According to Alexander and Leslie Cockburn ("Dangerous Liaison") Israel had roughly 400 nuclear bombs back in 1991. They got them from the US who let them know when the storage sites would be unlocked and unguarded and the sayanim moved them to Israel. Recent reports indicate Netanyahu was one of the people involved in this. Did you read how he was rushed to the hospital last night? Supposedly "dehydration". Hezbollah managed to hit his bedroom. He probably pissed himself.
However it happens, Palestine will belong to Palestinians from the river to the sea. It's going to happen in our lifetimes.
Just be aware that there is a lot of Israeli-generated propaganda out there right now. I watched Al Jazeera last night and someone was interrupting the broadcast, inserting the weirdest, least likely stories in between the real broadcast repeatedly. One of them stated that Israel had bombed Iranian nuclear sites. Putin already told them what would happen if they did that. I don't think they have the bomb yet. But they will. Israel has been thoroughly check-mated. I am so impressed how closely Hamas, Hezbollah, the Syrians and Iran follow Islamic law. The (Western) Christians and Jews are disgraceful, targeting civilians and stealing resources and millions of dollars in cash. I am very impressed by the Muslim military and policy leaders. The banks Israel bombed in Lebanon were used to give small business loans to civilians so they could become self-sufficient. Those loans were interest-free, per the Qoran. Very cool.
If you don't charge any interest on loans, then the size of the loan vs the amount the loanee actually receives need to diverge, if you don't want the bank to go bankrupt. The 'arrangement fee', if you call it that, must cover the costs of the Islamic bank.
How do Islamic banks handle the effects of inflation? They have to have a way of hedging themselves otherwise they will disappear over time as an ineffective place for depositers to lodge their money.
I'm no defender of the more pirate-like Western banks, but there really is no panacea of how to lend money interest-free. Interest-free loans only exist in inflation-free worlds or as charity. There have to be costs incorporated to cover the % of loans that go bad and to cover the costs of administration.
Good points. I don't know. I'm not into banking, Islamic or otherwise. I just know that usury, i.e. interest, is haram/forbidden and I admire Islam for this basic human decency. Islam does require tithing which is usually between 8-10%. Since religions in the Middle East are still living, breathing entities--faith isn't something you put on for the sabbath as it is i the West--people happily tithe as well as help out the less fortunate as a matter of worship of God. Not saying many Western Christians and Jews don't do this as well, but most Westerners don't and religion in the West is nothing like religion in the M.E. is. It's not a living, breathing part of being alive, in all things. It's separate. Perhaps that's how they are compensated. This is an interesting line of inquiry, however. It would be good to find out from an Islamic bank or Islamic economist how this works and incorporate it into our system in community-owned banks, don't you think? The level of personal debt in this country is outrageous. And the details behind our NATIONAL debt are outrageously immoral and unethical. Plenty of people have been following this more closely than me. I've never bought into "The American Dream". The Federal Reserve is actually a consortium of private bankers--not all American--and they don't actually "lend" money to the government. They just add the figures on a computer database and immediately charge us, the taxpayers, interest. In the process, our dollars lose value. That is what inflation is: The devaluation of the dollar. Our GDP is largely comprised of debt. Our actual productivity is quite low.
What has caused inflation in Middle Eastern countries, and I know this for a fact, is US sanctions on their economies. Sanctions might work in the short-term but they fail in the long-term because the sanctioned countries become more creative, more efficient, and more self-sufficient. The US is sanctioning 60% of the world's economies. That's mafia-type behavior. And I don't think the Dems or the Republicans control this country: The hidden mafia behind the scenes does.
According to Alexander and Leslie Cockburn ("Dangerous Liaison") Israel had roughly 400 nuclear bombs back in 1991. They got them from the US who let them know when the storage sites would be unlocked and unguarded and the sayanim moved them to Israel. Recent reports indicate Netanyahu was one of the people involved in this. Did you read how he was rushed to the hospital last night? Supposedly "dehydration". Hezbollah managed to hit his bedroom. He probably pissed himself.
However it happens, Palestine will belong to Palestinians from the river to the sea. It's going to happen in our lifetimes.
Just be aware that there is a lot of Israeli-generated propaganda out there right now. I watched Al Jazeera last night and someone was interrupting the broadcast, inserting the weirdest, least likely stories in between the real broadcast repeatedly. One of them stated that Israel had bombed Iranian nuclear sites. Putin already told them what would happen if they did that. I don't think they have the bomb yet. But they will. Israel has been thoroughly check-mated. I am so impressed how closely Hamas, Hezbollah, the Syrians and Iran follow Islamic law. The (Western) Christians and Jews are disgraceful, targeting civilians and stealing resources and millions of dollars in cash. I am very impressed by the Muslim military and policy leaders. The banks Israel bombed in Lebanon were used to give small business loans to civilians so they could become self-sufficient. Those loans were interest-free, per the Qoran. Very cool.
If you don't charge any interest on loans, then the size of the loan vs the amount the loanee actually receives need to diverge, if you don't want the bank to go bankrupt. The 'arrangement fee', if you call it that, must cover the costs of the Islamic bank.
How do Islamic banks handle the effects of inflation? They have to have a way of hedging themselves otherwise they will disappear over time as an ineffective place for depositers to lodge their money.
I'm no defender of the more pirate-like Western banks, but there really is no panacea of how to lend money interest-free. Interest-free loans only exist in inflation-free worlds or as charity. There have to be costs incorporated to cover the % of loans that go bad and to cover the costs of administration.
Good points. I don't know. I'm not into banking, Islamic or otherwise. I just know that usury, i.e. interest, is haram/forbidden and I admire Islam for this basic human decency. Islam does require tithing which is usually between 8-10%. Since religions in the Middle East are still living, breathing entities--faith isn't something you put on for the sabbath as it is i the West--people happily tithe as well as help out the less fortunate as a matter of worship of God. Not saying many Western Christians and Jews don't do this as well, but most Westerners don't and religion in the West is nothing like religion in the M.E. is. It's not a living, breathing part of being alive, in all things. It's separate. Perhaps that's how they are compensated. This is an interesting line of inquiry, however. It would be good to find out from an Islamic bank or Islamic economist how this works and incorporate it into our system in community-owned banks, don't you think? The level of personal debt in this country is outrageous. And the details behind our NATIONAL debt are outrageously immoral and unethical. Plenty of people have been following this more closely than me. I've never bought into "The American Dream". The Federal Reserve is actually a consortium of private bankers--not all American--and they don't actually "lend" money to the government. They just add the figures on a computer database and immediately charge us, the taxpayers, interest. In the process, our dollars lose value. That is what inflation is: The devaluation of the dollar. Our GDP is largely comprised of debt. Our actual productivity is quite low.
What has caused inflation in Middle Eastern countries, and I know this for a fact, is US sanctions on their economies. Sanctions might work in the short-term but they fail in the long-term because the sanctioned countries become more creative, more efficient, and more self-sufficient. The US is sanctioning 60% of the world's economies. That's mafia-type behavior. And I don't think the Dems or the Republicans control this country: The hidden mafia behind the scenes does.