🎵 ’This Land Is Mine’ (TURN ON the captions!)

➽ 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 ’#𝐢𝐬𝐫𝐚𝐞𝐥 ’ / ’#𝐩𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞 ’ 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨? 0:18 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐌𝐚𝐧: Prehistoric human hunter-gatherers and settlers. 0:28 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞: Many diverse groups that included the Philistines. This figure is based on ancient Sumerian art. 0:38 𝐄𝐠𝐲𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐧: Empire of the great river on the west (Nile) 0:48 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: Empire of the great rivers on the east (Mesopotamia/Iraq) 0:56 𝐈𝐬𝐫𝐚𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞: The Old Testament describes their conquest as rather genocidal (Jushua 6/21) 1:06 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧: Destroy the 1st temple of the Hebrews and exile them. 1:10 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧/𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐤: Alexander the Great! 1:18 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐤/𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧: Alexander’s generals divide the huge territories he conquered and fight each other. 1:24 𝐏𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐜: Descendants of Alexander’s general Ptolemy (e.g. Cleopatra) who rule Egypt 1:28 𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐝: Descendants of Alexander’s general Seleucus who ruled Syria. 1:32 𝐇𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐰 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬𝐭: After the Persians conquered Babylon Cyrus the Great allowed the Hebrews to return from exile re-build their 2nd Temple in Jerusalem. 1:36 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐞: Judah “The Hammer” fights the Seleucids and saves the Temple. The Jewish holiday Hanukah celebrates his victory. 1:48 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧: After destroying the Hebrew’s 2nd Temple the Romans rename the Judaea province ’Palestinian Syria’ after the Philistine Canaanites. 1:56 𝐁𝐲𝐳𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞: Rome splits and its (now Christian) center moves eastwards to Byzantium (Constantinople) 1:58 𝐀𝐫𝐚𝐛 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐡: ’replace’ Mohamed as rulers of the Islamic community (’ummah’), conquer territories larger than Rome. 2:01 𝐂𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫: killing in the name of Jesus Christ and establishing the ’Kingdom of Jerusalem’. 2:04 𝐌𝐚𝐦𝐥𝐮𝐤 𝐎𝐟 𝐄𝐠𝐲𝐩𝐭: slaves used for fighting who became a powerful ruling caste 2:07 𝐎𝐭𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐓𝐮𝐫𝐤𝐬: Turn Christian Constantinople into Islamic Istanbul, build the famous ’Dome of the Rock’ and Al-Aqsa mosque on the Temple mount in Jerusalem. 2:10 𝐀𝐫𝐚𝐛: During WWI the British (and French) helped the Arabs rebel against the Ottoman empire and then took over the middle East with a ’mandate’ from the League of Nations to help the locals form self-ruling nation-states. 2:12 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐡: torn between their imperialism and liberalism, they promised the land to both the Arabs and the Zionist Jews. It was the perfect good old ’divide and rule’ strategy: it proved super useful in showing the long-hated Jews the way out of Europe, and sending them straight into a never-ending war with the Muslims. Islam was that younger and annoying sister religion who had similar aspirations for global domination, so getting it bogged down in a fight with the Jews allowed the Christians to just sell arms to both sides, condescendingly condemn them for mutual atrocities, and giggle. 2:19 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧: the emerging national consciousness of the local Arabs, who got angry the 1917 promise of the British to give Palestine to the Jews, who were then just 10% of the ~700,000 population of Palestine. They got more angry (and belligerent) as the British allowed the continued influx of Jewish migrants, whose number doubled 10 times over the next 30 years from just ~60,000 to ~600,000. In the same period, the Arab population doubled from ~600,000 to ~1.2 million, mainly due to high fertility rates. 2:27 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐙𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐉𝐞𝐰: Desperate and traumatized by European racist nationalism, pogroms and death camps, Jewish Zionist settlers were excited to return to their ancient homeland, promised both by their grandparents’ God (in whom they didn’t believe much) and the British Empire. They were quite surprised to discover that the land was not empty. 2:39 𝐏𝐋𝐎/𝐇𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐬/𝐇𝐞𝐳𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚: Various militarized resistance movements, supported by Muslim countries. 2:45 𝐈𝐃𝐅 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐫 (Israel Defense Forces): Backed by ’the West’, especially the US, they got lots of weapons and the only nukes in the region. 2:51 𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚/𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐅𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫/𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭: Creeping up alongside them are illicit nukes possibly from Iran or elsewhere in the region. Who’s Next? 3:02 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥 𝐎𝐟 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡: his little idea of exclusive national ownership of land is super effective, and his aim is global. That land does not belong exclusively to any nation but to the whole of #humanity just like the rest of our home planet. We - humans - just need a state of our own on this small land that we live on together, #earth. * * * This clip is simply the revised version that (the genius!) Nina Paley created: I only added the captions (turn them on!) and the description above. Her original version: () wrongly showed the Zionist 2:27 as ultra orthodox (Hardi) Jew, but they - like most European Jews - were not Zionist. The song is the movie theme of the 1960s movie Exodos. Regarding copyrights (copying is an act of love!): *** 🌏 My piece about the roots and 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 of this conflict : 🌏 My short lecture (14min) about the idea of 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲: