Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 29, 2014

Kenya believe how ignorant Pig is?

Palestine was created by political functionarys but Isreal was created by them winning their independence in 1948

Had that Middle Eastern country always been named such before 1963 (the year of Michael’s birth)?

that land has been Israel’s for a long time off and on its just been a land in constant conflict

Well, I do agree with Pig’s first sentence in the first panel, but he looses me after that. But ultimately the Mid East is like so much of the world, not quite that peaceful historically. Even before the 20th century.

I’m still trying to figure out why the Middle East is on the other side of the continent from the Far East.

I can see naming a country after Michael Jordan. What I don’t get is why another country decided to name itself after two brands of soap: Ivory Coast.

Pig? Confused?Tell me it isn’t so!

@synp: After Trans-Jordan conquered the west bank of the Jordan River during Israel’s War for Independence, it could no longer be caalled “Trans-Jordan” and had to be re-named “Jordan.” The west Bank is still disputed rather than “occupied” territory.

And the real reason for the conflicts in the Middle East (Israel is not the major conflict) is because after World War I the diplomats who carved up the Ottoman Empire drew up boundaries irrespective of ethnicities and religious groups, i.e. Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.

and all that for sand sand sand sand and more sand.

So you mean to tell me the Palestinians are Democrats?

Iraq my brain trying to think of a comment…

Israel was named for… Israel. The name literally means “He who wrestles with God”. The name was given to Jacob after an all-night wrestling match with God. Genesis 32:28. Jacob’s descendants went on to be called the “Children of Israel”.

Those puns about Iraq and Iran make me feel I-RATE!

(I’ll admit it’s because I didn’t think of them first!!)

Oman, I’m quite Syria

I see.xxx

God gave the land to His chosen people (Abram’s offspring).It has always belonged to the Israelites and was NEVER man’s to carve up and hand out!!!

Genesis 15:18-21 – On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites.”

God said it, and that’s all there is to it.“period”

So close Pig, so close….

Oh, and nice puns, everyone! Keep up the good work!

“Palestine”, as they call it, is NOT a country. It’s a section of Israel that some people want to carve out and MAKE into a country.

Well. At least Jordan is sharing their air with the rest of us.