Pamapeto pake, ndinaona Mipukutu ya ku Nyanja Yakufa. Kumeneko iwo anali, pansi pa zotchingira zawo zotetezera, zotenthedwa bwino, mawu omwewo analembedwa pa chikopa ndi gumbwa zaka 2,000 zapitazo, mbiri yofunikira kwambiri padziko lonse ya Chipangano Chakale.
Ine ndikuganiza inu muyenera kuziwona izo kuti mukhulupirire izo. Sindingathe kuwerenga Chihebri – kusiya Chihebri chakale (kapena Chigriki kapena Chiaramu, zilankhulo zina za mipukutu) – koma zilembo zina ndizodziwika kwa ine kuchokera ku Chiarabu. "Zowoneka" (s) za Chiarabu, ndi "meem" (m) zili pafupifupi zofanana ndi Chihebri ndipo apo zinali, zokhazikitsidwa ndi ena akale omwe ankadziwa, monga ife timadziwira, zakale zokha ndipo palibe chamtsogolo. Malemba ambiri ali m’Baibulo; angapo sali. “Mulungu Wam’mwambamwamba akudalitseni, akuonetseni nkhope yake, natsegulireni inu,” kwalembedwa pa zikopa. “Pakuti adzalemekeza opembedza pa mpando wachifumu wa ufumu wosatha.”
Nkhani ya kupezedwa kwa mipukutuyo, ndithudi, ndi yodziwika bwino. Mnyamata wina wachiarabu wachi Bedouin, Mohamed el-Dib, anawapeza ku Khirbet Qumran m'phanga lomwe tsopano ndi West Bank of Palestine mu 1947, ndipo adawapereka kwa munthu wosula nsapato yemwe adatembenukira kugulitsa zinthu zakale wotchedwa Khalil Eskander Shahin ku Yerusalemu; potsirizira pake anathera m’manja mwa akatswiri - makamaka Achimereka - ku mbali ya Jordan ya Yerusalemu. Kenako kunabwera nkhondo ya 1967 ndikufika kwa gulu lankhondo la Israeli ku East Jerusalem ndipo…
Tsopano, ndiyenera kunena kuti ndidayang'ana zolemba zoyambirirazi mu Royal Ontario Museum ku Toronto, nthano yomwe imayenera kudzutsa mafunso angapo, omwe ndi njira yochepetsetsa ya Canada pamikangano yomwe ikuyandikira. Palibe nthawi pachiwonetserochi, chokonzedwa pamodzi ndi thandizo la akatswiri (komanso anzeru) a Israel Antiquities Authority, palibe kutchulidwa kulikonse, hem hem, za West Bank kapena ntchito. Kapenanso momwe zikalata zopezeka kumeneko zidakhala m'manja mwa Aisrayeli.
Osamala kwambiri ndi anthu okondedwa achikulire a ku Canada - omwe ayenera kuti adaphunzira tsopano kuti kubisa choonadi chosasangalatsa kumangoyambitsa moto ndi zowawa - kotero kuti samatchula ngakhale kuti "Kando", wolandira woyamba wa mipukutuyo, anali Chiarmeniya. Inde sichoncho. Chifukwa ndiye amayenera kufotokoza chifukwa chake munthu wa ku Armenia anali ku Yerusalemu, osati kumadzulo kwa Turkey. Zomwe zingatanthauze kuti amayenera kutchula za Holocaust ya ku Armenia ya 1915 (anthu wamba miliyoni imodzi ndi theka aku Armenia omwe anaphedwa ndi Ottoman Turks).
Izi zitha kukwiyitsa anthu aku Canada aku Turkey, omwe amakana chiwembu. Ndipo potero, zingakwiyitse a Israel Antiquities Authority, omwe savomereza kuti kuphedwa kwa Nazi ku Armenia kunachitikapo, pali chiwonongeko chimodzi chokha, chomwe ndi Ayuda aku Europe. Kuphedwa kwa Ayuda ndi zoona, koma mitundu yaku Armenian - mlandu womwe Hitler wawononga Ayuda miliyoni XNUMX - sungathe kukambidwa ku Canada. Ngakhalenso ku America, komwe Obama adalephera mwamphamvu kugwiritsa ntchito liwu loti "kupha anthu" mu Epulo watha.
Ndiye ife timabwera ku chiwonetsero chomwe. Osauka akale aku Canada, adayenera kulengeza fandango yonse ngati mawonekedwe a "umodzi" - pali zipembedzo zitatu zokhulupirira Mulungu mmodzi, Chiyuda, Chikhristu ndi Chisilamu, gddit? - koma tsoka, mipukutuyo sinalembedwe m'Chiarabu ndipo chizindikiro chokha cha chikhulupiriro cha Chisilamu ndi Koran yowunikira yazaka 200. Malo osungirako mabuku osungiramo zinthu zakale amaperekanso mulu wawung'ono wa mabuku achisilamu kuti alimbikitse zonena zawo za "umodzi". Chiwonetserochi, malinga ndi mkulu wa nyumba yosungiramo zinthu zakale, a William Thorsell - m'nkhani yomvetsa chisoni - "adzayambitsa zokambirana zowunikira zipembedzo zosiyanasiyana". Apa ndikutenga chikwama changa chodwala.
Chifukwa uthenga wa mavidiyo ambiri omwe akuwonetsa mozungulira chiwonetserochi (iyi ndi nthawi ya chikhalidwe cha anthu ambiri komanso chikhalidwe cha anthu ambiri) ikuwonetseratu kuti Yudeya ndi Samariya (West Bank kwa tonsefe) poyamba ndi Ayuda. Ndipo kotero izo zinali, mwa Mulungu. Afilisti akale osauka ankakhala m’mphepete mwa nyanja. Koma nditapereka malingaliro osinthana ndi gulu la anthu okhala ku Israeli zaka zingapo zapitazo - kunena chilungamo, adabangula moseka moseka malingaliro anga oyipa kuti Israeli aperekedwe kwa Palestina pobwezera West Bank yomwe idalandidwa - lingalirolo lidatero. osadzibvomereza okha kwa iwo. Ankafuna Tel Aviv ndi Israel yodziwika padziko lonse lapansi kuphatikiza West Bank. (Panthawiyo, iwonso ankafuna kusunga Gaza, mbali ina pa malo - malinga ndi mmodzi wa iwo - kuti apa ndi pamene Yona anagwedezeka ndi chinsomba.)
Palibe zonena zotere zomwe zimawononga chiwonetsero cha Ontario. "Mawu Omwe Anasintha Dziko Lapansi" ndi momwe okonzawo amaperekera chionetsero chawo mwachisangalalo, "mwayi wopezeka kamodzi pa moyo wowona chuma chambiri ichi". Koma pakubwera zowononga, zomwe ndi Canada "Coalition Against Israel Apartheid", kutanthauza kuti mipukutuyo, yomwe inali m'manja mwa Jordanian Department of Antiquities ndi Ecole Biblique Française, "idalandidwa ndikuchotsedwa mosaloledwa ndi Israeli" mu 1967. Nyumba yosungiramo zinthu zakale ya Royal Ontario, ochita ziwonetserozo akuti, ikuwonetsa katundu "obedwa" omwe alibe ufulu wowonetsa. Akuluakulu a Palestine adalowererapo, akutsutsa kuti nyumba yosungiramo zinthu zakale "ikuwonetsa zinthu zakale zomwe zachotsedwa kumadera a Palestina". (Tisanene, O Reader, kutchula miyala ya miyala ya Elgin, ngakhale kuti Brits sakhala ku Greece.)
Chifukwa chake, Museum idayamba kulira. "Sitikupereka zoyankhulana zilizonse," atero a snotty mneneri wa bungwe lolemekezekali. Ndikutha kuwona chifukwa chake. Nyumba yosungiramo zinthu zakaleyi imati ili ndi zikalata zotsimikizira kuti chiwonetserochi ndi chovomerezeka. Koma izo siziwawonetsa iwo. Komanso sidzafunsanso UNESCO kuti imve maganizo ake. Umodzi wochuluka kumeneko, ndithudi.
Mosakayikira, ngati boma la Saudi likanati liwonetse chuma chake cha Chisilamu ku Toronto, ndikukayika kwambiri ngati lingatchule gulu lalikulu lachiyuda lomwe kale linali ku Arabia. Chiwonetsero chaposachedwa cha chikhalidwe cha ku Turkey ku Royal Academy chinatchulanso - ahem, ahem kachiwiri - chopereka cha anthu aku Armenia ku mbiri ya Turkey. Mukudziwa, poganizira kuti zithunzi za Mipukutu ya ku Nyanja Yakufa ndizomveka bwino komanso zomveka bwino kuposa zomwe zidayang'aniridwa ndi mtolankhani wa The Independent's Middle East, ndikudabwa ngati zolemba zamtengo wapatalizi zikufunikadi kuulutsidwa padziko lonse lapansi.
Koma ine ndikuganiza ndi nkhani yakale yomweyi: kuwona ndi kukhulupirira. Kungopereka kuti sindinu wa Palestine kapena waku Armenia kapena aliyense wokonda zaufulu wa katundu.
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