This Land Is Mine by Nina Paley

Who’s Killing Who? A Viewer’s Guide Because you can’t tell the players without a pogrom! Early Man This generic “cave man“ represents the first human settlers in Israel/Canaan/the Levant. Whoever they were. Canaanite What did ancient Canaanites look like? I don’t know, so this is based on ancient Sumerian art. Egyptian Canaan was located between two huge empires. Egypt controlled it sometimes, and... Assyrian ....Assyria controlled it other times. Israelite The “Children of Israel“ conquered the shit out of the region, according to bloody and violent Old Testament accounts. Babylonian Then the Baylonians destroyed their temple and took the Hebrews into exile. Macedonian/Greek Here comes Alexander the Great, conquering everything! Greek/Macedonian No sooner did Alexander conquer everything, than his generals divided it up and fought with each other. Ptolemaic Greek descendants of Ptolemy, another of Alexander’s competing generals, ruled Egypt dressed like Egyptian god-kings. (The famous Cleopatra of we