The History Of Palestine: Some Critical Comments on My Essay
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4 min readNov 20, 2024
A clarification concerning what I believed were facts
When I write my articles about the history of Palestine I like to be as accurate as possible. However, sometimes I miss the mark. This might be because I’ve gotten misinformation from a trusted source, or because the facts are accurate but the context is not included and so the facts are being viewed from a point of view that reflects cognitive biases.
Because of this, I’m grateful for many of the comments that people post and send. Very often these comments point out discrepancies in what I have written here is one such one concerning my essay:
“History without emotion.”? How about history without ignorance, ideology, prejudice, xenophobia and bigotry?
The Jews had been dispersed from Palestine by the Romans centuries before the arrival of…
