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[#176] THE LAND BELONGS TO WHOM IT BELONGS, Part 3: American Dirtbags in Ottoman Palestine, 1865-1894
🕑 Added 2024-01-11 20:31:25 +0000 UTCDimitri and Khalid continue their multi-episode journey into the actually existing history of the geographic region known for millennia as Palestine, and the actually existing people who inhabited it under (mostly) uninterrupted Ottoman rule from 1516 to 1918.
The burgeoning soap and cotton economies in Jabal/Nablus, the rise of an Arab petty bourgeoisie merchant class in the 19th century, the establishment of the autonomous mutasarriflik of Jerusalem in 1876, Abe Lincoln’s rudely interrupted California/Jerusalem travel plans, the weird German etymology of “Philistine” as a slur against townie chuds, the post-Civil War explosion of bourgeois US tourism, the popular American notion that Palestine was forever “cursed” because the Jews rejected Christ, Mark Twain’s bestselling travel satire “The Innocents Abroad”, comparing the Sea of Galilee to Lake Tahoe, doing a heckin’ irony comparing Palestinian Jews and Arabs to American Indians, “Palestine is Dream Land”, the Mark Twain Dirtbag Tendency in American travel journalism, his legendary bit fake-weeping over the grave of “Adam” in Jerusalem, the comic destruction of all authority/mowing the grass for new regimes of bourgeois capitalist commodification, “Tom Sawyer Abroad”, “pure theology by the laws that protect real estate”, Israel’s status as the ultimate irony-pilled smol bean country, and more.
Track IDs:
Muslimgauze - Submit to Sharia
Muslimgauze - Shadow of the West
Muslimgauze - Return of Black September
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Comments
ampgorky
Randomly- Matthew Arnold, the Victorian sage, and Lincoln share a death date (diff year). that date happens to be my bday, incidentally. Matthew Arnold isn’t obscure, though.
ampgorky
Ya as I’ve understood, philistine refers to a member of the “vulgar crowd,” in the “I shun the vulgar crowd” sense. Obdurate to reason, a “barbarian in revolt,” etc.
Mr.E (Yahya)
Allahu Akbar
SHEEBCORE
honestly just keep this theme song, it goes so well with Muslimgauze
