Tag: palestine
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My Sexy Evil Land would have been a better title. Israeli books are at their most dangerous when they are self-critical and then celebrate how ‘sexy’ Israel is. Some notes while reading My Promised Land by Ari Shavit
ما انحنى في الصغر لا يستقيم في الكبر What bends in youth does not straighten in old age. Israel was born out of savagery, there will be no redemption.
The Israeli army worships an ancient doomsday sect, the Sicarii. Sounds bad? It is. The Myth of Masada. Understanding the Israeli drive for (self)destruction.
In 1982 ET came out, but something far more alien happened. A US president had the chutzpah to call out Israeli atrocities in Lebanon as a ‘holocaust’ and you could still find Israelis to protest against the Israeli engineered massacres of Sabra and Chatilla. Let’s dive deep⬇️
Not October 7th 2023, but October 5th 2004. Before Hind Rajab there was Iman Darweesh Al Hams.
Authenticity Confessions, Middle East Confessions
A word on the Gaza stories and other anti-war stories I write
5 rules to getting to sober analysis of a war situation. How you avoid becoming William Scott Ritter. How not to sit in echo chambers when others sit in bomb shelters. Peddling revenge narratives isn’t analysis
Iran’s strategy has failed. The Iranian equivalent of the German V1 and V2 rockets ended the same way. Scary on paper, good for morale, but in the end no miracle weapons
The Confessor 