Hey, I'm Norm Weisman, and you're listening to unpacking Israeli history,

the podcast that takes a deep dive into some of the most intense,

historically fascinating, and confusing events in Israeli history.

All that in just about 20 minutes.

Yala, let's do this. We the people of Israel are people.

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

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

I think they're on.

Back in 2017, the New York Times published an article about Amadeo Garcia Garcia, the last living speaker of the Tashori language.

Once spoken for centuries by thousands of members of an Amazonian tribe,

Amadeo was the sole survivor and the last person on earth to know the language.

His tribe, which had lived uncontacted for centuries along the Amazonian River in Peru,

slowly died out due to the weapons and diseases brought to them from intruders.

When Amadeau's brother passed away, his last remaining relative,

a missionary asked Amadeo how he felt.

Amadeo responded in the broken Spanish that he had, the only way he had to communicate with the outside world.

He said, it's now over for us.

Why? Amadeo no longer has someone to speak to, and when you have no one else to speak to, you will lose your language. That's why it was over for Amadeo.

See, losing a language is like losing an identity, a culture, a history.

I don't mean to sound overdramatic here, but losing a language is really losing oneself.

Looking back at the history of the Jewish people, the Jews faced a very similar problem.

And the reality today is that over the last 150 years a

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