{"id":3493,"date":"2020-07-31T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-02-24T20:03:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T18:03:05","slug":"man-made-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2020\/07\/man-made-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Man-made Israel [Book Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">Erasure of Palestinian history has become an obsession<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/TheInventionofAncientIsrael-BOOKCOVER-723681-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"413\" height=\"648\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/ePalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/TheInventionofAncientIsrael-BOOKCOVER-723681-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3494\" style=\"width:358px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Author Keith W. Whitelam undertook this recipe and reports on the results in <em>The Invention of Ancient Israel: The Silencing of Palestinian History.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Read the full review<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In English:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@sbahour\/man-made-israel-book-review-d13dc808d057?sk=c1998507ba12284670de929e309c80e7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Medium<\/a> (Medium shortlink: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/Man-made-Israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bit.ly\/Man-made-Israel<\/a>) or Mondoweiss:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-wp-embed is-provider-mondoweiss wp-block-embed-mondoweiss\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"7eUaqMIvBF\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2020\/07\/man-made-israel-and-the-obsessive-erasure-of-palestinian-history\/\">Man-made Israel (and the obsessive erasure of Palestinian history)<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Man-made Israel (and the obsessive erasure of Palestinian history)&#8221; &#8212; Mondoweiss\" src=\"https:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2020\/07\/man-made-israel-and-the-obsessive-erasure-of-palestinian-history\/embed\/#?secret=vcTzWkHG54#?secret=7eUaqMIvBF\" data-secret=\"7eUaqMIvBF\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 <em>The Invention of Ancient Israel: The Silencing of Palestinian History\u201d.<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[948,942],"tags":[1241,219,610,1243,20,220,1237,1367,1089,1297,1238,547,188,892,531,1236,1239,1242,1036,1240,1235],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-3493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-sams-writings","tag-adam-raz","tag-ancient-israel","tag-archeology","tag-basem-l-raad","tag-bible","tag-bible-study","tag-blaming-the-victims-spurious-scholarship-and-the-palestinian-question-book","tag-christian-evangelicals-and-evangelical-christianity","tag-edward-said","tag-erasure-of-palestinian-history","tag-golda-meir","tag-hidden-histories","tag-history","tag-holy-land","tag-ilan-pappe","tag-keith-w-whitelam","tag-masada","tag-noa-landau","tag-palestinian-historical-archives","tag-the-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestine-book","tag-the-invention-of-ancient-israel-the-silencing-of-palestinian-history-book"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3493"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6904,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions\/6904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3493"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}