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Modern World History Course 11.5 Israel and Palestine Today 29 Views
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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has gotten pretty heated throughout history. Here's a brief overview of just how long and complicated that history actually is.
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- 00:01
No when you think about conflict in the middle east
- 00:04
what's the first country that usually comes to mind we
- 00:07
were thinking of israel let's take a gander in israel's
- 00:10
history and see if we can figure out why stuff
- 00:12
is so uh difficult Over there early jews were in
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- 00:15
the middle east long before either christianity or islam or
- 00:18
a twinkle in humanities i over time other groups came
- 00:21
along and pushed many of the jews out of the
- 00:23
jewish homeland which was called israel The syrians that chaldeans
- 00:28
the romans they were all responsible for setting off a
- 00:31
diaspora iii the scattering of jews to all corners of
- 00:34
the globe as the jews were leaving the arab and
- 00:37
muslim peoples who would become known as palestinians took up
- 00:40
residence in israel Yeah another problem for the jewish diaspora
- 00:44
was anti semitism Europeans hating on jews has been a
- 00:47
problem roughly forever However things came to a head in
- 00:51
france in the eighteen nineties when a jewish officer in
- 00:54
the french army named dreyfus was accused tried and convicted
- 00:57
of spying for germany Dude was innocent of course and
- 01:00
so the put upon jews started to feel like maybe
- 01:02
They ought to take their ball and go home to
- 01:04
a country of their own Well this flavor of jewish
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nationalism was called zionism and the sinus had the perfect
- 01:10
piece of real estate mind for their independent country which
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was to be free of bigot in frenchman israel But
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before all the jews in europe and elsewhere could pack
- 01:18
up their possessions and head back to the middle east
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there was a little war world war one Maybe you've
- 01:23
heard of it You have shot of that conflict was
- 01:25
that the ottoman empire lost most of the middle east
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to the british and the british in nineteen seventeen came
- 01:31
out in support of a jewish homeland in british controlled
- 01:33
palestine so long as the jews played nice and respected
- 01:36
the palestinians who were already there Q A population explosion
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Now jews with u hauls were suddenly everywhere much to
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the consternation of the palestinians and their populations in neighboring
- 01:45
countries And then there was another war in europe Except
- 01:48
this time a belligerent nazi germany actually went directly after
- 01:51
the jews all in the wake of a conflict in
- 01:53
which six million jews lost their lives to a bunch
- 01:55
Of genocidal maniacs the nations of the world started to
- 01:58
feel like well maybe the whole independent jewish state things
- 02:00
Good idea not to mention that there were lots of
- 02:03
homeless jews wandering around europe trying to figure out what
- 02:05
to do now that hitler wasn't trying to kill them
- 02:07
anymore So the united nations took over for britain and
- 02:11
open up palestine tow any jew who was looking for
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a new home With so many jews headed back to
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the desert the u n decided to divide palestine into
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a jewish and an arab state Well the capital jerusalem
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was put under international control Nineteen forty eight israel declared
- 02:24
its independence which sparked an air of invasion It would
- 02:27
have been a dogpile except israel one and all the
- 02:30
arab countries involved in the fight had to agree to
- 02:32
a ceasefire but they'd never agree that israel had a
- 02:35
right to exist Another war broke out in nineteen sixty
- 02:38
seven this time between israel and egypt and israel one
- 02:42
again but it just didn't win It got a lot
- 02:45
of brand new territory including the sinai peninsula the west
- 02:47
bank gaza strip the golan heights and east jerusalem score
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Another war broke out This time his role is up
- 02:52
against egypt and syria Israel one again egyptians tired of
- 02:56
getting their bloods kicked sat down with the israelis at
- 02:59
camp david and worked out a deal where they got
- 03:01
the sinai peninsula back in return for recognizing israel's right
- 03:05
to exist In the meantime the palestinians waited for palestine
- 03:09
to actually become theirs and waited and waited there still
- 03:13
waiting And every so often the israelis and the palestinians
- 03:15
get into it because there really isn't enough land to
- 03:17
go around and no one can agree on who should 00:03:19.488 --> [endTime] get what so yeah that's Israel In a nutshell
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