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The Possession of a Preoccupied Mind

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Hey, how you doin'?  No, I am not rewatching Friends for the zillionth time.  It's just that I hate to start traditionally.  I'm in a conflicting situation: some of my readers like my conversational tone, but apparently it isn't quite acceptable to the publication agencies. Two of my best-appreciated stories were rejected because of their tone. The rejection felt like a jolt that I could practically feel in my head, especially the second one.  Since that day, I've been caught up in a vicious loop of boredom because I stopped writing anything new.   I also called off a new transcription gig that promised me some good money, but the client was a tad bit of a scoundrel in his behaviour.  So here I am, having voluntarily stepped away from both writing and work, and somehow managing to be bored out of my mind. Pretty efficient, ain't I? I'm in that peculiar state where I don't want to do anything to kill time, yet somehow want the time to pass joyfully. I ...
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The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Everything You Need to Know

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  For millions of years, Jews have been discriminated against, for their religion and ethnicity. (It was a Jew who betrayed Jesus Christ and it was the Jews who crucified Him) During the World Wars, their predicament reached its peak, especially with the Nazi holocaust of Jews in WWII. The Balfour Declaration  In 1917, during WWI, the Allies member UK, promised the Jews who were stranded all over the world, a National Home of their own in Palestine, if they fought for the Allies. Palestine was then occupied by the Arabs as it came under the Ottoman Empire. This promise came to be known as "The Balfour Declaration".  The Allies came victorious in WWI and the Ottoman Empire collapsed.  After that Palestine came under the control of the UK and the UK started migrating the Jews all over the world into Palestine as promised in The Balfour Declaration.  This didn't go well with the Arabs in Palestine along with all the Arab Countries surrounding Palestine.  Durin...
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