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2 peoples. 1 land. 2 irreconcilable stories. For Israelis, it’s the return of an exiled nation reclaiming its home. For Palestinians, it’s the loss of theirs.
From exile to occupation, from the H0l0caust to Hamas, this conflict is a collision of memory and survival — where every side sees justice, and neither finds peace.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:42 1st Aliyah
01:23 Zionist movement
01:48 Palestinian nationalism
02:59 1929 Hebron M@ssacre
03:23 1936 Arab Revolt
03:45 Ill3gal Jewish immigration
04:07 Fight against the British
05:08 1947 UN Partition Plan
06:26 Israel's independence
06:45 1948 W@r/Nakba
08:50 6-Day W@r
09:55 Khartoum Conference
10:20 Settlement movement
11:44 Yom Kippur W@r
12:23 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty
12:54 1st Int!fada
14:01 Oslo Accords
14:41 Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty
15:06 Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
16:40 Camp David Accords
17:29 2nd Int!fada
18:38 Gaza Disengagement
19:44 Hamas control of Gaza
20:33 PA's Pay for Slay policy
21:17 Settler v!olence
21:37 Abraham Accords
21:50 October 7
23:15 2023-2025 Gaza W@r
Recommended video — Is Peace Impossible After Gaza? | Unpacked
youtube.com/watch?v=0YyO_FC4LyM&list=PL-DNOnmKkUabqcF6QfiANjwxU4AkRMcwm&index=31
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Sources:
-“Claim 5: Palestinian refugees have a right of return.” UN Watch.
-“Detailed Findings On Attacks Carried Out On & After 7 October 2023 in Israel.” Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, & Israel, Human Rights Council, A/HRC/56/CRP.3, 10 June 2024.
-“Fatalities in the First Intifada.” B’Tselem.
-“Humanitarian Update, Occupied Palestinian Territory (November - December 2005),” UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
-“The Arab-Israeli War of 1948.” U.S. Department of State.
-Abdul-Hussain, Hussain. “Why Is There No Palestinian State?” Hoover Institute, 5 June 2024.
-Barnett, David & Efraim Karsh. “Azzam's Genocidal Threat.” Middl3 East Quarterly, Volume 18, Number 4, Fall 2011.
-Bazelon, Emily. “The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict & the Long Shadow of 1948.” NYT, 1 February 2024.
-Bensoussan, Georges. “Pogroms in Pal3stine before the creation of the state of Israel (1830-1948).” Fondation Pour L’innovation Politique (Fondapol), April 2024.
-Beska, Emanuel. “Political Opposition to Zionism in Pal3stine & Greater Syria: 1910–1911 as a Turning Point.” Jerusalem Quarterly, Issue 59, Summer 2014.
-Bowen, Jeremy. “1967 war: Six days that changed the Middl3 East.” BBC, 5 June 2017.
-Brown, Nathan J. “Palestinians: Fighting & Governing.” Wilson Center, 27 August 2015.
-Dajani, Mohammed. “The Oslo Accords Held Promise; Extremists Derailed Them.” The Washington Institute Fikra Forum, 1 September 2023.
-Gritten, David. “Israel minister tells army to plan for Palestinians to leave Gaza.” BBC, 6 February 2025.
-Hammouri, Shahd. “A Forgotten Detail: The Right of Return was a Condition of the Establishment of the State of Israel.” OpinioJuris, 11 March 2024.
-Herzl, Theodor. "The Jewish State." 1896.
-Kanter, Maximilian. “Unravelling Mahmoud Abbas’s Deafening Silence in the Wake of October 7.” TOI Blogs, 13 February 2024.
-Khalidi, Rashid Ismail & Nabih Amin Farris. “Pal3stine & the Palestinians (1948-67),” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 31 July 2025.
-Khdour, Nasser, & Dr. Amenah Mehvar. “After A Year Of War, Hamas Is Militarily Weakened — But Far From 'Eliminated'.” ACLED, 6 October 2024.
-Manna, Adel. “Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966.” Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestinian Question.
-Morris, Benny. 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War. Yale University Press, 2008.
-Muslih, Muhammad. “Arab Politics & the Rise of Palestinian Nationalism.” Journal of Pal3stine Studies, (1987) 16 (4): 77-94.
-Perlmutter, Efraim. “Zionist attitudes towards the Arabs: 1902 until today.” openDemocracy, 16 December 2014.
-Quandt, William B. “Palestinian Nationalism: Its Political & Military Dimensions.” The RAND Corporation, November 1971.
-Resolution 242 (1967). UN. 22 November 1967.
-Scheindlin, Dahlia. “Neither Intractable nor Unique: A Practical Solution for Palestinian Right of Return.” Century Foundation, 28 April 2020.
-Shurafa, Wafaa, & Samy Magdy. “Palestinian D3ath Toll in Israel-Hamas War Passes 60,000, Gaza Health Ministry Says.” AP, 29 July 2025.
-Stein, Kenneth W. “What if the Palestinian Arab Elite Had Chosen Compromise Rather than Boycott in Confronting Zionism?” in Gavriel D. Rosenfeld (ed.) What Ifs of Jewish History, Cambridge University Press, 2016.
-Waxman, Dov. The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know. Oxford University Press, 2019.
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Image/footage credits:
Getty Images
United States H0l0caust Museum
Library of Congress
Smithsonian
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Executive Producers:
Michael Steinhardt
Co-Executive Producers:
Marc Shmuel Levine
Iris & Shalom Maidenbaum
Gold Level:
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life
-----------
Portuguese: Saymon Pires
#israel #palestine #history
2 peoples. 1 land. 2 irreconcilable stories. For Israelis, it’s the return of an exiled nation reclaiming its home. For Palestinians, it’s the loss of theirs.
From exile to occupation, from the H0l0caust to Hamas, this conflict is a collision of memory and survival — where every side sees justice, and neither finds peace.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:42 1st Aliyah
01:23 Zionist movement
01:48 Palestinian nationalism
02:59 1929 Hebron M@ssacre
03:23 1936 Arab Revolt
03:45 Ill3gal Jewish immigration
04:07 Fight against the British
05:08 1947 UN Partition Plan
06:26 Israel's independence
06:45 1948 W@r/Nakba
08:50 6-Day W@r
09:55 Khartoum Conference
10:20 Settlement movement
11:44 Yom Kippur W@r
12:23 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty
12:54 1st Int!fada
14:01 Oslo Accords
14:41 Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty
15:06 Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
16:40 Camp David Accords
17:29 2nd Int!fada
18:38 Gaza Disengagement
19:44 Hamas control of Gaza
20:33 PA's Pay for Slay policy
21:17 Settler v!olence
21:37 Abraham Accords
21:50 October 7
23:15 2023-2025 Gaza W@r
Recommended video — Is Peace Impossible After Gaza? | Unpacked
youtube.com/watch?v=0YyO_FC4LyM&list=PL-DNOnmKkUabqcF6QfiANjwxU4AkRMcwm&index=31
-----------
Sources:
-“Claim 5: Palestinian refugees have a right of return.” UN Watch.
-“Detailed Findings On Attacks Carried Out On & After 7 October 2023 in Israel.” Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, & Israel, Human Rights Council, A/HRC/56/CRP.3, 10 June 2024.
-“Fatalities in the First Intifada.” B’Tselem.
-“Humanitarian Update, Occupied Palestinian Territory (November - December 2005),” UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
-“The Arab-Israeli War of 1948.” U.S. Department of State.
-Abdul-Hussain, Hussain. “Why Is There No Palestinian State?” Hoover Institute, 5 June 2024.
-Barnett, David & Efraim Karsh. “Azzam's Genocidal Threat.” Middl3 East Quarterly, Volume 18, Number 4, Fall 2011.
-Bazelon, Emily. “The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict & the Long Shadow of 1948.” NYT, 1 February 2024.
-Bensoussan, Georges. “Pogroms in Pal3stine before the creation of the state of Israel (1830-1948).” Fondation Pour L’innovation Politique (Fondapol), April 2024.
-Beska, Emanuel. “Political Opposition to Zionism in Pal3stine & Greater Syria: 1910–1911 as a Turning Point.” Jerusalem Quarterly, Issue 59, Summer 2014.
-Bowen, Jeremy. “1967 war: Six days that changed the Middl3 East.” BBC, 5 June 2017.
-Brown, Nathan J. “Palestinians: Fighting & Governing.” Wilson Center, 27 August 2015.
-Dajani, Mohammed. “The Oslo Accords Held Promise; Extremists Derailed Them.” The Washington Institute Fikra Forum, 1 September 2023.
-Gritten, David. “Israel minister tells army to plan for Palestinians to leave Gaza.” BBC, 6 February 2025.
-Hammouri, Shahd. “A Forgotten Detail: The Right of Return was a Condition of the Establishment of the State of Israel.” OpinioJuris, 11 March 2024.
-Herzl, Theodor. "The Jewish State." 1896.
-Kanter, Maximilian. “Unravelling Mahmoud Abbas’s Deafening Silence in the Wake of October 7.” TOI Blogs, 13 February 2024.
-Khalidi, Rashid Ismail & Nabih Amin Farris. “Pal3stine & the Palestinians (1948-67),” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 31 July 2025.
-Khdour, Nasser, & Dr. Amenah Mehvar. “After A Year Of War, Hamas Is Militarily Weakened — But Far From 'Eliminated'.” ACLED, 6 October 2024.
-Manna, Adel. “Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966.” Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestinian Question.
-Morris, Benny. 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War. Yale University Press, 2008.
-Muslih, Muhammad. “Arab Politics & the Rise of Palestinian Nationalism.” Journal of Pal3stine Studies, (1987) 16 (4): 77-94.
-Perlmutter, Efraim. “Zionist attitudes towards the Arabs: 1902 until today.” openDemocracy, 16 December 2014.
-Quandt, William B. “Palestinian Nationalism: Its Political & Military Dimensions.” The RAND Corporation, November 1971.
-Resolution 242 (1967). UN. 22 November 1967.
-Scheindlin, Dahlia. “Neither Intractable nor Unique: A Practical Solution for Palestinian Right of Return.” Century Foundation, 28 April 2020.
-Shurafa, Wafaa, & Samy Magdy. “Palestinian D3ath Toll in Israel-Hamas War Passes 60,000, Gaza Health Ministry Says.” AP, 29 July 2025.
-Stein, Kenneth W. “What if the Palestinian Arab Elite Had Chosen Compromise Rather than Boycott in Confronting Zionism?” in Gavriel D. Rosenfeld (ed.) What Ifs of Jewish History, Cambridge University Press, 2016.
-Waxman, Dov. The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know. Oxford University Press, 2019.
-----------
Image/footage credits:
Getty Images
United States H0l0caust Museum
Library of Congress
Smithsonian
-----------
Executive Producers:
Michael Steinhardt
Co-Executive Producers:
Marc Shmuel Levine
Iris & Shalom Maidenbaum
Gold Level:
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life
-----------
Portuguese: Saymon Pires
#israel #palestine #history
