History of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict

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11. Nobody thinks of the poor old Ottoman Empire anymore.

Otto, let's go have a drink and express how lonely we are (though you have better reason for loneliness than I due to your relevance).

We'll drink to your predecessors as well, the Byzantine and Austro-Hungarian Empires who had a direct and complicit had in where we all are now, nor even the Sikes-Picot Accords; all now forgotten in the rush for the simplicity of the immediate.

We won't even talk of our great elders and grandparents, who wrote the original sheet music to this symphony of violence 'cause there's just not enough at the bar to tide us over.