RT by @HelgaTruepel: It was brought to my attention that the Mayor of Gaza’s @NYT “Paradise Lost” piece about Gaza prior to October 7th was not properly addressed. My response was that even before this piece was published the brilliant Shany Mor @ShMMor anticipated that the historical Palestinian pattern of “ecstasy and amnesia” would be repeated once more, with all those who spoke of Gaza as “an open air prison/concentration camp” before October 7, and who celebrated the massacre with ecstasy, would soon, in the face of loss and devastation, retreat into amnesia, weaving mythologies of a Gazan lost paradise.

I would add that in the book “The War of Return” @Adi_Schwartz and I detail how the terrorists of the 1970’s who were born after 1948 were also brought up in the @UNRWA schools and at home on stories of a mythical “Lost Paradise” Palestine, which they were therefore determined to retrieve through committing acts of massacre.

What characterizes this pattern is the perennial escape from making real decisions in a real world based on a serious assessment of reality. Either Palestinians repeatedly consider their present a terrible fate which they are unable to change (imagine the insane idea that Hamas could have actually accepted the very minimal terms required to live in peace known as the “quartet principles”, or even dare we say - accepting the UNGA partition plan…) or once their actions have led to their situation deteriorating they wallow in the belief that they once lived in a beautiful and perfect world, and refuse to move on to build just a normal, OK, reasonable world, demanding forever the full recreation and retrieval of a world of fantasies that never actually existed.

https://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/israel-zionism/2023/11/ecstasy-and-amnesia-in-the-gaza-strip/

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/EinatWilf/status/1742169355234750944#m

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