A reminder for those who need it: Gaza isn’t a modern city/prison recently created to house Palestinian refugees.
It is an ANCIENT, historical place that dates back thousands of years. It is intrinsic to human history, dating to the Bronze Age.
And it’s more than a war zone.
It is an ANCIENT, historical place that dates back thousands of years. It is intrinsic to human history, dating to the Bronze Age.
And it’s more than a war zone.
One of the biggest problems with Israel’s siege on Palestine is their attempt to abolish anything that proves how old it is and how long people have lived there.
Indigenous people would never bomb relics and artworks that their ancestors built.
Indigenous people would never bomb relics and artworks that their ancestors built.
In colonizing Palestine, they’ve successfully made you think that the only things that matter in that land are what was made post 1948.
You don’t look at Israel and think of Bronze Age trade routes and villages, which makes it easier for them to bomb the shit out of them.
You don’t look at Israel and think of Bronze Age trade routes and villages, which makes it easier for them to bomb the shit out of them.
In reality, Palestine and the entirety of the Middle East are much older than the governments and institutions of the West.
And by erasing that history, they succeed in making people believe it is a “land without a people, for a people without a land.”
And by erasing that history, they succeed in making people believe it is a “land without a people, for a people without a land.”
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