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Dan Snow's History Hit

Israel and Palestine: An Israeli Perspective with Benny Morris

Dan Snow's History Hit

History Hit

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4.712.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The conflict between Israeli's and Palestinians is one that inflames strong emotions and opinions on all sides, but can a solution be found or is it an intractable one? In this episode of our series examing the Israel-Palestine struggle from different points of view, Dan is joined by historian Benny Morris for an Israeli perspective on the conflict that has wracked the region since the foundation of the Jewish state, the nature of Zionism, the demographics of the conflict and the many challenges to finding a solution to the conflict.


You can also listen to previous episodes in our series looking at the Israel-Palestine conflict A Palestinian View with Yara Hawari and A Jewish Perspective with Daniel Finkelstein



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0:00.0

Hi, well welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit. We've had another episode now on Israel Palestine.

0:06.1

We've heard from a Palestinian historian, we've heard from a member of the International

0:10.6

Jewish diaspora, and we're now hearing from prominent Israeli historian, Benny Morris,

0:16.1

a professor of history at Ben Gurin University of the Negev, and he joins me to talk through

0:22.2

an Israeli perspective on the conflict that has racked Israel and Palestine.

0:28.4

It's a foundation of the Jewish state and indeed before.

0:31.4

I knew when I said I'd do some points about Israel Palestine that it would inflame emotions,

0:36.3

opinion on all sides and have been disappointed.

0:39.2

So thank you for all of your feedback, both constructive and well less constructive.

0:46.1

But I hope that across the series of podcasts you've been able to hear different perspectives

0:50.8

and engage with different points of view.

0:53.9

If you want to listen to those back episodes, or of course available on the feed, or you

0:57.2

can go back into the archive, for example, listen to Simon Seabag Montefiori talking about

1:00.7

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