Obvious Egypt can only feed itself by either 1. making its own food or 2. trading something foreign food-growers want.

Grains are the cheapest source of calories, all grains take one liter to produce one calorie, and global arbitrage markets tend to make price per calorie for the three major grains nearly equivalent.

Since it has a limited water budget, all it can do is is grow the most-expensive water-per-dollar export crop for it’s climate zone, and import the population’s favorite grain. But that supply of that export is just as limited as the water supply, and yet the huge population grows and grows.

Besides tourism (how fast can that grow?) Egypt’s foreign exchange flows derive in order from the following exports:

1. Oil based products and related chemicals production – 42%
2. Copper and related products plus Steel and Aluminum – 10%
3. Citrus, sugar cane, fruits, and cheese: 8.5%
4. Cotton and textiles: 7%
5. Gold – 3.4%

Wow, agricultural exports is only 15.5% for the owner of the Nile!

Meanwhile, it imports loads of wheat, scrap metal, refined sugar (?! I guess they don’t refine the cane themselves?), soybean oil, but the #1 import is refined motor fuels.

Things will not go well if fracking is not feasible and highly productive for Egyptian fields. Even so, it won’t last forever.

But probably not. Does the power of a force that allows some degree of escape from clan-hell diminish alongside the power of clan-hell itself? Gut says yes, but I can’t explain it.

In all benevolence dump Washington if you want to make it. Especially State.**

Now I give that same advice to Americans. Regardless of Hue or Semitic Status. Except I might tell a Phoenician that it’s for them, but it would be true, and I don’t like them.

If you want more and untainted by Any-Semitism evidence drive around DC then start going out in concentric circles. The circle of either upper class government employees of one sort or another – ALL of them – or dysgenic mixes of trash doesn’t stop until Frederick MD. It’s as if they have some sort of soul-destroying black light emanating from DC. The dysgenic trash is nearly as discouraging as the soul drained government functionaries, the trash is cross-pollinating dysfunctions. One gives the other rap and African family values, the other gives them tattoos which just don’t travel onto black skin well. But they’d still make better MENA/Israel policy than the Vampiric Familiars making it now.

**and don’t try to optimize, that’s the last fucking market you want to time the sell moment on. Do it now.

Oh, and if the West (US) doesn’t want to play ball, we won’t play. We can always look Eastwards.

Anyways, ultimately the question of Palestine is a question that’ll be answered by Israel, not by America or even by the Arabs themselves. The answer lies in future demographic trends, and meanwhile the status quo is held. With regards to the tumultuous times around us; the artificial borders seem to be breaking down, and Israel stands to gain both enemies (the Islamic State) and friends (the Kurds) out of the blood and fire.