Palestine ubiquity in Literature
I know this observation is practically a cliche at this point, but it really is amazing just how mundane and ubiquitous mentions and references to Palestine are in literally any old English literature. I’m reading (son of the first Prime Minister) Horace Walpole’s The Legend of the Castle Otranto today out of interest in the historical development of Gothic horror tropes and even this cheesy English melodrama from the 1760s just has to give Palestine its due mention by name (I swear there might be more average references to Palestine in these old books than there are to France - it’s almost absurd).
The pretense on the part of Zionists that Palestine and Palestinians are some modern fabrication is just such obvious projection it’s embarrassing, and no less remarkable is just how obsessed with the region everyone in the so-called ‘West’ has been for the past millennium. It goes so much deeper than contemporary politics; from the crusades to the reconquista through to the Balfour declaration, the extent to which Palestine in particular has been a (perhaps the) central fixation of the Western world since its very inception cannot be overstated. This is not just a peripheral ‘conflict’ in the Middle-East as they would have you believe; it runs right to the core.