Ross (19 March 2005)
"Mark Twain visits Palestine 1876"


Well there goes Jericho in the name of White House foreign policy only problem is its the opposite to God's foreign policy wonder who will win?  The Palestinians claim the rights to their ancient land but America's most respected author visited this land, this is what he wrote
 
"Desolate country whos soil is rich enough but is given over wholly to weeds, a silent, mournful expanse, a desolation is here that not even imagination can grace with the pomp of life and action.  We reached Tabor safely..........we never saw a human being on the whole route.
 
There was hardly a tree or shrub anywhere.  Even the olive & the cactus those fast friends of a worthless soil had almost deserted the country.
 
Palestine sits in sackcloth & ashes.  Over it broods the spell of a curse that has withered its fields & fettered its energies.  Palestine is  desolate &  unlovely."
 
So these polystryrenes were never a nation at all it was all part of Turkey for 400 years as fast as Sharon is giving it away the next PM will have to fight to get it back.........we advise that the scenes following could be distressful to some viewers

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