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Understanding Palestine

As Trump and Netenyahu plot the harvest of their fruits from the Palestinian genocide, I want you to help you understand the Palestinian point of view. Forget what any God said; the gods of indigenous Americans promised them the North American continent. This was a purely geo-political transaction to plant the West’s flag in the region, and as a gentler solution to Europe’s Jewish Question.

To address the conflict, let’s flip a coin and one group or the other must forfeit their claims and in lieu of what they lost, we will give them southeast Florida. I chose this location for some similarity of climate and no other reason. The loser of the coin toss receives the above territory, shifting the map of historical Palestine East to match the Mediterranean coast.

The current residents will, without regard to creed, be forced to leave on foot with only what they can carry. We will allow them to keep the key to their old home for sentimental reasons. All other property will be forfeit to the new residents without compensation. The expelled will never be allowed to return and if they try they will be summarily shot. Former residents who cannot afford their own relocation to another place will be put in tent camps in the desert of the America southwest.

Do you understand the Palestinian point of view now?



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About Me

Mark Folse is a provincial diarist and aspiring minor poet from New Orleans. His past blogging adventures included the Katina/Federal Flood blog wetbankguide on blogspot.com which David Simon told NY Magazine was one of three blogs that helped inform Treme, and Toulouse Street–Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans, which once outranked the Doobie Brothers on Google Search. His work has appeared in The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, The New Delta Review, Metazen, New Laurel Review, Ellipsis,  What We Know: New Orleans as Home, Please Forward, The Maple Leaf Rag IV, and A Howling in the Wires (which he co-edited).

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