All
MartyNYC is interested in doing is repeating Zionist talking points. In this case he talks about how the Palestinians were not really a people, did not have a state, but Jews had “a homeland, dating back 3,000/years.” As if all that made the suffering of Palestinians any less tragic. This way of discussing history is obviously self-serving. It is twisting history to serve political ends.
If
MartyNYC wants to talk about Jewish myths and Old Testament “history” he should do that. If he wants to talk about Canaanites and archeological research about ancient Hebrews he can do that. If he wants to talk about the Jewish Diaspora and Zionist history, he can do that. But he wants to mix it all up.
According to the Bible myths, Abraham was not a Canaanite and God “gave” the land of the Canaanites to (some of) Abraham’s descendants. The same tribal God also supposedly “gave” Moses the Ten Commandments, which so resembles the Code of King Hammurabi, who actually ruled in Mesopotamia and who preceded any conceivable Moses figure by hundreds of years. Now I don’t mind discussing any of these subjects — they are all interesting in their own ways — but I don’t like discussing them just to serve modern political interests. That’s what uneducated people do. It leads to the same old
boring discussions and is necessarily
dishonest.
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