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Ramesh #NotGoingBack Aug 30, 2024

Yes, #Nasser was not just opposed to #Israel, he was ecstatic too.

See the hashtag #EcstasyAndAmnesia in which I summarized a very well researched essay by #ShanyMor on the situation in the #MiddleEast.

That essay is scholarly and somewhat long, but there is a link to the archived version of the full original essay in the thread itself.

The summary thread starts ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/112441485737099304

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Ramesh #NotGoingBack May 14, 2024

⬆️ #EcstasyAndAmnesia #GazaStrip

This is also as good a time as any to highlight the excellent in-depth essay by #ShanyMor titled “Ecstasy and Amnesia in the #Gaza Strip”

[Paywall-free archive ➡️ https://archive.ph/G5rAX#selection-769.417-769.630]

“What is unusual about the #Palestinian cause starts from the observation that many of those other nations built states on parts of historic homelands out of the ruins of collapsed multi-national, multi-linguistic, multi-confessional empires, and the #Palestinians have not”

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Steve Randy Waldman Nov 6, 2023

This Israel-sympathetic reading of the Israel/Palestine conflict (that writes Palestinians as victims of larger forces than themselves that are decidedly not Israel) is worth a careful read.

by #ShanyMor https://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/israel-zionism/2023/11/ecstasy-and-amnesia-in-the-gaza-strip/

Ecstasy and Amnesia in the Gaza Strip » Mosaic

There is something unusual about the Palestinian predicament. It isn’t the rough boundaries, historical contingencies, and overlapping identities inherent in the definition of the Palestinian people. This is true of all nations, from those based on ethnicity or religion to those based on civic-constitutional creed. It likewise doesn’t matter that the history invoked in the […]

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