` Perhaps I am being naive here, but it seems to me that dividing time up into relatively short and artificial post-facto chunks is a way of keeping someone from seeing the threads of history. I think that all the various articles should be merged into one ``List of massacres in Palestine``, which includes Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. Do the work of dividing time in the one article. Separating sections into discreet articles could be used to compartmentalize history.    `