The Skirvin Hotel

 

Introduction

   If you are ever in or around Oklahoma City or just have an unnatural urge, I recommend you visit The Skirvin Hotel. My advice is to make sure any kids are safely tucked in for the night and then head straight for the darkly inviting Red Piano Bar and order one very red glass of wine.

   Driving to Lincoln Nebraska from Houston with my son for his new job as IT Support Specialist (computer nerd) I decided to stop over in Oklahoma City. Not a whole lot to see on the way, steady decrease in elevation and water and increase in speed limits and casinos. I had heard of the Skirvin Hotel there and nothing else so by whatever is the opposite of the process of elimination, decided to stay there.

History

     The hotel was built in 1925 by William Skirvin, business magnate in oil and real estate, who left Galveston after the 1900 hurricane disaster. It was considered the premier hotel in Oklahoma City for most of the twentieth century, hosting VIPs such as Richard Nixon, Dean Martin and Sidney Applebaum.

   The haunting stories began with one about Skirvin and a woman at the hotel who he knew, not only as an employee. According to legend she jumped out a window of the hotel (without a parachute).

   The modern haunting stories are famous for involving NBA teams who stayed at the hotel to face the Oklahoma City Thunder in their prime. It must have been pretty scary facing Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook and James Harden on the same team, so it became a popular excuse for teams that lost (badly) to blame it on hauntings since the reputation for hauntings was there while the reputation for non supernatural nightlife was not.

Stay

Check in as follows:

“Can I stay in Room 1408?”

“We don’t have a Room 1408”.

Check –

“Can I stay on the 13^th floor?”

“We don’t have a 13^th floor”

Check –

“I’ll take the highest room you have.”

“Room 1212”

Check -

As far as natural observations:

The hotel is almost all shades of brown. Combined with excessive windows as to numbers and individual size, from the outside, it does exude the potential for creep as the lights are way out of proportion to the visible structure, especially at night. 1 Shivers. My scaremometer was lit to the “Strange” range. The inside is a stylish and elegant Art-Deco, aged like a good, but not great Scotch. Hundred years ago, different era. Haunted hotels age like Scotch. They get better with age. So, the Skirvin is still aging in the barrio, not ancient, but not nouveau creepche either. 1 Shiver. Most remarkable is the (over)use of the number 3. The entire hotel consists of 3 Towers. The prominent feature of the interior is 3 oversized and perfectly symmetrical elevators. On the crowning 14^th floor are, well you can guess how many beautifully decorated special event rooms there are. 1 Shiver. This may sound strange but be sure and go to the dining room when it is closed. Check out the colorful picture overlandly the entrance of a long ago but not forgotten nightlife.

The Room was nice. Our room just happened to be positioned next to another tower, so pulling back the drapes revealed a brick wall that looked like it was only 1 foot away. Jon Cusack, look out! Performing the same procedure on the other window was no more comforting as it had an unnecessarily too good view of the mysterious 14^th floor, which was built with Suites and where the VIPs stayed. These suites had their own accessible balconies with a combination of being way too long (the entire length of the suite) and edge way too short, seemingly inviting one to take a really long walk on a really short peer. 1 Shiver.

   As far as unnatural observations:

I have to confess here that I’m not a believer. I thought I heard a voice once but it turned out it was just my wife telling me take out the garbage. For a Science Project my son and I did a study of haunted hotels in Texas with a hypothesis that there was a direct relationship between claims of the supernatural and changes in ownership. The implication was that a significant factor in claims of haunting was what the ownership wanted. Strangely, the study demonstrated the opposite, no change in claims of haunting despite changes in ownership. The Science Project won first place. To this day I still worry that proponents of the supernatural refer to this, “Award winning scientific study proves the existence of the supernatural.” Anyway, your author had no unnatural observations to report during his stay (although the food was scaringly good).

I do have to mention that when I took a picture of the elevator floors display from the inside of the elevator it came out all blurry with thin wavy lines of bright colors and looked like something Andy Warhol would have painted after staying at the hotel (and doing acid). First time that has happened with my iphone. Checked my scaremometer and it had moved from “Strange” to “Bizarre”.

Stories

    Stories are written by storytellers and therefore, are not good evidence.   Evidence is told by witnesses and therefore, is evidence. Bob, who was the valet and the first person and last(?) I saw there said he had heard lots of stories of the supernatural from employees and guests but said I should ask others there for the stories. Carol, the check in clerk, said she once heard music early in the morning coming from the bar but when she went there, there was nothing there. Ted, another check in clerk, said that one time when the hotel was snowed in, early in the morning he saw a bottle of Scotch moving around by itself but staying on the counter (apparently aware, at least of the saying, that there is a special place in Hell reserved for those who waste good Scotch). Alice the maid said that when NBA teams had stayed there she often heard the clanking of rubber against iron above her. All in all, in the words of Madeleine Kahn, “How owdinary”.

Rating

            1 – Exterior = Pretty creepy

      2 – Interior = Creepy.

      3 – Atmosphere = Stories are just mehpy.

With apologies to Stephen King, I give it 5 (out of ten of course) shivers.

Departing with Spirit

For those scare-challenged souls who followed my advice by starting this journey into the heart of the Skirvin and have what was originally a full glass of very red wine, I now advise you to finish it before I continue. I’ll wait…As I was ready to depart a person I had not seen before the whole time I was there, Jeff, significantly older than all the other employees with white hair and dressed all in black, brought me my car. I of course asked him if he had any good haunting stories. He said he did. He told me he used to be the engineer for the hotel and one time, at night, when it was closed for renovation and no one besides himself was in the building he went into the lobby and all three elevators came down to the first floor and opened at the same time. They then all closed and again at the same time all floor displays in big red numbers showed they stopped and stayed on 6. Jeff apparently noted the polite look on my face so he offered to text me a picture. Sure enough it showed all 3 elevators stopped at the 6^th floor. Interesting. I don’t know if it really happened but nonetheless,  good story. I talked with Jeff for a while and then followed Larry David’s New Year’s resolution before I departed for Lincoln. On the way out I told Carol about the story I had just heard and showed her the picture on my phone. She said she had heard the story before but had never seen a related picture and asked where I got it. I said Jeff the valet just gave it to me. She said “What, Bob is the only valet right now.” I said the guy said his name was Jeff. She shook her head, “What Jeff?”. As I noted that my scaremometer had now moved all the way into the “Macabre” zone I said older guy, white hair, he said he used to be the engineer here. Her hands froze on the counter and she took half a step back, “That Jeff died 13 years ago.”

 [Postscare - We will be conducting a seance at the Emily Morgan hotel in San Antonio on Halloween 2022 to try and contact "Jeff" and get his/its permission to post here the picture he sent me of the 3 elevators rolling a 666.]

Jew Did The Crime, You Read The Times

 1. Introduction of the Issue

The Question

The question of this post is who is guiltier of "War Crimes" in the recent Israel/Gaza war, Israel or Gaza? (I say "Gaza" instead of Hamas because why say an entire country on one side, Israel, and just a political party, Hamas, on the other side? It makes one think that those who do want to increase blame on the entire Israel side while limiting blame on the Gaza side to Hamas, even though Gazans support Hamas' recent actions exponentially more than Israelis support their government's recent actions. Homas don't play that game). 

Doing a search on the Internet (Google) with key words "Israel" "Hamas" "War Crimes" and "2021" gives 10 direct hits on the first page. Most of the articles claim that Israel and Hamas may be guilty of War Crimes. What is the actual EVIDENCE though for relative war crimes (who is guiltier)? 

2. Discussion

Definition of "War Crimes"

Legality of civilian casualties

"Under the law of armed conflict (LOAC), the death of non-combatants is not necessarily a violation; there are many things to take into account. Civilians cannot be made the object of an attack, but the death/injury of civilians while conducting an attack on a military objective are governed under principles such as of proportionality and military necessity and can be permissible. Military necessity "permits the destruction of life of persons whose destruction is incidentally unavoidable by the armed conflicts of the war; 

it does not permit the killing of innocent inhabitants for purposes of revenge or the satisfaction of a lust to kill. The destruction of property to be lawful must be imperatively demanded by the necessities of war."^[40]

...

When there is no justification for military action, such as civilians being made the object of attack, a proportionality analysis is unnecessary to conclude that the attack is unlawful."

Summary:

1) If the objective of the attack is civilian the attack is always 

    a War Crime. 

2) Civilian casualties in an attack are not automatically a War Crime.

3) If there is a combination of a military objective and civilian casualties from an attack, the relative value of the military objective must be compared to the civilian damage to determine if there is a War Crime. 

Measurement of War Crimes in 2021 Gaza/Israeli War

The most objective measurement of War Crimes is in terms of quantity rather than quality (with apologies to Jon Oliver #RatFJonOliverandtheHamasmissileherodeintoTelAvivwith). 

Gaza

Gaza fired 4,360 rockets, all with the objective of Israeli civilians, so that's 4,360 War Crimes. 

Trying to quantify possible Israeli War Crimes is much more difficult. Other than Israel, it's unknown how many rockets Israel fired at Gaza. Everyone would agree that the majority of Israeli rockets had military objectives. You would have to look at specific Israeli rocket attacks but another significant problem is while Gaza would be in the best position to provide evidence of a War Crime, lying about the relative military versus civilian damage would be well within its definition of "resistance".

For example, looking at an Israeli attack with the most potential for War Crime due to the extent of civilian damage, the lead candidate is probably when Israel fired 11 missiles along 200 yards of Wehda Street, in Gaza City. Gaza claimed that 44 civilians were killed. Here the objective of the attack was military as according to Israel the objective was a Hamas military base in an underground tunnel. So the fact that there was collateral civilian damage does not automatically make it a War Crime. The proportionality of the military value must be compared to amount of civilian damage. A Hamas military tunnel would have a very high military value as there are relatively few such tunnels in Gaza, they are the best hiding places for rockets and Hamas military leaders, are deterrents to an Israeli ground assault and are protected by being placed deliberately close to major civilian centers. In addition to destroying the tunnels Israel also estimated it killed 44 Hamas soldiers, including important officers, in the strike. On the other side, in addition to killing possibly 44 civilians, Israel destroyed two multi-family residential buildings. Israel claimed afterwards that it was not aware of the extent of the tunnel and its proximity to the buildings. This suggests that Israel did think that the resultant civilian damage was excessive in proportion to the military value or at least that others would think so. 

Other important factors though in determining War Crimes in the context of proportionality are:

1) The intent of the attack. Here Israel had no intention of inflicting so much civilian damage.

2) The extent to which the enemy contributed to the amount of civilian damage. Here the placement by Hamas of a military tunnel underneath residential buildings is not only a War Crime by itself but also makes the residential buildings part of the military target. 

3) Comparison to other similar attacks by other countries. There are comparable attacks by other major countries with exponentially higher proportions of civilian damage that were never Internationally categorized as War Crimes.

Based on the above, it's unclear that if you were any country other than Israel, the International Community would conclude this attack was a War Crime. 

3. Conclusion

In summary, regarding who is guiltier of War Crimes in the recent Israeli/Gaza War, and using the most objective measurement of War Crimes, the number of, we have the following conclusive results:

Gaza = 4,360

Israel = -0-

So congratulations Gaza, you finally found something you are better at than Israel. And when will the protest/boycott of Gaza for war crimes be held at the Palestinian/Palestinian supporters' offices or business connections and when is the UN session to condemn Gaza for War Crimes and/or related Op-Ed in The Times (rhetorical, no need to answer). 

Has There Ever Been Colonialization, Genocide and an Endless Series of Crimes Against the Universe in Modern Israel?

 

1. Introduction of the Issue

The Question

The question of this post is whether or not there has ever been colonialization, genocide and an endless series of crimes against the universe in modern Israel? Doing a search on the Internet with key words "Israel" and "Genocide" (the worst of the Big 3) gives 10 hits on the first page. Nine of the articles claim Israel is guilty of genocide against the Palestinians. One article defends against this claim. Keeping in mind though that people are often guilty of what they falsely accuse other people of, what is the actual EVIDENCE for colonialization, genocide and an endless series of crimes against the universe in modern Israel?

2. Discussion

Colonialization

Colonization

"While many European colonization schemes focused on shorter-term exploitation of economic opportunities (Newfoundland, for example, or Siberia) or addressed specific goals (Massachusetts or New South Wales), a tradition developed of careful long-term social and economic planning for both parties," 

One of the lies told by Palestinians/Arabs is that foreign powers directly participated in their wars against Israel on the side of the Israelis. Not at all well known, is that the United Kingdom, the greatest colonializer of all time, created, supplied, maintained and led the Jordanian army against Israel during the War of Independence. 

Arab Legion

(The Soviet Union, Cuba, Pakistan and North Korea also provided soldiers who directly fought against Israel). Great Britain provided the leader of the Arab Legion, John Glubb, and the top officers. Glubb married a Jordanian and the Jordanian King married a Brit (now that's old school!). 

During the War of Independence, because of Great Britain's Arab Legion, the Jordanian army was the only relatively modern quality army the Arabs had. During the Israeli Civil War, Israel had defeated the Palestinians everywhere, including the West Bank. Without the Arab Legion Israel would have taken the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, in the War of Independence. 

At the time, the King of Jordan wanted all of Israel to be part of Jordan, even though the population of Jordan was relatively smaller than the Palestinian population. He realized though that he lacked the military strength to do that and the British told him they would only support taking over the part of Israel designated for the Palestinians. Based on how the War went he was willing to only annex the portion of Israel conquered by the Arab legion and allow a Jewish Country in whatever was left. He never wanted a Palestinian country as, if he was successful in taking the West Bank, the majority of his subjects would be Palestinian, and a neighboring Palestinian country would be a direct threat to his rule. 

In the War of Independence, Egypt and Syria had much larger militaries than Jordan and much more threatening politics, and, a majority of the West Bank was Palestinian, so the Israelis had a defensive policy towards the West Bank in general with the exception of East Jerusalem. 

The Arab Legion won the West Bank and East Jerusalem and Jordan annexed both. Thus Jordan colonized the West Bank and could not have done so without the foreign colonizing power Great Britain. Included in the take was East Jerusalem, which the United Nations including Great Britain, had agreed was to be an International City. Great Britain publicly stated that it did so for its own economic self-interests. 

Great Britain was embarrassed by the fact that its military was leading an attack against a country that at the time would have to reach up to be third world status and that would have been exponentially stronger if the British had not prevented so many Jews from leaving Europe to prevent being murdered by the Nazis, so it ordered all its officers to return to Jordan after they initially crossed into Israel. All of them though quickly (and unofficially) returned to lead the front lines (but lying seems a relatively low badge of dishonor to pin on them here). 

So, Jordan/Great Britain thus colonized part of Israel, with Jordan leaving open the possible final solution of the conflict to it colonizing all of Israel. The United Nations complained that this was a violation of the related UN Mandate. But there were no boycotts, demonizations, violent protests or terrorist attacks against Jordan/Great Britain.

And HOW did Jordan accomplish this. That involves what follows, genocide and crimes against the Universe.

Genocide

Genocide

"Definition of genocide[edit]

Article 2 of the Convention defines genocide as

... any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

— Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Article 2^[5]"

During the War of Independence the Arab Legion, and thus Jordan, conquered the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Qualitatively, East Jerusalem had exponentially more Jewish religious significance than any other religion. Quantitatively, it's difficult to estimate how many Jews were in East Jerusalem/West Bank before Jordanian colonization because:

During and after the Battle of Jerusalem, Palestinian civilian looting destroyed most of the synagogues and Jewish schools. After the Battle Jordan expelled all Jews from East Jerusalem and prevented Israelis from visiting Jewish holy sites. Thus there remained no significant Jewish presence in East Jerusalem in terms of people or identifying history except for the Western Wall which ironically was spared because Muslims insisted it was an Islamic heritage site and not a Jewish one. Thus an almost complete destruction of Jews and Jewish history in East Jerusalem, which has always been the heart of Judaism. Now what's the word for that?

An Endless Series of Crimes against the Universe

Crimes Against Humanity

"Nuremberg Trials

After the Second World War, the London Charter of the International Military Tribunal set down the laws and procedures by which the Nuremberg trials were to be conducted. The drafters of this document were faced with the problem of how to respond to the Holocaust and the grave crimes committed by the Nazi regime. A traditional understanding of war crimes gave no provision for crimes committed by a power on its own citizens. Therefore, Article 6 of the Charter was drafted to include not only traditional war crimes and crimes against peace, but also crimes against humanity, defined as

Murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population, before or during the war, or persecutions on political, racial or religious grounds in execution of or in connection with any crime within the jurisdiction of the Tribunal, whether or not in violation of the domestic law of the country where perpetrated.^[12][13]"

The List is long and undistinguished:

Battle for Jerusalem

"Israeli victories against the Arab militias in the city pushed Abdallah of Jordan to order the Arab Legion to intervene."

"It deployed in East Jerusalem, fought the Israelis and took the Jewish quarter of the Old City. The population was expelled and the fighters taken prisoners to Jordan."

 

"Arab forces attacked a Jewish medical convoy on its way to Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus. The British had provided no escort (as they had in previous months) and both they and Palmach forces were slow to intervene during the attack and help the ambushed Jews. After seven hours of fighting, the British put an end to the standoff; by then 78 Jews (mostly unarmed medical personnel) had been killed, as was one British soldier.^{[41][42][43]"}

Battle for Jerusalem

"The Jordanians in Latrun cut off supplies to western Jerusalem.^[154] Though some supplies, mostly munitions, were airdropped into the city, the shortage of food, water, fuel and medicine was acute. The Israeli forces were seriously short of food, water and ammunition.^[154]"

"King Abdullah ordered Glubb Pasha, the commander of the Arab Legion, to enter Jerusalem on 17 May. The Arab Legion fired 10,000 artillery and mortar shells a day,^[154] and also attacked West Jerusalem with sniper fire."

"The 1,500 Jewish inhabitants of the Old City's Jewish Quarter were expelled, and several hundred were detained. The Jews had to be escorted out by the Arab Legion to protect them against Palestinian Arab mobs that intended to massacre them.^[158]"

      East Jerusalem 

"During the Battle for Jerusalem, fighting in the Jewish quarter between the Jordanian Arab Legion and the IDF, Irgun and Lehi had been particularly fierce, leaving the zone in ruins. The battle and subsequent looting by Palestinian civilians left 27 synagogues and 30 schools destroyed.^[28] The Jordanian army is said to have blown up, three days after conquering the area, what remained of the Hurva Synagogue, which had served both as a civilian refuge and Israeli military post.^[28]"

"In the first six months of the 1948 war 6,000 Jews also abandoned the city, and when war broke out, thousands fled the northern areas subject to Jordanian shelling. "

 "as Jordan did not recognize Israeli passports, neither Jewish nor Muslim Israelis were allowed access to their traditional sites of worship in East Jerusalem, though Israeli Christians, with a special laissez-passer. were permitted to visit Bethlehem over Christmas and the New Year.^[50][51]"

3. Conclusion

Palestinian political violence

" John Bagot Glubb, a high-ranking British army general who worked with the Arab Legion, explained in his autobiographical history of the period how he convinced the Legion to arm and train the fedayeen for free.^[36] The Israeli government cites dozens of these attacks as "Major Arab Terrorist Attacks against Israelis prior to the 1967 Six-Day War".^[37][38] Between 1951 and 1956, 400 Israelis were killed and 900 wounded by fedayeen attacks.;^[39][40] according to the Anti-Defamation League "[i]n 1955 alone, 260 Israeli citizens were killed or wounded by fedayeen".^[41]"

         [It was not enough for England to have their General lead Jordan against Israel in a Colonialization, Genocide and Crimes Against The Universe effort. After the War this shmuck putz trained Palestinian terrorists to commit terrorist attacks against Israel from the safety of Jordan.]

In conclusion then, During The War of Independence, we've seen how Jordan, with England's help, colonized part of Israel, and tried to colonize all of it, committed genocide in East Jerusalem and The West Bank and committed numerous crimes against the universe during and after The War. So when people say there has been colonialization, genocide and crimes against the universe in modern Israel, they are correct. They just often have the guilty party and the victims switched. 

 

Is Palestinian Terrorism Good For Israel?

1. Introduction of the Issue

The Question
The question of this post is whether or not Palestinian Terrorism is good for Israel. In order to answer the question one needs to define "what is good for Israel". For purposes of this post I will assume that what is good for Israel is land. The post will then discuss the historical relationship between Palestinian Terrorism and its effect on the quantity of Israeli land. 

2. Discussion

1947 UN Partition Plan For Israel/Palestine

The above is the original proposed separation of land for Israel and the Palestinians per the 1947 UN Partition Plan. This post will emphasize the changing relationship over time/events/offers between Israeli land and (offered/non-Israeli) Palestinian land. The comparison will primarily be quantitative rather than qualitative as quantitative is more objective. 

Per this plan Israel was to receive 54% of the land, the Palestinians 45% and 1% would be the International city of Jerusalem. Qualitatively, the majority of the land is in the Negev desert and Israel was allocated almost all of the Negev. 

Reactions

Israeli/Jewish = Acceptance of Plan.

Palestinian/Arab = Rejection of Plan and position that it would not accept any land being given to a Jewish State. 

Subsequent Events

Israeli War Of Independence - 1948-1949

On May 14th 1948 Great Britain left Israel/Palestine. The next day all surrounding Arab countries invaded Israel with the intention of not allowing any Israeli/Jewish State. Egypt and Jordan, the two main invading Arab powers, did not intend any Palestinian State either, they wanted to colonize parts of Israel/Palestine for themselves. It's unclear, if the Palestinians would have been able to decide for themselves, whether or not to accept the Partition Plan, they would have or not. In any case they allied with the surrounding Arab countries.

In preparation for the invasion Palestinian/Arab leaders publicly threatened that the intent of the invasion went well beyond a mere military victory:

"Haj Amin al-Husseini said in March 1948 to an interviewer in a Jaffa daily Al Sarih that the Arabs did not intend merely to prevent partition but "would continue fighting until the Zionists were Annihilated".^[115]"

[Note al-Husseini was the highest Muslim religious figure in Palestine and had recruited Palestinians for the SS during WWII]


Arab Higher Committee:

"The Palestinian Arabs make a grave declaration before the UN, before God and before history that they will never submit to any power that comes to Palestine to impose a partition. The only way to establish a partition is to get rid of them all: men, women, and children."

Arab League's Secretary-General Azzam Pasha:

"I personally wish that the Jews do not drive us to this war, as this will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades"

Plenty more where those came from but you get the idea. 

Conclusion = Palestinian/Arab reaction to Israeli/Jewish acceptance of the Partition Plan was Terrorism. 

After The War of Independence:

Land percents after the War =

Israel = 78%

Jordan/Egypt = 22%

Palestinians = -0- %

Conclusion = As a result of the Arabs/Palestinians trying to reduce Israel's percent to -0-, Israel's percent of the land went from 54% to 78% and if your criterion for what is good for Israel is land, then this was Tov mehode for Israel. Meanwhile, the Palestinian percent went from 45% to -0-. 

Six-Day War - 1967

Subsequent to The War of Independence the Arab League agreed on a policy statement that there would be no negotiation with Israel and no acceptance of an Israeli country. In May 1967 Egypt removed UN peacekeeping forces from their border with Israel and massed troops on the border. Israel had previously announced that if Egypt closed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping Israel would consider that an act of war. Egypt closed the straits. Egypt also sent troops to Jordan.


Once again Nasser, the leader of the Arab forces, made clear his intentions by constantly having threats made against Israel by the Egyptian radio service and saying things like coexistence was not possible because Israel had robbed and expelled the Palestinians and Israel would get what was coming for threatening to march on Damascus, occupy Syria and overthrow the Syrian Arab regime.

Conclusion = Palestinian/Arab reaction to The War of Independence was Terrorism.

After The Six Day War:

Land percents after the War =

Israel = 100%

Palestinians = 0%

Conclusion = As a result of the Arabs/Palestinians trying to reduce/eliminate Israel's percent, Israel's percent of the land went from 78% to 100% and if your criterion for what is good for Israel is land, then this was pretty, pretty, pretty good for Israel. 

  3. Conclusion

From the beginning of the conflict, the Arabs/Palestinians have refused to negotiate with Israel and instead used Terrorism to try and prevent Israel from having any percent of Israel. As a result Israel has ended up with 100% of Israel and the Palestinians have ended up with -0-%. Now that's Justice for Palestine!