PRESIDENT TRUMP'S BOLD GAMBLE
?“To be clear, to do this by force would be a grave violation of international law.”
“THIS STUDY IDENTIFIES AND ASSESSES EXISTING AND POTENTIAL PALESTINIAN OIL AND NATURAL GAS RESERVES THAT COULD BE EXPLOITED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE, WHICH ISRAEL IS EITHER PREVENTING THEM FROM EXPLOITING OR IS EXPLOITING WITHOUT DUE REGARD FOR INTERNATIONAL LAW.”
“Geologists and natural resources economists have confirmed that the Occupied Palestinian Territory lies above sizeable reservoirs of oil and natural gas wealth, in Area C of the occupied West Bank and the Mediterranean coast off the Gaza Strip. However, occupation continues to prevent Palestinians from developing their energy fields so as to exploit and benefit from such assets. As such, the Palestinian people have been denied the benefits of using this natural resource to finance socioeconomic development and meet their need for energy. The accumulated losses are estimated in the billions of dollars. The longer Israel prevents Palestinians from exploiting their own oil and natural gas reserves, the greater the opportunity costs and the greater the total costs of the occupation borne by Palestinians become”.
My wise friends often remind me that history is
usually written by a conqueror whose main
purpose is to impart into the reader, justification
for his actions - often hewed to positively impart
his version of an event - however distant it may
be from reality on the ground. The history of the
New World illuminates a profoundly important
but sometimes misrepresented or neglected
period when Christianity was used to justify the
slaughter of indigenous people, whose only sin
was that they inhabited the lands on which the
Europeans were seeking precious metals and
ownership. This reality is quite different from
stories about European desire to bring
knowledge of the message of Jesus Christ to the
Heathens. The irony here is breath-taking.
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3 周PIRATICAL IMPERIALISM: "Highlighting the dubious legality and morality of early modern European maritime expansion in Asia and the Atlantic world." "The British colonial regime looted almost $45tn from India from 1765 to 1938. This astronomical sum is fifteen times the annual GDP of the UK today." https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2018/12/19/how-britain-stole-45-trillion-from-india https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/rules-based-order-vatican-genocide-doctrine-discovery-nicholson-wibuf/?trackingId=hIKvp0ewgPTkVNaFwbJLKA%3D%3D