Culture — preserving treasures from the pastEnter certain French archeological expeditions, with the involvement of Palestinian investigators and several others, in the 1990s. These, perhaps with a premonition of what was coming, rediscovered and got out to safety, a treasury of artefacts to be preserved and shown to the world. When governments move to recognise a Palestinian state, it gives proof of the deep heritage and culture behind it. From the brochures:...the exhibition “Treasures saved from Gaza. Famously, or infamously, by the 1970s it was being claimed that the Americans were able to drop a higher equivalent tonnage of explosive on Vietnam than was dropped altogether over Europe in World War II.