1. And it came to pass that an angel appeared to Sara of Delano and said unto her, “Ye shall conceive a son and ye shall call him, Franklin.  And he shall rule over the land and he will bring great joy to the people.”

2. And so it was during the dark days of the reign of  Herbert of Hoover, that Franklin became the ruler of the land known as Columbia between the two Great Seas and the darkness was lifted from the land.  And his reign lasted twelve years and one month and the people and scribes were joyous. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of Karl of Marx.

In 2004, the Israeli army began building a dummy Arab city in the Negev desert. It’s the size of a real city, with streets (all of them given names), mosques, public buildings and cars. Built at a cost of $45 million, this phantom city became a dummy Gaza in the winter of 2006, after Hizbullah fought Israel to a draw in the north, so that the IDF could prepare to fight a ‘better war’ against Hamas in the south.

When the Israeli Chief of General Staff Dan Halutz visited the site after the Lebanon war, he told the press that soldiers ‘were preparing for the scenario that will unfold in the dense neighbourhood of Gaza City’.