MY GREEK TV: ON THE SHOCKING HISTORY OF GREECE AND GAZA

In episode 13 of My Greek TV (or Romaic Ruminations, or Greek Gropings, suggestions for a new title are ongoing) (YouTube channel, Facebook) Greek Aussies, Dean Kalymniou and Peter Stefanidis continue their series of educational podcasts, this time discussing the fascinating history of relations between the Greek world, Israel and the Palestinians. They compare the fates of a would be Palestinian state with the histories of Cyprus, Crete and a number of Aegean islands. The debate highlights the duplicity of the Ottomans and the perfidy of the British Empire and the feeble nature of foreign policies of 'the Great Powers' on the grand chessboard of geopolitics throughout the ages. 

Aug. 8, 2025 My Greek TV: From Philistines to Today: Greece’s Ancient Link to Gaza - EP13.

As it happens, we have been posting on some of these issues ourselves just recently and we advise our readers to dive into both posts as if they were two parts of the same article (link). 

A word on revolutions. Historians tend to speak about revolutions of the Enlightenment as if they are all of the same nature. But morally, as well as in character, there are huge differences between wars of independence -- like the American, the Dutch and the Greek -- and class revolutions, like the ones in Russia and in France. Read about it in this series (link). 

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