Once again, Jordan is a Palestinian Arab state occupying 77 percent of British Mandate Palestine. It is entirely a creation of the partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab segments. Its name derives from the British designation transjordan, meaning "that part of Palestine on the East of the river Jordan." It was the part of Palestine the Arabs got. It is the much bigger part, and the much better part, with all the oil and other natural resources.

Ok. I'm not going to respond to this entire paragraph right away, but I will respond now to this one part:

It is the much bigger part, and the much better part, with all the oil and other natural resources.

All the oil and natural resources?

This is what the CIA Factbook has to say about the natural resources of the country that is known today as the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan:

Jordan is a small Arab country with inadequate supplies of water and other natural resources such as oil.

My Random House World Atlas and the CIA factbook both list the natural resources of Jordan as follows: phosphates, potash, and shale. Jordan doesn't appear on the list of Oil producing countries in this site. I have done several Google searches to determine what Jordan't oil production and export is, and each time my search turns up nothing, as compared to countries like Saudi Arabia, which turns up quite a lot of information.

According to this site, Alexander's Gas and Oil Connection, Jordan may be able to produce oil from it's oil shale at some point in the future, but right now, any oil resources Jordan posesses are still just theoretical oil resources. And my understanding of shale oil is that it is expensive to extract and it takes a long time to put into production, so Jordan may not have any financial benefit from oil resources for a long time to come.


Oil

Jordan has no significant oil resources of its own, and relies on Iraqi oil for nearly all of its needs (around 106,000 bpd in 2002). Jordan's oil imports from Iraq are permitted by the United Nations under a special dispensation from the general UN sanctions regime on Iraq.

In December 2002, Jordan's government renewed its agreement with Iraq on oil supplies. Under the agreement, Jordan receives half of its crude oil free of charge, and receives steeply discounted prices for the rest. In addition to the crude oil imports, Jordan also imports about 20,000 bpd of refined petroleum products from Iraq, also priced at a substantial discount...

...Jordan does possess a significant quantity of oil shale resources, possibly as much as 40 bn tons. Canada's Suncor has conducted limited exploration digging in the Lajjun area, southwest of Amman, and has conducted discussions with the Jordanian government on the possible development of an oil shale extraction facility, but no development agreement has been signed.

I'll respond to the "other resources" part in my next post.

You talk about human rights. It seems that gay Palestinians would much rather take their chances living illegally in Israel, than put up with the human rights they have in Palestinian society.

So what's your answer, Guest? Kill them all? Or maybe just kill the ones who aren't gay?