Israel/Palestine post 10/7 - follow-on events/thoughts as relate to other countries

Maghrebi Jews brought it to Israel/the Levant/Palestine but it’s an Ottoman thing, an unscrambled menemen.

I just had menemen at a friend's Turkish breakfast yesterday, was like "Oh, this is a variation of shakshouka."

In general there's so much commonality in foods across the Levant that it seems hard to isolate things as belonging to one culture or country.

not to mention that all the recipes I looked at online (a bit dubious tbf) have tomatoes in them

Yeah I always have to remind myself that any "traditional foods" with potatoes or tomatoes anywhere in the world outside the Americas can't be more than 500 years old. But a few centuries is long enough for a tradition, I guess.

In general there's so much commonality in foods across the Levant that it seems hard to isolate things as belonging to one culture or country.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 30 June 2024 13:29 (three hours ago) link

Even hummus was part of the culture of the mizrahi Jews who came to Israel as well as the culture of Palestine, and Israelis eat hummus as much because of the former as the latter.

I long for the day when Israelis and Palestinians only ever beef one another about hummus.

BREAKING: Yesterday, the Presbyterian Church (USA) voted to divest from Israel bonds and denounce Christian Zionism, citing human rights abuses against Palestinians.https://t.co/2g4wtEMqor

— IMEU (@theIMEU) July 2, 2024

Allright!