The Disappearing People that Will Not Disappear…

How Palestinians withstand the onslaught of Israeli death machines, oppression, collective punishment & genocide, and still won’t go quietly into the night…

Peter Winn-Brown

23 min readMay 22, 2024

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Former Israeli President Chain Herzog & David Ben Gurion look up at the Western Wall. — Chaim Herzog & David Ben Gurion at the Western wall. “We, in Israel, have endeavored to create a society which strives to implement the highest ideals of society — political, social and cultural — for all the inhabitants of Israel, irrespective of religious belief, race or sex. Show me another pluralistic society in this world in which, despite all the difficult problems among which we live, Jew and Arab live together with such a degree of harmony … in which freedom of speech, of movement, of thought, of expression are guaranteed.” This was part of, then President Chaim Herzog’s response at the UNGA in 1975 to the UN resolution that said Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination. Image from Haaretz, by Meir Freundlich, GPO.

‘The twentieth century saw the most momentous changes in Jewish history since the destruction of the Second Temple in 70…

Peter Winn-Brown

Written by Peter Winn-Brown

The past can illuminate the present if we shine the light of inquiry openly, truthfully, with attention to detail & care for the salient facts.

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