Part Two of our series on Israel/Palestine turns back the clock to examine the time period from Part One but from the Palestinian perspective. By establishing the foundation of the conflict in parallel, it helps organize internal and external events that explain sympathies toward Jews and Palestinians alike. This episode digs into the cultural underpinnings of Arab society in the 19th and early 20th centuries and examines the fault lines that occur as a result of Jewish migration, industrialization, the collapse of Ottoman rule and fallout from World War One.

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:36

Chapter One: Origin Stories. 00:07:36

Chapter Two: Historic Palestine. 00:16:17

Chapter Three: Pan-Arab Nationalism. 00:24:25

Chapter Four: The Palestinian Identity. 00:36:01

Resources

Marxists.org: Leon Trotsky on Zionism 

Council on Foreign Relations: What to Know About the Arab Citizens of Israel

PBS: Parallel Realities - Resolution 242 And The Aftermath Of 1967 | Shattered Dreams Of Peace

Wikipedia: Six-Day War

Opinio Juris: The Biden Administration and the Golan Heights

Al Jazeera: Mapping Israeli occupation | Infographic News

Jewish Virtual Library: Vital Statistics: Jewish Population of the World

Christopher Hitchens on Antisemitism

BBC News: Golan Heights profile

The Baffler: Unmaking the Myth of Ben-Gurion

My Jewish Learning: Sephardic, Ashkenazic, Mizrahi and Ethiopian Jews

JCPA: Ben-Gurion’s Concept of Mamlahtiut and the Forming Reality of the State of Israel 

Council on Foreign Relations: The Sunni-Shia Divide

Council on Foreign Relations: What Is U.S. Policy on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?

Council on Foreign Relations: How Evictions in Jerusalem Led to Israeli-Palestinian Violence

NPR: This is how the Republican Party became so strongly pro-Israel

The Jewish Agency: Modern Zionist Aliyot

The Weiner Holocaust Library: How did the Holocaust happen?

Holocaust Encyclopedia: The Evian Conference

Palquest: Interactive Encyclopedia Of The Palestine Question:  Issa al-Sifri

UN: