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ISRAEL & PALESTINE
Obvious Questions No One Asks
The 1844 Census of Jerusalem Found
7120 Jews...5760 Arabs...3390 Christians
Who Are Palestinians?
Why Do Palestinians Not Have a Country?
Why Do Arab Countries Not Accept Palestinian Refugees?
Who Are Sunni and Shi’a?
Who Are Hamas and Hezbollah?
Who Is Fatah?
Who Are Jews?
Why Does Israel Build a Wall?
Why Does Israel Attack Gaza?
Why Does Israel Not Return Land Captured in the Six Days War?
Why Does Israel Not Return Golan Heights to Syria?
Why Does Israel Build Settlements?
What happened in 1967?
Why Does the United States Support Israel?
Why Does Britain Side with Arabs?
What Is Zionism?
What Is Mossad?
What Are the Protocols of the Elders of Zion?
What Is Die Spinne?
Is Israel a Nuclear Power?
Why Are Jews so Powerful? by Dr. Farrukh Saleem
Appendix I - Middle East Universities in Top 500
Appendix II - Muslim Nobelists
Appendix III - Jewish Nobelists
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Naranjo, an Assassin
- a noir novella -
is almost complete
Naranjo noir novellas look back to a time when thrillers did not need profanity or graphic sex to seem realistic. See Excerpt.
These slender books use tight writing and movie-ready scenes & characters to hold the reader's interest. Movie-ready characters will enchant and appall. Devious plot twists.... Extravagant violence.... Not recommended for children. Why novellas and not novels? Every vaudeville actor knew to always leave them wanting more.
Naranjo, an Assassin begins:
He is called Naranjo. No one knows why. Naranjo means orange tree in Spanish.
Mexicans call him El Naranjo.The unshaved priest stank of sour sweat and stale rum. He stood at the head of the grave, mumbling over the uncovered body in the pit. Naranjo and the Guatemalan colonel of Intelligence were the only mourners at Naranjo's funeral.
Naranjo, an Assasin II begins:
A street bum sat every afternoon on a park bench near the jogging path. The woman - pony-tail bouncing - passed every day at the same time. I will work on There are No U-Hauls Behind Hearses© with fourth-generation undertaker James Buford Ashcraft IV.
Buck Ashcraft has a lifetime collection of funeral stories...some funny...some sad...some weird...all interesting.
Buck is an avid hunter. We may include a few South Texas deer hunting and rattlesnake stories. South Texas rattlesnakes get big.
Someone needs to nag me about Puro San Antonio, my stalled black & white photography project.
More than a year ago, I bought a 1947 Rolleiflex medium-format camera with an uncoated Tessar lens for this classic black & white series.
I will preserve images of disappearing Old San Antonio. I lost one roll of film.
A newspaper column about hospital ghosts is somewhere in the stack of things to be done.
Every hospital has at least one ghost, usually a nurse ghost. Ask a nurse. A British hospital recently hired an exorcist to rid it of ghosts. An Anglican bishop approved the exorcism.
If you have wanderlust, click on Travel [Almost] Free upper left.
If you plan to write, click on Language Advice at left.
Every American needs a Naïve & Abroad T-shirt, or several. We need to get the Naïve & Abroad wide-eyed, innocent owl logo out there. His name is Tecolote, teh-co-lowt'-teh. See T-shirt Shop link.
What better gift for a friend going abroad than a Naïve & Abroad wide-eyed, innocent owl t-shirt?
About the Author
Marcus Henderson Wilder was born and reared in the Mexican border country of South Texas. Books, and the border dual culture, were the formative influences of his early life.
Marcus is a reader, a writer, a rifleman, a horseman, a traveler, a careful observer.
In the first grade, Ursuline nuns taught little Marcus
a love of reading. Reading opened the wider world
to a hungry young mind. Reading fed an intense interest in what lay beyond the valley of the Rio Grande. That interest intensified with time, intensifies today.
As a boy, Marcus had books, a bicycle, a horse, a dog, a .22 rifle, a pet Brahma bull, and freedom to roam the thorny brush. What more could a boy want, video games?
As a teen, Marcus read in National Geographic about an Asian game, buz kashi, played on horseback with a headless carcass of a goat or calf. Marcus studied the photographs carefully.
Marcus knew he could do what the Asian horsemen did. Marcus resolved to play that game. Forty years later, he did.
Naïve & Abroad: Pakistan, Travel in a Land of Mullahs is about that quest, about the greatest day any horseman could hope to live. Along the way, Marcus traveled through strange places and saw stranger things. He faithfully reports.
Marcus was interviewed about the Pakistan book by Chrissie Murnin on Cox Radio station KONO. The interview was rebroadcast over other Cox Radio stations. See Excerpt.
Marcus has traveled much of the world. He is street fluent in Spanish and German.
Naïve & Abroad: Spain, Limping 600 Miles Through History is the collected pilgrimage columns from the San Antonio EXPRESS-News with chapters sandwiched between on Moors, Bidets, Jews, Gypsies, Templars, 1492, Smuggling, Costa del Sol, Inquisition, Civil War, Guernica, Slave Trade, Fascism, and more...an eclectic mix of information you probably have not seen.
This book is centered by a fine Via de la Plata photo essay from Brandon Wilson, award-winning author and über-pilgrim. This 600-mile walk was one of Brandon's shorter walks. Brandon walked across Tibet. Brandon walked from France to Jerusalem. Brandon will walk 1200 miles across Europe this year. Click on Brandon in the link list at the left of your screen.
Marcus was interviewed abut this book by Berit Mason on Clear Channel flagship station WOAI.
Naïve & Abroad: Mexico, Painted Mask wrote itself. The plan was to write a book like the first two, built around travel with history added. The book had a mind of its own. What you see is what resulted from this hijacking. The Politically Correct will not be amused. See Excerpt.
Naïve & Abroad: Israel & Palestine, Obvious Questions No One Asks will  shock most Americans. Expect deceit exposed. The Politically Correct - again - will not be amused.
A fiction series about Naranjo, an Assassin, will be out this year.
These noir thrillers come with spectacular movie-ready characters and devious plot twists.
As a boy, Marcus read about a prospector searching for a lost mine in the Mexican Sierra Madre. From the rim of a steep canyon, the prospector saw - hundreds of feet below - the ruins of ranch buildings and a grove of orange trees, naranjos.
Legend said the mine could be reached from this deserted ranch where Yaquis killed everyone to protect the location of the mine. The prospector never found the entrance to the canyon. Perhaps Yaquis watched.
Naranjo, the elusive assassin, takes his name from those forever elusive, never reached naranjos, orange trees. An orange grove is a naranjal.
Naranjo's love interest, who becomes an assassin as well, is called Bambú.
Marcus is available to speak in the San Antonio/Austin area
"Marcus Wilder is a consumate traveler and a one-of-a-kind yarn spinner."
Tracy Barnett, Travel Editor, San Antonio EXPRESS-News
"I like your stories. They are deep and never heavy."
Peter, Spain
"You bring it all alive."
Rowan, England
"I bookmarked your page."
Waltrud, Chicago
"No one has stuffed more history into a tighter space
than you did in the last five paragraphs."
Joseph, award winning reporter, Portland
"I read your reports with pleasure."
Pieter, Holland
"I love what you do with your stories of the camino."
Sue, Canadian author, lecturer, pilgrim
"We live it through your eyes."
Elizabeth, San Antonio
"I share your stories with my students."
Cesiah, language department head, San Antonio
"Thank you for a lovely armchair adventure."
Elizabeth, San Antonio
"I am fascinated by your stories."
Memo, Laredo
"I read every one of your columns."
Barbara, San Antonio
"It is amazing how I felt like I was on the journey with you."
Anna, San Francisco
"What he sees, I see."
Richard, Houston
"You are so talented and fearless."
Pam, Chicago
"He is a good reporter."
Herb, former editor TRUE magazine,
author of twenty-four military histories,
San Antonio
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