What's Been Lost
Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it. So the famous saying goes. But what if there is no history to learn from? Chris Hedges calls this " The Assassination of Memory " in reference to Israel's destruction of cultural and historical sites in Gaza. Sites that include: Gaza's oldest mosque , which was once a Catholic church and before that was a Roman temple, a 12th century Greek Orthodox church , and the Ard Al-Moharbeen necropolis , which was unearthed in 2023 and contained graves from the first century B.C. This gross annihilation is meant to erase the history of the Palestinian people and to empty the well of historical information that allows us to expose the historical farce that is the state of Israel. But, Israel is not alone in acts like these. Western governments have long used the argument of cultural superiority to justify their crimes. U.S, Israeli, and European colonial history is littered with examples of destruction and thef...