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Make no mistake. This sort of “euthanasia” is part of genocide over and over and over again.
First they will displace you. Then they will try to kill you. And when that���s not enough to destroy you the colonizers go after dogs/pets/culturally significant animals as a way of continuing to break moral.
“They’re just doing it to the aggressive ones, to the ones that can’t be adopted out!” You might argue. Know that always. ALWAYS in these situations the colonizer tries to spin dog/animal killings as some sort of necessary kindness. It’s almost never true. Just ask Canadian Inuit. The RCMP, who carried out the Inuit dog culls still maintain this was done specifically for medically necessary reasons. Canadian Inuit argue otherwise. Dog culls decreased moral, stripped communities of cultural touchstones, and prevented hunting and traveling traditions from being passed down (some Canadian Inuit today have to learn traditional dog sledding through YouTube vs from their own people due to lack of resources and stripped knowledge).
Inuit relationships to their dogs are culturally different than those in Palestine, but that does not make the culls of Palestinian dogs any less significant. The history of the registered Canaan dog breed, descended from captured Palestinian dog stock and then bred specifically by the Haganah to guard new Israeli settlements during the 1940s and 1950s with a breed standard made by Israelis should say enough. This is not the first time this has happened.
It is not enough to destroy people, families, babies, the landscape. They want to destroy it all.
#dogs#canine#dogblr#Canaan dog#pariah dogs#Palestine#the repetitive history of co-opting indigneous dogs into a ‘respectable breed’ by colonizers#only to have the colonizers cull the stock still in indigenous hands#is a story I have heard so many. fucking. times.
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#palestinians#jews#israel#palestine#canaan#canaanites#khazars#arabs#arab conquest#colonizers#jesus was a palestinian
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experimental vent piece. 'anwat, lit. 'forceful'. possible etymylogical origin of the name of the goddess 'Anat. she is ever my muse for anger. please excuse my lettering, as I haven't written in Arabic by hand for some time.
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bro is literally so palestinian
#“canaan” is what the region of palestine was called before it was officially renamed :))#star wars#star wars shitpost#rip my photoshop tag#star wars rebels#kanan jarrus#extra virgin olive oil#kanan ain't even wearing he same color keffiyeh smh#halal kanan for the WIN#halalcore
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Simplified History of Canaan/Israel/Palestine
A good story starts at the beginning. In this case, about 15 thousand years ago in Canaan. The Canaanites were a Northwest Semitic people in the late bronze age comprised of a number of tribes: the Edomites, Amalekites, Phoenicians, Samaritans, and the Israelites, among others.
One of these tribes, the Israelites, revered the Canaanite god Yahweh above the rest. He would be worshiped alongside his consort Asherah and fellow gode El, and Baal. Over time, Yahweh came to lead the whole of the pantheon and became the sole subject of worship - a stage in the Israelite religion dubbed Monolatrism. This would later develop into a Monotheistic position, with gods like Baal being subject to demonization and El being to various epitaphs of Yahweh such as El-Shaddai. This change happened over a number of centuries, although we're unsure how many. What we do know is that the Monolatrist Yahwism was still a major religion in the region around 600BC.
Then came the Iron Age and the establishment of an Israelite kingdom in 1047BC. Saul rose as the first king of the now united Israel. It would continue until Jeroboam's Revolt in 930BC which would split the kingdom into two. Israel to the north, Judah to the south. Israel held control from east of the Jordan to the Mediterranean sea. Judah, on the other hand, had only the Jordan as its bordering water. The west side of Judah was held by the Philistine city states in what is today Gaza.
The Kingdom of Israel, also called the Kingdom of Samaria, had 4 capitals over its short time: Shiloh, Shechem, Tirzah, and Samaria. They lasted for 210 years before being subjugated by the Assyrians. The Assyrian Exile saw the forceful relocation of thousands of Israelites. There were 2 waves out of Israel up into Assyria and 1 other relocation that happened later in Beth-Eden out to Media. They took the northern Israel and dubbed it the province of Semarina. But the Assyrians would find themselves up against the Babylonians who sought the land for themselves. The Neo Assyrian Empire fell to the Neo Babylonian Empire and the lands of Israel, down to Judah as well, would be under Babylonian control.
Jerusalem was the capital of Judah, part of what was known under the Neo Babylonian Empire as the province of Yehud. Judah was not very happy about or compliant with their Babylonian captivity. The Judahite revolts lasted about 15 years and concluded with the Neo Babylonian Empire laying seige to Jerusalem. The seige lasted 2 years, ending in 587BC, ending the Kingdom of Judah after 343 years with the Babylonian exile. The Kingdom of Judah was later granted permission by the Babylonians to return, but no such Edict was made for the Kingdom of Israel. The split is said to be 2 tribes returning to Judah, 10 tribes still in exile. Fun fact: there are actually 13 tribes, the 13th being the Tribe of Levi, a tribe with no territory!
It's likely that this Babylonian exile was a big catalyst for the monotheistic Judaism we know now and a good portion of the Tanakh was written during this time. This was the period in which the Hebrew identity really began to take shape. From their faith, to their politics, and even the writing of their history. It's possible that either the majority of Judah was exiles or that only the few elites, now embittered by their exile and the taking of their land by those who were below them, were the only ones taken into exile.
Keep in mind that since the seige of Jerusalem, the Israelites did not have their temple. It was almost a century later under the Persian empire that the second temple would be built, starting a new age of Hebrew identity. The Persians were rather open to Jewish self-governance, allowing an autonomous kingdom of Israel to rise in the province of Yehud Medinata.
Israel stayed relatively undisturbed for centuries after. The Greeks would conquer Persia and establish the province of Celesyria. The Hasmonean dynasty took rise in 140BC and lasted until 37BC. It was first under the Seleucid empire and then gained a brief period of autonomy until the Hasmonean Civil War broke out and the Roman empire took the opportunity to intervene and subjugate the kingdom in 63BC. The dynasty would collapse with the rise of the Herodian dynasty.
This Herodian Kingdom would continue to be a client state of the Roman empire. After the death of King Herod, the Romans divided the kingdom among his children, marking the beginning of the Herodian Tetrarchy. This too would come to an end and Provincia Iudaea and Iturea would take its place. It was during this time that a man named Yeshua had done his teachings - teachings which would have a great effect on the region in later years. It was also during this time that the Second Temple period came to an end when the Romans besieged Jerusalem in the First Jewish-Roman War.
Provincia Iudaea would find itself changing as a result of the Bar Kokhba Revolt. The region would be named Provincia Syria Palastina in its restructuring and the Jews once again found themselves in exile. Those who remained after the defeat and execution of Bar Kokhba would be themselves executed or enslaved. But the Roman Empire began its decline and would break apart some time later. The region would fall into the hands of the Byzantine Empire. The Jewish land was now under the first empire to be Christian from its founding.
This Christian control would hold until the Muslim conquests began. These conquests fundamentally changed the cultural and demographic landscape of the whole Levant. What was once Northwestern Semitic was now decisively Arabic, a Central Semitic culture. The land of Israel was split between Jund Filastin and Al-'Urduun. It would remain this way under three separate caliphates until the Pope declared the First Crusade which established the Kingdom of Jerusalem which lasted for almost 200 years, then had a 5 year gap in which it was under Muslim control again, and then a nearly 100 more years after it was recaptured with the Third Crusade.
From here, the lands gets continuously taken and divided between various Caliphates, Sultanates, Emirates, and Principalities. But none of them quite got a great hold of the region until the Ottoman Empire got in the game. The empire lasted over 600 years, although the first half of it did not have the region under its control. A joint effort of British, French, and Arab forces would take control of the region away from the Ottoman empire in 1917, and in 1920 there was the establishment of Mandatory Palestine.
In the 1800s, a nationalist movement arose among the Jewish diaspora within Europe called Zionism. The movement called for a Jewish homeland to be reestablished within the region of Palestine, at the time under the control of the Ottoman Empire. It partly rose as a response to the Haskalah, an intellectual movement among Jews in Europe and the Middle East. The Haskalah saw a turn away from traditional dress and institutions, but, likely more importantly, a revival of the Hebrew language. You see, Hebrew at this point was only a liturgical language, the way Latin is in Catholicism. The Haskalah sought for it to be used among even secular society. The Haskalah helped to unify Jews, especially in Europe.
Zionism was always a diverse movement with various leaders holding various different positions, but all agreed on the thing that unified the whole ideology: a return to Israel at any cost. At this point, Jewish identity was still scattered and the bloodlines were muddled by centuries of exile. The Jews were found throughout Eurasia and Africa, but it was particularly the European Jews that had the biggest push towards resettlement and the reestablishment of an Israeli state. The Aliyah had picked up more in earnest.
It's believed that less than 1% of the Jewish diaspora were living in the Palestinian region in the late 19th century. Many Jews began to make aliyah to the region in the 1880s and they began to settle into the land. This was further spured on by the various persecutions Jews had faced in various places, making for a refugee settlement within the land. Through the involvement of the British, French, and Arabs, the political landscape shifted around these new settlers until 1948 when Israel officially became a sovereign nation. In 1950, Israel issued the Law of Return, calling for the global Jewish diaspora to return to the region and be granted citizenship within Israel.
There were clashes between the Jews and Arabs in Palestine during their migrations, but it was at the founding of an Israeli state that tensions soared. Both Israel and new Palestinian states of Gaza and the Jordanian Annexed West Bank argued over their capital. East Jerusalem was held as the Palestinian capital and West Jerusalem was held as the Israeli capital, but both wanted full control of Jerusalem. The conflicts would see the scales tilted most towards the side of Israel, with Palestinians taking the most casualties since Israel's founding.
Thy founding of Israel wasn't a peaceful one. The Arab League was instantly hostile to David Ben Gurion declaring an independent Israel and on May 14th 1948 attacked. The war was decisive, but bloody. Israel lost around 6,000, two thirds of that being civilians, while the Arab League had a combined loss upwards of 20,000 soldiers and civilians. This conflict established the All-Palestine Government, Egyptian occupation of Gaza, the Jordanian annexation of the West Bank, the cementing of Israel as a new nation. The Nakba occurred during this war and is what contributed most to the civilian casualties on the side of the Arab League. This event is seen as an ethnic cleansing of Palestine, with many targeted massacres of Arab majority towns and villages. Israel had displaced over 750,000 Arabs from the region during this time.
The Armistance signed at the end of the war was being observed by the parties involved but there was tension over the Straits of Tiran. This culminated in an Israeli invasion of Egypt when Egypt closed off the Suez Canal to Israel. This invasion reopened the canal and placed UNEF forces at the Egypt-Israel border. Israel would then threaten Egypt with a casus belli should they close the canal again. About a decade later, Egypt would mobilize troops to a defensive position at the border, call for the UNEF to leave, and closed the canal again. The UNEF obliged and began to leave. In response to all of this, Israel launched airstrikes against Egyptian airfields and other locations. Israel would simultaneously invade the Sinai peninsula and Gaza sparking the Six Day War. Jordan would launch attacks aimed at slowing the Israeli forces. Syria would join in the fifth day with attacks in the north, and on the sixth day Egyptian president Nasser would call for an evacuation of troops and civilians from the peninsula. The casualties were in the thousands for one side and the hundreds for the Israeli side. Israel didn't even believe Egypt would attack Israel, as the troop movements were not significant enough to engage an offensive.
The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) would exchange fire at the Israel-Lebanon border, resulting in a number of soldier and civilian casualties on both sides. Back in the UK, a gunman tried to assassinate Israeli ambassador Shlomo Argov. Prime Minister Menachem Begin blamed the PLO for the attack and launched an invasion of southern Lebanon. In reality, the PLO had nothing to do with it - in fact, it was one of the PLO's enemies, the Abu Nidal Organization, that attempted the assassination. With the help of a number of domestic Lebanese-nationalist Christian groups, Israel occupied territory in southern Lebanon. Again with thousands dead on one side, hundreds on the Israeli. The invasion led to an Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon, to the chagrin of their Christian allies who had proclaimed the land the Free Lebanon State.
In the 80s, a series of protests and acts of civil disobedience occurred in the Israeli occupied Palestinian territories. People would take to the streets, fights would break out, and people would be killed. It lasted until 1993 with the Israel-PLO mutual recognition letters. These letters saw the PLO recognizing Israel as a sovereign state and Israel recognizing the PLO as the legitimate Palestinian authority. This set the groundwork for the Oslo I accords which resulted in the creation of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). Upwards of 200 Israelis were killed and almost 2,000 Palestinians were killed, about 350 of those were killed by other Palestinians.
The accords would call for a 5 year period of peace in which plans for permanent peace could be negotiated. The PNA were to have administrative control of Palestine and the IDF would withdraw from Gaza and the West Bank. Oslo II would be signed in 1995 as an agreement by Israel to transfer authority of the Palestinian Council while also making it so the only armed groups allowed in Palestine would be the Israeli police, Israeli military, and Palestinian police. This would bar Palestine from any formal military or militia.
In 2001, Netanyahu would be secretly recorded as he said "They asked me before the election if I'd honor [the Oslo accords]... I said I would, but [that] I'm going to interpret the accords in such a way that would allow me to put an end to this galloping forward to the '67 borders. How did we do it? Nobody said what defined military zones were. Defined military zones are security zones; as far as I'm concerned, the entire Jordan Valley is a defined military zone. Go argue."
Hamas was founded in 1987 and was an opposition force to, not only Israel but, the ruling party of Palestine: Fatah. It formed out of a charity affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood. By 2006, they had won the majority vote in the Palestinian legislative election and in 2007 they seized control of Gaza from Fatah. Their position was a reinstatement of Mandatory Palestine, but over time they declared they would settle for the 1967 border. They offered a truce with Israel should they honor the '67 border, to which Israel rejected.
Hamas had received backing from Israel during its foundation, according to Israeli officials Yitzhak Segev and Avner Cohen. It was meant to act as a sort of balance to act against the PLO and Fatah. This means that Hamas, considered a threat to Israeli security, began as a sort of proxy for Israel, although likely unknowingly. Israel would find themselves regretting this decision as Hamas would commit multiple acts of violence against Israeli citizens and soldiers over the years since their creation. Even with as much as there is documented, though, much of what is attributed to them is rather unclear as to whether they were actually their acts.
On October 7th, Hamas would launch a small scale attack around a music festival. Israel is believed to have also contributed to the fatalities that day. More people would be killed amidst the fallout of this event and many unsupported accusations would be made by Israel, such as a claim that Hamas engaged in mass rape during this event. Netanyahu would use this event as a springboard for what he viewed as just cause to launch an invasion of Palestine, focusing heavily on the Gaza Strip. Since then, there has been documented atrocities committed by Israel, little reliable coverage of what Hamas has been doing during this time frame, and a lot of unsubstantiated claims from both Israel and Palestine. Among the documented atrocities committed would be: humiliation and execution of Palestinians (including children), firing upon medical personnel and journalists, giving as little as only 5 minutes of warning before dropping bombs in heavily populated areas, firing upon Israeli hostages Hamas had released while they waived white flags, invaded a hospital and killed people (including children) lying in hospital beds, kidnapping, and executing an unarmed old man begging for his life at his bedside.
I've brought everything here up to show that history is not as simple as people like to present it as. There are many ups and downs, twists and turns, and even fabrications. I've seen people on both sides of the aisle present false information, deny history, and act like everything is entirely black and white the whole way down. And when I speak, I'm accused of supporting the worst things imaginable. Ancient Israel and the Israelites has been a topic of interest for me at different points in my life, I've done my digging. It would be wrong to say that the Arab Palestinians are the indigenous people and that ethnic Jews aren't. It would also be wrong to say that Israel has done no wrong, acting only in defense.
I don't take a side between Israel and Hamas. I take my side with the people caught in between this conflict that's been going on for a long time. It did not start October 7th. It all started much much much more long ago. Knowing your history is important to understanding today.
Also I wrote this on and off for about a month now and I just want to finally finish and post it, I'm not proofreading to make sure everything's entirely cohesive and strung together the best way possible, don't ever just trust some rando on the internet, do your own research.
No, I'm not pro-genocide nor antisemitic. I just like history and hate statists. Fuck this all. Heartless bastards always running the show and the people pay the price.
#israel#palestine#fuck israel#palestine genocide#israel hamas war#israel hamas conflict#Hamas#hamas is isis#history#canaan
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Can't stop thinking how PPs (pro palestinians) force "decolonization" on israel by forcing arabic onto the names and everything when these are the native languages of canaan, aka what they call "palestine":
Modern hebrew was indeed revived in Europe but it is still a moddle eastern jewish native canaanite language
so no its not nablus, or al aqsa or whatever they call whichever city bc arabic is a colonizer language. Like english is America.
#israel#from the river to the sea yall can suck my d#palestine#gaza#jewish#free israel from terrorism#am israel hai#jumbler#jews#History#Hebrew#Jewish language#Nablus#Al aqsa#jerusalem#Zion#Zionism#leftist antisemitism#Free israel from leftist bigots#Fuck hamas#Rafah#Judaism#aramaic#Arabic#israel is the biggest decolonized project there ever was#Decolonization#Canaan#arabic is a colonial language#Languages#Tel aviv
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Hello, yes, I am here to discuss real life changes we can make to aid Palestine long term. It’s not a lot, but this is one I’ve made.
I use olive oil to cook. I always have it stocked in my kitchen. Now, instead of just buying it at the grocery store, I get it from Palestine. I may only be a drop in the bucket but with my dollar bill I will actively say, “Palestinian olive oil is the best olive oil. If you burn their olive trees, it does not mean I will buy yours instead. I am a part of the global demand that those trees exist and continue to exist.”
So anyway. That’s a step I’ve taken. It’s a small one, but if ten thousand other feet step in the same direction, then maybe they’ll hear us moving.
#palestine#free palestine#west bank#canaan#nablus#olive oil#cooking#pantry#global demand#i stand with palestine 🇵🇸#🇵🇸
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The Palestinians, like their name, have existed since ancient times!
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#history#palestine#gaza#philistines#name origins#ancient history#bible#free palestine#israelites#david and goliath#jewish history#samson#canaan#from the river to the sea palestine will be free#iron#christian history#ancient#free gaza#palestinian culture#hebrew#palestinian history#biblical times#aegean sea#middle east#nickys facts
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someone on tiktok discriminating my very jewish look and calling me an antisemite in the same breath and a self hating jew in the next: 🤡
bc how are you gonna call me a fucking ugly antisemite for my features and my pro palestinian stance, and then call me a self hating jew after i tell you im jewish and Thats Why I Look Like This
theres only one antisemite that i see here and its you
#i hate tiktok so fucking much#palestine#pro palestine#free palestine#free gaza#canaan#end israeli apartheid#boycott israel
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Your fur is only matted by the blood of children, and yet you sob wolf. You cry over your sleeping child surrounded by stillbirth of which you caused. Crocodile tears fall down your red coat while carefully stepping over butchery, while stepping over genocide, while stepping over an ethnic cleansing. They give you a bruise and you say it’s the Holocaust while you keep them in concentration camps. You disgust me. No matter how many baths you take. No matter how hard you scrub. No matter how much you perform. No matter how you try and pull your hand over knowing eyes. Everyone will know. Your coat will always stain red. Your teeth will forever remain jagged and broken. Your breath will always stench of death. And everyone will know. Everyone knows. You’re an apartheid, you commit genocide.
Hitler would be proud.
If you want to support Palestine but you don’t have money to donate (or are a minor) you can help by: going to protests, boycotting, positing about Palestine, supporting videos about Palestine so they get more reach, and supporting videos (or other things) that will donate money they get to Palestine. The main 3 brands to boycott as they support “Isreal” are, McDonalds as they have been giving food to “Israeli” soldiers, Starbucks, who sued their workers union for supporting Palestine, and Disney, who gave 1 million dollars to “Isreal”. Some others are, Coca Cola(and any products they benefit from)HP(Hewlett-Packard), Siemens, AXA, Puma, Soda Stream, Ahava, and Sabra. Use tags that are trending, like the fnaf movie, the Taylor swift movie, the amazing digital circus, Disneys wish, whatever is trending, put it in the tags. Their voices have been silenced for so long. And we’ve been blind to it for so long. So it’s time to speak. Don’t stop speaking. Mourn the dead, and fight like hell for the living. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
#art#canaan dog#gazelle#free palestine 🇵🇸#from the river to the sea palestine will be free#🍉#فلسطين 🇵🇸#disney wish#the amazing digital circus#tadc jax#tadc pomni#fnaf movie#silly car#cars#silly cats#ai art#it’s not actually ai it’s just to get more reach#free palestine till its backwards
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"Astarte Plaque" from Tell es Safi Source: Bliss & Macalister, Excavations in Palestine, London, 1902, Plate 67 No. 15s Via: "Star of David" Blog Tell es-Safi / Gath, Palestine (Tel Tzafit Park, Israel) c. 800 BCE Current location unknown, likely stolen from place of origin and lost. Modern rendition by OP:
Some interpretative and stylistic liberties were taken in my own drawing. And despite the lack of preserved detail in the original, I very much appreciate the charm of her simple " ꞏ_ꞏ " face.
#canaanite gods#canaan#phoenicia#palestinian gods#palestine#philistia#philistine#astarte#ashtart#anat#anatu#athtartu#snakes#snake#serpent#serpents#star#geometry#asterism#asterisk#venus#hexagram#pentagram#two points up pentagram#two points up hexagram
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THE GENETIC ORIGINS OF PALESTINIANS
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Note: This isn't being shared because of a belief in genetically-determined borders, but an attempt to eradicate the myth that Palestinians are foreign to the Levant because of their language or religion.
#Palestine#Palestinian#Israel#Gaza#West Bank#Canaan#Canaanites#Natufians#Peleset#Philistines#Philistia#from the river to the sea#Youtube
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✨Exploring Palestine's Cultural Richness: From Ancient Statues to Modern Dreams✨
Palestine, a land steeped in history and brimming with cultural treasures, offers a fascinating blend of ancient artifacts and contemporary aspirations.Let's explor into the country's archaeological wonders, the enduring influence of Japan on Palestinian society, and the unique stories that bridge past and present, tradition and modernity.
Warning:My post is only Cultural,it highlights great cultural points.I took the care with sensitivity. I don't bring in politics,I won't meddle with.
A) The Bronze Statue of Apollo in Gaza:
Gaza, often in the headlines for its political tensions, holds a treasure from the ancient world that speaks to its rich cultural heritage. The discovery of a Bronze Statue of Apollo, dating back to antiquity, sheds light on Gaza's historical significance as a crossroads of civilizations. This remarkable artifact serves as a reminder of Gaza's role in the ancient world and the cultural exchanges that occurred in the region. However, the current whereabouts of this statue are unknown, leaving its fate uncertain amid the region's instability.
The Story:
Lost for centuries, a rare bronze statue of the Greek god Apollo has mysteriously resurfaced in the Gaza Strip, only to be seized by police and vanish almost immediately from view.
Word of the remarkable find has caught the imagination of the world of archaeology, but the police cannot say when the life-sized bronze might re-emerge or where it might be put on display.
A local fisherman says he scooped the 500kg (1,100lb) god from the seabed last August, and carried it home on a donkey cart, unaware of the significance of his catch.
Others soon guessed at its importance, and the statue briefly appeared on eBay with a $500,000 (£300,000) price tag - well below its true value. Police from the Islamist group Hamas, which rules the isolated Palestinian territory, swiftly seized it and say they are investigating the affair.
Archaeologists have not been able to get their hands on the Apollo - to their great frustration- and instead must pore over a few blurred photographs of the intact deity, who is laid out incongruously on a blanket emblazoned with Smurfs.
From what they can tell, it was cast sometime between the 5th and the 1st century BC, making it at least 2,000 years old.
"It's unique. In some ways I would say it is priceless. It's like people asking what is the [value] of the painting La Gioconda [the Mona Lisa] in the Louvre museum," said Jean-Michel de Tarragon, a historian with the French Biblical and Archaeological School of Jerusalem.
"It's very, very rare to find a statue which is not in marble or in stone, but in metal," he told Reuters television.
The apparently pristine condition of the god suggested it was uncovered on land and not in the sea, he said, speculating that the true location of where it was unearthed was not revealed to avoid arguments over ownership.
"This wasn't found on the seashore or in the sea ... it is very clean. No, it was [found] inland and dry," he said, adding that there were no signs of metal disfigurement or barnacles that one normally sees on items plucked from water.
Palestinian fisherman Joudat Ghrab tells a different tale. The 26-year-old father of two said he saw a human-like shape,lying in shallow waters some 100 metres offshore, just north of the Egyptian-Gaza border.
At first he thought it was a badly burnt body, but when he dived down to take a closer look he realised it was a statue. He says it took him and his relatives four hours to drag the treasure ashore.
"I felt it was something gifted to me by God," Ghrab told Reuters. "My financial situation is very difficult and I am waiting for my reward."
His mother was less happy when she saw the naked Apollo carried into the house, demanding that his private parts be covered. "My mother said: 'What a disaster you have brought with you' as she looked at the huge statue," said Ghrab.
The discoloured green-brown figure shows the youthful, athletic god standing upright on two, muscular legs; he has one arm outstretched, with the palm of his hand held up.
He has compact, curly hair, and gazes out seriously at the world, one of his eyes apparently inlaid with a blue stone iris, the other just a vacant black slit.
Ghrab says he cut off one of the fingers to take to a metals expert, thinking it might have been made of gold. Unbeknownst to him, one of his brothers severed another finger for his own checks. This was melted down by a jeweller.
Family members belonging[ I doubt if his family ever had ties to Hamas,either directly either indirectly ] to a Hamas militia soon took charge of the statue, and at some stage the Apollo appeared on eBay, with the seller telling the buyer to come and collect the item from Gaza.
That would have been easier said than done, however, as Gaza is virtually sealed off from the outside world, with both Israel and Egypt imposing rigid controls on access to the impoverished enclave and its 1.8 million inhabitants.
Whether any potential buyers stepped forward is not clear, but when Hamas's civilian authorities found out about the artefact, they ordered the police to seize it.
Officials at Gaza's tourism ministry told Reuters the statue would not be shown to the public until a criminal investigation into who tried to sell it was completed.
However, Ahmed al-Bursh, the ministry's director of archaeology, said he had seen it and promised that Ghrab would receive a reward once the issue had been resolved.
"It is a precious treasure, an important archaeological discovery," said Bursh. Once the statue has been released by police, his ministry plans to repair it and put it on show in Gaza.
"International institutions have also contacted us and have offered to help with the repair process," he said, adding that a museum in Geneva and the Louvre in Paris wanted to take it on loan.
Like Ghrab, Bursh said the statue had been found at sea. The historian Tarragon said it was vital to know the true location of its discovery.
Some 5,000 years of history lie beneath the sands of the Gaza Strip, which was ruled at various times by ancient Egyptians, Philistines, Romans, Byzantines and crusaders.
Alexander the Great besieged the city and the Roman emperor Hadrian visited. However, local archaeologists have little experience to carry out any scientific digs and many sites remain buried.
Statues such as the Apollo cast would not have been held in isolation, meaning it may prove the tip of an historical iceberg, according to Tarragon.
"A statue at that time was [put] in a complex, in a temple or a palace. If it was in a temple, you should have all the other artefacts of the cult [at the site]," he said, adding that he hoped Hamas appreciated its potential importance.
"There is a feeling that they could find more and more [items] linked to the statue, more and more artefacts, so this is very sensitive," he said.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-palestinian-apollo-gaza-idUSBREA190NQ20140210/
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2014/4/8/what-happened-to-gazas-apollo-statue
B) An 11-Year-Old Palestinian Boy Pursues His Dream of Becoming a Chef:
In the midst of adversity, stories of hope and aspiration emerge, exemplified by the journey of an 11-year-old Palestinian boy who dreams of becoming a chef. Despite the challenges he faces, including limited resources and economic hardship, his passion for cooking fuels his ambition.
His story underscores the resilience and determination of the Palestinian people to pursue their dreams and overcome obstacles in pursuit of a brighter future.
Palestinian child Mahmoud Abu Nada cooks inside the kitchen of a local restaurant, in Gaza City on Oct. 13, 2018. Although blood cancer has forced him to leave school, 11-year-old Palestinian boy Mahmoud Abu Nada became a chef after receiving courses at a Gaza restaurant. TO GO WITH Feature: Gaza child suffering from cancer amazes people with cooking talent.
Source: http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-10/16/c_137536471.htm
C) Palestinian-Japanese Cooperation For the restoration the mosaics of Hisham's Palace:
Hisham's Palace (Arabic: قصر هشام Qaṣr Hishām), also known as Khirbat al-Mafjar (Arabic: خربة المفجر), is an Vital early Islamic archaeological site in the Palestinian city of Jericho, in the West Bank. Built by the Umayyad dynasty in the first half of the 8th century, it is one of the so-called Umayyad desert castles. It is located 3 km north of Jericho's city center.In 2015, an agreement was signed between the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and the Japan International Cooperation Agency to enable the 825 square metres (8,880 sq ft) mosaic in the palace, one of the largest in the world, to be uncovered and readied for display.
On 2018 the collaboration between Palestinians and Japanese archaeologists has yielded remarkable results, including the recent display of the site.
This joint effort not only highlights the importance of international cooperation in preserving cultural heritage,but also deepens the cultural ties between Palestine and Japan.
Through shared endeavors in archaeology and cultural preservation, Palestinians and Japanese forge bonds of friendship and mutual respect, enriching both societies in the process.
https://pcpsr.org/ar/node/893
D) The Representation of Palestinian Girls in the Anime "Canaan":
In the world of entertainment, the original anime "Canaan" offers a unique portrayal of Palestinian girls, Alphard and Canaan, whose contrasting backgrounds and beliefs shape their identities and actions.
Plot:
A Palestinian teenaged girl and a mercenary, Canaan is dispatched by her unknown superiors to the city of ShanghaiWP in the People's Republic of ChinaWP where she meets up with Maria Ōsawa. Now a photographer, Maria reunites with her friend Canaan after being saved from harassment, during a trip to the Middle East years ago. Their presence in Shanghai, however, has been greatly overshadowed by the upcoming,crucial NBCR International Anti-Terrorist Conference in the same city where Alphard(Canaan's hateful rival) plans to stage a terrorist attack with her subordinates known as "Snakes".
💕The Palestinian girl Canaan is amazingly pretty(kawai).💕 Her eyes are now radiant red because of her synesthesia:An ability as a radar to locate others, to hack into mechanical systems, and to dodge/deflect bullets easily.
Through their characters, the anime explores themes of conflict, identity, and resilience, offering viewers a nuanced perspective on the Palestinian experience. While fictional, the depiction of Palestinian characters in "Canaan" reflects the diversity and complexity of Palestinian society, challenging stereotypes and fostering understanding.
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<0 11.5–12 thousand years ago: Philistines attack Ancient Egypt and Eastern Mediterranean civilisations
During the Late Bronze Age collapse, a group of seafarers known as the Sea Peoples, or pwrꜣsꜣtj, attacked ancient Egypt and other civilizations in the Eastern Mediterranean. It is believed that the Sea Peoples came from various places in Southern Europe and West Asia, including western Asia Minor, the Aegean, and the islands of the East Mediterranean. Ramessess III won a big battle against the…
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Jewish identity: *existing for more than 4,000 years*
Palestinians:
Disclaimer: i don't have problem with the palestinian people just with the fact that they stole jewish indigenous identity and brainwashed the world into thinking arabic identity is native. You won't see this happen with americans
#sorry not sorry#controversial take#jews are indigenous#Palestinian identity is made out of arabic identity#Culture#And language#Arabic is not native to canaan#Ancient hebrew is#Arabs are not native to canaan#Jews are#Islam is not native to canaan#Judaism is#Olives are jewish symbol#For peace#jumbler#israel#palestine#am israel hai#from the river to the sea yall can suck my d#jewish#free israel from terrorism#free gaza from hamas#jews#ישראבלר#Idc about yall whiny ass#Free israel from leftist bigots#History#Identity#goyim try not to erase jewish history challenges: impossible#gaza
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