You guys know me by now…..I do enjoy my history and the perspective that it can bring to light.
There are always people trying to explain what all the violence in the Middle East ius all about….some write it off simply by saying….”it is always thusly” and then there are people like me that are always looking beyond the bullshit and into the events of the past that may have led to the situations we now face.
First someone will ask….what is Naksa?
Naksa Day (5 June 1967) (Arabic: يوم النكسة, Yawm an-Naksa, meaning “day of the setback”) is the annual day of commemoration for the Palestinian people of the displacement that accompanied Israel’s victory in the 1967 Six-Day War. As a result of the war, Israel took control of the Palestinian-populated West Bank and Gaza Strip, which were previously annexed by Jordan and controlled by Egypt, respectively.
The first displacement, known as the Nakba, took place during and after the 1948 Palestine war. It is marked annually on Nakba Day on May 15.
(wikipedia)
This article is a bit one sided but it does make some interesting points…
The seeds of the current troubled Middle Eastern scene were sown in the June 1967 war that Israel started.
The “Levellers were better understood as political democracy established itself in late 19th and early 20th-century England,” wrote Christopher Hill on the 17th-century English political movement.
The Diggers, another 17th-century English movement, appeared significantly different 300 years later with the rise of socialism. Such a profound reconsideration of the actors of the 17th-century English Civil War owes much to Hill’s “world turned upside down” approach.
His thesis is rather simple: “History has to be rewritten in every generation, because although the past does not change, the present does; each generation asks new questions of the past, and finds new areas of sympathy as it relives different aspects of the experiences of its predecessors.”
Source: The 1967 Naksa: The making of the new Middle East – News from Al Jazeera
The year 1967 was the start of many events that have brought us to the situation of today.
“Wars, coupled with aggressive Neoliberal Policies, simply stripped the Arab world of its developmental capabilities”
great post..
thanx, as always..
Thanx glad you liked it…chuq
f.y.i.
Saudi Arabia Has Funded 20% Of Hillary’s Presidential Campaign, Saudi Crown Prince Claims | Zero Hedge http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-13/saudi-arabia-has-funded-20-hillarys-presidential-campaign-saudi-crown-prince-claims
I saw that and then there is Morocco that is throwing money at her also…..
Not surprised…must be the blood line! 😉
SIGH…. Good post. I’ve been reading today, so, I have two quotes, from the same source, both of which describe my thoughts on all of the above…. Both of these are from George Santayana, who, from what I’m reading, was pretty fucking smart….
“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.”
“Those who learn nothing from history are doomed to repeat it.”
One can only comment, as others have, that people at large never, ever seem to learn anything from history, even if they are familiar with it.If they did, we wouldn’t be struggling with the exact same issues documented over 2500 years ago, with exactly the same results, and repeatedly acted out throughout humankind’s entire 12,000 years of documented culture…
Kind of like the old saw, “The only thing to be learned from being stupid is to not be stupid.”
gigoid, the dubious
It;s not that hard to learn history and not that hard to avoid the same pitfalls over and over….but then that would require the capability to read….and that is a dying art….chuq
Well, reading is HARD. So is thinking. It hurts a lot of people to do either… Doing them together, these days, is almost unheard of…
gigoid, getting pretty disgusted with most folks… not ffolkes, but, folks…
Nothing will change except for names and labels.