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Palestine Then

November 15, 2023 – 5:20 pm

During the Great War the French and British sliced up the Ottoman Empire without any interest in creating viable states according to the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement. TE Lawrence was outraged by this betrayal of the two nations’ allies again the Turks. The Mandate of Palestine was given to the English who stood by when the […]

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Palestine Peace Train

October 27, 2023 – 10:47 am

Back in the late 19th century European Jews sought a homeland to call their own. The obvious choice was Palestine with their historical ties to the Levant dating back the End of the Exodus and an existing community of 10,000 in Jerusalem and three other cities. By 1918 the Jewish population in Palestine had expanded […]

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The Slum of Hope

September 28, 2023 – 9:15 pm

Kibera The Forest in Nubian Nairobi Kenya A million souls Living by the Nairobi Lake On $2 a day A slum Bigger than Boston Filled with every tribe in Kenya, Uganda, the Sudan, Nubia, Somalia Living together On $2 a day Never giving up Kibera is the slum of hope. I have walked through the […]

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The New Warsaw -Jenin – Gaza

August 14, 2023 – 10:50 am

In the summer of 1939 the German blitzkrieg overran Western Poland and laid siege to Warsaw. The City surrendered on September 29, 1939. The Wehrmacht or the German army occupied the Polish capitol backed by the Einsatzgruppe EG IV and the Einsatzkommandos. By November 1940 the commander of EG IV, Josef Meisinger ‘Butcher of Warsaw’ […]

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Cinco De Mayo

May 5, 2023 – 5:38 am

Ten years ago my brother-in-law and I left the cabin on Watchic Pond. My sister remained in the kitchen prepping for lunch. The bright spring sun had heated the morning and the thermometer nailed to a tall pine read 72F The morning put the dock in the lake in early May. The water temperature hovered […]

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