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No. I hope one day Jerusalem will be at peace, shared among all the people who live there and for whom it is a sacred place. My people have no greater claim to our city of Jerusalem than the Palestinian people in particular have to their city of al-Quds.

It's been a very long time, but I've decided to revive this. Next story below. For the mood, watch this video and listen to this song.

This, pretty much. I'll expand on exactly what's going on with U.S. politics, but they are mostly receiving money and weapons, with some CIA and special operations units on the ground secretly. Handing off aid to the juntas is going to blow up in Rummy's face though, especially some of the...

Una Vida Revolucionaria Ocho The parish called him Father Jean-Luc Champoux. The adults simply called him padre. But for Edgar and his friends, the puffy-lipped, long-nosed priest was El Pato, The Duck. His pale cheeks had grown ruddy and browned from the sun, and his voice, a throaty quack...

Just FYI, most Roma are not itinerant. While there are a lot of Roma Travellers, and due to frequent violence and displacement Roma have often moved around more than most, the majority of Roma, particularly in the "heartland" of Hungary and the Balkans, are sedentary. I think displaced Jews...

After 1900 1971 TLIAD: Bombard the Headquarters!, by Japhy

If the Nationalist victory leads to a weak and corrupt central government that falls apart after Chiang dies into a new Warlord's Era, I could see a Taiwanese rebellion that - perhaps with covert Japanese backing - throws out the Republic and declares itself independent.

While the canard that Palestinians are migrants from Syria and Egypt is Revisionist propaganda designed to deny their claim to the land, there was a significant degree of migration from the densely populated hill country (what now the West Bank, Jerusalem and chunks of the Galilee such as the...

You could get one as far back as 1988. Have Jerry Brown run for the Democratic nomination and end up either at the top of the ticket or selected as VP alongside Michael Dukakis. Jerry Brown is a practising Buddhist, while Dukakis is a member of the Greek Orthodox Church.

Assad's A chain of Syrian restaurants known for their spicy falafel wraps, shawarma and selection of Arabic groceries. The first Assad's was founded as a bodega (a small grocery store with a food counter) in the Brooklyn neighbourhood of Gowanus, by Syrian immigrant Hafez "Henry" Assad. Driven...

Well, we've got ten today. The three territories could be made into provinces, so that's 13. Cape Breton had a strong secessionist movement at one point, so there's 14. A Province of Toronto makes sense if Canada is undergoing constitutional revisions (or perhaps Toronto and Montreal), so that's...

Yeah, if you can keep the Shah in power, and have the 1969 coup attempt in Saudi Arabia succeed, you can probably get here. A radical Arab nationalist Republic of Arabia would be close with Syria and Iraq, and could become a similarly hostile country to the United States.

My long-sleeping timeline engages with this! #ShamelessSelfPromotion

Could some sort of compromise for the end of slavery involve the creation of "Negro reservations" in these states, whether a single location or apartheid-style racially segregated neighbourhoods? If black citizens are physically separated but allowed to participate in politics, that might lead...

Well, in an alternate timeline, VICE correspondent Daniel Meirowitz went to find out. /shameless plug.

Jonathan, as we've discussed already, I think this is an awesome idea, and the framework seems solid. I'm happy to help out in any way that I can, including editing. My one critique would be that there isn't a female "primary" character. I'd love to see Sarah bumped up to a lead in place of...

No. My rough-and-ready outcome for Liberia is a different Liberian Civil War, which begins in the late 1990s after the assassination of President Thomas Quiwonkpa. John McCain, who wins the 2000 presidential primaries and the election against Vice-President Mario Cuomo, sends the Marines in to...

I could do that. Going to visit Liberia during street protests over yet more political gridlock, with Minister of Finance Charles Taylor's new budget being voted down in Congress would be very interesting... I might do Egypt though. On the streets during an alt-Egyptian Revolution would be fun...

"Let the slavers know fear" and the Muslim civil rights hymn in the first couple updates still give me chills, but my favourite piece of this timeline is still the marriage under fire at the siege of Sarajevo. Human decency and happiness amidst brutality hits all the spots for me.

Thanks! As for butterflies, you've seen them in Côte d’Ivoire and had hints of them else Yeah, there is going to be an understanding with Sankara. Unlike Castro, he has no hostile lobby or community in the United States (nor do they have any direct hatred of him beyond his being a Red)...