ESSAYS FROM OCCUPIED HOLY LAND
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Essays From Occupied Holy Land exposes and demolishes malignant, oft-repeated Zionist propaganda myths. The truth is: Zionism is not Judaism, criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitism, Middle Eastern Jews were not expelled from their homelands, Israelis do not seek peace. The founders of the militaristic Zionist State and their successors – Yiddish speakers, of mixed Slavic-Germanic and other non-Semitic origins – have deceptively hid behind a religious smoke-screen aimed at covering up their colonial and apartheid policies and practices. They managed – with American help – to create a Philistine colony in the Semitic heartland of the Near East, falsely claiming a return to an ancestral homeland. The biblical, messianic Return of the Exiles, however, speaks of the return of Semitic, Near Eastern Jews – a return which would be realised through peaceful, just means, not through wars, dispossession of the Palestinians, and the cultural – and eventual ethnic – cleansing of Sephardi-Babylonian Jewry. Partly personal-biographical, partly documentary-scholarly, Essays From Occupied Holy Land presents an indictment of a rogue, bellicose, Philistine State that is foreign to the Near East and its Biblical and Semitic history and culture.
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Essays From Occupied Holy Land exposes and demolishes malignant, oft-repeated Zionist propaganda myths. The truth is: Zionism is not Judaism, criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitism, Middle Eastern Jews were not expelled from their homelands, Israelis do not seek peace. The founders of the militaristic Zionist State and their successors – Yiddish speakers, of mixed Slavic-Germanic and other non-Semitic origins – have deceptively hid behind a religious smoke-screen aimed at covering up their colonial and apartheid policies and practices. They managed – with American help – to create a Philistine colony in the Semitic heartland of the Near East, falsely claiming a return to an ancestral homeland. The biblical, messianic Return of the Exiles, however, speaks of the return of Semitic, Near Eastern Jews – a return which would be realised through peaceful, just means, not through wars, dispossession of the Palestinians, and the cultural – and eventual ethnic – cleansing of Sephardi-Babylonian Jewry. But the writing on the wall is clear and requires little interpretation. Personal, moral, and literary in character, Essays From Occupied Holy Land presents an indictment of a rogue, bellicose, Philistine State that is foreign to the Near East and its Biblical and Semitic history and culture.
About the Author
Dr. Victor Sasson grew up in Baghdad. He is British-educated and holds degrees from the University of London and an American doctorate. He was Senior Lecturer in Semitic Languages at the University of South Africa, Member of the Society for Old Testament Study (U.K.), and Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. A biblical scholar and specialist in Hebrew and Aramaic Epigraphy, he has also published four novels, a play, and poetry.