“Just as the U.S. celebrates itself as ‘a nation of immigrants,’ Zionists celebrated Palestine as a land without people for a people without land.”
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on the founding myths of the U.S. and Israel:
inthesetimes.com/article/roxa...
Nope. The history is too complicated for the framework, leading to omissions and smoothing of very, very bumpy timelines that differ radically from the other histories. You can't go Balfour...47...tadaaa, settler colonialism without skipping important, conflicted, paradox historical facts.
