Fred, I think your posts don't make much sense to me because you're projecting onto me a lot of motives and attitudes that aren't mine. I don't consider the question of how I would feel if Indian lands were taken back to be a rhetorical one. I consider it as important as the question of how I would feel if I were a Palestinian who was being disposessed of his or her ancestral land. I think it shows a lack of regard for real human issues and the tragedies that ensue, to not see it as anything other than a rhetorical question. And I'm not just arguing my favorite bits. I don't know if you've noticed or not, but I have, several times, said that I haven't got enough time to answer these points and questions properly, as quickly as some people think I should. But I'm working on it. So how about taking a chill pill?

Wolfgang, I haven't really gotten to the crux of my big point yet. I posted the oil stuff as just one pillar in my whole premise. That particular pillar is that nobody knows just yet how much of a benefit Jordan's "oil resources" might have on the current population of Jordan (if any), much less on an influx of two million new refugees from Israel and the Occupied territories. But oil is just one factor that needs to be considered. I'm still working on the rest of my responses to nerd's questions and assertions. I suspect it's going to take a fair bit of time before you will be able to get any real sense of where I'm headed in my response, because it's very complicated, and can't be boiled down into simple sound bytes, and my time for doing this is, unfortunately, quite limited.