Bonus: The Global Story - The most contested land in the world?

Global News Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Documentary

4.2 • 7.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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This is a bonus episode from The Global Story - taking a look at a much-debated slogan, and a journey through the land that it refers to; from the River Jordan to the Mediterranean sea. Since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas last year, the cry “From the River to the Sea” has been heard more and more as a pro-Palestinian slogan. But what river? What sea? And what exactly does the phrase mean? It is the subject of intense controversy. BBC Current Affairs journalist Tim Whewell joins our presenter Lucy Hockings to discuss his journey from the River Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea, across a tiny stretch of land - that is perhaps the most argued-over in the world. The Global Story brings you one big story every weekday, making sense of the news with our experts around the world. Insights you can trust, from the BBC World Service. For more, go to bbcworldservice.com/globalstory or search for The Global Story wherever you got this podcast.

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0:00.0	Hello, this is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Oliver Conway, and I'm here to introduce
0:07.0	you to our sibling podcast, The Global Story. Here's Lucy Hawkins.
0:20.0	We're taking a journey, from the river Jordan to the Mediterranean, across the West Bank and Israel. It's a much contested stretch of land.
0:24.0	What do the people living there, is rarely all Palestinian, want?
0:28.0	I wish my kid could not go through the same hell that I've been through and that's really the dream.
0:35.2	As peace for the region hangs in the balance we ask what hopes they have for their future.
0:47.3	With me today is BBC Current Affairs reporter Tim Huell, who has recently returned from the region where Tim you've been interviewing lots of locals that we hardly ever
0:51.9	hear from so good to have you with us.
0:53.6	Hi. Hi.
0:54.6	Hi, Lucy and nice to be here.
0:55.6	A very, very wide range of people.
0:57.2	Certainly not just in terms of Palestinians and Israelis, but simply in terms of
1:00.3	jobs, of backgrounds, really, you know, a huge gamut of different people.
1:05.1	So before we really delve into it what drew you to this area in the first place why did you
1:10.0	want to look into this? Well I think partly obviously everybody's attention is
1:15.6	even more closely focused now that the Garza Wars Wars on and I just got very
1:19.8	interested in this slogan from the river to the sea. A lot of us didn't know it before.
1:25.2	Obviously it's been shouted very loudly.
1:27.2	You see it everywhere now.
1:28.4	You do really, really see it everywhere, because of course, I mean obviously we've got to say at the beginning it's principally
1:33.9	understood and used as a pro-Palestinian slogan although we'll come into that in more
1:39.5	detail because it turns out it's used in some other contexts as well but as you say used everywhere
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