Abstract
This article might be read as speculative fiction. Yet, with some political imagination and belief, it should be read as what has come to pass—an inevitable reality. This is the first time anyone has exposed the facts of what happens in the Levant after Israel's collapse. The account is based on eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in Bilad Al‐Sham (AlSham for short), approximately ten years after the liberation of Palestine and the fall of Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. Through conversations with interlocutors from Deir Yasin in the land of AlSham, this article also intervenes in present‐day debates around decolonization, arguing that for decolonization not to be mere metaphor, we need to better understand its processes and come to terms with the inevitable armed resistance it employs. Finally, the article also makes a case for the need for time‐traveler researchers so that people can have some blueprints for the more hopeful and beautiful world that will inevitably be built.
