it's one of those deep, esoteric historical points that reveals itself to me slowly over time, and so i'm going to keep going back to it, but this just came to me as i was doing the dishes - a summary of previous points, but perhaps worth stating in it's own terms.

what the state of israel is doing in the levant, today, is finishing the job that the romans started 2000 years ago. for, the palestinians are the true descendants of biblical israel, insofar as it ever existed at all. they have forgotten their identity, forgotten their beliefs and forgotten their history. this has all been taken from them. today, they are told they are not jews at all - and they believe it. the very last step of the roman genocide is to remove them from the land, altogether.