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Many of Zionism’s basic rationales were thinly veiled Judaizations of core Christian colonial conceptions: Terra Nullius, the claim that continents like Australia were effectively empty because their Indigenous inhabitants were categorized as less than fully human, became “A land without a people for a people without a land”28—a phrase adopted by many Zionists and that originated with nineteenth-century Christians. Manifest Destiny became “land bequeathed to the Jews by divine right.” “Taming the wild frontier” became “making the desert bloom.”
Tragedy is in fact a small region of comedy space, which is twisted all the way through.
All Art Is Ecological
Timothy B. Morton
He was thirty-four and had a beautiful two-bedroom apartment where he lived alone with a granite-topped kitchen island.
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