Palestine: Part Three. Two states, one state, none.
Unf*cking The Republic
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🗓️ 18 November 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
The final installment of our series on Israel/Palestine covers the Arab Revolts of the late 1930s through present day, highlighting the agreements, wars, uprisings and accords that explain how the chasm widened between Jews and Palestinians, and why every attempt at reconciling the two sides has failed. It’s a sweeping narrative that involves generational actors, imperial interests of neighboring countries and acts of violence, bravery and betrayal.
Chapters
Intro: 00:00:23
Chapter One: On the Precipice. 00:05:21
Chapter Two: No Turning Back. 00:15:31
Chapter Three: Six Days in June, Nineteen in October. 00:26:00
Chapter Four: The Politics of War. 00:30:00
Resources
Marxists.org: Leon Trotsky on Zionism
Council on Foreign Relations: What to Know About the Arab Citizens of Israel
PBS: Parallel Realities - Resolution 242 And The Aftermath Of 1967 | Shattered Dreams Of Peace
Wikipedia: Six-Day War
Opinio Juris: The Biden Administration and the Golan Heights
Al Jazeera: Mapping Israeli occupation | Infographic News
Jewish Virtual Library: Vital Statistics: Jewish Population of the World
Christopher Hitchens on Antisemitism
BBC News: Golan Heights profile
The Baffler: Unmaking the Myth of Ben-Gurion
My Jewish Learning: Sephardic, Ashkenazic, Mizrahi and Ethiopian Jews
JCPA: Ben-Gurion’s Concept of Mamlahtiut and the Forming Reality of the State of Israel
Council on Foreign Relations: The Sunni-Shia Divide
Council on Foreign Relations: What Is U.S. Policy on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?
Council on Foreign Relations: How Evictions in Jerusalem Led to Israeli-Palestinian Violence
NPR: This is how the Republican Party became so strongly pro-Israel
The Jewish Agency: Modern Zionist Aliyot
The Weiner Holocaust Library: How did the Holocaust happen?
Holocaust Encyclopedia: The Evian Conference
Palquest: Interactive Encyclopedia Of The Palestine Question: Issa al-Sifri
UN: Faisal-Weizmann agreement/Non-UN document - Question of Palestine
Palquest: Interactive Encyclopedia Of The Palestine Question: Musa Kazim Husseini
Palquest: Interactive Encyclopedia Of The Palestine Question: Great Arab Revolt, 1936-1939
Fanack: Historic Palestine: The Arab Executive (1920 -1934)
MERIP: Owen, Studies in the Economic and Social History of Palestine
MERIP: Conspiracy of Praise
Just Vision: Izz ad-Din al-Qassam
The New York Times Archive: The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World since 1948
Jewish Virtual Library: Ze’ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky
Encyclopedia: Altalena
Palquest: Abd al-Aziz Rantisi
MERIP: The War of Numbers
The Washington Post: War Casualties Put at 48,000 in Lebanon
Office of the Historian, Foreign Service Institute: The Reagan Administration and Lebanon, 1981–1984
Al Jazeera: Who is Israel’s far-right, pro-settler Security Minister Ben-Gvir?
Blowback: How Israel Went From Helping Create Hamas To Bombing It
HRW: Israel: Gaza Killings Unlawful, Calculated
The Hill: Trump on Israel embassy move: ‘Evangelicals appreciate it more than the Jews’
HRW: A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution
Pew Research Center: Israel’s Religiously Divided Society
Book Love
Rashid Khalidi: The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
Moshé Machover: Israelis and Palestinians: Conflict and Resolution
Dennis Ross: Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace
James L. Gelvin: The Israel-Palestine Conflict
Jeremy Wilson: Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorised Biography of T. E. Lawrence
Jim Newton: Eisenhower: The White House Years
Augustus Richard Norton: Hezbollah: A Short History Updated and Expanded Third Edition
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| 0:00.0 | I feel equally close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in Putamayo, |
| 0:04.9 | or to the Negroes in Africa, with whose bodies the Europeans play catchball. |
| 0:09.6 | I feel at home in the entire world, wherever there are clouds and birds and human tears. |
| 0:16.1 | Rosa Luxembourg |
| 0:17.0 | UNFTR UNFTR |
| 0:23.6 | The President of the United States and Congress were fixated on the situation in Russia. |
| 0:29.6 | The invasion of a neighboring territory and the defiance of its people galvanized the nation. |
| 0:34.6 | It was a tenuous time in the relationship between the American and Russian governments, |
| 0:38.3 | and it was unclear how it would all play out. The U.S. offered support for the territory in its |
| 0:43.5 | fight against Russian aggression and quest for independence. In the midst of all of it, came another |
| 0:48.8 | surprise. Israel, one of the staunchest U.S. allies, invaded a neighboring territory with an aerial |
| 0:54.6 | offensive that caught most of the world, and certainly U.S. intelligence agencies, completely |
| 0:59.2 | off guard. The dual conflict with intertwined and precarious alliances placed the U.S. President |
| 1:04.9 | in a tight spot. The American people, and even those closest to the President, began to wonder |
| 1:10.3 | if his advanced |
| 1:11.0 | age was beginning to hinder his performance. |
| 1:13.6 | There were even whispers among his staff whether he would make it through a reelection bid. |
| 1:17.8 | And even if he did, could he make a second term? |
| 1:21.2 | This sent chills down the spines of administration officials who were wary of the unpopular |
| 1:25.4 | vice president, assuming the presidency under such tragic |
| 1:28.6 | circumstances. |
| 1:33.7 | This might read like the introduction to a future account of the times in which we're currently |
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