Sunday, June 30, 2024
In History, The Past is the Present is the Future – JSTOR
“If history is, as James Joyce’s Stephen Dedalus, says, ‘a nightmare from which I am trying to awake’, how and when do we wake up? What, in short, are we going to do about the crimes of the past, the slavery, genocide, ethnic cleansing, colonization? These crimes have contributed to making the world we live in. Attention paid to them is recognition that ‘what’s past is prologue,’ and they have shaped our lives, traditions, institutions, and ideologies.”
What are the similarities, differences between Israel’s war on Gaza now and its war on Midian during the exodus?