Peter Himmelman (@peterhimmelman): "Not often do I speak of a piece of writing as “essential.” But for those who are truly interested in what’s happening, not only in the worn-torn Middle East, but in many quarters around the globe, this essay certainly qualifies."

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Not often do I speak of a piece of writing as “essential.” But for those who are truly interested in what’s happening, not only in the worn-torn Middle East, but in many quarters around the globe, this essay certainly qualifies.

To speak of “Israelis and Palestinians” as the two sides of a conflict is not simply to simplify. It is to participate in a global fiction. This framing (two peoples, two histories, two claims to the same land) has become the foundational myth of international discourse: tidy enough to moralize, complex enough to debate, and vague enough to sustain entire industries of diplomacy, media, scholarship, and activism.

Hussein Aboubakr Mansour

Jul 24

9:04 PM

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