Welcome to The Lost Debate, a show for politically eclectics.

I'm Ravi Gupta.

And this is our part two of our history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

And if you haven't listened to Part 1, that was released last week.

You can go back and listen to that first.

And then a lot more of what I talk about today will make sense.

Just a few disclaimers as we start out here. Number one, again, I don't speak Arabic or Hebrew, so my pronunciations are not going to be perfect. My goal, again, is that if you didn't know my views, which now a lot of you do because of the episode that we did earlier this week, but if you didn't know my views, you wouldn't be able to tell them based on this history.

I try to go out of my way to provide information that's inconvenient to people who agree with me.

And I just try as much as possible to just say at a high level what happened in this disputed territory. Please keep sending in questions. I've gotten a ton of

questions on Instagram and people are starting to send in voicemails. I've got questions about the

Holocaust and how it shaped the founding and the mentality of Jews and Israelis. I got a question

about pre-World War I,

Palestinian identity, the community, sovereignty,

and a question around the average civilian death toll

relative to combatants in most wars.

So those are a couple of questions

that we'll be answering in future episodes.

We just keep sending those in.

But with that, let's go back to where we left off. So we left off with

Yitzhak Rabin's assassination. And after Rabin's assassination, and Netanyahu beat Shimon Perez

in an election in February 1996. And what was interesting about this is that Perez started

with a 20% lead in the polls after

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