History of a Conflict Part One

In this three part series, Charles Smith, professor of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona gives an account of the history of Palestine and Israel. In the first part Smith describes the period from the first wave of Zionist immigrants up to the end of the British mandate in 1948. The second part takes us from the foundation of the State of Israel to the 1967 war and the occupation of the West Bank. In the third segment, Smith covers the 1967 and 1973 wars, the land-for-peace agreement with Egypt up to the Olso Accords and the first and second intifadas. Producer: John Odam (2006)

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[mecca777]

21156590--nothing wrong with the basic concept. The Problem is that Palestinians had to be uprooted and displaced in order for this to be so. Its like if I came to your house and told you to get the hell out of (my) house and left you homeless.

[shademurtagh]

Mm I think that the Holocaust did happen and that Zionists exploited that to steal that land.

They are now pushing Palestinians into ghetoes and starving them slowly. Those fuckers apparently learned something from Hitler.

[hpets1717]

why cant i finds parts 2 or 3 :(

[bamagreycoat1]

Count me in as a gentile zionist.

[degen83]

@saad6633 Your comment here sounds exactly like what has happened in Lebanon by the radical Islamists, PLO, and other terrorist groups and their genocide against the Christians.

[degen83]

@mecca777 Lies, the equivilent would be is if I bought a house and then when I was trying to move in I find a squatter there who refuses to leave.

Or the equivilent of you using your house to house people who killed my family, and are celebrating their deaths when I come in and kick you out to stop your murderous ways.

The Arabs sold land to Jews, and the land they didn't sell the Palestineans used to attack and murder Jews.

[degen83]

@mrspalestine The jews in Palestinean were attacked and killed and murdered in cold blood by Palestineans who hated all Jews.  To defend themselves the Jews formed gangs to stop the Palestinean and Arab gangs from killing them. The Arabs stepped up their support of the murder of Jews and were heavily supporting the anti Jew gangs. It was always the Palestineans and Arabs who started the conflict, and who refuse to live in peace with Israel and want to destroy all Jews instead of peace.

[degen83]

@shademurtagh The only ones who learned anyting form Hitler are the Arabs whose anti Israel and Jewish propoganda have been taken just about exactly from the Nazis anti Jew propoganda. Instead of promoting to live in peace, the Palestineans and Arabs decide to kill all Jews instead of living in peace. It is the Palestineans and Arabs who decide they do not want peace with Israel, or to live in peace. If they wanted to live in peace, peace would be had. Blame Arabs for the war, not Israel

[gsxxxrk5]

@shademurtagh - very true!

[Pinkindian1]

@shademurtagh How do we even know thats true? Just a question

[MuchMoDanU]

@shademurtagh Maybe the Holocaust was orchestrated and planned to force them out of Europe and Russia to go to Palestine...something similar to this is happen in Iraq now

[mrspalestine]

WOWWWW "THE NAZIS ENCOURAGED JEWS TO LEAVE GERMANY BY GIVING THEM THE EQUEVILANT OF THEIR POSSESSIONS IN PALESTINE (12:08) which is more than u can say 4 the Jews of Palestine who literally STOLE the lands.