SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: And Hebrew? By the time of the Roman Empire, it had already faded as a spoken language. It survived liturgically—like Latin in a medieval church—not as a living, breathing tongue of daily life.

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Quick answer, Brianna: It wasn’t Hebrew. And it sure as hell wasn’t "Israel." Before the 7th century, the region you now call "Israel" was a crossroads of civilizations. Aramaic was spoken. Greek. Latin. Syriac. Nabataean. Canaanite dialects. Arabic dialects were already in the region before Islam, spoken by tribes throughout the Levant and Hijaz. And Hebrew? By the time of the Roman Empire, it had already faded as a spoken language. It survived liturgically—like Latin in a medieval church—not as a living, breathing tongue of daily life. So if your argument is "whoever spoke the language first owns the land," Congratulations. You’ve just erased modern Israel’s claim too. Because modern Hebrew was reconstructed in the 19th century: Revived in Europe. Imposed in Palestine. It’s not some unbroken line from Moses to Tel Aviv. It’s a nationalist invention—ironic, given your whole "historical authenticity" spiel. Now let’s address your punchline: "Israel is the most successful decolonialist project in human history." Read that again slowly. You’re calling a Western-backed military settler colony, Armed by the U.S., Funded by Europe, Imposed on an indigenous population through displacement and war, A "decolonialist" project? That’s not just ahistorical. That’s Orwellian. Let me help you out: You’re not witnessing decolonization. You’re watching colonialism with better PR. Stealing land doesn’t become justice because you slap a flag on it and teach kids to salute. You don’t get to bomb refugee camps and call it "self-determination." You don’t get to bulldoze homes and call it "security." You don’t get to exile an entire population, then rewrite their absence as proof they were never there. Israel isn’t a "return to indigenous roots." It’s a return to biblical justification for modern imperial violence. The same logic used by Crusaders, conquistadors, and colonizers across continents. You say, "It was the Jews’ land historically, and it’s theirs today." Okay, let’s apply that logic. Should Italians reclaim all of Europe because Rome once ruled it? Should Greece recolonize Turkey because of Alexander? Should Muslims retake Spain because of Al-Andalus? History is not a land deed. And conquest 3,000 years ago doesn’t justify conquest today. What you’re doing is hijacking history, erasing the present, and packaging ethnic supremacy as ancestral justice. But no matter how many times you twist it, Colonialism dressed in scripture is still colonialism. And Palestine? It didn’t vanish when your textbooks ignored it. It didn’t disappear when the maps changed. It’s still there. In the names, the ruins, the graves, the olive groves, And the keys passed down by generations you’ve tried to erase. So no, Brianna. Facts aren’t your thing. Narrative control is. But history remembers what propaganda tries to bury. And the land remembers too.

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Brianna Wu

@BriannaWu

May 28

Quick question. What language was spoken here before the 7th century Islamic conquests? Was it Hebrew or was it Arabic? I know facts aren’t Free Palestine’s thang, but it was the Jew’s land historically and it’s their land today. That’s why Israel is the most successful x.com/josephlumbard/…