Palestinians talk about "al-Naksa", the "Setback" or "Catastrophe" of 1967, and the "Disaster" of 1947, as the seminal moments that led to the Palestinian Diaspora, but the truth is that the real catastrophe happened much earlier, when the Great Arab Revolt began, today in 1916. What they lost then, and will never recover, was fully 60% of traditional Falastina - the land that is now misnomered as the Hashemite Republic of Jordan (click here for the full details)
“Uncle Mark, of course, was a very different King of Cornwall, several centuries after Gradlon-Meur. It was he who was betrothed to the beautiful Irish princess Isolde, and sent his nephew, Tristan, Prince de Lyonesse, by ship to Ireland to bring her back for him. He also gave Tristan a phial containing a love philtre; Tristan was to give it to Isolde to drink at the very moment she set eyes on Mark, because the magic of the philtre lay in making its drinker fall in love with the very next man she met. But on board ship, by simple accident, the two partook together of the potion, and passed the remainder of the journey consummating what had become a tireless passion. Returned to Cornouaille - well, it depends which version of the legend you prefer. In one, Mark takes out his sword on realising what has happened, and strikes Tristan dead; in the other, moved by the power of love, Mark spares Tristan, provides for him a different but almost equally lovely wife, and endows him with a château and land in Brittany. But for Isolde both versions are identical: a loveless marriage with Mark forced upon her before she had set both feet firmly on the soil of Cornwall; and as soon afterwards as she could find the opportunity, departure on the voyage to the Underworld to join her beloved in the arms of Death. And for King Mark, the loss of everything he loved, before he had even been given the chance to start to love it.”
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