Two Millennia of Nuance

Sam Panini
1 min readOct 16, 2023

For more than 2,000 years, the Hebrews experienced oppression by Roman, medieval, Islamic, and European people.

Then, they experienced industrial-scale genocide in the 20th century.

Afterwards, many returned to their ancient homeland.

Levantine Cousins

Jewish ethnic divisions and Palestinians are related to each other.

Genetic studies have shown Jews and Palestinians are close.

Now they commit ethnic cleansing on fellow ancient residents of the land: people who had become early Christians, then Muslims.

Shared Commandment

Thou shalt not kill

It was so simple on the tablets.

Proxy Fight

Palestinian kids and Israeli grandmothers are vicarious victims of a debate between MBS of Saudi Arabia and the Revolutionary Guard of Iran.

They don’t care what happens to the modern-day Philistines. Palestinians and Israelis are pawns in a proxy fight between Shi’a and Sunni factions.

Whoever wins gets to nuclear bomb us back to the Stone Age.

This is why we can’t have nice things.

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