#lord Shaftesbury

[unhingedwhitehall]

Charles: Here we go, Jamie, here we go.

James: The war has begun.

*They walk into the Cabinet side by side, holding hands*

Both: Hi, Shaftesbury.

[grounded-african]

Prejudice is a mist, which... often dims the brightest and obscures the best of all the good and glorious objects that meet us on our way- Lord Shaftesbury

Bloganuary writing promptIf you could un-invent something, what would it be? View all responses We are more than halfway through January, which means Bloganuary, too! 😱. Where does the time go? Well done, everyone, for getting this far! Thank you to all who have participated in my journey by reading, commenting and/or liking my posts. You are helping to make this an awesome…

[mantomhive]

If a man called something I wrote "the most pestilential book ever vomited out of the jaws of hell", my entire life would quite literally be made

[colleendoran]

I was curious how you manage to keep features consistent when you draw them? Do you use models? Is there a model for Crowley? He is very handsome.

I don't use models per se, but I sometimes keep files of photos or art that resembles the subject.

Crowley is based a bit on the French actor Alain Delon who was once considered the handsomest man in the world. He doesn't look exactly like Delon, but that is in my head when I draw him. I recall reading Neil and Mr. Pratchett once considered Peter Sellers for Crowley.

There is no reference for Aziraphale because he is entirely in my head and I can't really find anyone who looks exactly the way he does. I recall reading that Neil and Mr. Pratchett thought of Brian Dennehy at one point, but my head canon Aziraphale won. I think a Brian Dennehy Aziraphale would have been amazing, though. Anyway, he is actually kind of hard for me to draw because his facial structure is a bit outside my usual style. His face is a bit long and his eyes closer together than I normally do, and if I'm not careful, he slips away. He appears younger and more classically handsome as an angel than he does in his corporeal form, but I think he's quite fetching as a bookseller.

Michael Sheen is so perfect in this role it is really hard not to leak bits of his performance into the graphic novel edition, but I have to resist the impulse. I am not allowed to use any of the show actors as models.

I adore Michael Sheen. Who doesn't?

Adam is also a head canon character. He is a perfect young Greek God, so that's kind of drawing on a day with a Y in it for me.

The inspiration for Newt I'm keeping a secret. I submitted a number of sketches for Newt. The show Newt dug in deep and I had a hard time shaking him off.

The Them are based on kids I knew. They're in my head, I don't need any photos. They don't really look like the kinds in the show. The book version of Pepper, for example, is a freckled red-head.

Anathema is an amalgam of features that don't come from one person, which I think fits the description of the character. She's also unusual for me to draw but she's easier to draw than Aziraphale. I nail her every time.

Hastur is a caricature of the stereotypical English upper class you'd see in broadsheets 200 years ago. I have a file of pictures of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury for Hastur. I considered making Hastur more handsome in a Duke of Hell sort of way, but I think Hastur likes to be scary. I keep thinking of Peter O'Toole when I draw Hastur, too.

I feel kind of bad basing Hastur on Lord Ashley because he was a wonderful person and I'm sure he didn't go to Hell.

Ligur is a broad caricature of Danny Devito. I obviously can't use a DeVito portrait. That would be wrong. But I can tweak from there and come up with a general idea of the face I want to use.

Beelzebub and Metatron are head canon, and don't look a thing like they do in the show. I postulate some demons prefer to look like their angelic selves, and at other times prefer to be fearsome. Crowley can look fearsome when he wants, for example. In the book, Beelzebub appears as a young man in red flames.

Shadwell was drawn from reference at the direct suggestion of Neil.

Madame Tracy is based on a certain person, but no one you would have heard of. The original source might not be flattered, but I love Madam Tracy. She's really easy to draw because she's a bit over the top. I'm sketching around her scenes right now because I don't have final approval on some things yet. So she might need some changes later.

War is head canon, very easy to draw. She's a knockout. No reference required.

Famine looks a lot like Famine in the show, actually, but that's what Famine always looked like, pretty much. Except he has the grey eyes he has in the book.

Pollution is initially described as being a forgettable white guy, but later described as looking like a romantic poet, which strikes me as being memorable. Because he's only on one page in his forgettable white guy phase, I chose not to make major changes in his appearance between those panels and later when he appears as his true self, because that's a bit more confusing than it needs to be in the graphic novel edition. He's rather glamorous as the essence of Pollution, though. No reference needed.

Dog is a dog.

While I do give every detail a lot of thought, I am sure other people have other opinions. I understand that, and hope you enjoy what I do anyway.

Thanks for your question.

I'm still a bit under the weather, so may be stepping away from the net for awhile so I can concentrate on work. I have a lot of sick time to make up.

But don't think I don't appreciate your interest in the Good Omens graphic novel adaptation. Your wonderful support is acting on me like a tonic, let me tell you.

[aimeedaisies]

Court Circular | 6th November 2024

Buckingham Palace

The Princess Royal, on behalf of The King, held an Investiture at Windsor Castle this morning.

St James’s Palace

The Princess Royal, Patron, Learning and Work Institute, and President, Carers Trust, this afternoon attended the “Driving Change” Conference at City Lit College, 1-10 Keeley Street, London WC2, and was received by His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London (Sir Kenneth Olisa).

Her Royal Highness, President, The Duke of Edinburgh’s Commonwealth Study Conferences, this evening attended a Reception at Brunswick Group, 16 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2, and was received by Ms. Roxane Zand (Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London).

The Princess Royal, Patron, Shaftesbury, later held a One Hundred and Eightieth Anniversary Dinner at St James’s Palace.

[opencommunion]

"Kerem Avraham began as a small British colony founded in 1855 by the highly influential British Consul in Jerusalem, James Finn, and his wife, Elizabeth Anne Finn, who was the daughter of a noted English Hebrew scholar and herself spoke Hebrew. ... James Finn combined biblical 'restorationist' Christian thinking and missionary activities with official British civil service. He and his wife Elizabeth were originally members of the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews. Also crucially, he was also a close associate of Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, a prominent Tory MP, a social reformer, a millennialist Christian and a key contributor to Victorian Christian Zionism and back-to-the-Bible revivalism. Shaftesbury was driven by Victorian imperialism and Christian messianic prophecy. He argued that 'Jewish restorationism' to Palestine would bring political and economic advantages to the British Empire and as a biblical prophecy would expedite the second coming of Jesus. In an article in the Quarterly Review (January 1839) Shaftesbury, who invented the myth 'A land without people, for a people without a land,' wrote:

The soil and climate of Palestine are singularly adapted to the growth of produce required for the exigencies of Great Britain; the finest cotton may be obtained in almost unlimited abundance; silk and madder are the staple of the country, and olive oil is now, as it ever was, the very fatness of the land. Capital and skill are alone required: the presence of a British officer, and the increased security of property which his presence will confer, may invite them from these islands to the cultivation of Palestine; and the Jews, who will betake themselves to agriculture in no other land, having found, in the English consul [James Finn], a mediator between their people and the [Ottoman] Pacha, will probably return in yet greater numbers, and become once more the husbandmen of Judaea and Galilee.

With the support of foreign secretary Lord Palmerston, Shaftesbury began promoting Jewish restorationism in Victorian England in the 1830s. Shaftesbury was also instrumental in the setting up of the British Consulate in Jerusalem in 1939. The public activities of Shaftesbury, James Finn and their English 'restorationist' followers—which preceded the founding of the European political Zionist movement by Theodor Herzl by nearly half a century—demonstrate clearly that 'Zionism' began as a distinctly Christian Protestant movement, not a Jewish one."

Nur Masalha, The Zionist Bible: Biblical Precedent, Colonialism and the Erasure of Memory (2013)

[kwebtv]

The First Churchills - BBC Two - Septembr 27, 1969 - December 13, 1969

Period Drama (12 Episodes)

Running Time: 60 minutes

Stars:

Susan Hampshire as Sarah Jennings Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough

John Neville as John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

James Villiers as King Charles II

John Westbrook as King James II

Sheila Gish as Queen Mary, wife to James II

Alan Rowe as King William III

Lisa Daniely as Queen Mary II

Margaret Tyzack as Queen Anne

Roger Mutton as Prince George of Denmark

Robert Robinson as King Louis XIV

John Standing as Sidney Godolphin

Frederick Peisley as Lord Shaftesbury

Job Stewart as Lord Shrewsbury

James Kerry as James, Duke of Monmouth

Richard Pearson as Robert Harley

Moira Redmond as Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland

Richard Warwick as Francis Godolphin

Polly Adams as Henrietta Churchill

Graham Armitage as John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

Colin Bean as Lord Russell

Consuela Chapman as Duchess of Portsmouth

Michael Culver as Charles Churchill

Andria Lawrence as Nell Gwyn

Michael Lynch as D'Artagnan:

Kay Patrick as Henrietta Wentworth

Arthur Pentelow as Marquess of Carmarthen

Bruce Purchase as Duke of Buckingham

John Ringham as Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester

Nicholas Smith as Titus Oates

Michael Attwell as Henry St John

Jill Balcon as Abigail Masham

Freddie Wilson as James Stuart, the Old Pretender

Yvonne Antrobus as Anne Churchill

Robert Mill as Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland

William Job as Adam de Cardonnel

Bernard Taylor as William Cadogan

Francis Wallis as John Churchill, Marquess of Blandford

The First Churchills was the first series telecast by PBS under the title of Masterpiece Theatre from January 10, 1971 - March 28, 1971

[pichuan]

When Arabs Became Palestinians

by Jerold S. Auerbach

Without a history of their own, Palestinians plundered Jewish history to define themselves

May 19, 2022 at 8:45 am | Topics: palestinians, Nakba

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(JNS) With the recent eruption of Palestinian violence on the Temple Mount, followed by the murder of three Israelis from the town of Elad, it is worth reflecting on the history of a people, until recently non-existent, who seem determined to define themselves by killing Jews.

Modern conceptions of “Palestine” date from the mid-19th century when British artist David Roberts followed the trail of the ancient Israelites from Egypt to their “Holy Land.” His lithographs provided stunning vistas of Hebron, Jerusalem, Jericho, Nablus and other ancient Jewish sites. As yet, there were no “Palestinian” locations to include.

Not long afterward, Scottish writer Alexander Keith, identifying the Land of Israel as the “Holy Land,” described Jews as “a people without a country; even as their own land … is a country without a people.” British Lord Shaftesbury cited “the ancient and rightful lords of the soil, the Jews!” Palestinians were not mentioned.

On the eve of World War I, Chaim Weizmann, who decades later would become the first president of Israel, said: “There is a country which is called Palestine, a country without a people, and, on the other hand, there exists the Jewish people, and it has no country.” What else was necessary, he wondered, “than to fit the gem into the ring, to unite this people with this country?”

Although Arabs in small numbers had lived in Palestine for centuries with prosperous elite families concentrated in Jerusalem, there were no signs of an Arab national identity before World War I. Ironically, budding signs of Jewish nationalism—identified as Zionism—were its primary stimulus. But it took time. Shortly before the State of Israel was born, Arab historian Philip Hitti stated: “There is no such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not.” Without Palestine, there could not be Palestinians.

Not until Israel defeated and humiliated Arab countries in the Six-Day War (June 1967), ending Jordanian control over West Bank Arabs, did a distinctive Palestinian identity begin to emerge. Why was it, wondered author Walid Shoebat of Bethlehem, “that on June 4, 1967, I was a Jordanian and overnight I became a Palestinian.” Even PLO military commander Zuhair Muhsin acknowledged: “There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. We are all part of one nation.” The vision of a Palestinian state, he recognized, was merely “a new tool in the continuing battle against Israel.”

Without a history of their own, Palestinians plundered Jewish history to define themselves. The ancient Canaanites were identified as the original “Palestinians.” So, too, were Jebusites, the biblical inhabitants of Jerusalem. Based on these fanciful claims an imaginary “Palestinian” history of 5,000 years was implanted in the Land of Israel.

Palestinians’ identity theft has taken strange turns. They have absurdly equated the nakba(“disaster” or “catastrophe”) of 1948 when Arabs launched—and lost—a war of Jewish extermination with the Holocaust. Indeed, Holocaust denial was the core of the doctoral dissertation of Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas. He preposterously claimed that Zionist leaders were “fundamental partners” of the Nazis, jointly responsible for the slaughter of 6 million Jews.

Palestinians have relied upon the model of the Israeli Law of Return to claim that millions of “refugees”—fewer than 30,000 of whom are still alive—should be permitted to return to the land they abandoned in 1947-48 during the Arab war to annihilate Jews. Teenage Arab girls have been taught to equate their plight with that of Holocaust victim Anne Frank.

So it is that a people without a national history until well into the 20th century have attempted to persuade a gullible world audience that Palestinians are the rightful inheritors of Jewish history and land. Ironically, even the holy Koran (which makes frequent mention of Jews but does not mention Palestinians) was interpreted by Muslims more than a millennium ago to affirm that the Land of Israel was given by God to “the children of Israel” as a perpetual covenant. Murdering Jews was not mentioned. But as scholar and novelist Dara Horn aptly titles her new book, People Love Dead Jews.

[daloy-politsey]

British colonialism has been trying since the last century to intervene in the internal affairs of Palestine and the Arab countries, mindful of the significant geographic and strategic location of these countries, especially Palestine. Colonial powers at the time—notably tsarist Russia, France, and Germany—were intervening in the affairs of Palestine through “minority protection”: Russia particularly did so allegedly for “Orthodox [Russian Orthodox Christians] protection” and France for “Catholic protection,” while the politically and militarily ruling Ottoman Empire claimed to be the protector of Arabs and Muslims. When British colonialists were bent on intervening, they found it necessary to look for a group whom they could “take on the trouble” of protecting (as British colonialism has developed the habit of “going through hell” to do “good,” as it is currently doing by “sacrificing” and “paying high costs” in money, weapons, and troops for the sake of “preserving security and independence” in Indonesia!). This explains how British colonialism—having wearily searched Palestine for a group to protect—singled out “the Jews” and so declared “its protection” of them, using them as a pretext to intervene in the affairs of Palestine. On this basis, the British government had established a British Commission in Jerusalem in 1838, which announced “the protection of Jews in general” as one of its underlying objectives. Lord Shaftesbury [1801–85], whom Zionists regarded as a humanist and idealist, backed Palestine’s colonization by “the progeny of Abraham” while simultaneously strongly opposing for “religious” reasons the liberation of Jews in Britain. Furthermore, many British Tories were supportive of the idea of colonizing Palestine as a bridge to enable them to extend their colonization to the Near East and Arab countries. [. . .] That is how the relationship between Zionism and British colonialism developed.

Yusuf Harun Zilkha, Zionism Against Arabs and Jews

[corallapis]

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Vol. 1), 1918-38, entry for 9th April 1923

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Monday 9th April — Hackwood¹

Have been spending a few days here … a simpatico party … Lady Curzon, glittering, gracious and a supreme hostess, all the Duggans;² Lady Patricia Herbert³ (the very nicest girl in London, although Lady Mary Ashley⁴ runs her neck and neck …) … Mrs Vansittart,⁵ an affected American, Paul of Serbia⁶ …. Lord Curzon is away doing a Coué cure⁷ for the benefit of his leg or brow beating some important conference for the welfare of civilisation … I forget which. Lady Curzon told us of a conversation she had with Lord Balfour⁸ a few evenings ago. He was unusually playful and she depressed and discouraged, she is subject to unaccountable fits of Weltschmerz,⁹ which result, I think, from something unsatisfied in her.¹⁰ He tried to console her and talked to her beautifully about life and all she had to live for … her husband, the world’s most striking and brilliant man … her children charming … her friends many … her beauty unsurpassed. Next day he wrote her an inimitable note to say how much he had enjoyed being next to her. She, delighted, said to Lady Cunard¹¹ as she read it: ‘AJB is an angel — I should like to kiss him on the forehead’. Maud repeated this to him and his only comment was: ‘Why the forehead?�� Maud Cunard motored to Hackwood with Serge Obolensky¹² for what she calls ‘the day in the country’ on Sunday. They arrived at six o’clock. She pretended never to have seen plus fours before and said ‘And what has little Paul got on? And Chips¹³ too what are they?’ She made us rock with laughter for two hours with stories about herself and her hatred of the country, etc. She said that all Nancy’s troubles were due to the fact that her father ‘my dear at the age of 12 had put her … put her on a horse, a four-legged horse’. As she was leaving we loaded her car with guns, tennis racquets, golf clubs, etc. She was much flustered at this or pretended to be and shook hands with a footman and ‘bobbed’ to the butler and was amazing but delicious … all pink and white, like a sweet, and dressed in a costume de sport made by Vionnet.¹⁴ Serge was anxious to return as he is wooing Alice Astor.¹⁵ I introduced them … I shall now have this new romance on my conscience.

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1. Hackwood Park, near Basingstoke in Hampshire, rented by Lord Curzon from 1906 until 1925.

2. Lady Curzon’s children by her first marriage: Alfred Duggan (1903–64), who became a minor novelist; Hubert Duggan (1904–43), Tory MP for Acton from 1931 to 1943 and anti-appeaser in the 1930s; and (Grace) Marcella Duggan (1907–95).

3. Patricia Herbert (1904–94), by courtesy Lady Patricia Herbert from 1913, daughter of the 15th Earl of Pembroke and 12th Earl of Montgomery, married in 1928 William Henry Smith, 3rd Viscount Hambleden (1903–48). She was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth from 1937 until 1994.

4. Lady Mary Sibell Ashley-Cooper (1902–36), daughter of the 9th Earl of Shaftesbury, married in 1928 Napier George Henry Sturt (1896–1940), who in 1919 succeeded his father as 3rd Baron Alington of Crichel. He died on active service in Egypt during the Second World War, though of drink rather than in action.

5. Gladys Robinson-Duff (1892–1928), daughter of General William C. Heppenheimer of the United States, married in 1921 Robert Gilbert Vansittart (1881–1957), who would be Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office from 1930 to 1938, and who would be raised to the peerage in 1941 as 1st Baron Vansittart. Vansittart was also an accomplished novelist, playwright and poet.

6. Prince Paul of Yugoslavia (1893–1976) had known Channon at Oxford and would remain one of his closest friends, and be Prince Regent of Yugoslavia (the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes) from 1934 to 1941 during the minority of Peter II. He was the nephew of King Peter I and married Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark (1903–97), sister-in-law of Channon’s other closest friend, the Duke of Kent. After treating with the Germans in 1941 Paul was forced from Yugoslavia and forbidden ever to return; the post-war communist regime stripped him of his property and proclaimed him an enemy of the state. Until 1945 the British authorities held him in Kenya under house arrest. Serbia rehabilitated him posthumously in 2011, after which he was reburied with Princess Olga and their son Nicholas.

7. A psychotherapy-based cure featuring auto-suggestion, fashionable but heavily criticised at the time, developed by Émile Coué de la Châtaigneraie (1857–1926), a French psychologist.

8. A. J. Balfour, raised to an earldom in 1922.

9. World-weariness.

10. Curzon was desperate for a male heir (he had three daughters from his first marriage) to the earldom and marquessate he had obtained; various medical procedures had been followed to help Lady Curzon conceive, but no child resulted and the marriage was strained accordingly.

11. Maud Alice Burke (1872–1948), born in San Francisco, married in 1895 Sir Bache Cunard, 3rd Bt (1851–1925), grandson of the shipping line’s founder. They had lived largely apart since 1911, Cunard basing himself in Leicestershire where he enjoyed field sports. In London with their daughter Nancy Clara (1896–1965), Lady Cunard – who after her husband’s death became known as ‘Emerald’ – established one of the leading salons of the era, which thrived until the Second World War. After separating from her husband she became the mistress of Sir Thomas Beecham, the conductor, and funded many of his musical projects.

12. Prince Sergei (‘Serge’) Platonovich Obolensky Neledinsky-Meletsky (1890–1978) had been educated at Oxford and became part of the Russian diaspora after the revolution. He emigrated to America and became a successful businessman.

13. The first time in the diaries that he refers to his nickname.

14. Madeleine Vionnet (1876–1975) was one of Paris’s leading fashion designers of the interwar years.

15. Ava Alice Muriel Astor (1902–56), daughter of John Jacob Astor IV. She and Obolensky married in 1924 and divorced in 1932. She would marry four times before her death at the age of 54.

[vox-anglosphere]

No traffic circle in the British Empire could be more significant.

A very different Piccadilly back then in 1920.

[ukcrickettour2023]

Today we started with an early morning breakfast at 7:30am. We had to start walking at 8:30 to arrive at Lords cricket ground by 9:30am for our tour. On our walk through Hyde park we wondered why there was such a big police presence. It wasn’t until sitting in the Lords stand that we realized Joe Biden was landing there in a chopper that we saw fly over the ground. The Lords tour was exceptional. Seeing the home and visitors change room, along with the members long room, and media centre a highlight. Ex student Esther Hampton joined us for the tour. After Lords, we had some lunch before starting the red bus tour of London. We will finish this tour tomorrow. As a team we then walked to Westend after dinner to watch Mrs Doubtfire at the Shaftesbury theatre. It was excellent. All boys seemed to really enjoy it. Tomorrow is our last day in London so we will finish the red bud tour and do some shopping.

[dangerdust]

The first known recorded use of ponies underground in Great Britain was in the Durham coalfield in 1750.

Following the drowning deaths of 26 children when the Huskar Colliery in Silkstone flooded on 4 July 1838, "A report was published in The Times, and the wider British public learned for the first time that women and children worked in the mines.

There was a public outcry, led by politician and reformer Anthony Ashley Cooper, later Lord Shaftesbury," who then introduced the Mines and Collieries Act 1842 to Parliament which barred women, girls and boys under 10 (later amended to 13) from working underground, leading to the widespread use of horses and ponies in mining in England.

At the peak of this practice in 1913, there were 70,000 ponies underground in Britain.

Probably the last colliery horse to work underground in a British coal mine, "Robbie", was retired from Pant y Gasseg, near Pontypool, in May 1999.

[vocesincaput]

ABOUT: Charles Braddock

BIRTH NAME Charles Christopher George Cornelly

CHOSEN NAME Charles Braddock.

TITLE Lord (Charles does not use his title).

NICKNAME(S) Charlie (to friends, etc)

AGE Late 30s.

PLACE OF BIRTH Oxford, England.

GENDER Male.

PRONOUNS He/Him.

SEXUAL IDENTITY Bisexual

AFFILIATION(S) British Royal Navy.

RANK Captain.

FACE CLAIM Dan Stevens

HEIGHT 1.83m / 6’.

HAIR Blonde, slight wavy/curly, kept short.

EYE COLOUR Blue.

FANDOM: Age Of Sail.

FATHER Duke Edmund Archibald Isaac Cornelly, Earl Of Shaftesbury.

MOTHER Duchess Charlotte Isabella Elizabeth Cornelly (née Braddock).

SIBLING(S) Earl Edmund Percival Francis Cornelly (older brother)

// NOTE : Charles & every member of his family are created solely by mun and have no relation to any real person or history of the title ‘Earl Of Shaftesbury’ //

Braddock is his mothers maiden name. He chose to use it to honour her.

Charles was always seen as lesser than his older brother by his father as he didn’t stand to inherit anything and therefore his father didn’t see him as being able to bring value to the family.

As soon as he was old enough, Charles left the family home without a word and joined the British Royal Navy. Using his mothers maiden name Braddock to cover his true identity.

VERSES

TURN: WASHINGTON'S SPIES

Instead of joining the British Royal Navy, Charles joined the army and is a part of the war against Washington & the Continental army. Whether or not he stays on that side would depend on each individual interaction. Or whether he were to be recognised by anyone.

[avo-kat]

since verso has a bunch of free books on palestine:

i finally sat down and started reading "Ten Myths About Israel" by Ilan Pappe. (because, i gotta be honest, i really didnt know much of anything about palestine before.) only a few pages in, but with each page im getting more and more furious.

i couldve basically screenshot every page. its only 168 pages long and id recommend everybody to read it themselves, but here are some screens:

1st chapter is about the myth of palestine being an empty land prior

Pappe starts off explaining that yes, indeed, palestine was a place where people lived, with records.

this is then compared to the official statement on the website of the Israeli foreign ministry about the history of Palestine since the 16th century.

straight up erasing facts and history.

palestine was an empty and barren desert. oh but there were farmers there apparently, of no particular origin, farming on lands that didnt belong to them. but there was also a thriving jewish population.

pappe writes, that palestine was a society like all the other arab societes around it during the ottoman period. it did not differ them the eastern mediterranean countries as a whole. the palestinian people were exposed to other cultures as part of the wider ottoman empire. and it started its nationalization process before the arrival of the zionist movement.

not to be confused: the modern concept of a "nation" developed in the 18th century (to summarize this topic super quickly, because the word "nationalism" which is coming up a few times has quite a different connotation nowadays than it did back then. remember: there used to be empires and monarchies. not nation states.)

and this was happening all over the world. pappe writes: "nationalist ideas were imported into the middle east in part by american missionaries, who arrived in the early 19th century both with the wish to proselytize but also with a desire to spread novel notions of self-determination."

2nd chapter is about the myth "the jews were a people without a land"

this one starts off saying that there was a christian interest for jews to return to the holy land.

Thomas Brightman was a 16th century clergyman:

"...was therefore a Christian project of colonization before it became a Jewish one."

16th century. 18th century. 19th century. and yes, as we can see, palestine was acknowledged as a political and geographical place. not as a barren, empty wasteland devoid of people.

this idea of Jews returning to palestine became official imperial policy in britain.

"...power to change the fate of Palestine."

foremost among them was Lord Shaftesbury (1801 - 1885), a british politician who campaigned for a jewish homeland in palestine

shaftesbury recruited his father in law, britains foreign minister and later prime minister, lord palmerston, to the cause. who then appointed william young as the first british vice-consul in jerusalem.

palmerstone wrote:

"...Mohamet Ali or his successor."

yeah.

TL;DR: europe and america, where antisemitism was everywhere, had 3 reasons for wanting jews to go to palestine: to leave europe/america for good, to spread christiniaty, and to be a check against those evil gross arabs. 3 in one!!! no wonder they were all for it.

no wonder western countries are still all for it!!!!!! it was their fucking idea for hundreds of fucking years.

not only is america now supplying weapons for a genocide, not only is europe totally ok with genocide, they created this situation in the first place.

cuz, you know, zionism wouldnt gain any points with their "homeland of the jews" rethoric if jews were able to lead peaceful lives anywhere in the world, you know?

[buxberg]

Dès l'âge de 15 ans, il a joué dans le théâtre pour jeunes, mais n'a décidé de devenir acteur qu'après quelques années

L'un des rôles les plus notables de Martin Freeman est celui de Tim Canterbury dans la série comique The Office (2001-2003).  Pour ce rôle, l'acteur a reçu deux nominations pour des prix prestigieux : le British Comedy Award et le BAFTA TV Award.  Il a également joué dans la sitcom Hardware (2003-2004), la série télévisée The Robinsons.  Il a joué dans des épisodes de la série "This Life" (1997), "Black's Bookstore" (2000) et dans le film "Love Actually" (2003).  En plus de divers rôles comiques, Freeman a également joué plusieurs rôles dramatiques sérieux, le plus important étant Lord Shaftesbury dans la mini-série historique de la BBC The Last King (2003).

Il est marié de facto avec l'actrice anglaise Amanda Abbington, qu'il a rencontrée sur le tournage du téléfilm "Only Men" en 2000.  Ils ont également joué ensemble dans les films "Récupérer les bouteilles cassées", "Repayer la dette", "Les Robinsons", "Tous ensemble" et la série télévisée "Sherlock".  Le couple a eu deux enfants : son fils Joe (né en 2005) et sa fille Grace (née en 2009).  Le 22 décembre 2016, on a appris la séparation du couple.  "Amanda et moi ne sommes plus ensemble, mais nous sommes de très bons amis. J'aimerai et respecterai toujours Amanda", a déclaré l'acteur.