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NYT just published an extensive investigation into Israeli ultra-nationalism (Zionism?) that serves as a good addendum to this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/magazine/takeaways-investigation-settler-violence-impunity.html.

Another instance where mixing religion and government ends in disaster and suffering...

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Appreciate this write-up, and totally agree with the ending thoughts. There could be more said about the older history/conflict between Judaism and Islam that precede the period covered here, but that would add several more thousand words.

Several follow-up questions:

1) It would be interesting to see a political map of the geographic area pre-1948.

2) How were the original borders of Gaza and West Bank drawn? Why were they split into two distinct areas like that, if they're both intended for long-term Palestinian settlement?

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