So this video is a really nice fast way to refresh your knowledge of that area. So if you're an older person like myself, you've heard this topic all your life probably you're slightly tired of it. But if you're a younger person, you might want a little catching up on the whole history of this area and this video is a really fast way to do it. So I don't want it to cut into my time too much. So I was going to just point to it quickly as it goes by. So if you could go ahead and hit play, you can see it kind of zoom in. We're down here at 1450 BC and here's the Kingdom of Egypt. We're all familiar with that. King Tut, pyramids, all kinds of great stuff. And now here comes the hit heights in there. They don't quite make it down to each other. They got a big chunk up here. And then here's the Kingdom of Israel way back in like 800 BC or so. It doesn't really get too much, but it's bigger than modern Israel. Here we've got the Assyrians come in. The Assyrian holds up for a little while, but pretty soon it's going to be gone. Here comes the Battle of Onions sweeping across. Battle of Onions take over a lot of space. And then the Persians, now the Iranians, a lot of Iranians don't call themselves Persians. You can see they got quite a big chunk of land. Now we've got the big sweep of the Macedonian Empire. Honestly, I didn't know the Macedonians had an empire until I saw this video. The Romans, we all know about the Roman Empire. They got the entire sweep of the Mediterranean, the Holy Lands, all that. And then the Byzantine, after the Romans kind of started falling apart a little bit. And then, bam, here comes the Sassinids, another empire that I honestly had never heard of. But hey, go Sassinids. But now we all know about the Caliphate. This is where the Muslims came all the way up into Spain. They took over all the Spain. And there's still mosques and things in southern Spain today, quite impressive that the Caliphs took over afterwards. And now here we've got kind of a bad period. The Crusader Kingdoms, that was not a pretty thing. You know, the Europeans came over and killed lots of people. Now we've got the Seladin's empire. Can't say it's a new Seladin, but there are a lot of quite a bit of a chuck of territory there. And now, yes, it's the Mongols. They sweep across the steppe. They don't get down in the Holy Land, but they're pretty successful. And of course, we're all familiar with the Ottoman Empire. They took a huge amount of territory. And finally, we're swept away by European colonialism. Europe finally gets its legs under it. It sends out ships, takes over lots of countries. And then they establish the states. The Europeans decide on all these states. This area, both Israel and Jordan, is the old British mandate. Parvato was given to the Jews. And you can see it's kind of a funky shape. I talked to a guy who was there. Then they were attacked and they took over to Somorland. A guy said they drew those lines because that's what the Jews were living. This guy was at the UN meeting. But Jordan got this other two thirds. So this was the original British mandate. Jordan was founded in 1946. It was a little in 1948. France got these two countries. Britain had these two. France had these two. And they kind of divided it all up. And now it's going to zip through. We can ignore the fast-replayed everything that happened. Wow. Let's blow. So maybe it's such in the slides. So I wanted to talk about the question. It's an old question. There's a problem since 1948. Since the state of Israel was founded and responsible Jews being murdered in Europe, the Europeans felt guilty. And since they owned this big chunk of land down where the Jews said they were originally from, they said, hey, why don't you all go down there and hang out. And that'll be just great. And so they did. And you can see, oh, this is all pretty intuitive interface. OK, so lots of nations have owned this area. I don't know what really owns it from a legal point of view. The Jewish Palestinians, which are generally called Israelis, they pretty much don't have any place to go. It's like those of us here in North America were Europeans. But here we are in North America. And guess what? There were people here before us. But when I first found out about that, when I was a child being raised in California, I felt just terrible. Like, oh, my God, I've got to go back somewhere else. The Indians can have this territory. And I'm like, oh, wait, where are they going? So this is the problem that the non-the Jewish Palestinians have in Israel is many of them have been there for eight and nine generations. So they don't have any other place to go. Also, it tends to be a problem when the Jews are somewhere else. People decide to murder them to make them an economic scapegoat or whatever. So it's a little dangerous for Jews in other places. And here's my disclaimer of Jews and Suschery. And I do have a low level fear that at some point the government of any nation other than Israel will decide that I'm not a prisoner anymore and come kill me and take my stuff. You could say that's kind of paranoid, but all the Jews who aren't paranoid are dead. So those of us there around, we have this low level fear that I kind of got to watch the news. So there's this problem. So there's the Jewish Palestinians and there's the non-Jewish Palestinians. And a lot of them were forced out inappropriately and they need some compensation. But I just wanted to point out that this is pretty new in human history. Usually the conquered peoples are massacre or whatever. They don't usually stick around to one. So the question is for this group, why care? I mean, it's really far away. And I have some isolationist friends down in California where I'm friend who say, you know, it's far away. Like, let it go. But one idea I didn't put in here is I have like one idea of like building airports. So that anybody who doesn't like it there could just come to North America. And I pick up all the women with leave. The middle east pretty quickly. And the guys are be like, hmm, maybe we need to do something different. So as we know, the North American guys are the best guys. And that's how it is. All the women come here. Well, anyhow, it's a festering when we went to it's contributing to the hate of the West. This unresolved form between the Jews and the non-Jews in Palestine. There's the principle of it, which is all people should really have a chance to live in security, right? And with a good life. I mean, that's like something we'd all like to have for ourselves. So the golden rule dictates that we want to have it for videos. There's, I personally, of course, have a security, a conservative security visceral. If this problem, there is not resolved eventually, the Arabs, since they more or less enslaved their women in a good, many optional life, but to be produced massively will overrun the Jews there who are all former Western Europeans and don't have so many children. So there's a problem where eventually Israel would just be overrun. Israel does have and has had all of its life superior firepower, but it doesn't want to really just massacre, but it's really because they have this Western thing about not killing other people so much, although they have been driven to it in some cases because they're getting shot at all the time. And there's also, you want to have concern for the well-being of the Palestinian people who, right now, apparently have no hope for a better life and are thinking it might be a better day to strap bombs to themselves and go blow up pizza reas and airplanes. I mean, that's not good. They need a sustainable free nation. So I got a little side here on the goals and the means to the end. The goal is to have two sovereign states that would live in peace together. There's a problem that anybody who follows this topic closely or even not so close is that the fundamentalist Muslims, a lot of them don't appear to be interested in really a rational dialogue on this. It's like kill death to the West, death to the Zionist entity and stuff. So there's a certain fraction of that population that will never be persuaded, but I got to figure that most Muslims are normal people like you and me and would rather live in peace and raise their children and have jobs and all that. So there's this little problem of the fundamentalism Muslims who tend to assassinate people they don't like. And so it's kind of hard to speak out and I'm just so encouraged and amazed and boggled by the rank and file of the Middle East right now rising up and throwing off the shackles of dictators. And so I have some hope that there's a whole lot of reasonable people over there that could make peace. And then the fundamentalist Jews, there's this little clutch of Jews who apparently don't believe that Israel should have been founded until after the Messiah came back. And apparently they don't believe he's come, right? Because they're Jews and not Christians. So they don't serve in the army, they don't think as Israel should exist. So these two are kind of like wild cards, these are problems. Most of the world is pro having two sovereign states down there, but we're a little tired of sending money and guys over to make it happen. And so the hope is that if they could get some kind of a ceasefire for long enough to become interdependent, that actual peace could follow. So this is my idea. Here's the map as it exists today. You got Jordan, which if you'll recall, got two thirds of the rich man. This whole outline here, these two things were all owned by Britain. And Britain gave a big chunk to Jordan. And because they wanted to protect their trade route to their colonies in India. And they made friends with Hashemite King here. And then they gave this chunk to Israel a little bit less than this. And then when Israel was attacked by all these other nations, Israel took a bit more. And just this little tiny bit is left over for the Palestinians. So here's my idea. Is that Jordan would give some land back proportional to what it got. Egypt would give this little strip of land right at the top here of the sign up. And so which they just recently got returned from the peace deal that they broke that Israel, they don't shoot it as early as they look at the back of the sign up with all the oil. And they're all happy. So they would give this little strip back to the Palestinians. So they could at least have a train route to get down here to the Gulf of Akaba. And from there they could get to this south-eastern Palestine that Jordan would give them. And they would also give them enough for a train route to get up here to the West Bank. So the Palestinians could finally have a territory that was contiguous. And they wouldn't have to have any checkpoints to get from Gaza to Palestine. Now of course, right now, if you've followed any of these, you know that Gaza is run by a different Palestinian organization than the West Bank. But I got to hope that all these people could get the other. They could form me now and go run. They might or not. Just to let you know, I did send us this suggestion to Jordan. And I got a really nice letter back from the on-wound royal stationary in Boston, gold saying my suggestion would be given all the consideration it was due. So, hanging out here, it's just the essential elements of it. Egypt's got a little contribution. Sorry. It did. Egypt got a little contribution. Jordan's two-thirds contribution because Jordan got about twice as much land. And then the idea would be that it would be all contiguous and no checkpoints within the territory. And it would give the Palestinians a way to get to the Gulf of Macau. Okay, sorry. All right. So, here's a few other ideas. There's these serious games. These people are quite good. They're helping people see the other person's side. Storytelling to, in general, empathy. Amizia Gas, that's my brother's joke. Facebook nations that would help people collaborate from a lower level instead of from the government. Here's a picture of the serious games. I was going to ask you for your ideas and some recommend a meeting. And yeah. Okay.