palestinian & the Israeli sides toward talks,so I have been waiting for the Palestinian's to find ways to ensure no talks will ever happen - they have not failed to disappoint! They want a series of "incentives" to even think about coming to the table - because apparently gaining a state isn't enough - incentives they are already describing as "pre-conditions". Today's little gem is an international airport in Ramallah - please don't tell me Palestinian leaders really want a successful final status negotiation...it's a lie! 

Cats: They're Killing Us !

They watch you silently in the night; they go though your trash bags; their screaming is the stuff of nightmares, and in Jerusalem the damn things are everywhere...cats ! Ok, it's not Iranian nukes, or Hamas rockets, but feral cats are an issue all over Israel and no more so than in Jerusalem and now it seems, they may be a far bigger problem than we ever imagined!

First, let me explain I am truly someone who loves animals, although cats would not be top of my list. Second, for those readers from parts of the world where cats are occasionally seen poking around a lace curtain or sitting on a garden wall, in Jerusalem its a little different... the damn things are everywhere, literally in their 100,000s (if not more)! It's impossible to walk through my neighbourhood, aptly named Katamon, without seeing them: they're in the gardens, crossing the street, under the car and rummaging in trash cans. Most residents here recognize that, while not the ugliest of animal, these feral critters are essentially vermin. I say 'most people', because on every street, as well as cats, there's the ubiquitous, often anonymous, "cat feeder". These people leave piles of leftovers and even cat food on walls everyday. This leads to healthier cats and healthier cats in Israel breed like rabbits!

So what? Better than rats right? Well perhaps not - a new study being widely reported in the UK media today shows that cats are infecting a thousand people a day in the UK alone with a dangerous parasite,called Toxoplasma. This charming microscopic life-form can cause birth defects, blindness and dementia and has been linked with schizophrenia and other psychotic disturbances (this might go a long way to explain Israeli driving habits!). The animals are the primary carriers of the parasite because they are the only animals within which it can actually reproduce. Humans, however, are most likely to become infected by the Toxoplasma gondii parasite from contaminated meat and vegetables (which the cats are finding in our Jerusalem trash cans) or direct contact with infected cat litter. Dr.Richard Holliman, a consultant medical biologist at St George’s Hospital in London, said: ‘Toxoplasma is more important, or as important, as salmonella and campylobacter, which affect a lot of people. Toxoplasma affects a few people but when it does affect them it can be devastating. A child born with congenital Toxoplasma is damaged for life!’.

Toxoplasma can cause birth defects, blindness and dementia and has been linked with schizophrenia and other psychotic disturbances.

So simply stop our kids from touching the pretty kitties? Sadly as you read this, little children in ganim (kindergartens) all over the country are playing in sand pits, left open and uncovered overnight and a favorite toilet for the feline disease carriers. Studies show they are rich in toxoplasma eggs if left unprotected! In the public park opposite my apartment, used by thousands of Jerusalem's kids weekly, there's a large sandy play area where this morning I saw three cats sitting, perhaps contemplating their morning defecation? My wife runs a gan and she's been concerned about this for years. She's meticulous about covering her sand pit at night with a tight tarpaulin, but even though I'm told this is actually the law (?) in Israel, she appears to be the exception.

At the risk of sounding like a 'grumpy old man' , this is an issue that needs to be being taken very seriously by the government and the Israel environmental ministry led by MK Gilad Erdan and also the town & city authorities across Israel. I'm not in anyway pretending to be an expert on this, but here's some common sense suggestions:

1. Cull (emotive I know, but its a serious health issue!)

2. replace trash cans with broken lids to reduce cats getting in & feeding

3. cull

4. make it an offence to feed feral cats and back it up with a hefty fine

5. cull

6. remove sandpits from public play areas - they're unhealthy for a variety of reasons, this being just one.

7. cull

8. Make it illegal for Ganim to have uncovered sand pits.

9. .... yes...cull!!!

10. Thoroughly wash vegetables if they are to be eaten raw & the official advice in UK to pregnant women and immune-compromised patients is to cook all meat well and not to eat it rare.

I'm expecting the Israel Cat Lovers' Society (yes, its real!) to blacklist me after this blog but thats ok, because I'm a dog lover anyway!

Israeli Economy booming but All We're feeling is The Pain.

Last summer Israeli's took to the streets in unprecedented numbers to protest a variety of social economic issues that puts great pressure on those of us trying to make ends meet in Israel. What struck me as unique in these popular, peaceful, mass demonstrations was that the people marching were not, on the whole, the poorest members of society: This wasn't about extreme poverty, it wasn't about the geopolitical fringes of Israeli society (Arab sector, Haredim, or the economically deprived Negev & Galil regions). No. last summer was about the middle classes: Issues such as lack of affordable properties and impossibility of getting on the housing ladder, high prices of essentials in stores (where items cost up to 20% higher than similar items in similarly sized economies); prohibitive cost of early child care and other factors that affect then middle classes in Israel such as poor professional wages and high tax rates.

The events of last summer rocked the Netanyahu government and had major food companies like near monopolies Osem & Tnuva scrabbling to lower prices (for a few weeks) & justify their previous contempt for their customers. So here we are at the end of the Summer one year on, and things aren't better, they're worse: Petrol prices have reached record levels; over the weekend VAT rose 1%, hurting every single Israeli, the housing issue seems to have stagnated at the recognition of the problem stage, but without solutions, and the pre school education? Well ok, free ganim for over 3s is a start, but without putting money in to building new pre-schools, or hiring new staff, we are being asked to consign our kids to class sizes of around 40, with inadequate staffing levels. In any case, for the mothers with no choice but to go back to work after 3.5 months paid maternity leave have nearly 3 years years before they see any benefit.

By putting up VAT, and maintaining tax rates on oil imports (when world oil prices are very high), the government is being fiscally responsible, minimizing borrowing, and keeping inflation and exchange rates on an even keel, and I respect the need for them to do that. However, a strong economy that is built on the back of a population being squeezed to exhaustion, benefits nobody. I'm delighted the governor of the Bank of Israel believes the policies of the Finance Ministry are economically sound, and I would hate to see Israel go the way of Greece, Spain and other states in the Eurozone, but surely there needs to be some balance between needs of the economy and needs of the people?

It is impossible for a family to make ends meet in Israel unless both parents work two jobs, but then if you add children to the mix, most of the second wage will be taken up in child care; running a car is now so prohibitive, that many people are giving up cars, and all of us are walking more - good for the waistline, bad for the economy! We work longer weeks than our peers overseas, but get paid less than most countries in the developed world for doing the same job, however cost of living in Israel is not that much lower than in Europe or The US, in fact many basic items cost more in Israel, even though we earn less!

To add insult to injury, as we approach the most expensive time of year, with kids back in school, and the High Holy days around the corner, we get a serious increase in gas prices (which will have a knock on effect on food prices, as transport costs increase) and VAT has risen to 17%. It simply is not acceptable for the Israeli government shrug its shoulders and declare "ain mah laasot" (what can we do?) then to squeeze the public in this way.

By doing it in September, the government is cynically assuming that we are just too busy at this time of year to form mass protests, and they may be right, but something has to change in the root thinking of politicians and economists because people who are passionate about living and building this country, who have professional qualifications and on paper at least, good jobs, who work long hard days, with few public holidays and without normal weekends enjoyed worldwide, should not at the end of the month struggle to make ends meet. If thats the case, then I'm sorry, this is not a strong economy. A strong economy is not self serving, it benefits the people, and all we're feeling is the pain!

Pro Palestinians Don't Seem to be Pro Anyone!

Firstly a Disclaimer: Someone called simply 'Matt' (who describes himself as anonymous West Bank journalist) has written a piece on similar lines to this blog, but I too had actually been working on making the same points myself for a couple of weeks, so thank you Matt (whoever you are) for giving me the encouragement to finish this piece and I hope you'll forgive me for borrowing from your work in my blog below :-)

It's a simple point that he and I both prove: The pro-Palestinian lobby doesn't seem to really care too much about Palestinians! In fact, their entire focus is Israel, or rather Israel bashing. So on the whole they are 'anti' rather than 'pro' anyone!

My anonymous friend 'Matt' makes this point nicely in his essay when he discusses the recent "Welcome to Palestine Campaign" group of around 100 activists who tried to enter Israel via Jordan despite being told they would be refused entry by the Israeli authorities. The activists had let the media know well advance that they would probably not be allowed to cross the Allenby Bridge, indeed a journalist friend of mine told me he had the story written days before the event and merely edited in details when it happened. The group, who said their mission was bringing school supplies, did bring a smile to even the faces of hardened media hacks with their bizarre assertions that they "merely wanted to give Palestinian children much needed bags and pencils for school" - who knew Palestinian kids lacked basic school supplies? Not the Palestinian Authority, the schools , Media or even the UN!

Anyway, having spent thousands of dollars on a publicity stunt at the Jordanian border, the group turned round and went home, achieving nothing but an anti Israel publicity stunt. Did this help the Palestinians? Doubtful, but then I'm not sure anyone really cared!

Had they truly been pro-Palestinian, one would have thought that they would have taken some of this 'unexpected' spare time in Jordan to visit Palestinians refugee camps and meet with some actual Palestinians. They might have learnt about the harsh living conditions the Jordanians impose on the 'refugees' (refugees in a country 60% Palestinian!); They might have attempted to discuss with Jordanian officials the country's recent decision to revoke the citizenship of many thousands of Palestinians, as well as other Jordanian discrimination against Palestinians that has caused a lot of criticism in the country. They did not do any of these things, they simply went home.

Its a shame, because they could have also used their time, money and 'love' of Palestinians to visit and maybe help thousands of Syrian and Palestinian refugees who are being held in miserable conditions along the Jordan-Syria border, and learn about the slaughter of Palestinian men, women and children occurring in that despotic country. And sadly, they didn't seem to care much about Palestinians in Lebanon either, who are being subjected to draconian laws that stop them from making a home there, even after three generations, keeping them 'refugees'. The truth is, despite absurd accusations that Zionists are Nazis / Fascist / racists etc, it is in fact their Arab Brothers in Lebanon who have enacted laws almost identical to Nazi Germany's anti Jewish laws of the 1930s: Lebanese Palestinians (who've lived there for 3 generations) have far fewer freedoms or rights than Palestinians inside Israel & the Territories are forbidden to own property, build property, or hold professional jobs, such as lawyers, doctors etc (all things that they can do in Israel). These are pure Nazi race laws and yet nobody seems to give a damn, not even the "Pro" Palestinian lobby.

This is the crux of the Palestinian support worldwide - it simply doesn't care about Palestinians. These people are in it to bash Israel, pure and simple, and their 'love' of Palestinians is merely the hammer they use to do the bashing with: they use incendiary words like "apartheid Israel" , accuse Israel of "buzzword" crimes that do not occur here, but are (and ignored) common across the arab world, like 'genocide', 'ethnic cleansing', etc, and proudly espouse a "one state solution" theory knowing full well that it would spell the end of Israel. We see the bizarre spectacle of liberal feminists supporting Hamas, who stand against everything a liberal of any nature believes in, except dislike of Israel; we see even gay rights movements joining the anti Israel brigade, standing with countries and societies that imprison homosexuals or worse, and these gay groups stand against Israel, the only country where gay rights are an accepted part of the legal and cultural system . It beggars belief!

If these "pro" Palestinians actually cared about the Palestinians, they may well still be pressuring Israel for concessions etc, but they'd also be thinking about nation building, and about the future, preparing the Palestinians for a future emancipation, as the Zionist leaders did for 50 years prior to the establishment of Israel. I have yet to see any groups who talk economic development for Palestinians, or who set up educational funds to advance Palestinian kids. Where's the pressure on the Palestinians from their 'friends' to break the cycle of violence, or who protest extreme groups like Hamas who seem determined to carry on a conflict with Israel at all costs? Why do we not see pro Palestinian groups putting pressure on Abbas & others to say holocaust denial is deeply offensive not just to Jews but to all human beings of conscience? Why do we not see pro Palestinians working with Palestinians to establish peace groups, which have a strong voice on the Israeli side (e.g Peace Now, etc); where is the outcry when the Palestinian Authority suppresses press freedoms or its insanely high corruption levels mean it regularly loses the wages of Palestinian Authority employees? Instead of boycotting Jewish business worldwide, why is there no incentive to encourage Jews in the so called "West Bank" to employee more Palestinians, perhaps even grants to make them business partners?

No..these "Pro-Palestinian" groups whether they attempt to cross the Allenby bridge by foot, or they head off from Greece by boat, or they scuffle at Ben Gurion airport, are only interested in "Israel is evil" publicity. They appear to have no love for Palestinians and they do nothing to make their lives better nor do they contribute any positive ideas or suggestions to the debate. Their websites, newsletters and gatherings are dedicated to rehashing Zionist history, reworked antisemitism (under the guise of anti-zionism) and demonizing Israel.

The result? Well Israel is a growing and a wonderful country that is proud of its open democracy, its great education, healthcare, hi tech industry and powerful defense force but the Palestinians? They're going nowhere fast, because with friends like the Pro Palestinians...who needs enemies!!

Radio Interview

Not so much a blog as a link to my discussion on Israel News Talk Radio in New York. The host (Michael David McGuire) and I talk life in Jerusalem, Egypt, Iran and other current topics. I'm going to be a regular contributor on this station, and the output will be being syndicated across the US.

CLICK HERE FOR INTERVIEW

Is Egypt's Morsi The Master Manipulator?

On 5th August 2012 masked gunmen in Egypt's Sinai desert killed 16 Egyptian soldiers at a checkpoint along the border with Gaza and Israel, the first such attack on Egyptian troops - and then the attackers drove off, crashing into Israel, before being fatally stopped by the IDF. Egypt blamed Islamist militants from Gaza and Egypt's troubled Sinai Peninsula. President Mohammed Morsi said the attackers "will pay dearly.". However, while Morsi has certainly hit the terrorists cells in the Sinai very hard, the real payment seems to have been extracted from the Egyptian military and the real winner? President Morsi.

Following the attack, Islamic Brotherhood backed Morsi moved swiftly to consolidate power from the Egyptian Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) , which up until that point had seemed to have the upper hand in the battle of wills with the Islamists.Two days after the attack, President Mohamed Morsi announced the dismissal of Murad Muwafi, head of the General Intelligence Directorate, who had replaced Omar Suleiman, as well as the dismissal of the governor of the northern Sinai province and the head of the military police. Five days later, President Morsi announced that Defense Minister Tantawi, Chief of Staff Anan, and the commanders of the navy, air defense, and air force were “retiring.” It appears that the top command echelon of the Egyptian defense establishment, which operated as part of SCAF and has controlled Egypt since Mubarak’s ouster, was dealt a heavy blow in the struggle with the civil government. Many social media users are calling this development “check mate” and “a knockout” in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood. President Morsi also used the opportuni

ty to recover the executive and legislative powers that SCAF had taken from him.

Additionally, he is managing to achieve something his predecessor Mubarak did not even attempt, the re-militarization of the Sinai peninsula, emptied of all but lightly armed forces under the Camp David accords of 1978, unless by prior agreement with Israel. Egypt used attack helicopters and armored personnel carriers in coordination with Israel to go after militants suspected of being behind the Aug. 5 killing of the Egyptian soldier

s in Sinai. Later, however, Egypt deployed U.S.-made M60 tanks to Sinai without consulting with Israel, which drew objections from the Israel despite the fact that it has long encouraged Cairo to crack down on militants in Sinai.

Israel does not view the Egyptian military buildup there as a strategic threat. The problem, Israeli officials said, is with Egypt setting a precedent by moving troops to Sinai without coordinating the move with Israel first.

As the crisis passes and the dust settles, there is no doubt that President Morsi has come out of the incident as the clear winner. He appears to have seized the opportunity, dropped in his lap by the terrorists, to consolidate his power and demonstrate a strategic gain over the hated Israelis, in front of the Egyptian public. Where it starts to gets a little sinister and look less like dumb luck, more like calculated manipulation by Morsi, is that over the past weekend, the Palestinian Maan News Agency has reported that at least 4 of the Sinai terrorists were Jihadists released from Egyptian prison after being pardoned by President Morsi shortly after he came to power. This raises the ghost of a suspicion that Morsi may have planned the entire thing, or at least encouraged the terrorists to take action. By releasing the Jihadists, and opening the Gaza border despite recent attacks on Israel by Gaza backed terror groups in the Sinai, Morsi must have seen that a large scale, sophisticated attack was a distinct possibility. That knowledge allowed him to plan a swift coup over SCAF, and demonstrate immediate and dramatic resolve in the Sinai. In one foul swoop he has gained virtually full control over the armed forces, and dealt a heavy blow to the Sinai terror groups, in the process weakening the norms of military behavior in the Sinai.

The Muslim Brotherhood are today firmly in control in Egypt and triumphant President Morsi is now making his first foreign visit...to Iran.

The Absurd Myth of Zionist Financial Control

"Jewish bankers rule the world" used to be the cry of the antisemite. Today it tends to be "Zionist bankers rule the world" or even "Rothschild Zionists.."

much more politically correct of course (as it leaves open the oft used defense of "I'm not antisemitic, just anti Zionist").

However, as is so often the case, the antisemites and particularly arab enemies of Israel & Zionism falsely accusing Zionism of doing precisely what they really are doing themselves (in this case massive financial investment in international financial markets) and what is crazy is that anyone with half a brain can see the evidence of this all around them! Cities skylines across US & Europe are dominated by Arab owned buildings, sports teams have Arab companies as owners and investors, and even the British Airways Concorde model you saw as you drove into Heathrow Airport is today an Airbus in Emirates livery, but then the airport that is the gateway to Britain, is itself now part owned by an Arab state!

In fact Arab money owns or has stakes all over the world in banks, stock markets, hotels, sports teams, iconic buildings, industry...the list is endless. here's just a few examples:

The Chrysler building is a US icon...it's owned by The United Arab Emirate!; You'll find arab investment in London's new landmark Shard as well; Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabir Al-Thani is Qatar’s prime minister and head of the Qatar Investment Authority, a $50 billion investment fund that bought 20 percent of the London Stock Exchange (he's probably not a Zionist!); the Dubai Investment Group owns a 19.9 percent stake in Nasdaq, the second largest securities exchange in the U.S.; In

sports Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan (pictured below) owns Manchester City (current English league champions); Qatar just bought a 20% stake in Heathrow Airport, and this month Qatar was the top sovereign wealth buyer of European property in the last 12 months, spending 3.5 billion euros ($4.3 billion) on eight deals including the London Olympic athlete’s village and a mall on Paris’ Champs Elysees; Harrods was owned by Egyptian Mohamed Fayed, now Qatar holdings own this iconic British store, as well as Miramax Movies, stakes in Canary Wharf Group, & Paris Saint-Germain

football club! Dubai International Capital holdings include Travelodge, Merlin Entertainments , Doncasters, Mauser, Alliance Medical and Almatis as well as having major stakes in Daimler and Sony...the list is unending !

Israel is an economically strong but tiny state. To suggest it is dominating the world's financial market is absurd. OPEC alone has more impact on a daily basis than Israel has had in its 65 year existence! When you fill your gas tank and it costs an absurd amount of money, it is the oil producers that decide the price of crude, not the Zionists. Chances are your money is going to Mid East owned companies every single day.

While the enemies of Israel divert your attention, the actual financial power lies elsewhere but the true impact and implications has not yet registered with an unwitting western public...but one day it will & in a big way!