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living & working in Ramallah/Al-Bireh, Palestine
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Ungrounding establishes that architectural and territorial analysis is key to understanding the relationship between coloniser and colonised – and how Israel’s actions after 7 October escalated into violence so extreme and so far-reaching as to, Weizman argues, meet the definition of genocide.
![Man-made Israel [Book Review]](https://epalestine.ps/sambahour/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/TheInventionofAncientIsrael-BOOKCOVER-723681-1.jpg)
What do you get when you mix ten decades of biblical studies, an Old Testament, the ideology of Zionism, and a tablespoon of politically motivated archaeology, all mixed in a bowl of historical evidence? Author Keith W. Whitelam undertook this recipe and reports on the results in The Invention of Ancient Israel: The Silencing of Palestinian History”. The short answer to the question is that one is left with a toxic modern state, hell-bent on crafting an umbilical cord between itself and a mythical 2000-year old past. In other words, the State of Israel.
!["Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State" by Jonathan Cook [Recommended]](https://epalestine.ps/sambahour/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Blood-and-Religion-The-Unmasking-of-the-Jewish-and-Democratic-State-jonathan-cook.jpg)