Standing for his second term, President of the United States Palmer 'Pace' Rawden hears that El Jibril, respected Bedouin and Osama bin Ladan devotee, also OPEC's senior strategist is launching a new protocol granting China favoured oil status over the United States. Rawden isn't aware this is the first of a series of Jibril US 'paybacks' for the 'murder' of bin Ladan and other US 'atrocities'. Another 'raid' involves constitutionally accessing the White House. Collaterally, US oil supplies will be linked to Chinese immigration. El Jibril is moving towards the impeachment of the president. But Jibril hasn't reckoned on Rawden's tenacity. Approaching Chinese immigrants are denied landing rights, China reacts and a breathless world watches a superpower crisis loom. Angered by US 'vested interests', Rawden seeks change. By adding one word to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address he introduces a new political concept. Americans want politicians removed from government. Threatened, the politicians fight back until the US Supreme Court rules ...

There is no more fascinating saga than that of the Jews. Uninterrupted for four thousand years, it describes how a people 'diasporised' from their 'promised land' still survive a pernicious world, outliving all civilisations despite constant persecution and a Holocaust killing frenzy more malevolent than the Dark Ages' Barbarian freaks who pillaged Europe after the Romans. But there were heroics as well. At Masada, a few Jews held off more Roman Legions than any other Roman challenger in that empire's military history. A few Jews had the Nazis pulling out all stops in to raze the Warsaw Ghetto. No, contrary to Holocaust belief, the Jews are not a meek people. Small numbers of concentration camp survivors defeated the collective power of seven Arab armies five times in five separate wars. The 'Six Day War' lasted that long because their God, it was said, rested on the seventh day Most Jews see the hand of God in their epic struggles for survival. With foresight, their God had equipped them with something more powerful than weaponry. Mental flexibility linked to a Jungian 'collective unconscious' is more effective. By far. Victor Hugo said. "There is no greater power than an idea whose time has come." "Tribes: Israel" demonstrates just that.