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How Christian Zionism Shaped American Power and the Fate of Palestine?

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PART I - THE MOMENT Chapter 1: When Belief Became Policy In early 2025, the United States appointed Mike Huckabee as its ambassador to Israel. On paper, the appointment looked familiar another politician, another loyal ally, another chapter in a long-standing diplomatic relationship. In substance, it marked something unprecedented. For the first time, a senior American official did not merely sidestep the question of Palestinian statehood or bury it beneath ambiguity. He rejected it outright openly, unapologetically, and not as a matter of strategy, but of faith. There was no pretense of neutrality. No language of balance. No careful choreography of diplomatic phrasing. Huckabee spoke as a believer, not as a mediator. He framed his role not as representation, but as fulfillment. His support for Israel was not conditional, not pragmatic, not even geopolitical. It was theological. In interviews and speeches, he did not invoke national interest so much as divine alignment. History, ...

An Unfinished Return: Palestine, Power, and the Architecture of Erasure

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PART I - BEFORE ERASURE Chapter 1: A Place Before It Became a Question Before Palestine became a debate, it was a place. Not a slogan, not a claim, not a talking point just a lived geography, shaped slowly by weather, labor, memory, and time. Long before it was reduced to maps colored for television or headlines compressed into soundbites, Palestine existed the way most places do: unremarkably, continuously, without needing to justify itself. People were born there. They worked land they did not name as ideology. They buried parents beneath olive trees whose roots outlived empires. They argued, traded, married, prayed, migrated, returned. History moved through the land, but it did not erase the people who lived on it. This matters, because one of the most effective forms of modern violence is not physical destruction but retroactive doubt the suggestion that what was lived never truly existed. “There was no Palestine,” the phrase goes. Not as a denial shouted in rage, but as a sta...