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Palestine
Palestine — The Promised Land
Article 1 — my own rage and search for a history that was never told to me.
“It is one of the supreme ironies of history that the Jews, who had been subjected to more racial intolerance than almost any other people, should themselves have displayed such open racist arrogance towards Arabs”- Stuart Ross, Understand the Middle East (since 1945).
This will probably be the beginning of a series of controversial and divisive articles. I have pondered starting them because I know what it entails and also because I am in a constant learning process.
To talk about the Middle East — a ridiculous term in a world that is round- particularly Israel’s occupation of Palestine — and I choose these words deliberately — is to get into a subject that is too serious, too controversial, too complicated to understand for our adult brains.
Complicated also because strange names in Arabic and Hebrew make our perception of history and territorial space difficult and far removed from our known world. If the names were New York, Bronx, or something like that, we would understand them better and have more empathy.
Who knows?
But when names with unfamiliar pronunciations are…
