The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, explained | Stories of Our Times
The past century has seen the borders of Palestine and then Israel shift. From the Balfour Declaration in 1917 - when Britain first promised a Jewish homeland - a fierce struggle over land and nationhood has taken place. Whether you need a beginner’s guide to the history or just a reminder, we'll take you from that date through to the conflict today.
Guest: Kevin Connolly, former BBC Middle East correspondent.
Host: Luke Jones.
Links:
- Six books to help you understand the Israel-Gaza conflict www.thetimes.co.uk/article/6e...
- Why are Israel and Gaza at war? The history of the conflict explained www.thetimes.co.uk/article/wh...
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A youtube channel Jazby has done an amazing job of tracing the region back during ottoman times. Middleeast was only weakly controled by the ottomans. There are 100s of battles fought between local rulers over the 300 years leading up to British rule. It was never peaceful.
What was the justification for settling Gaza?
For the Palestinians settling there? Well, Gaza was close to Egypt, a strong regional power at the time, and was under Egyptian control until it was annexed by Israel.
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Why is there a helicopter at the bottom left of the first picture?
Because there's a helicopter there
Wow! Thank you for this podcast.... it's such a complex issue with divisions being widened for the benefit of political players and not the people. UGHHHH😔
England controlled so much territory in the early 20th century…. Imagine how different it would be if they had just been like “Here you go Jewish people, take Jamaica or New Zealand.” instead of territory in the Middle East.
They actually tried but the zionist movement declined. (It was Rwanda, IIRC)
USA could've made Germany or parts of it as a Jewish state.
Mahathama Gandhi, believer of Hinduism and Lord Buddha's teachings, made the British Empire to crumble by using "PAssive Resisitance", non-violant war. His followeres were Matine Luthar King and Nelson Mandela. Christains and Catholics who came to East later became non-violnt and learnt to live with the Buddhsit and Hindus peacefully. Even Muslims in Sri Lanka are non-violant(unless they have other methods). I do not know how peaceful is the preachings of Jew prophats. Do they also beleieve in "An Eye for an Eye". One thing I know is both religions are called Ibrahimic religions(and Christian?). Spanish Catholics have spread the religion in Peru using weapons and Smallpox(brought about by angry Spanish God). That was many years ago. Now they are also peaceful. I am happy to be a practicing Buddhist lived along with Hindus in Sri Lanka allowing Catholics and Muslims to build churches near Buddhst temples.
This is probably the best video on the topic that is out there.
Blame the Romans..
You are correct. The Romans played an important role in all of this. They definitely contributed to the problems we're still dealing with.
They should have known 2000 years ago there would be a new religion called Islam that would take over the Levant and two World Wars would cause Jews to return to Israel
Care to explain how?@@toby9999
I'm not a Palestinian an Israeli a Muslim or a Jew but even I can see what a biased "story" you've told here. Even your "start date" is carefully picked to shape your narrative. I assumed Times Radio would do better.
I'm also not any of these, I listened to understand the history of the current awful situation a bit more. - what is missing here that is important to add? - from what date should this history be told? - & why? Not expecting an essay - just point to key events, dates, links, etc - tx👍
"Starting in 1917" is the equivalent of saying "Let's talk about Japanese American relations. We can't go all the way back to the beginning so let's start in July 1945 when those ghastly Americans dropped two atomic bombs on peaceful innocent civilians and have militarily occupied that country to some extent ever since" Jews had been kicked around and kicked out of Muslim countries in the middle east far before 1917 and this video frames the whole situation from 1917. I would bin the whole history and just look at the situation as it stands today. There's a functioning advanced democracy that wants to live in peace and there's an Islamic "state" that is lead by people that don't want a two state solution because their goal is solely the destruction of Israel. That's the situation on the ground now. Pick a side. @@fraserct533
No. There's an occupation power led by a racist far-right government which is illegally settling and annexing land that doesn't belong to it, and brutalising and discriminating against residents of that occupied territory on the basis of their ethnicity.
@@idlehands1238that’s remarkably simple as written. But your viewpoint is biased and elementary. The situation is ridiculously more complex on both sides and neither are wholly guilty or innocent. Your story is one for fairy tales and children’s books. The perfect state and the bad guys who want to destroy it. Go read a book.
Where did I say Israel was a perfect state?It's just another advanced western state that's now facing an organisation that's sunk to the level of ISIS. They could have had a state that was the whole of the west bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem and yet rejected that in favour of this. I would rather the whole middle east sunk into the ocean and we could tow oil rigs over the place and be done with it; but we are where we are. @@ctheg2299
This was terrible. No one walks away from this podcast smarter. Regardless of topic, you guys fumbled all over the place, by a shear lack of conversational skills.
Israel appears to be a marginal democracy today
It is a democracy. End of story.
@@toby9999 ..its a flawed Democracy..end of story.
This problem goes back over 3000 years. More selective reporting from the Times 😊
No dopey, it doesn't go back 3,000 years.
😂 his story aka lies and mind control sleeple clearly fell for. If you did proper research you would know 😂
Have to start somewhere
Over 3000 years? What? 🤨
@@SkyGlitchGalaxyYes it does but you just want to ignore it. You're the dopey one.
The indigenous Jewish population of Palestinian in 1948 was 10% !!!