Besieging Palestine’s history

JVL Introduction

This is a superb interactive visual presentation of Palestine’s extraordinarily rich historical past, a past which Israel is busy trying to eliminate from the historical record.

Archaeology from the 19th century, starting with evangelical Christians, focused on making the landscape fit the biblical narrative.

Israel has continued along this road with fervour and sites that do not serve a Jewish narrative have been left to decay.

The high-resolution visual presentation of the Al Jazeera original is stunning! You must follow the link back to it and view it there.

The text below gives a shallow flavour of the rich feast in store on the Al Jazeera site, replete as it is with historical photos, modern day images, videos and more – all set against a further visual presentation of the areas under discussion.

There are a tiny handful of images embedded in the text below, as a taster. Captions in italics indicate where the original has more – indeed many, many more.

This article was originally published by Al Jazeera on Sun 2 Aug 2026. Read the original here.