Hey, I'm Noam Weissman and you're listening to Unpacking Israeli History, the podcast that takes a deep dive into some of the most intense, historically fascinating and often misunderstood events and stories linked to Israeli history.

This episode of Unpacking Israeli History is dedicated in memory of Armin Lindenbaum by his wife, Jean, and children Felice, Amiel, and Ariel Lyndonbaum Saban.

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We're the people of Israel, we, the people of Israel, are prepared and anxious to meet the representatives of our neighbors without any preconditions.

There are people in Israel and elsewhere say it's impossible to make peace between the Arabs and Israel or the Jewish people.

I think they're home.

Over the past few weeks, we've been talking about the big stories behind the news, the histories that led us to this moment.

And all of those are so important for understanding not only today,

but tomorrow. But history is not just the geopolitical international stories. It's also the product of

billions of individual people, their daily lives, their choices, their struggles, their triumphs.

There's a German artist

named Anselm Kiefer who wrote, history is formed by the people, those who have power,

and those without power. Each one of us makes history. History doesn't just happen. It's made by

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