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If Israel built a 100 foot high wall around herself and put her military within these walls, Palestine would still *not* be free! Why? Because Palestine has *never* been free.<\/p>\nIf Israel built a 100 foot high wall around herself and put her military within these walls, Palestine would still *not* be free! Why? Because Palestine has *never* been free.<\/p>\n
If Israel were to be like North Korea – isolated and seperated from the rest of the world – the West Bank and Gaza would *not* even remotely resemble South Korea. Why? Because the oppressive PA\/PLO and Hamas dictatorships would continue to hold hostage the Palestinian Arab people! … While they spend all the people’s money on themselves and their war efforts to find any way to get through Israel’s defenses – underground, over top, through some crack in the wall.<\/p>\n
The truth is Palestine has *never* been free, since the Roman Empire’s occupation and renaming of Judea-Israel to Syria Palaestina (aka, Palestine). The Byzantine Christians took occupational control of Palestine next. Then Islamic Caliphates conquesting for Jerusalem, then the Crusaders conquesting back. Then the Persians came to occupy Palestine, and were historically the most peaceful occupiers of the land – for the most part, respecting the right of the indigenous, *Jews,* to live freely in the parent land, Palestine (aka, Judea!).<\/p>\n
Then came the World-wide Wars. After the first World War, the British assumed occupational control of Palestine, calling it Mandatory Palestine. From here, indigenous and immigrant Jews fought the British until they left, and declared sovereignty on a portion of Palestinian land in 1948. With the British gone, Arabs had a chance now to create a free state for themselves, as well.<\/p>\n
BUT, WAIT! No! Palestine has *never* been free. Because the very *next* day of Israel declaring Independence, the following nations attacked Israel to end Jewish sovereignty in its portion of Palestine (formerly, Judea): Egypt, Transjordan, Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon. Jordan now took occupation of the West Bank from the British. And Egypt took occupation of Gaza from the British. The “nakba” (catastrophe) we hear about on social media has now occured (which Palestinians blame Israel for instigating)! Both authoritarian governments set up and supported terrorist organizations that operated within their controlled territories of Jordanian’s West Bank and Egypt’s Gaza, for the purpose of endlessly attacking Israel. All the while, expelled Jewish refugees from the nations of the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe are seeking asylum in Israel, turning Israel into the world’s *only* nation comprised of mostly refugees.<\/p>\n
Then – on false information fed to them by the Soviet Union – Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq waged war *again* against Israel in 1967. This resulted in Israel gaining occupying control of both the West Bank and Gaza. The PLO terrorist organization was usurped by the Palestinian National Authority (the PA) – which took over both the West Bank and Gaza under the pretense of democracy, and promptly turned into a dictatorship that eventually stopped any real kind of elections processes for Palestinian citizens.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, terrorist groups of the like of Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, the PLO, and *now* Hamas have continued to wage war by any means possible – both physical warfare and by social media *history revisionism* – to infiltrate Israel and end a *Jewish* state in Palestine. They literally kill their Palestinian subjects themselves for dissenting and indoctrinate their children in historical lies and hate, so they can blame Israel for these deaths. They attack Israel with rockets, incendiary-balloons, knives, and tunnels underground, so that they can provoke an appearance of disproportionate force wielded by Israel against “declared” innocents.<\/p>\n
If Israel super-walled and shtetl’d like an ultra-Orthodox Jewish North Korea, Arab Palestine *would still not be free*! Not until the Palestinians are freed from the terrorist Marxist and Islamist dictatorships that daily impoverish and destroy their lives, and prevent Palestinians from having a secular and democratic future in Palestine. The war on history is a war on democracy, and the cruelty being brought upon all Palestinians is the point!<\/p>\n
Truth hurts, but it must be brighter than the revisionist darkness!<\/p>\n
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Timothy Snyder is a Levin Professor of History at Yale University, and he understands the extreme importance of fighting disinformation, misinformation, and revisionist history to appease the feelings of the oppressors in this world – specifically, structural white Christian supremacy and privileged impunity *and* structural ever-conquesting Islamic supremacy and privileged impunity within this world.<\/p>\n
“History is not therapy, and discomfort is part of growing up. As a teacher, I cannot exclude the possibility, for example, that my non-Jewish students will feel psychological distress in learning how little the United States did for Jewish refugees in the 1930s. I know from my experience teaching the Holocaust that it often causes psychological discomfort for students to learn that Hitler admired Jim Crow and the myth of the Wild West.<\/p>\n
Teachers in high schools cannot exclude the possibility that the history of slavery, lynchings and voter suppression will make some non-Black students uncomfortable. The new memory laws invite teachers to self-censor, on the basis of what students might feel \u2014 or say they feel. The memory laws place censorial power in the hands of students and their parents. It is not exactly unusual for white people in America to express the view that they are being treated unfairly; now such an opinion could bring history classes to a halt. …<\/p>\n
My experience as a historian of mass killing tells me that everything worth knowing is discomfiting; my experience as a teacher tells me that the process is worth it. Trying to shield young people from guilt prevents them from seeing history for what it was and becoming the citizens that they might be. Part of becoming an adult is seeing your life in its broader settings. Only that process enables a sense of responsibility that, in its turn, activates thought about the future.”<\/p>\n
Picture: Freedom of Speech “flag desecration” art by Faith Ringgold – who got arrested in the 1970’s for writing on the white Christian’s symbol for nation worship – aka, the symbol of white people’s feelings and perception of exceptionalism in this world (which should not be challenged, if not white).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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