https://xcancel.com/HadiNasrallah/status/1859339783484379367

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.ml
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    5 hours ago

    Israel Germany deploying pseudoscientific archaeologists to prove the racial heritage of Lebanon Northern Europe

  • Crucible [he/him, comrade/them]
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    11 hours ago

    I've been thinking a lot over the past year about how absolutely fucked archaeology and history has been because of Israel's project to prove its legitimacy. We use anachronistic terms like 'Canaan' because the narrative has to fit the zionist story. There are so many people who lived and thrived in Palestine and whether they are living there now or lived there three thousand years ago their stories are being erased for the colonial project

    • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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      11 hours ago

      Canaan

      Your point more broadly is well taken, yes, but Canaan/Canaanite is actually a very well attested historical name that exists outside of the Hebrew Bible. The people commonly called "Phoenicians" called themselves Canaanites, and even as late as the 2nd century AD folks from North Africa around Carthage (which was originally a Phoenician colony from the city of Tyre in what is now Lebanon) called themselves "Canaanites" because they were descended from people in that region. Canaan isn't anachronistic, they were a real people who self described as Canaanite.

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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    9 hours ago

    If I was going to do an archaeology, I would simply not do it as part of a military detachment.

  • Speaker [e/em/eir]
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    12 hours ago

    "You see, there are 17 tons of Zionist ordnance artifacts scattered over this entire area. Proof!"

  • ReadFanon [any, any]
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    edit-2
    14 hours ago

    Aw, that's so sweet! He loves his field so much that he literally became a sidequest for other archaeologists hahaha

    • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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      11 hours ago

      The claim here is that the historical Israelite kingdom of David, which lasted around a hundred years ~1000 BC and is the historical focus of a lot of stories in the Hebrew Bible, "controlled" various parts of what is now Southern Lebanon, either formally (very unlikely) or informally through hegemonic trade domination. The latter is potentially true, but how that then "proves" that Southern Lebanon is Israel is rather suspect, given that the historical Kingdom of Israel again lasted only around 100 years, was kind of a freak accident because of the giant power vacuum that developed at the end of the Late Bronze Age into the Early Iron Age in the Levant and the fact that Assyria had basically destroyed all of Jerusalem's competitors for them. The kingdom was later destroyed by the Neo-Assyrian Empire and later the Neo-Babylonians.

      The claim is very funny because really, if you want to go like back further, "Israel" and "Lebanon" were both possessions of New Kingdom Egypt around ~1300 BC, and under Hittite domination before that, and before that a kind of merchant zone that shuffled between Egyptian and Sumerian control. So really, by Israeli archeological standards, Israel is actually Egyptian and Egypt has the historical right to conquer and exert control over their historical possessions in the Levant.

    • bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]
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      12 hours ago

      Legitimizing the greater Israel project theough “biblical archaeology” if I had to guess. Typically includes chunks of all surrounding countries including S Lebanon

  • Fishroot [none/use name]
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    13 hours ago

    Moshe Dayan was also into that shit.

    To the point that he hired grave robbers