The oldest and youngest victims of #Israeli #genocide in #gaza

Tahrawi at 101 years old was born before the state of #Israel and already lost his two sons in the #nakba1948

The youngest victim so far only lived for 2 hrs

Israel and it's army #idf is as evil as it gets. Higher rate of children's murdered than the #holocaust even. But they don't care about #Palestinians the evil bastards. 😭

Let there be no doubt the real #terrorist are israel and #us

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/08/stories-of-gaza-oldest-victim-youngest?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

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"The land didn't really wait 2,000 years empty": Historian Alon Confino passes away at 65

Can one write a story of Palestinian destruction without concluding that Israel was born in sin?

As a child, Alon Confino didn't think much about the history of his #Jerusalem neighborhood. "I knew that Arabs used to live in #Talbiya," he wrote. "It was a vague, undefined piece of information." But the past was still palpable. He could easily identify the "Arab houses" - they were more elegant than the new ones built after 1948. People spoke about the past of these houses in hushed tones, as if it was a secret. "The Arab past was both present and absent, hinted at and denied."

He studied at the Hebrew Gymnasium in Jerusalem [prestigious high school that was founded in 1909 and is known for its strong emphasis on Hebrew language and culture]. "For many, including myself, #Zionism was a very positive value. In my youth, any comment that cast doubt on the pure Zionist narrative was immediately rejected as anti-Semitic," he said. In 1973, he won first place in a quiz about the War of Independence. "I knew every operation and every campaign," he wrote. "It was a war of the few against the many, good against evil. The displacement of the Palestinians was not part of the story."

Years later, as a historian at Ben-Gurion University, Virginia, and Amherst, Confino studied how we remember the past. "The story we tell ourselves about the past is always dependent on time, place, and social, cultural, and political context," he said. He explained how individuals and nations suppress, distort, or deny their past. "Our memories of the past don't reflect what actually happened, but what we wanted to happen," he said. "We remember the past to manipulate it, to build a more comfortable identity in the present, to forget uncomfortable pasts and justify them."

Hebrew [July 25] https://www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/obit/2024-07-25/ty-article/00000190-ea82-d603-abb5-fb83ae980000 or https://archive.ph/9H4Bp

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#Zionism / "We're not afraid of Iran or the Palestinians, but of what we're denying that we did." (Alon Idan)

The #Nakba of 1948:

[...] We need to acknowledge what happened. We need to talk about it. We need to write about it. We need to teach about it. We don't need to be afraid of it. It happened not because we were "bad", not because we wanted to harm and torture in the name of evil and pain. It happened because we thought, we believed, we were convinced, that we had no choice, that it was either us or them. We were traumatized, post-traumatic in the deepest and most terrifying sense of the concept. We acted like automatic survival machines and "didn't take prisoners."

[...] But it haunts us. It haunts us without us even realizing it's haunting us. We are ghosts of denial. A sense of guilt that takes the form of a nation. And this sense of guilt turns into fear. And the fear turns into violence. And this violence turns into destruction. And this destruction is directed outward, towards those who threaten us. But since the source of the guilt is denied, and the details can be found in Oedipus, it is we who will ultimately pay the price.

[Hebrew] https://www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/blacklist/2024-05-23/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/0000018f-a5ce-d476-a7df-e7ef0df70000

Comment: Zionist project, including the idea of displacement of the indigenous people of Palestine, dates to the end of the 19th century, before the #Holocaust

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