The Forever War
Lisa DuBois | NYS, United States
Organization: SDN
Photographer: Lisa DuBois
Organization: SDN
Exhibit Title: The Forever War
Location: NYS, United States
Feeling the effects of generational trauma from the Middle East forever war, Palestinians and Israeli Americans protest in seperate locations in New York City during the summer of 2024.
Historians view the Middle East war as a never-ending sequence of wars starting with the Jewish-Roman Wars between 66 and 135 AD leading up to the shocking Palestinian-attack against Israel that erupted on October 7th, 2023. All of these conflicts are part of Jewish history.
The notorious Nazis, led by Adolf Hitler, murdered six million Jews in the early 1940s, dividing all German and Jewish German citizens with antisemitic rhetoric. This marked the start of World War II, a war that included almost the entire world until Germany surrendered on May 8, 1945,resulting in the displacement of Jewish people around the world.
In effort to establish a safe location or Israelis In 1947, the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine proposed dividing the land into two states: Arab and Jewish. This ignited the Arab-Israeli War, based on extreme religious beliefs and ideology that include domination over geographical locations.
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