Every story has a beginning. Every conflict has its roots. For some, the Israel/Palestine conflict is rooted in scripture and written in blood. Others claim it boils down to a deadly dispute over real estate. There’s a reason why “peace in the Middle East” feels out of reach and why so many have thrown their hands up. It’s complicated. But it’s not impossible to understand. We begin our journey in earnest by tackling the so-called “Jewish Question” and uncovering the roots and motives of the Zionist movement.
Chapters
Intro: 00:02:16
Chapter One: Diaspora. 00:04:48
Chapter Two: Beyond the Pale. 00:09:33
Chapter Three: France, the birthplace of Zionism. 00:13:52
Chapter Four: A congress in search of a state. 00:22:48
Chapter Five: The Fifth Aliyah. 00:39:16
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
Book Love
Rashid Khalidi: The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
Moshé Machover: Israelis and Palestinians: Conflict and Resolution
Dennis Ross: Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace
James L. Gelvin: The Israel-Palestine Conflict
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