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All good. To add more confusion, the Ayatollah and the president are actually of ethnic Azeris minorities .. and not majority Persians. Doesn’t mean anything, but just interesting

you do know that there are only 2% of Iranians that are Arabs … Are you an American Blake ?

thank god Canada did not become the 51st state. The entire country would be expunge of all non whites.

Thanks Inofeisone, @Parsad i was just pulling your leg. We still love you. Good news our new prime minister has invited Modi for G7 meeting. A step in the right direction….

Yeap. Just like Hamas went after Israel in a rampage of raping, pillaging and burning … instead of just their usual run of the mill kidnapping + few rockets ‘Nuff said

I still don’t get it. But I am usually slow on Mondays. So Israel chooses to turn entire cities to ashes in a nuclear strike … because it cannot deal with its own colonial problems that are decades in the making and are a direct product of its own policy. Are they that spoiled ? not saying that Israeli don’t have a tough hand and are not in a rough neighborhood, but seriously are they that spoiled

That is not what I meant. Everybody knows that. My comment was about your insinuation that the “Palestinian Question” is an Iranian creation. Iran or not, the issue was there, is there, will be there. On-going since 1948. As far as sponsoring and funding terrorism since you brought that up, Israel has been the biggest source of terrorism in the West Bank. Wearing uniforms and being organized into battalions doesn’t make you immune to being called out for it. Gaza is different. War was brought to them. Even with Bibi sucking up to Hamas, that didn’t stop Hamas being ultimately what Hamas really is.

where do you get this stuff ? What has one thing to do with another Israel owns Gaza/Hamas problem. Period. Iran or not, there is a problem there. Stop repeating Israeli propaganda … As far as the young lady on the boat heading to Gaza. It was a stunt. Nothing more nothing less. I would have also stopped her getting to Gaza. Everytime I read a post on this thread about Israel/Middle East from ANYONE is just people rehashing their favourite part of the argument. Get it over it folks. You are all getting ridiculous

What’s up with Musk did he change his drugs !? Going after the Boss like that

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paatal_Lok

Assuming I did the math correctly, a $1,000 invested in BN in June 2020 beats BX once you include the BAM spin off. The math did not include cash dividends

Almost five year from the start of this thread : Of course BN had as well the spin off in 2022 of BAM. The recent slump on BX seems to be more pronounced.

I finished it. I would classify it as an ok fun show to watch. did you ever watch Paatal Lok on prime. I believe it is thriller police show based in Mumbai or Delhi.

I think those two economies are largely controlled by the mob (I.e IRGC). Not sure how shareholder friendly the Revolutionary Guard they are going to be. Do you think IRGC prefers share buyback or special dividends. I bet they don’t even hold an AGM or provide forward guidance. Jokes aside, I don’t waste time with that stuff. The closest investment I have to the region is Fairfax India. Thanks for the feedback on the exchange. I remember when Canadian National Rail did its IPO I think at $2 or something like that during the provocation era in the 1990s.

Capturing in West Bank is one fell swoop was part of the problem. Typically if you are eating up territory, incrementally, you can “negotiate” the population to relocate. When you get the whole thing in one go, it comes with the population within. And suddenly that becomes your responsibility with no recourse. So Israeli own success became part of the problem. But that is not a decision that was theirs to make. Just a consequence of how rapid and consequential was the 1967 War. So no fork in the road there. Going forward however, like i said it in the earlier post, any desire to permanently to settle its own people (officially sanctioned or just de facto pushed by the Israeli government) means something has to give. It is a zero sum game. Someone or somebody has to lose. If one accepts that it is a zero sum game; then one needs to think and treat the losers in this zero sum game as little more than pestering mosquitoes and annoyance than actual unfortunate human beings. Otherwise, how a democracy can justify doing what it is doing and feel good about it. 50-60 years later, the divide is bigger than ever.

"The most interesting thing — and we can already say this publicly — is that the 'office' of our operation on Russian territory was located right next to the FSB (Federal Security Service) of Russia, in one of their regions,” he said in a post on Telegram.

Picked up this one for C$4 at Watson's Mill Used Book Store in Ottawa

Why Tel Aviv exchange ? exchange are good business as often brokerage are. But why a large +10% weighing. And why that one Is there a large privatization program that you are expecting to fuel more business … if it was Hong Kong say 20 years ago or Singapore, or Shanghai I can understand the macro tailwind.

Thanks Marco my imagination fails me as well. My primary interest in history is the “macro sweeping arc of history” stuff. Never had much interest in microhistory, on topics like how best govern over conquered people. I suppose however if Israel always wanted to have more land, that desire (whether it was formally stated or unspoken goal) came in direct conflict with the continuing existence of conquered population. And that friction manifested itself in an Israeli population that just dislikes the “Arabs” and treats them accordingly. and vice versa an Arab population that frankly does not have much to go on and cannot stand their overlords. Compound these mutual hatred on both sides for 6 decades at a fair CAGR and you have an “unbridgeable gap”. ——- That said that is not region specific. You can (and have) have this situation anywhere else in the world. The key difference is that the old Saudi Arabia kept the unrealistic dream of throwing off the Israeli yoke “alive” by funnelling millions over the decades until Hamas became Hamas. Since the Kingdom does not like religious political movement. It took a different path. But it was too late. Israel won those lands fair and square. No doubt about that. That is why countries fight wars. However, it also owns the baggage that comes with the occupation and its real desires.

thanks Spek for clarity I was referring to the entirety of Palestinian situation… West Bank and not just Gaza that is why I said 1967,

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@Spekulatius @Marco Van Basten The question was meant to understand what Israel could do in a positive way going back to 1967, if it had to do the whole thing again as an power that suddenly came to control a newly captured territory that came also with people living in it. The question was not : what is the easiest short cut to an unwanted problem.