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Downstream: The History of Israel’s War on Palestine w/ Rashid Khalidi

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🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

To really understand what’s going in Israel, you need to get your history straight. Rashid Khalidi is one of the foremost historians of the Middle East and the author of several books on the region’s history, including The Hundred Years’ War On Palestine. On the day of the ceasefire in Gaza, he guides Ash through […]

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0:00.0

I'm Naomi Klein and I am at Navarro Media right now having just done in a wonderful in-depth interview.

0:07.0

And this is why I love Navarro Media and I listen regularly and watch to find out what the hell is going on in the UK.

0:15.2

It is so critical to have independent media that we can trust that goes deep on the issues

0:20.8

and also lets people stay up on the day-to-day twists and turns.

0:24.4

It's going to be especially important for your next election.

0:27.2

So I'm incredibly grateful that Navarro media exists and it exists because people support it so make sure to support

0:34.8

Navarro Media we need left institutions and that means that we have to support

0:39.6

them when they're doing such great work as in our media is.

0:43.0

Thanks.

0:44.0

We've probably got something in common, which is that over the last month and a half

0:55.4

we've been watching the news wondering why it doesn't answer some of the most basic

0:59.3

questions about the history of Israel and Palestine. Why did the Zionists use the Holy Land out of all the

1:05.7

territories on the planet to try and form a Jewish majority state? What happened after the

1:11.1

Oslo Accords? why were Hamas founded and what changed about their charter since the

1:16.8

1980s? Well, luckily, those questions aren't going to go unanswered for long. I'm joined by Rashid Kaleidi, author of the 100

1:26.1

years war on Palestine, to do a deep dive into over 100 years of history. What was Palestine before 1948? What was its status and who was

1:41.5

there? Before 1948, for about 30 years,

1:47.0

Palestine had been under British control

1:50.0

in the

1:55.0

form of an occupation and a mandate from the League of Nations.

1:57.0

The mandate was to rule a country in which the overwhelming majority of the population were Palestinian Arabs,

2:05.7

and a small but increasing proportion were Jews, and more and more of those, that population was made up of immigrants who were brought in by under under the terms of the mandate.

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