Hello Visitor and Welcome!

This blog is about good things in the Middle East, read, the Israeli - Palestinian conflict mostly, because that's the space my novel 'THE CHILDREN OF THE NAKBA' lives in.

 It truly is.

But let's dip down in the abyss a moment.

Hold your hands up anyone who doesn't know what the Nakba was?

Ok, respectfully, you over there, I'm certain you have had a busy, centric life, but imagine like, Indiana; and everyone hates Kentucky and that's not far south, and suppose you have a reconstruction government  (imagine the Civil War reached the far north and west) and suddenly you find all the churches have formed armies and want to attack east and overwhelm Ohio, and they want to stage a 1 million man army in your state, plus have another 3 million coming from Canada, and tell you to get out of the state while they do it. Plus they say if you do, you can come back in 3 months and have all the land you want. So you move to Illinois to get out of the way.

But Ohio doesn't lie down. They get volunteers from Quebec, and Jamaica and South Africa and they win and seize Indiana and all of Michigan, and dig in, armed by France with nukes! And 10 million people are displaced. Forever.

And Illinois can't handle the refugees so they expel them to Lapland, Argentina, St Thomas, and Guam, where they fester.

Multiply 5 fold, and that's the Nakba. The great displacement of souls, forever from their lands. But not their dreams.

My novel 'THE CHILDREN OF THE NAKBA' is about, literally, the children of the displaced, and the carnage they have wrought.

Something to ponder :-

Have a great New Years :)

David