NN: Fast Past

History is how we got here

This is part of the sprawling No Nichols complex of posts analyzing the rhetoric and reasoning behind certain sorts of support for Israel.

Israel was attacked on October 7th.

Things happened prior. And things happened since.

How much do you know about those things?

1) A pitch for history, from my strange brain to yours:

2) Now an outline of the past 2000 years, with a transcription here if you’d rather read:

(Corrections: Israeli borders changed in 1967, and British rule ended in 1948)


3) Here’s a slightly longer overview, going back further to Moses, and including detours to resistance psychology, death count epistemology, Jewish origins, and Arabization:

(Correction at 4:50: Brits took control in 1917-18 but the League of Nations mandate was not granted until 1920 and not fully in force until 1923
Correction at 6:27: Ghana → Uganda
Correction at 7:56: 54% → 56%)



4) An overview that goes still further back to Abraham, and includes lots about the spot he might have almost killed his son, known by names including Mount Moriah, Mount Zion, al-Aqsa, and Haram al-Sharif, which is currently home to the world’s second oldest mosque and was previously home to two successive temples to YHWH and then one to Jupiter:

(Correction at 7:33: first → second)

Thank you for your interest friends and enemies and internet strangers.