OIL $56.60 per barrel
profit taking?
During this time I had time to mull over the Israel pull-out that starts on Monday, August 15th. I think that the oil and gold prices are tied to this event. The main nagging feeling that I have been having is that while the Israeli troops are engaged in the Gaza Pullout...will Syria, Egypt, Iran, et.al take advantage of this momentous event and stage an attack? Just keeps running through my mind...the Israeli troops and the Jewish settlers are in my thoughts and prayers. This is an atrocity, the Arabs will not be happy until they have "vanquished the Jews into the Sea". This pull-out will not change or help the peace process. The walls that have been built have been working. This Islamic problem has a resolution that no one wants to face...and no amount of appeasement will ever work.
Facts, Figures About Israel's Gaza Pullout
Starting next week, Israel will pull out of the Gaza Strip and a small part of the West Bank, removing 9,000 Jewish settlers from their homes. It will mark the first time Israel dismantles Jewish settlements in either the West Bank or Gaza, both captured in the 1967 Mideast War and claimed by the Palestinians for a future state....
Israel Stages Final Drill before Gaza Withdrawal
KEREM SHALOM, Israel - In a final drill, thousands of Israeli troops prepared Wednesday for some of the worst scenarios in next week's Gaza pullout, from Palestinian mortar fire to settler violence and equipment failure...
I find it interesting when celestial events coincide with upheaveals here on earth.
Meteor 'Outburst' Expected Friday Morning