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