Category Archives: history

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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11-11-1918

November 10, 2023 – 7:30 am

Tomorrow I will toast the millions of sad sacrifices of men to imperialism. I also thanked the stars that I’ve never had to fire a shot in anger.< The truce between the Axis and Allies was signed at 5am, but ceasefire didn’t take effect, until the 11th second of the 11th minute of the 11th […]

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October 25, 1978 East Village Journal Entry

October 27, 2023 – 1:17 pm

On Alice; she is very frustrated progress on Moliere’s GENTLEMEN OF VERONA at the Kurt Dempster’s Ensemble Theater, since the young actors all hate each other. She is the director of this production and I asked, “Can’t you channel the hatred?” What do you know about theater?” We were on the Bowery and I stopped […]

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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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SPICE MAD DAY by Peter Nolan Smith

October 12, 2023 – 3:33 am

Last year I celebrated Columbus Day with my doctor on Staten Island. Nick was Italian and cooked great meatballs. The doctor and I had met during our freshman class of European History 101. We had received Bs from the professor. His kids had the day off and we enjoying the meal. “Hey, Nico, I have […]

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