[PoI] Victory, Peace, Justice, Diplomacy

Day 1,209, 19:31 • Published in Israel USA • by Rheinlander von Phalz


13 March 2011, Day 1,209 of the New World. Israel once again reached the Red Sea when it came into possession of the region of Jizan. More of the sparely-populated southern portion of Arabia came into Israel’s zone-of-occupation when Egypt was unable to capture the secondary Saudi capital region of Al Bahah, and it was instead secured by Israel.



In the east, Iran and Bulgaria, both coming across the Persian Gulf from Hormozgan, fought for a place in Arabia ending with Iran edging out Bulgaria. Cyprus crossed the Red Sea as per an agreement with Egypt and Greece, making soon-to-be-eliminated Cyprus the sixth sovereign nation to occupy Saudi Arabia. Greece, using Cyprus to make a land bridge through Egyptian territory, is soon to be the seventh.

Earlier Israel returned to the other side of Arabia to capture Northern Borders swapped by United Arab Emirates (an earlier exchange between Israel and UAE occurred in Ha’il). This means that Israel is currently at its territorial zenith with 11 regions, more than twice its original size.



The last region of Saudi Arabia, once captured by Egypt but since liberated, was Tabuk, another Red Sea province. The attack by United Arab Emirates from Ha’il captured this region, and Saudi Arabia ceased to exist as an independent country.

Israel, this leaves us in an interesting situation. I’ll be frank – we won’t want six new regions. It does not benefit us to remain in possession of a large stretch of Arabia and could even be detrimental. With eleven regions, each will have a minimum of three Knesset candidates elected. There will also be seven wildcards. Right now we have a minimum of seven candidates per region (provided enough people declare candidacy) with five wildcards. If we kept each of these regions, up least eighteen Knesset members would come from lightly-populated Arabia. The low cost to begin a revolt in these regions will encourage frequent fights that may distract us from something more important. The resources gained do not confer benefits beyond having one region. Our casus belli, ousting a dictator, is delegitimized if we become an imperialistic, occupying power. Israel will shortly be returning conquered regions we have decided to no longer occupy. Pay close attention to Israel’s battle orders to learn which side to fight for in resistance wars.

Do not “colonize” inappropriate regions, or the Israeli Defense Force may be sent in to “convince” you to relocate.

But, hey, let’s not spoil the mood. Instead today, Day 1,209, should be celebrated as Victory over Lawrence Day!



The victorious powers have already had a historic meeting to decide upon a framework agreement for the Arabian peninsula. As you can imagine, each country came into the war with their own military and political objectives. By no means are all factors finalized, but a framework agreement has been agreed upon between Israel, our longtime friends Greece, our new friends Egypt, our wartime ally United Arab Emirates, and our new neighbors Iran. So far the parties have been reasonably forthright and honorable, and hopefully we can diplomatically smooth over later disputes.



I told you once that Saudi Arabia was not the kind of neighbor we could go visit and give a tray of Rice Krispie treats. Iran totally is, though. They’ve already given us a special envoy, Hinrich Boll, and a productive meeting between the country presidents. Relations between our countries have always been fine, and it appears that sharing a large, sandy border (Al Riyadh and Northern Borders, Israel with Eastern Province, Iran) has not changed things.


and we might go out for kosher/halal steaks later

We may soon have an Arabian border with Greece as well. We already border them in Anatolia, Cyprus, and Greece proper, and transiently in Sinai, but we love them that much.


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