These questions of the brutality of killing reminds me of a line from All in the Family, where Gloria tells her father that 65% of all people murdered were killed by guns and he asks her if she would feel any better if they'd been pushed out of windows. (https://youtu.be/GzFWRPiNXOI?si=RAGJwjyQN4hwd_Yo) During WW2 we killed hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Germans (overwhelmingly women, children and old men, because the young men were off fighting in the army) through aerial bombardment from 30,000 feet. This was done intentionally, in order to degrade the will of the German people to continue. No American or Briton stood trial at Nuremberg for these "war crimes". The German military did nothing comparable but they were the ones who got hanged. So it seems to depend on who gets killed (your friends or your adversaries) and how they are killed (up close or from a great distance) and how well documented it is, and of course who wins. Victors justice.
But in this specific instance I think we miss an important point. The attack on October 7th was intentionally brutal. We need to think why Hamas choose to do it this way and broadcast the process for all to see. To me this was an obvious provocation. They calculated that Israel would have no choice but to act in a particular way, to respond with a vengeance. I think they wanted to make it impossible for Israelis to calmly and soberly consider what they are doing. It is always an error to let oneself be emotionally manipulated into taking a rash action.
I think Israel has made the same mistake as Ukraine, thinking that getting along with their neighbors wasn't necessary because the US would protect them "as long as it takes". I think Ukraine is realizing that making an accommodation with Russia would have been more prudent than relying on American promises. Its existence is now at stake. The same is true for Israel.
Not sure why the German bombing of UK and Soviet Union in WW2 does not count as comparable? It certainly appears it was done with the exact same intent (and I’ve seen numbers that attribute approx equal civilian deaths to both although they were not near as high as you’re saying- the numbers I’ve seen as high as yours attribute most deaths to starvation- which apparently affected Soviet Union most)
The London Blitz, aimed mainly at factories and docks, lasted from September 7th, 1940 until May 11, 1941, resulting in between 40,000 - 43,000 civilian casualties. The Allied Strategic Bombing campaign, whose purpose was specifically to "de-house" Germans, killed about 600,000 civilians. That campaign occurred primarily in the last two years of the war, when Germany was in retreat and was clearly losing the war. Not done with the same intent, nor with the same result.
Israel is certainly a globalist country. They vaxxed and boosted more than any other country and are now preparing for stack-n-pack cities with enthusiasm; but, considering the already-small geography, accommodations might not allow their survival.
Re the pro-Palestinian demonstrations in UK and Europe, New Zealand, and the sickening way those people are completely ignoring the most horrific murders of 1,400 Israelis, babies, children and elderly people - human behaviour can be unbelievable….what are people thinking of…don’t they think ?
Mike - absolutely stunning column. I'll spend weeks trying to get over Kennedy's speech to the senate and the fact that the CFPB even came up with such nonsense - went looking for who the members of the board are and couldn't - easily - find them. Does anyone know? Very happy you've discovered Konstatin Kisin (thanks for the book suggestion - I do wish I could read as much and as fast as you do). Konstatin is someone who enlightened me about Ukraine since he still has family there - and his Triggernometry is a great podcast. I failed miserably at the quiz - but then I've never read any Tolkien - so there's that. Thanks, too, for the Paul Mason video - he's another fav of mine and has posted an interesting interview with Dr. Anthony Chaffee(or maybe Chaffee posted it). I just can't yet make myself watch the Hamas video - but was happy to hear people are pulling funding from the Ivy leagues (notably Harvard) for supporting the pro-Hamas demonstrations. Anyway - as usual - you've given us about a million rabbit holes to go down (Malone's piece is another great one) and I for one really appreciate it.
Here's the good news (I'm fairly sure): no obvious typos!!
I'm glad you enjoyed it. And I'm really glad there are no typos. I'm sure a few will pop up when I read it again.
I have some inside baseball knowledge of the CFPB. It's an organization disastrous to the fiscal health of the country. Started basically in the dark of night by your senator Elizabeth Warner. Put through during a congressional recess, and done so in such a way that it is almost impossible to get rid of. Worst of all, it does exactly the opposite of its supposed job.
Thanks for the enlightenment about Warren - I was pretty sure her grubby fingerprints were all over that group and that's who I was looking for but couldn't find her name anywhere. Of course it does the opposite - don't all regulations do that? Sigh. . . . . she was also all over the covid nonsense. On the wrong side, of course.
She was the driving force behind it while she was still a Harvard professor. Soon thereafter she was elected as senator. The whole setup is a nasty business, but is a boon to big financial institutions that can afford to tote the note for all the compliance officers. It's difficult for small banks to keep up, so makes it more difficult to start one and keep it running. Which the big banks are all for.
My earliest memories of foreign policy goings-on are Israeli-Palestinian conflict. So, 50 years of watching this brutality and wondering what I would like to say to leaders of both the Israelis and the Palestinians. I think it goes something like this (in the most abbreviated form):
“Do you have a reasonable expectation that you will be able to kill your way through your differences? No, you really don’t, do you? Then, sit down, shut the f*@k up, and let the adults on the planet negotiate a peaceful solution.”
Re: Palestine, the anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto was 80 years ago, lasted 3 months, in which the German army murdered every member of a helpless population that they could find, even gassing them in the sewers. The Gaza ghetto has lasted 3 generations, the Israeli army is now doing precisely the same thing. Is this the part of history we choose to ignore, or is this 'constrained' management?
As far as I can tell, the Germans did it without provocation. And Germany was certainly not threatened by the entire population of the Warsaw ghetto. The same cannot be said of the Israeli situation.
All civilizations are heat engines. An advanced civilization requires fossil fuels. A Utah State professor wrote five papers about this. He received a lot of anger, but not a single refutation.
A WWIII will impact U.S. oil imports and cause energy-scarcity chaos here. The globalists will then impose martial law and impose their totalitarian nightmare. They would have achieved the same societal destruction using "clean" energy, but war will be faster.
The globalists are flexible. If a plandemic doesn't work, then, just try war, and Israel is full-on globalist.
The Gazans? They're members of a tribe that doesn't recognize individual liberties.
Hence, I can't develop any enthusiasm for being involved with either side.
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Besides muscle maintenance for aging, I'm also becoming interested in nitric oxide (NO) production as NO Pathway No. 2. This is about providing nitrates by eating and masticating green leafy plants and allowing oral bacteria to reduce the nitrates to nitrites which are then reduced to NO in the acidic stomach.
NO provides vasodilation in blood vessels and can improve circulation (and nutrition) throughout the body and all of it's organs. Mouthwashes, fluoride toothpastes and fluoridated water kill the oral bacteria that operate in NO Pathway No. 2.
NO Pathway No. 1 resides in the endothelium, but requires an NO synthase enzyme (acting on arginine in the blood), which enzyme typically declines greatly with age.
Another approach is NO supplementation. Nathan Bryan, PhD, a longtime NO scientist, runs a company that sells an NO lozenge. He's a Texan who eats a salad with his steak. Three or four celery stalks can also provide adequate nitrates depending on the location. LA and Dallas produce seem to be a lot higher in nitrate than Chicago and NY. Bryan sent people to various cities to gather produce for testing.
You're a bright guy and a thorough researcher. There's no shortage of relevant information. Anything I tell you will be prejudicial. But from my perspective:
I'm not unsympathetic to the plight of people living in Gaza. I think...
I know you asked about the 'Palestinian' people. As an aside: The following is an observation by the son of the founder of Hamas. Yes, he states that Palestinians will rejoice when Hamas is ousted. Well, maybe. I haven't seen any data to corroborate that. And, after all, it was the residents of Gaza that voted Hamas into power (ousting the reigning PLO) when Israel totally withdrew from the Strip in 2005. So.
The author Adriani Rilandi is a geographer, cartographer, traveler, philologist, he knew several European languages, Arabic, ancient Greek, Hebrew.
The book is written in Latin. In the year 1695
Rilandy was describing what was then called Palestine.
He visited almost 2,500 settlements mentioned in the Bible. The research was conducted as follows:
*He first created the map of Palestine.
He then designated every settlement mentioned in the Bible or the Talmud with its original name.
* If the original was Jewish, it meant
"pasuk" (sentence in the Holy Scriptures, which mentions the name. )
* If the original was Roman or Greek, the connection was in Latin or Greek.
In the end, he made a population census by settlements.
Here are the main conclusions and some facts:
* The country is mainly empty, abandoned, sparsely populated, the main population in
Jerusalem, Akko, Tsfat, Jaffa, Tveria and Gaza.
* Most of the population is Jews, almost everyone else is Christians, very few Muslims, mostly Bedouins. *
The only exception - Nablus (now)
Schem), in which approximately 120 people from the Muslim family Natsha lived and approximately 70 "shomronim" (Samaritans).
* In Nazareth, the capital of Galilee, lived approximately 700 people - all Christians.
* In Jerusalem there are about 5,000 people, almost all Jews and a few Christians.
* In 1695, everyone knew that the origin of the country was Jewish.
* There is not a single settlement in Palestine that has Arabic roots in its name.
* Most settlements have Jewish originals, and in some cases Greek or Roman Latin.
* Apart from the city of Ramla, there is no Arab settlement that has an original Arabic name.
Jewish, Greek or Latin names that have been changed to Arabic that don't make any sense in Arabic. In Arabic, there is no meaning in names like: Akko, Haifa, Jaffa, Nablus, Gaza or Jenin, and names like Ramallah, al-Khalil (Hebron), al-Quds (Jerusalem) - they do not have philological or historical Arabic roots. So, for example, in 1696, Ramallah was called Bethel (Beit El, the House of God), Hebron was called Hebron and the Cave of Mahpel was called El-Khalil (the nickname of Abraham) by the Arabs.
* Relandi mentions Muslims only as nomadic Bedouins who came to the cities as seasonal workers in agriculture or construction.
* About 550 people lived in Gaza, half of them Jews and half Christians. Jews were successful in agriculture, especially in vineyards, olives and wheat, Christians were trading and
by transportation.
* Jews lived in Tveria and Tsfat, but their occupation is not mentioned, except for the traditional fishing in Kineret.
* In the village of Um El Fahm, for example, lived 10 families, all Christians (about 50 people). There stood a small Maronite church.
The book completely refutes theories about
"palestinian traditions,"
to the "Palestinian people" and has almost no link between the land and the Arabs, who even stole the latin name of the land (Palestine) and took it for themselves.
So...are the current day 'Palestinians' indigenous to the Levant? Not so much.
Watch any YouTube by Ben Shapiro (e.g. https://youtu.be/dEoVzKyD_IM?si=7CMyzrNSnOPiFgCG) . He engages many Palestiniian and Hamas sympathizers, simultaneously rebutting many of the myths surrounding the situation. Is he biased? No doubt. But take his assertions and match them up with the historical record (not from the MSM and most certainly not from the perspective of the UN). They align. I suppose he sometimes gets things wrong (just read Childers' piece from this AM). Or does he?
Suggestions:
So start with The Balfour Declaration and the events immediately following WW1. Read about the Britsh Mandate (and the French--how their footprint is all over Lebanon), the UN partition plan of 1947 (agreed to by that world body but rejected by the Arabs--who sought a military solution), Israel's declaration of a State in 1948 (note: the Arabs could have done the same thing, since they had their own piece of the Partition, but decided to wage war instead), Arab instigated wars in 1967 and 1973 (where the Israelis won land, eventually giving most-but not all-land back in exchange for peace with Egypt and Jordan---fwiw: it's rather unusual for a victor to cede territory won in a conflict, particularly one NOT of their own making), two subsequent offers of an independent Palestinian state encompassing 93% of the demanded land--both rejected out of hand by the PLO, the Israeli occupation of Gaza in response to constant missle attacks, their eventual withdrawal in 2005 which left the PLO to form a government--voted out (?) or overthrown by Hamas in 2007...etc, etc.
The people of Gaza are pawns. Hamas doesn't care about them--just look where they build their hideouts, how they've diverted international aid for their own destructive purposes... OK, you didn't ask about Hamas. Nor did you ask about the 21 Arab countries that refuse to take in any Palestinian refugees...
You also didn't ask about the UN's role in all of this. I'm sorry but I just can't help myself. Here is my rant (apologies in advance):
The UN is a disgusting amoral bunch of criminals who represent the mostly criminal, antisemetic, antidemocratic regimes. They ultimately seek to realign the world to one of terror under the control of China, Islamist butchers, and Russian totalitarians. You can add the WEF to that group, too. They want Israel to be destroyed and run by terrorists because it is the foothold of democracy and humanity that blocks the ambitions of Russia and China. The world is once again bifurcating and the UN has chosen terror. I've thought for a while that the 'swing' vote in much of this is the Saudis because they can sway world energy markets and several other Arab nations. Iran pushed the terror to stop the Saudis from normalizing with Israel. The UN continues the mission. And the free world is screwed.
Does that sum it up?
BTW and on a different subject: I don't remember if it was you, or Childers, who turned me on to Konstantin's substack. In any event, this guy totally nails it:
Thanks for the long comment. I will look up the ancient book you mentioned; it sounds enlightening. The Konstatin Kisin Substack you're referring to is the very one I linked to a quoted from in this very post. And, I wrote that the authors of the article I quoted about the history of the Israel-Palestine situation arbitrarily started at the end of the Ottoman Empire ~1900. The Jewish-Palestinian situation goes back thousand of years before that. I said that document, which started detailing the history at around 1900, implied that the Palestinians got the short end of the stick. Since then. But then I quoted the footnote saying the Jews were there first, then their again after the Romans. I didn't say I thought the Palestinians got a raw deal; I said the document I quoted implied that.
I hate to pick a nit (and certainly don't mean to antagonize), but you saying: "just the reading of this document almost makes me want to take sides with the Palestinians" does not align with "I didn't say I thought the Palestinians got a raw deal...". To argue otherwise looks like you're splitting hairs. Perhaps if I squint really hard, peek around the corner, use a really good flashlight...then I can see your point. Maybe. But in the light of day what I see is equivocation.
The article's c1900 start date is as good a place to begin as any. It's one bookend of the recent history. The following articles are concise and much more informative than I can ever hope to be:
Me, too! I bought some MCT powder a while back when Dr. Mike mentioned it before, but really don't like it in my coffee and I'm having trouble figuring out how to add it to my meal plans. The group that started the MCT oil 5 days early had the best results. How would that work for someone who is already on a ketogenic eating plan? Should we drop keto and eat SAD (standard American diet) for 5 days while taking MCT, and then on day 6 go back to keto?
I've been carnivore (99% adherence or so) for the past couple of years, and I've been STUCK at 180 (down from my highest weight of 212) for at least 5 months. Seems I need something to kickstart weight loss again. Ideas?
I've been told by "people in the know" about these things, and you can get a generic form of Semaglutide from overseas for about $250 a month. No, I'm not biting.
I wouldn't go off the carnivore diet, then restart with the MCT. The MCT I recommended was the powdered version. There are a number of oil versions out there you might want to try. I haven't looked, but you could probably get it in capsule form, but you would have to take a lot of them to get 20 g/day.
The powdered MCT oil has 10g of MCT per scoop, so I need 2 scoops daily. Most mornings I have 6 to 8 oz of ground beef with a Tbsp or so of Kerry Gold butter. This morning I added 1 scoop of the powder to that, and 1/2 scoop to my mug of black coffee. That leaves just 1/2 scoop to add to something else today. This is doable.
Jayne, I did, but it didn’t post in the Substack Forum software. It was a long cut-and-paste from my Word file because I don’t remember how to convert it to PDF or other format), so it didn’t work. Sorry. If you send an email directly to danbrown2@optonline.net, I will reply directly to you.
I enjoyed the embedded video by Dr. Paul Mason, however I’m confused by his claim regarding a Google search for: “foods that are good for iron” returning plant based results. When I Googled it the primary results were consistently: meat, poultry, fish, eggs. Perhaps this is a solely a down under problem?
1. Is "Close to keto" a good thing? Suppose one is not in ketosis but eating, say 100g carbs/day. Is that better than eating 200g/day?
2. Must one be in ketosis for the benefits, or does close count?
3. If ketosis is achieved and one is eating, say <40g carbs/day, how important is it to watch calories, too? Does a 2000 Kcal keto diet promote the same weight loss as a 1000 Kcal/day keto diet?
2. Many of the benefits of ketosis come from the ketone bodies themselves acting as signaling agents. If you aren't making them, then close doesn't count.
3.Usually the calories take care of themselves if carbs are restricted. It's difficult to overeat on fat and protein. Throw a bunch of carbs into the mix, and all bets are off.
Thank you, but one more question, please: Even if eating 60-80g/day carbs, isn't the energy deficit made up from partial supplementation with ketones? I get that full ketosis with less than 40g carbs is better, but intuition suggests that its' not an all/nothing deal, no?
These questions of the brutality of killing reminds me of a line from All in the Family, where Gloria tells her father that 65% of all people murdered were killed by guns and he asks her if she would feel any better if they'd been pushed out of windows. (https://youtu.be/GzFWRPiNXOI?si=RAGJwjyQN4hwd_Yo) During WW2 we killed hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Germans (overwhelmingly women, children and old men, because the young men were off fighting in the army) through aerial bombardment from 30,000 feet. This was done intentionally, in order to degrade the will of the German people to continue. No American or Briton stood trial at Nuremberg for these "war crimes". The German military did nothing comparable but they were the ones who got hanged. So it seems to depend on who gets killed (your friends or your adversaries) and how they are killed (up close or from a great distance) and how well documented it is, and of course who wins. Victors justice.
But in this specific instance I think we miss an important point. The attack on October 7th was intentionally brutal. We need to think why Hamas choose to do it this way and broadcast the process for all to see. To me this was an obvious provocation. They calculated that Israel would have no choice but to act in a particular way, to respond with a vengeance. I think they wanted to make it impossible for Israelis to calmly and soberly consider what they are doing. It is always an error to let oneself be emotionally manipulated into taking a rash action.
I think Israel has made the same mistake as Ukraine, thinking that getting along with their neighbors wasn't necessary because the US would protect them "as long as it takes". I think Ukraine is realizing that making an accommodation with Russia would have been more prudent than relying on American promises. Its existence is now at stake. The same is true for Israel.
For once we agree across the board.
Seems like a good time to give you the last word.
Not sure why the German bombing of UK and Soviet Union in WW2 does not count as comparable? It certainly appears it was done with the exact same intent (and I’ve seen numbers that attribute approx equal civilian deaths to both although they were not near as high as you’re saying- the numbers I’ve seen as high as yours attribute most deaths to starvation- which apparently affected Soviet Union most)
The London Blitz, aimed mainly at factories and docks, lasted from September 7th, 1940 until May 11, 1941, resulting in between 40,000 - 43,000 civilian casualties. The Allied Strategic Bombing campaign, whose purpose was specifically to "de-house" Germans, killed about 600,000 civilians. That campaign occurred primarily in the last two years of the war, when Germany was in retreat and was clearly losing the war. Not done with the same intent, nor with the same result.
Israel is certainly a globalist country. They vaxxed and boosted more than any other country and are now preparing for stack-n-pack cities with enthusiasm; but, considering the already-small geography, accommodations might not allow their survival.
Re the pro-Palestinian demonstrations in UK and Europe, New Zealand, and the sickening way those people are completely ignoring the most horrific murders of 1,400 Israelis, babies, children and elderly people - human behaviour can be unbelievable….what are people thinking of…don’t they think ?
Mike - absolutely stunning column. I'll spend weeks trying to get over Kennedy's speech to the senate and the fact that the CFPB even came up with such nonsense - went looking for who the members of the board are and couldn't - easily - find them. Does anyone know? Very happy you've discovered Konstatin Kisin (thanks for the book suggestion - I do wish I could read as much and as fast as you do). Konstatin is someone who enlightened me about Ukraine since he still has family there - and his Triggernometry is a great podcast. I failed miserably at the quiz - but then I've never read any Tolkien - so there's that. Thanks, too, for the Paul Mason video - he's another fav of mine and has posted an interesting interview with Dr. Anthony Chaffee(or maybe Chaffee posted it). I just can't yet make myself watch the Hamas video - but was happy to hear people are pulling funding from the Ivy leagues (notably Harvard) for supporting the pro-Hamas demonstrations. Anyway - as usual - you've given us about a million rabbit holes to go down (Malone's piece is another great one) and I for one really appreciate it.
Here's the good news (I'm fairly sure): no obvious typos!!
Cheers!
I'm glad you enjoyed it. And I'm really glad there are no typos. I'm sure a few will pop up when I read it again.
I have some inside baseball knowledge of the CFPB. It's an organization disastrous to the fiscal health of the country. Started basically in the dark of night by your senator Elizabeth Warner. Put through during a congressional recess, and done so in such a way that it is almost impossible to get rid of. Worst of all, it does exactly the opposite of its supposed job.
Thanks for the enlightenment about Warren - I was pretty sure her grubby fingerprints were all over that group and that's who I was looking for but couldn't find her name anywhere. Of course it does the opposite - don't all regulations do that? Sigh. . . . . she was also all over the covid nonsense. On the wrong side, of course.
She was the driving force behind it while she was still a Harvard professor. Soon thereafter she was elected as senator. The whole setup is a nasty business, but is a boon to big financial institutions that can afford to tote the note for all the compliance officers. It's difficult for small banks to keep up, so makes it more difficult to start one and keep it running. Which the big banks are all for.
Again - sigh. Damn it I knew she was a wrong 'un.
My earliest memories of foreign policy goings-on are Israeli-Palestinian conflict. So, 50 years of watching this brutality and wondering what I would like to say to leaders of both the Israelis and the Palestinians. I think it goes something like this (in the most abbreviated form):
“Do you have a reasonable expectation that you will be able to kill your way through your differences? No, you really don’t, do you? Then, sit down, shut the f*@k up, and let the adults on the planet negotiate a peaceful solution.”
That would be nice, but don't hold your breath.
Re: Palestine, the anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto was 80 years ago, lasted 3 months, in which the German army murdered every member of a helpless population that they could find, even gassing them in the sewers. The Gaza ghetto has lasted 3 generations, the Israeli army is now doing precisely the same thing. Is this the part of history we choose to ignore, or is this 'constrained' management?
As far as I can tell, the Germans did it without provocation. And Germany was certainly not threatened by the entire population of the Warsaw ghetto. The same cannot be said of the Israeli situation.
Wow -- whale guy lucky to alive!
All civilizations are heat engines. An advanced civilization requires fossil fuels. A Utah State professor wrote five papers about this. He received a lot of anger, but not a single refutation.
A WWIII will impact U.S. oil imports and cause energy-scarcity chaos here. The globalists will then impose martial law and impose their totalitarian nightmare. They would have achieved the same societal destruction using "clean" energy, but war will be faster.
The globalists are flexible. If a plandemic doesn't work, then, just try war, and Israel is full-on globalist.
The Gazans? They're members of a tribe that doesn't recognize individual liberties.
Hence, I can't develop any enthusiasm for being involved with either side.
Besides muscle maintenance for aging, I'm also becoming interested in nitric oxide (NO) production as NO Pathway No. 2. This is about providing nitrates by eating and masticating green leafy plants and allowing oral bacteria to reduce the nitrates to nitrites which are then reduced to NO in the acidic stomach.
NO provides vasodilation in blood vessels and can improve circulation (and nutrition) throughout the body and all of it's organs. Mouthwashes, fluoride toothpastes and fluoridated water kill the oral bacteria that operate in NO Pathway No. 2.
NO Pathway No. 1 resides in the endothelium, but requires an NO synthase enzyme (acting on arginine in the blood), which enzyme typically declines greatly with age.
Another approach is NO supplementation. Nathan Bryan, PhD, a longtime NO scientist, runs a company that sells an NO lozenge. He's a Texan who eats a salad with his steak. Three or four celery stalks can also provide adequate nitrates depending on the location. LA and Dallas produce seem to be a lot higher in nitrate than Chicago and NY. Bryan sent people to various cities to gather produce for testing.
Bryan says that the NO lozenges can, over time, improve the production of the NO synthase enzyme, and allow reduction or elimination of lozenge usage.
I'm not familiar with them, so I can't comment.
"Just the reading of this document almost makes me want to take sides with the Palestinians."
Doc, with all due respect, I think you're missing a few key pieces of history
"
I'm always willing to learn from those with more knowledge than I have. Enlighten me.
You're a bright guy and a thorough researcher. There's no shortage of relevant information. Anything I tell you will be prejudicial. But from my perspective:
I'm not unsympathetic to the plight of people living in Gaza. I think...
I know you asked about the 'Palestinian' people. As an aside: The following is an observation by the son of the founder of Hamas. Yes, he states that Palestinians will rejoice when Hamas is ousted. Well, maybe. I haven't seen any data to corroborate that. And, after all, it was the residents of Gaza that voted Hamas into power (ousting the reigning PLO) when Israel totally withdrew from the Strip in 2005. So.
https://m.jpost.com/international/article-770520
Background
Start with a book written in 1695 (you could go back further-but since land occupation has changed many times what's the point):
https://palestineisraelconflict.wordpress.com/2014/04/27/a-tour-and-census-of-palestine-year-1695-no-sign-of-arabian-names-or-palestinians/comment-page-1/
Fwiw the below summary can be seen online:
https://www.facebook.com/100023368680004/posts/pfbid04vwnyWQMFpJwptBdd1xSy63TnZYaVPfNYcr24JnViJLw2MSuH7cNQUqsLiq5w5Rsl/
THERE IS AN OLD BOOK "PALESTINA EX"
MONUMENTIS VETERIBUS ILLUSTRATA"
There is such an old book "Palestina ex"
Monumentis Veteribus Illustrata"
The author Adriani Rilandi is a geographer, cartographer, traveler, philologist, he knew several European languages, Arabic, ancient Greek, Hebrew.
The book is written in Latin. In the year 1695
Rilandy was describing what was then called Palestine.
He visited almost 2,500 settlements mentioned in the Bible. The research was conducted as follows:
*He first created the map of Palestine.
He then designated every settlement mentioned in the Bible or the Talmud with its original name.
* If the original was Jewish, it meant
"pasuk" (sentence in the Holy Scriptures, which mentions the name. )
* If the original was Roman or Greek, the connection was in Latin or Greek.
In the end, he made a population census by settlements.
Here are the main conclusions and some facts:
* The country is mainly empty, abandoned, sparsely populated, the main population in
Jerusalem, Akko, Tsfat, Jaffa, Tveria and Gaza.
* Most of the population is Jews, almost everyone else is Christians, very few Muslims, mostly Bedouins. *
The only exception - Nablus (now)
Schem), in which approximately 120 people from the Muslim family Natsha lived and approximately 70 "shomronim" (Samaritans).
* In Nazareth, the capital of Galilee, lived approximately 700 people - all Christians.
* In Jerusalem there are about 5,000 people, almost all Jews and a few Christians.
* In 1695, everyone knew that the origin of the country was Jewish.
* There is not a single settlement in Palestine that has Arabic roots in its name.
* Most settlements have Jewish originals, and in some cases Greek or Roman Latin.
* Apart from the city of Ramla, there is no Arab settlement that has an original Arabic name.
Jewish, Greek or Latin names that have been changed to Arabic that don't make any sense in Arabic. In Arabic, there is no meaning in names like: Akko, Haifa, Jaffa, Nablus, Gaza or Jenin, and names like Ramallah, al-Khalil (Hebron), al-Quds (Jerusalem) - they do not have philological or historical Arabic roots. So, for example, in 1696, Ramallah was called Bethel (Beit El, the House of God), Hebron was called Hebron and the Cave of Mahpel was called El-Khalil (the nickname of Abraham) by the Arabs.
* Relandi mentions Muslims only as nomadic Bedouins who came to the cities as seasonal workers in agriculture or construction.
* About 550 people lived in Gaza, half of them Jews and half Christians. Jews were successful in agriculture, especially in vineyards, olives and wheat, Christians were trading and
by transportation.
* Jews lived in Tveria and Tsfat, but their occupation is not mentioned, except for the traditional fishing in Kineret.
* In the village of Um El Fahm, for example, lived 10 families, all Christians (about 50 people). There stood a small Maronite church.
The book completely refutes theories about
"palestinian traditions,"
to the "Palestinian people" and has almost no link between the land and the Arabs, who even stole the latin name of the land (Palestine) and took it for themselves.
So...are the current day 'Palestinians' indigenous to the Levant? Not so much.
Watch any YouTube by Ben Shapiro (e.g. https://youtu.be/dEoVzKyD_IM?si=7CMyzrNSnOPiFgCG) . He engages many Palestiniian and Hamas sympathizers, simultaneously rebutting many of the myths surrounding the situation. Is he biased? No doubt. But take his assertions and match them up with the historical record (not from the MSM and most certainly not from the perspective of the UN). They align. I suppose he sometimes gets things wrong (just read Childers' piece from this AM). Or does he?
Suggestions:
So start with The Balfour Declaration and the events immediately following WW1. Read about the Britsh Mandate (and the French--how their footprint is all over Lebanon), the UN partition plan of 1947 (agreed to by that world body but rejected by the Arabs--who sought a military solution), Israel's declaration of a State in 1948 (note: the Arabs could have done the same thing, since they had their own piece of the Partition, but decided to wage war instead), Arab instigated wars in 1967 and 1973 (where the Israelis won land, eventually giving most-but not all-land back in exchange for peace with Egypt and Jordan---fwiw: it's rather unusual for a victor to cede territory won in a conflict, particularly one NOT of their own making), two subsequent offers of an independent Palestinian state encompassing 93% of the demanded land--both rejected out of hand by the PLO, the Israeli occupation of Gaza in response to constant missle attacks, their eventual withdrawal in 2005 which left the PLO to form a government--voted out (?) or overthrown by Hamas in 2007...etc, etc.
The people of Gaza are pawns. Hamas doesn't care about them--just look where they build their hideouts, how they've diverted international aid for their own destructive purposes... OK, you didn't ask about Hamas. Nor did you ask about the 21 Arab countries that refuse to take in any Palestinian refugees...
You also didn't ask about the UN's role in all of this. I'm sorry but I just can't help myself. Here is my rant (apologies in advance):
The UN is a disgusting amoral bunch of criminals who represent the mostly criminal, antisemetic, antidemocratic regimes. They ultimately seek to realign the world to one of terror under the control of China, Islamist butchers, and Russian totalitarians. You can add the WEF to that group, too. They want Israel to be destroyed and run by terrorists because it is the foothold of democracy and humanity that blocks the ambitions of Russia and China. The world is once again bifurcating and the UN has chosen terror. I've thought for a while that the 'swing' vote in much of this is the Saudis because they can sway world energy markets and several other Arab nations. Iran pushed the terror to stop the Saudis from normalizing with Israel. The UN continues the mission. And the free world is screwed.
Does that sum it up?
BTW and on a different subject: I don't remember if it was you, or Childers, who turned me on to Konstantin's substack. In any event, this guy totally nails it:
https://www.thefp.com/p/the-day-the-delusions-died-konstantin-kisin
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Thanks for the long comment. I will look up the ancient book you mentioned; it sounds enlightening. The Konstatin Kisin Substack you're referring to is the very one I linked to a quoted from in this very post. And, I wrote that the authors of the article I quoted about the history of the Israel-Palestine situation arbitrarily started at the end of the Ottoman Empire ~1900. The Jewish-Palestinian situation goes back thousand of years before that. I said that document, which started detailing the history at around 1900, implied that the Palestinians got the short end of the stick. Since then. But then I quoted the footnote saying the Jews were there first, then their again after the Romans. I didn't say I thought the Palestinians got a raw deal; I said the document I quoted implied that.
I hate to pick a nit (and certainly don't mean to antagonize), but you saying: "just the reading of this document almost makes me want to take sides with the Palestinians" does not align with "I didn't say I thought the Palestinians got a raw deal...". To argue otherwise looks like you're splitting hairs. Perhaps if I squint really hard, peek around the corner, use a really good flashlight...then I can see your point. Maybe. But in the light of day what I see is equivocation.
The article's c1900 start date is as good a place to begin as any. It's one bookend of the recent history. The following articles are concise and much more informative than I can ever hope to be:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/10/why-arent-the-arabs-the-colonizers/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WIR%20-%20Sunday%202023-10-29&utm_term=WIR-Smart
Also, the always erudite Jeff Jacoby, in his recent Arguable column from The Boston Globe:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/11/01/opinion/arguable-newsletter-israel-palestine-war-arthur-balfour-gaza-jewish-vietnam-alice-mcdermott/
Lastly, the below two books are good primers on the subject. Both are available from Amazon:
Myths and Facts by Mitchell Bard and Eli Hertz
What Justice Demands by Elan Journo
(this book is very balanced and explains the legitimate claims of both Israel and the Palestinians)
I’ve been putting a spoonful of MCT oil powder in my morning coffee for about a year now. Flavorless but adds a bit of body that I like.
I put a spoonful in about every other cup. It does give it some body without really changing the taste.
I beat your Tolkien score, but only by one (18 over 17). Like you, I was surprised and chagrined.
MD took it today and got 20. And she's never read Tolkien.
I'm wondering if I should add MCT oil to my diet? Or is it only necessary on an 800/day calorie diet?
MCT oil helps with almost any version of the low-carb/ketogenic diet. Not just the 800 kcal/day version.
Me, too! I bought some MCT powder a while back when Dr. Mike mentioned it before, but really don't like it in my coffee and I'm having trouble figuring out how to add it to my meal plans. The group that started the MCT oil 5 days early had the best results. How would that work for someone who is already on a ketogenic eating plan? Should we drop keto and eat SAD (standard American diet) for 5 days while taking MCT, and then on day 6 go back to keto?
I've been carnivore (99% adherence or so) for the past couple of years, and I've been STUCK at 180 (down from my highest weight of 212) for at least 5 months. Seems I need something to kickstart weight loss again. Ideas?
I've been told by "people in the know" about these things, and you can get a generic form of Semaglutide from overseas for about $250 a month. No, I'm not biting.
I wouldn't go off the carnivore diet, then restart with the MCT. The MCT I recommended was the powdered version. There are a number of oil versions out there you might want to try. I haven't looked, but you could probably get it in capsule form, but you would have to take a lot of them to get 20 g/day.
The powdered MCT oil has 10g of MCT per scoop, so I need 2 scoops daily. Most mornings I have 6 to 8 oz of ground beef with a Tbsp or so of Kerry Gold butter. This morning I added 1 scoop of the powder to that, and 1/2 scoop to my mug of black coffee. That leaves just 1/2 scoop to add to something else today. This is doable.
I use MCT oil, with EVOO, in my homemade mayonnaise. It’s easy to make and avoids the seed oil and sugar in Hellmann’s
Please share your recipe. Thanks.
Jayne, I did, but it didn’t post in the Substack Forum software. It was a long cut-and-paste from my Word file because I don’t remember how to convert it to PDF or other format), so it didn’t work. Sorry. If you send an email directly to danbrown2@optonline.net, I will reply directly to you.
I enjoyed the embedded video by Dr. Paul Mason, however I’m confused by his claim regarding a Google search for: “foods that are good for iron” returning plant based results. When I Googled it the primary results were consistently: meat, poultry, fish, eggs. Perhaps this is a solely a down under problem?
Keto questions for Dr. Eades:
1. Is "Close to keto" a good thing? Suppose one is not in ketosis but eating, say 100g carbs/day. Is that better than eating 200g/day?
2. Must one be in ketosis for the benefits, or does close count?
3. If ketosis is achieved and one is eating, say <40g carbs/day, how important is it to watch calories, too? Does a 2000 Kcal keto diet promote the same weight loss as a 1000 Kcal/day keto diet?
1. Closer is better than less close.
2. Many of the benefits of ketosis come from the ketone bodies themselves acting as signaling agents. If you aren't making them, then close doesn't count.
3.Usually the calories take care of themselves if carbs are restricted. It's difficult to overeat on fat and protein. Throw a bunch of carbs into the mix, and all bets are off.
Thank you, but one more question, please: Even if eating 60-80g/day carbs, isn't the energy deficit made up from partial supplementation with ketones? I get that full ketosis with less than 40g carbs is better, but intuition suggests that its' not an all/nothing deal, no?