Hey, I'm Noam 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 often misunderstood stories and events linked to Israeli history.

This episode of unpacking Israeli history is generously sponsored by Barbara Summer and

Alan Fisher.

Before we start, I want to share something that I've been thinking about a lot.

You know a lot about me and how I think and talk about the history of Israel,

but I don't really know you.

We always love hearing from you to tell us what moves you or what questions you have

So show me an email at noam at Jewish unpfact.com and your email might even get featured on the show in my

favorite segment Israel Nurtalk which is at the end of every episode. Okay yala let's do this. We the people of Israel 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 elsewhere say it's impossible to make peace within

the Arabs in the Israel of the Turkish people.

I think they're home.

Remember May 2021, gorgeous weather, COVID vaccines, deadly violence in the Middle East.

One of the most significant evenings of tension that Jerusalem has seen in several years.

According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, more than 200 people were injured.

The hostilities in Israel continuing for yet another day as terrorist organization Hamas

showing no signs of slowing its rocket barrage on Israeli civilians. With the weight of the Israeli Air Force on top of them, there is

nowhere safe to run. Depressing as this sounds, it got worse. As buildings in

Gaza collapse and Israeli families fled

rocket fire for the first time in Israel's history as a state, citizen turned

against citizen. In the mixed cities of Aco and Lod, Arabs set fire to synagogues. Jews

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