Oh Nuts

  A Very Short History of the Israel–Palestine Conflict  by   Ilan Pappé Book 71 of 100 Rated: 4 stars Dates Read: June 1-3, 2025 "We Should be careful to differentiate Christian Zionism from Jewish Zionism." - Ilan Pappe For being such a short book, there is a lot of information packed into it. Two words that stood out to me while reading are "Ethnic Cleansing." They are words that are repeated thought the book because it is part of what happened between Israel and Palestine. Especially since history likes to repeat itself.

  An Indigenous' Peoples History Of The United States   by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Book 13 of 52 Rated: 4 stars Dates Read: January 25th thru 30, 2025 "They did not settle a virgin land. They invaded and displaced a resident population. This is so simple a fact that it seems self-evident." - Francis Jennings, historian It's been a few years since I last opened a history book for school, from what I remember of them, I feel like they don't tell the full story of how the "Europeans created the 'Doctrine of Discovery' to justify their takeover of any territory they "discovered" regardless of whose home it was. From an Indigenous perspective, European claims to Indigenous lands were not legitimate."  After reading through this book and learning more information, the history that I remember learning now feels a bit sanitized and white washed in the way that it is presented.  Part of what I learned in this books was the fact that the word, ...