The Arab/Israeli conflict began with the Jaffa r**ts in 1921, and except for brief periods of relative peace, it has been going on ever since.

The land once known as Canaan or Palestine or the Promised Land had been the home of the Jews for at least 20 centuries before Islam was founded in 632 AD.

In 1010 BCE, King David established the Kingdom of Israel, 1600 years before the advent of Islam.

Beginning in the 19th century, archeological expeditions in Israel and surrounding areas have uncovered thousands of sites, hamlets, villages, temples, burial grounds, tombs, wells, and millions of artifacts--pottery, coins, amulets, scrolls, carvings, and many other items, all of which revealed a Hebrew presence in the land, some dating back to 1500 BCE, Then there are the Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered in the Qumran Caves by a Bedouin shepherd boy. These date back to the 3rd century BCE.

Nothing, not one artifact, was ever found there that revealed that a people called "Palestinians" ever lived there, nothing indicated a Palestinian culture, language, tradition or physical presence of any kind.

Israel map throughout history

The name "Palestinian" referring to a collection of Arabs from the area in and around T***s Jordan was first used in 1964AD.

The vast literature proving the historic Jewish connection to the Land of Israel has been extensively manipulated and distorted as part of the Palestinian politics of nationalism. Propaganda, indoctrination, and socialization, both domestically and internationally, are essential parts of the strategy and tactics of asserting Palestinian nationhood and statehood. By appropriating to themselves the values, traditions, and historical facts that belong to the Jews, Palestinians have managed to fabricate a "legitimate" history and political traditions out of nothing while denying those of Israel.

Founding National Myths: Fabricating Palestinian History

I understand your argument, you are a progressive ideologue, and as such you are by default an anti-Semite. So go ahead and politicize and proselytize and propagandize the existence and rights of a great people who are now and have always been in an existential struggle against extinction.

As gold and silver catch fire, what's happening?
https://www.goldmoney.com/research/goldmoney-insights/the-reasoning-behind-gold-s-breakout

A friend who has not been paying close attention to the gold market for a while asked your secretary/treasurer this afternoon for a summary of his outlook. With the monetary metals on fire tonight as they have not been for a long, long time, maybe the reply is worth sharing:

1) The gold market has felt very different for months -- felt much stronger.

2) The usual central bank-instigated smashdowns, which used to depress the price for weeks or months, now are failing to keep the price down for more than a day or two.

3) The New York Commodities Exchange's gold market has been operating very differently, with most contracts seeking delivery converted into a formerly rarely used mechanism called "exchange for physicals" whereby they are settled somewhere off the exchange, apparently in London. Until recently this mechanism was said to be used only in emergencies. Now it seems to be settling most Comex gold contracts. The implication is that there is little or no gold available immediately in Comex vaults. Wh**ever it means, there is a huge change here.
4) The "exchanges for physicals" seem to be rolled over in London every two weeks to escape ordinary reporting requirements. This implies that the sellers are trying to hide something. Of course that the major powers in the gold market are trying to hide things is not new, but that they are using new mechanisms of concealment is new.

5) Of course central banks, if you believe their announcements, have turned into big net buyers of gold in the last couple of years and have let the European Central Bank's longstanding gold sale agreements lapse. That is, central banks are not selling much if any gold anymore, and sales and leases of central bank gold long have provided a big part of supply.

6) The Bank for International Settlements is the major broker for central bank gold trades and long has been heavily involved with trading, leasing, and swapping gold and trading its derivatives. But the bank's recent monthly reports show a sharp decline in its gold trading. The implication is that the BIS, like the European central banks, is reducing its gold trading.

7) Many central bankers and President Trump himself are screaming for devaluing their currencies. Of course many European government and private-sector bonds are carrying negative interest rates, which is insane. Essentially it proclaims that government-issued money is hardly worth anything anymore, except for paying taxes.

8) But at least one sovereign, probably the United States, still has been trying to contain the gold price, while the strength in the market suggests that at least one sovereign has been acquiring wh**ever physical gold and silver are available. This is to be expected as the United States has been weaponizing the dollar and throwing sanctions at anyone who disagrees with U.S. policy. Lately there have been serious defections from the dollar system, and the defectors may have nowhere to go except to gold. But as much as central banks and President Trump want to devalue, they may want to devalue only against each other, not against gold, since -- if it is done gradually rather than suddenly, as in an international currency reset -- devaluing against gold risks prompting a flight out of all currencies, bonds, and equities. That is, a comprehensive market crash.

9) Ordinarily it would seem that circumstances are hugely favorable to gold and silver. But if governments lose on the market-rigging front, they can always become more openly totalitarian -- confiscating gold or outlawing private possession of monetary gold, imposing windfall profits taxes on capital gains in gold, raising royalty requirements on gold-mining companies to prohibitive levels, and so forth. So even as we all may hope for the best -- free and t***sparent markets, and limited and accountable government -- your secretary/treasurer's only prediction is borrowed from Orwell's "1984": "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever."

To prevent that is another reason to press on in the morning.

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
CPowell@GATA.org

So much wrong with both posts. The Palestinians are not a sovereign state and have never been one. Israel is a sovereign state. The Jewish people have to get permits to build a home. Some, not all Palestinian's just squat on land they haven't purchased and don't obtain permits to build homes. Israel has finally reached its limit of enough is enough. It's their nation, not anyone's else's. It doesn't belong to the UN, Pope, Orthodox, or anyone else. They get to call the shots. The Palestinians must choose to obey the law and live peaceably or suffer the consequences. Israel has been too nice and generous for too long. E******y in the law is required for both. Otherwise, there will never be peace.

You know, there really is a large difference, in an awful lot of instances, between what the mainstream media (and I'm talking that of both Europe and the U.S.) reports and the actual realities on the ground.

Having worked in Israel, Pakistan and a few real s**tholes, then read what the MSM has to say, I can assure you that all you're getting is political bias. In many cases, the "reporters" who file the stories are supplying second hand information because either they don't have the balls to set foot in certain area deemed highly dangerous or government authorities, ours or locals, won't permit them in. Somehow that never seems to figure into their stories. Often what they "report" is hearsay from sources with some political axe or other to grind.

Then, of course, there is their news venue's own political biases and other factors. Our own mainstream media, for example, deals with a Democratic Party that will not tolerate any reporting that contradicts their party line; in some cases, reporting the t***h could find a news company "on the outs" with the very party they support.

That said, having been to some countries and done work in a field that's pretty much inside certain issues that make the news, I've found much of the MSM accounts regarding events in those places to be less than accurate.

Now, in addition to having been there myself when I was 17 and again s couple of times in the first 12 years of this century, I have a number of relatives of Polish descent, a "wing" of my family from my grandmother's side, who have been living in Israel since the late 1940s. They have been soldiers, business people, kibbutzniks, tradesmen and one was a professor at the University of Tel Aviv. When I was there working, I took time to get together with some of those in my relative age group, their children and grandchildren and we talked a lot about "goings-on" there.

To be perfectly blunt and speaking as someone who has been there and worked with Israeli security people, specifically, in part, Shabak (what you may know as the Shin Beth, the General Security Service) what you posted to start this thread was total bulls**t published by folks with an extreme anti-Israel bias. What I would recommend before you post something regarding anything happening on the other side of the world and then express an opinion is that you go there first and see for yourself, thereby saving yourself the dubious experience of being just another conduit for a lie. 😎