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The photo was taken in the massive subterranean excavations beneath the homes of Palestinians in occupied Silwan, site of the most notorious of East Jerusalem's Biblically motivated settlements.
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The photo was taken in the massive subterranean excavations beneath the homes of Palestinians in occupied Silwan, site of the most notorious of East Jerusalem's Biblically motivated settlements.
https://twitter.com/_Goldwasser_/status/1954029001673978290
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Silwan is built atop the ancient "City of David". There is nothing sacred about the Roman road in the photo.
However it serves as pretext transforming the Palestinians into extras in this pseudo-Biblical settler pageant.
Silwan is built atop the ancient "City of David". There is nothing sacred about the Roman road in the photo.
However it serves as pretext transforming the Palestinians into extras in this pseudo-Biblical settler pageant.
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This crass phenomenon was best described by the late Meron Ben Venus ז"ל, widely acknowledged as on of the finest geographical historian of the 2Oth and 21st centuries.
This is not a trivial phenomenon. It is weaponized kitsch.
This crass phenomenon was best described by the late Meron Ben Venus ז"ל, widely acknowledged as on of the finest geographical historian of the 2Oth and 21st centuries.
This is not a trivial phenomenon. It is weaponized kitsch.
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This may appear to be innocuous. It's not.
The Biblically motivated settlements in E. Jslm lie on the same spectrum as the displays of ultra-nationalist triumphalism this week at the Temple Mt./Al Aqsa, and the transformation of the war in Gaza into one of Biblical salvation
This may appear to be innocuous. It's not.
The Biblically motivated settlements in E. Jslm lie on the same spectrum as the displays of ultra-nationalist triumphalism this week at the Temple Mt./Al Aqsa, and the transformation of the war in Gaza into one of Biblical salvation
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Here David Friedman, Trump's Ambassador to Israel, wielding the axe at the ceremonial opening of the underground passage in 2019.
The eerie similarity to Jack Nicholson in "The Shining" seems oddly appropriate.
(Unattributed photo in the Times of Israel, July 1, 2019).
Here David Friedman, Trump's Ambassador to Israel, wielding the axe at the ceremonial opening of the underground passage in 2019.
The eerie similarity to Jack Nicholson in "The Shining" seems oddly appropriate.
(Unattributed photo in the Times of Israel, July 1, 2019).
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