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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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No when you think about conflict in the middle east

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what's the first country that usually comes to mind we

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were thinking of israel let's take a gander in israel's

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history and see if we can figure out why stuff

00:12

is so uh difficult Over there early jews were in

00:15

the middle east long before either christianity or islam or

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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

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the romans they were all responsible for setting off a

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diaspora iii the scattering of jews to all corners of

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the globe as the jews were leaving the arab and

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muslim peoples who would become known as palestinians took up

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residence in israel Yeah another problem for the jewish diaspora

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was anti semitism Europeans hating on jews has been a

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problem roughly forever However things came to a head in

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france in the eighteen nineties when a jewish officer in

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the french army named dreyfus was accused tried and convicted

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of spying for germany Dude was innocent of course and

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so the put upon jews started to feel like maybe

01:02

They ought to take their ball and go home to

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a country of their own Well this flavor of jewish

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nationalism was called zionism and the sinus had the perfect

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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

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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

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heard of it You have shot of that conflict was

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that the ottoman empire lost most of the middle east

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to the british and the british in nineteen seventeen came

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out in support of a jewish homeland in british controlled

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palestine so long as the jews played nice and respected

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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

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countries And then there was another war in europe Except

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this time a belligerent nazi germany actually went directly after

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the jews all in the wake of a conflict in

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which six million jews lost their lives to a bunch

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Of genocidal maniacs the nations of the world started to

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feel like well maybe the whole independent jewish state things

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Good idea not to mention that there were lots of

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homeless jews wandering around europe trying to figure out what

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to do now that hitler wasn't trying to kill them

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anymore So the united nations took over for britain and

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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

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its independence which sparked an air of invasion It would

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have been a dogpile except israel one and all the

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arab countries involved in the fight had to agree to

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a ceasefire but they'd never agree that israel had a

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right to exist Another war broke out in nineteen sixty

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seven this time between israel and egypt and israel one

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again but it just didn't win It got a lot

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of brand new territory including the sinai peninsula the west

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bank gaza strip the golan heights and east jerusalem score

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Another war broke out This time his role is up

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against egypt and syria Israel one again egyptians tired of

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getting their bloods kicked sat down with the israelis at

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camp david and worked out a deal where they got

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the sinai peninsula back in return for recognizing israel's right

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to exist In the meantime the palestinians waited for palestine

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to actually become theirs and waited and waited there still

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waiting And every so often the israelis and the palestinians

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get into it because there really isn't enough land to

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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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