Excellent interview with Ilan Pappe. Well worth listening to the entire interview

Excellent interview with Ilan Pappe. Well worth listening to the entire interview. Important excerpt: “Zionism was first an Evangelical Christian project before it was a Jewish one. There is a connection between their perceptions of an Armageddon, or a doomsday scenario, and the messianic Jewish perception of such a vision, a different version of it. The problem in Palestine was never religion. The problem is a group of settlers with an ideology that its main impulse was to dispossess the indigenous people, a displacement and replacement project that got the support of the West for various reasons. And the people there resist this project. The Palestinians are Christians and Muslims, there used to be also Jews. Like any other normal people, they don’t agree with the idea that they should be displaced and dispossessed. And they resisted. In Israel, Zionism was a very secular movement. But its project of taking over Palestine and dispossessing the Palestinians was not ful... Source: Reality Theories, Eva K Bartlett