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Q: What lessons should I take from this conflict?
A: That dehumanization begets dehumanization, terror begets terror, and none of us will be free until all of us are free; or, you know, that it might be easier to just look away.
The Onion has been outright prophetic about Palestine.
I think we have to stop considering every human life as a precious treasure and every child as a miracle to be protected at all cost.
Instead we should consider picking sides like we choose a starter Pokémon. Who’s with me on team Bulbasaur-Palestine-Russia-Armenia, because I dig their super cool aesthetics?
More like Russia-Iran-North Korea. Palestine is just a convenient place for Iran to launch their missiles while claiming it’s not them. Armenia only fights because Russia bribes them.
it’s not thousands of years of context. All this stuff dates back to, like, roughly the 1900s. Basically the British Mandatory period.
It actually started around 11 century BC, when Samson slaughtered more than 1000 Philistines (ancient Palestinians).
A bit earlier still
The Egyptians defeated the Sea Peoples and forced a subgroup, the Peleset, to southern Canaan to act as a buffer state to the Hittites to the north. This displaced the locals who would go on to become the Israelites.
The Peleset became the biblical Philistines.
The Romans. Trajan sacked Jerusalem after a 5 month of siege to put out the Great Jewish Revolt (70CE). That’s when the Second Temple was destroyed. Trajan’s column shows Roman soldiers carting off a giant menorah in commemoration.
Palestine is from the Latin for Philistia, the lands of another ancient Canaanite tribe.
Shit’s old all around.
I think it would be more useful to look at events starting from around the 1920s
Oh? I didnt even know about the 1920s. I said 1947, I mean the state of Palestine website has maps of like “map of Palestinian homes in 1948” to show how they have been pushed away by Israeli settlers. So…1920s?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine
Is this the issue that you mean? I don’t know if I’ve even hears of this stage of Palestinian statehood.
