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  Both the Germans and the Zionists wanted as many Jews as possible to move to Palestine. The Germans preferred to have them out of Western Europe, and the Zionists themselves wanted the Jews in Palestine to outnumber the Arabs as quickly as possible. (...) In both cases, the purpose was a kind of 'ethnic cleansing', that is, a violent change in the ratio of ethnic groups in the population. —  Slavoj Žižek , discussing a meeting between Feivel Polkes and  Adolf Eichmann Right and wrong are the same in Palestine as anywhere else. What is peculiar about the Palestine conflict is that the world has listened to the party that has committed the offence and has turned a deaf ear to the victims. Arnold J. Toynbee . Forward to  The Transformation of Palestine . Northwestern University Press, USA,1971. But my sympathy does not blind me to the requirements of justice. The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in t...

Based on the boundaries of the  Promised Land  given in the  Book of Genesis , Palestinians including  Yasser Arafat  and  Hamas  have claimed that the two blue stripes on the Israeli flag represent the  Nile  and  Euphrates  rivers and allege that Israel desires to eventually seize all the land in between.  The  Hamas Covenant  states "After Palestine, the Zionists aspire to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates," and in 2006, Hamas leader  Mahmoud al-Zahar  issued a demand for Israel to change its flag, citing the "Nile to Euphrates" issue. let's see the flag below, and see the map above.. The Star of David is a widely acknowledged symbol of the Jewish people and of Judaism.              two blue stripes on the Israeli flag represent the  Nile  and  Euphrates  rivers and allege that Israel desires to              ...

  How the Dollar and Euro Monopolies Destroyed the Real Market Economy.  Posted by  Jon Hellevig The recent global financial turmoil with heavy losses on global stock markets and currency devaluations are symptoms of deep-rooted fundamental problems in the global financial system. I am bound to baffle many when I venture to tell that the root cause of these extraordinary woes is not too much market but too little. To the point, in my opinion, the global financial markets – and therefore the broader economy – has been destroyed by the USA and EU exercising worldwide monopoly abuse of their respective currencies. The US dollar hegemony constitutes a monopoly on a global scale, whereas the euro has established a regional monopoly with global repercussions. Moreover, the Western central banks collude in upholding their monopolies. This abuse of the currency monopolies has destroyed the system of market economy in the USA and EU. With these monopoly currencies, the US governme...