[Zionism] Debunking “Ancient Israel”
https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/stupidpol/comments/1t8qpm7/debunking_ancient_israel/
> While this is GDF, not a strict Bible scholar and the topic is something others wrote about better
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> It does touch on the fact that Israel, as secular, humanist society, does use a holy book and archeology, for the justification of their state.
> I don't know why people even engage with this gish gallop bullshit. They could have had the greatest, most efficiently self-governed utopian empire paradise in history, it doesn't mean your alleged cultural descendants get a claim on that land for the rest of time. Anyone capable of tying their own shoe laces can grasp this.
> I'm Palestinian American.
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> I can, by memory, recite my entire family tree and its lineage for the past several 100 years across specific villages in historic Palestine. We had farms, lemon trees. We farmed chickens. My family on both sides were driven from their villages at gunpoint by Zionist terrorist militia gangs during the Nakba. Our land "repossessed" by a bunch of European atheist terrorists backed by the world's superpower and claiming to have inhabited our land 3,000 years ago.
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> It is on plainly on its face absurd. Even more absurd when I point out to people that Ivanka Trump, by virtue of converting to Judaism after marrying American Jared Kushner, can instantly gain citizenship and the right to the land of my ancestors that we had lived in since time immemorial.
> While this is GDF, not a strict Bible scholar and the topic is something others wrote about better
>
> It does touch on the fact that Israel, as secular, humanist society, does use a holy book and archeology, for the justification of their state.
> I don't know why people even engage with this gish gallop bullshit. They could have had the greatest, most efficiently self-governed utopian empire paradise in history, it doesn't mean your alleged cultural descendants get a claim on that land for the rest of time. Anyone capable of tying their own shoe laces can grasp this.
> I'm Palestinian American.
>
> I can, by memory, recite my entire family tree and its lineage for the past several 100 years across specific villages in historic Palestine. We had farms, lemon trees. We farmed chickens. My family on both sides were driven from their villages at gunpoint by Zionist terrorist militia gangs during the Nakba. Our land "repossessed" by a bunch of European atheist terrorists backed by the world's superpower and claiming to have inhabited our land 3,000 years ago.
>
> It is on plainly on its face absurd. Even more absurd when I point out to people that Ivanka Trump, by virtue of converting to Judaism after marrying American Jared Kushner, can instantly gain citizenship and the right to the land of my ancestors that we had lived in since time immemorial.