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Originally Posted by AltaGuy
The "history" of Palestine before 1950 is rife with Zionist falsehoods - many of which can be read over and over again in this thread. I'd encourage anyone interested in how that history has been rewritten to do some reading on their own.
The problem of the legitimacy of a colonialist project backed by weird religious entitlements dating back Millenia is as thorny and weird as it sounds. And Zionists have attempted to mitigate these claims by rewriting the histories pre-Israel.
A Canadian historian - Martin Bunton - has a great book for anyone looking to start: "The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Very Short Introduction".
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A great book that shows the history of the region for the last 120 years is Benny Morris' "Righteous Victims", talks a lot about the myths created on both sides. Trying to define "Nationalism" in a time when nationalism didn't exist is just such a difficult subject, we all look back in a national lens, when even if we go back 150 years in Europe for many of the people living there wouldn't define themselves with the same national identity that we would label them with today.