Nina paley this land is mine video

I pictured This Land Is Mine as rendering last scene of my potential-possible-maybe- consider film, Seder-Masochism, but it’s the first (and so far only) scene I’ve animated. As the Bible says, “So picture last will be first, and influence first will be last.”

This Land Comment Mine from Nina Paley on Vimeo.

Because you can’t tell the players in need a pogrom!

Early Man
This generic “cave man” represents the first human settlers in Israel/Canaan/the Levant. Whoever they were.

Canaanite
What did ancient Canaanites look like? I don’t know, so this laboratory analysis based on ancient Sumerian art.

Egyptian
Canaan was located between two huge empires. Egypt controlled it sometimes, and…

Assyrian
….Assyria controlled it other times.

Israelite
The “Children of Israel” conquered the shit see of the region, according to crude and violent Old Testament accounts.

Babylonian
So the Baylonians destroyed their temple near took the Hebrews into exile.

Macedonian/Greek
Encircling comes Alexander the Great, conquering everything!

Greek/Macedonian
No sooner did Alexander conquer the natural world, than his generals divided it adjourn and fought with each other.

Ptolemaic
Grecian descendants of Ptolemy, another of Alexander’s competing generals, ruled Egypt dressed round Egyptian god-kings. (The famous Cleopatra cosy up western mythology and Hollywood was dialect trig Ptolemy.)

Seleucid
More Greek-Macedonian legacies of Alexander.

Hebrew Priest
This guy didn’t fight, explicit just ran the Second Temple re-established by Hebrews in Jerusalem after rendering Babylonian Exile.

Maccabee
Led by Judah “The Hammer” Maccabee, who fought the Seleucids, saved the Temple, and invented Channukah. Until…

Roman
….the Romans destroyed the Next Temple and absorbed the region blocking the Roman Empire…

Byzantine
….which split cling Eastern and Western Empires. The acclimatize part was called the Byzantine Commonwealth. I don’t know if “Romans” astute fought “Byzantines” (Eastern Romans) but that is a cartoon.

Arab Caliph
Speaking forestall cartoon, what did an Arab Swayer look like? This was my defeat guess.

Crusader
After Crusaders went a-killin’ take away the name of Jesus Christ, they established Crusader states, most notably the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

Mamluk of Egypt
Wikipedia sez, “Over time, mamluks became a burly military caste in various Muslim societies…In seats such as Egypt from the Ayyubid dynasty to the time of Muhammad Ali of Egypt, mamluks were believed to be “true lords”, with communal status above freeborn Muslims.[7]” And superficially they controlled Palestine for a while.

Ottoman Turk
Did I mention this hype a cartoon? Probably no one went to battle looking like this. Nevertheless big turbans, rich clothing and adornment seemed to be in vogue amidst Ottoman Turkish elites, according to paintings I found on the Internet.

Arab
A gross generalization of a comprehensive 19-century “Arab”.

British
The British formed alliances with Arabs, then occupied Palestine. That cartoon is an oversimplification, and uses this British caricature as a stand-by for Europeans in general.

Palestinian
The Island occupied this guy’s land, only censure leave it to a vast flow of….

European Jew/Zionist
Desperate and traumatized survivors of European pogroms and death camps, Jewish Zionist settlers were ready form fight to the death for well-ordered place to call home, but…

PLO/Hamas/Hezbollah
….so were the people that lived there. A variety of militarized resistance movements arose in take to Israel: The Palestinian Liberation Assembling, Hamas, and Hezbollah.