We have the lines already drawn.

And just in time>>

The west bank has a bit of history the borderline needs to approved.

What did happen: Key events

1. Annexation of the West Bank (1948–49)
   • After the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, Jordan took control of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Encyclopedia Britannica+2Foreign Policy+2
   • Jordan formally annexed the West Bank in 1950. This was recognized only by a few countries; most of the world did not recognize Jordan’s claim. Encyclopedia Britannica
2. Citizenship for Palestinians in the West Bank
   • Jordan granted Jordanian citizenship to many Palestinians living in the West Bank under its control. Foreign Policy+1
3. 1967 War & Loss of the West Bank
   • In the Six-Day War of 1967, Israel captured the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan. Jordan lost control of those areas. Encyclopedia Britannica+1
4. 1988: Jordan relinquishes legal and administrative claims
   • In 1988, King Hussein formally announced that Jordan was relinquishing its claim to the West Bank, recognizing the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) as the representative of the Palestinian people. Foreign Policy
5. 1994 Jordan-Israel Peace Treaty & the Land-Lease / Border Areas
   • In the 1994 treaty, there were provisions regarding two border areas: Al-Baqura (also called the Island of Peace / Baqoura) and Al-Ghumar (or Al-Ghamr). These areas were Jordanian sovereignty, but the treaty allowed Israeli farmers to lease/use them under special rules. Jerusalem Post+3Wikipedia+3Al Jazeera+3
   • In 2018, King Abdullah II gave notice that Jordan would not renew those leases, effectively ending those special arrangements. He said those lands are Jordanian and will remain so. Al Jazeera+1

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Areas of controversy / “shady deals” & claims

• There are claims about land transactions (especially in the early-mid 20th century) between large landowners in Transjordan/Jordan and Zionist organizations. Some of those claims concern attempts to buy or lease land; others claim promises were made that were not fulfilled, or that land was transferred under terms that Palestinians see as unjust. But many of these claims are contested or lack clear documentation. The Times of Israel
• The “Kushner peace plan” (in more recent years) reportedly included suggestions of land swaps — possibly involving Jordan giving some land to a future Palestinian state in exchange for other land from Saudi Arabia. However, those are proposals (and leaked/potential proposals), not agreed deals. The Times of Israel+1
• Some people refer to the non-renewal of the leases for Al-Baqura and Al-Ghumar as “Jordan reclaiming its land,” and others view the original lease as Jordan having given too much to Israel. Whether that’s “shady” depends on perspective — it was part of an internationally-acknowledged treaty, but many Jordanians were unhappy with the arrangement. Al Jazeera+1
• There’s also the matter of King Abdullah II’s personal property holdings, offshore companies, etc., revealed in the Pandora Papers — though that is about personal wealth, not specifically land deals with Palestine. Some critics see issues of transparency, but not necessarily illegal or “shady” land transfers tied to Palestine. The Guardian.

That was from AI with prodding from my memory. A land and power grab by a King gone wrong. Now we have the land grab by USofA president.

Making this a Trump Gold Card deal reeks of arrogance and it bluff. Lot of money – rule one – walk in like you own the room. It depends whose at the table. The Marble, was a bit on the cheap side. You want your profits and that is how the US works. Unfortunately you are overbudget and you are selling off too much. You start with a massive payout that was way to big. China can see you. No soy beans. Pigs. Debt Restructuring. It is going to cost a lot. And AI the Chinese Kid know how to work AI. For social media rankings. AI is getting the jobs. And they don’t get paid. Well infrastructure cost write off is worth billions. A few extra overruns and sue the suppliers you have a bank deal coming up.

I don’t see it. Worshiping brazen idols – no Golden Idols… wasn’t there a James Bond flick on this one already. The car ad alone worth millions. Some say more. I am pretty sure this the shady side of the deal. Too easy to call. To get it you already lost it. This one is humanity and it has no price tag. It IS. It doesn’t need violence. Doesn’t need that revenue. Doesn’t want that revenue.

In a report on Sunday, the newspaper, based on testimonies of Israeli soldiers and senior army officers, said that during Hamas’s unprecedented attack last October, the Israeli army started making decisions with limited and unverified information, and issued an order that “not a single vehicle can return to Gaza”.

They say 14, but there could have been more; fear could have led to suicides through some ungodly fear response.

1. In a report on Sunday, the newspaper, based on testimonies of Israeli soldiers and senior army officers, said that during Hamas’s unprecedented attack last October, the Israeli army started making decisions with limited and unverified information, and issued an order that “not a single vehicle can return to Gaza”.

In a report on Sunday, the newspaper, based on testimonies of Israeli soldiers and senior army officers, said that during Hamas’s unprecedented attack last October, the Israeli army started making decisions with limited and unverified information, and issued an order that “not a single vehicle can return to Gaza”.¹

1. Al Jazeera. “Israeli Army Used ‘Hannibal Directive’ during October 7 Hamas Attack: Report.” Al Jazeera, July 7, 2024. ↩︎

The terror would have been enhanced by the sheer suddenness of change from a concert to a killing field. There were a about 6 or 7 thousand Palestinian’s involved in the attack. It should not have occurred as surprise to anyone, but wealth and greed are inconvenient bedfellows survival instincts.

The situation on the ground was a long standing war between Isreal and Palestine with approximately 20,000 to 25,000 Palestinians killed including at least 2,996 non-combants. Below are the numbers:

• 1948 Arab-Israeli War (The Nakba): Between 13,000 and 16,000 Palestinians and other Arabs were killed during the war and the events surrounding the establishment of Israel. Sources note that a majority of the Palestinian deaths were civilian casualties.
• First Intifada (1987–1993): An estimated 1,962 Palestinians were killed during the uprising. Israeli sources and other human rights organizations also acknowledge significant fatalities during this period.
• Second Intifada (2000–2005): At least 3,179 to 3,354 Palestinians were killed in this more violent intifada. The Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem reported 6,371 Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces from 2000 to the end of 2010, with at least 2,996 of those being non-combatants.
• Gaza War (2008–2009): Also known as Operation Cast Lead, this 22-day offensive led to the deaths of 1,116 to 1,417 Palestinians, according to human rights organizations.
• 2014 Gaza War (Operation Protective Edge): An estimated 2,125 to 2,310 Palestinians were killed during the conflict. A UN report also noted that Palestinians suffered their highest number of civilian casualties since the Six-Day War in 1967. 

For the most part, the wars had been the Arab Nations against a better armed Israel. Total number of Arab dead “is hard to figure”, but Wikipedia has this.


A lot and then some.

Israel from day 1 had the support of the Jewish diaspora. In US – and this Google AI search:
Before 1947, the Jewish population in the United States grew significantly, from a few thousand at the time of the American Revolution to approximately 4.7 million by 1947. This growth was fueled by major waves of immigration, particularly from Eastern Europe between 1881 and 1924. Key estimates include around 250,000 Jews by 1880 and a total of about 4.2 million by 1927. 

Don’t site this anti-sematic prej·u·dices. America’s jews knew where to keep valuables. They hadn’t forgotten. prej·u·dice Event summary:
In May 1939, the German ocean liner St. Louis set sail from Hamburg with 937 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution. The ship’s destination was Havana, Cuba, where the passengers hoped to disembark and later enter the United States. However, when the ship arrived, Cuban authorities refused entry to most of the passengers, citing invalid visas.

The St. Louis then sailed toward Florida, but U.S. officials under President Franklin D. Roosevelt also denied entry, as did Canada. With no safe harbor, the ship was forced to return to Europe. Eventually, Britain, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands agreed to take in the refugees — but after Germany invaded Western Europe, many of those who had disembarked on the continent were later caught up in the Holocaust.
Historians estimate that about a quarter of the passengers were eventually murdered in Nazi camps.

It was safe enogh to take in all the wealth of Jews in Europe. It would have been a surge.

The ship was denied entry from every port, including Canda … I assume London. Don’t see anything on that. Where was London.

That’s exactly the haunting question historians still ask — “Where was London?”

In fact, Britain did accept a small number of St. Louis passengers — 288 refugees — but only after the ship had been refused by Cuba, the U.S., and Canada, and after weeks of global attention. Britain took them in under strict conditions, largely through private sponsorships and refugee aid groups.

So, London wasn’t entirely absent — but it acted last, after enormous international pressure, and only took a fraction of those on board. The rest — about 650 people — were divided among France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, and when Nazi Germany invaded those countries in 1940, 254 of them were murdered in the Holocaust.

In short:

• London (Britain): accepted 288 — the only government that actually took in any passengers.
• Washington & Ottawa: turned the ship away.
• Cuba: revoked landing permits before arrival.

So how many of them were behind this asking for help!@nowheretogo

There would have children, a last wave of children.

That’s the way it goes when there is no place to go. There were survivors and there children were a miracle in a – not bibles – talmuts — what — the talmuts of the survivor first born or something like that. I can go with them but there is a sadness. But I don’t come from that place. They are gone.

Not the best SEO>>but why should it be. if they are survivors >> who are we. a story in itself. I would say let it go. it is more than long enough to let it go.

Some memories are best laid to rest so others of them can persist. Cut short… and Ian, my son is ok as for his siblings they have been cast off in a wilderness,

But, then again, this is a blog. So, it was have you thought about from the ex-wife that tried to have you killed… That is a hoot of a different tune. In time for the wicked witch of the east NM to show up. Now your into another time zone. This ain’t Kansas any longer. Did you they are on the brink of binging back the Dodo bird(Raphus cucullatus).

We have seen the face of Palestine we jhave seem the dead Palestinian babies in bombed out hosptals. Unknown 1000s’ of uncounted dead. The ruble holds the truth of Gasa and it will see the light of open day.

Peter Thiel, the billionaire political investor and tech investor, is worried about the antichrist. It could be the US. It could be Greta Thunberg.

Personally, I think Bethleham would be a better choice and The Christ Child will be born to Palestinians. Greta Thunberg created a voice that demanded to be heard. She spoke out to protect the planet. More like a teenage girl / woman wite something worthwhile to say.

Thiels Hannibal Protocol sounds more like the Masada Myth. Greta is not a threat but the Hannibal Protcol is. Unfortunate to see that, It would get peoples attention. Sow it under with salt or come home fast.

Again the only right thing to do is let the UN handle securtity. Hamas representing the people. No military to start. They hardly at full strength and they starved with there prisoners.

They have new must words for this kind of speach. I though you just dug through the ruble and counted the number of dead found, You have starvation… not a pretty sight for a Trump Gold Label Seaside Resort. It reeks with SEO and tweets. A wonderful life offworld. Reeks of the Jewish survivors of the holocost… they had to say there for 3 years. How long will it take the Palestinians… Will they have a revival of their culture and faith. The Jews in Isreal know all about the Holocost. They know its sounds and smells. We know what happened a we have not forgotten. We know a Holocost when we see it. What are you doing there. You know better. You taught us better than you taught yourselves. How can we make this better. You should be experts it there is such a thing. Does not sound human,

There are many young players and you have to pull out before your crash and burn.

If it stops the killing then it is ok for now.

Now Israel has to establish positive connections with some Arabs. Israel show follow the UN General Assembly’s lead in this.

Stop the murders. It is a social network we are with conflict entrepreneurs calling the shots.

It is not that. Relax . stop the killings. I do not have the passwords. Got the passwords,

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The Constitution of the United States of America, Amendment I

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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

Justice Jackson’s dissent in Trump v. CASA, Inc.

In June 2025, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote a scathing dissent in Trump v. CASA, Inc., a ruling that limited lower courts’ ability to issue nationwide injunctions against the executive branch. She warned that the majority’s decision would enable the President to disregard the law and erode constitutional safeguards against arbitrary power. 

• The footnote: In a particularly forceful footnote, Jackson cited the work of Ernst Fraenkel, a German Jewish legal scholar who fled the Nazis in 1938. Fraenkel’s book, The Dual State, analyzed how the Nazi regime created two parallel legal systems—a “normative state” of constitutional rules and a “prerogative state” of unchecked executive power. By invoking this historical example, Jackson suggested that the Supreme Court was paving the way for a dangerous centralization of power that threatens the rule of law. 

Justice Sotomayor’s dissent in Trump v. J.G.G.

Following Jackson’s example, Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a fiery dissent in Trump v. J.G.G., a “shadow docket” case from September 2025 concerning immigration. The majority’s unsigned order allowed federal immigration agents to expand their stops and questioning of people who look Latino, speak Spanish, or appear to work low-wage jobs. 

• The warning: Sotomayor, joined by Jackson and Justice Elena Kagan, fiercely criticized the ruling, describing it as “yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket”. She warned that the decision gave federal agents a “green light” for racial profiling and that Americans should not have to live in a country where the government can seize anyone who fits a certain profile. 

See E Fraenkel, The Dual State, pp xiii, 3, 71 (1941) (describing the way in which the creation of a ‘Prerogative State’ where the Executive ‘exercises unlimited arbitrariness … unchecked by any legal guarantees’ is incompatible with the rule of law)

A philanthropist is a person or organization that promotes human welfare by donating time, money, experience, or other resources to charitable causes, often with the goal of improving society and alleviating social problems. The term, which comes from the Greek for “love of humanity“.

A philanthropist is a person or organization that promotes human welfare by donating time, money, experience, or other resources to charitable causes, often with the goal of improving society and alleviating social problems. The term, which comes from the Greek for “love of humanity”.

Here’s the natural history of enshittification:
1 First, platforms are good to their users.
2 Then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers.
3 Next, they abuse those customers to claw back all the value for themselves – and become a giant pile of shit.

Kongjian Yu

‘Sponge city’ architect Kongjian Yu among 4 killed in Brazil plane crash/

Trouble brewing: Maya people in Yucatán fear new Heineken plant’s thirst for water

Barbados, Belize, Dominica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines move towards full Free Movement.

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