Day 1,398: salience

As Israel turns 75, its biggest threats now come from within

The second big shift is the fading global salience of the Palestinians, 3m of whom live in the West Bank under a “temporary” Israeli occupation and 2m of whom are pinned down in Gaza.

Artwork of the day 
Pharaoh Notes the Importance of the Jewish People
James Tissot
Style: Symbolism
Genre: religious painting
Media: gouache, board
Dimensions: 22.9 x 29.1 cm

Word of the day 
salience: the fact of being important to or connected with what is happening or being discussed

Quote of the day
“The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche”
― Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space