The Second Intifada: Trauma and Tragedy

Unpacking Israeli History

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🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

To appreciate the current Israeli and Palestinian psyches, it’s vital to understand the first five years of the 21st century — the period of the Second Intifada. Noam Weissman gets to the heart of the issue and asks why this serious attempt at peace between Israel and the Palestinians ended in one of the bloodiest periods in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and how the effects of those defining years are still felt to this day. ~~~~ The Unpacking Israeli History Podcast series is sponsored by Andrea and Larry GillThis episode is sponsored by Dr. Neil and Pam Weissman ~~~~ Learn more about Unpacked: https://jewishunpacked.com/about/ Visit Unpacked on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/unpacked Teaching about this topic? Check out our relevant educator resources here: https://unpacked.education/video/the-second-intifada/ ~~~~ Sources: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/background-and-overview-of-al-aqsa-intifada https://web.archive.org/web/20050310043812/http://jewishweek.org/news/newscontent.php3?artid=3846 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb5fIP-MfAc https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Arafat-ordered-Hamas-attacks-against-Israel-in-2000-189574 https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Suha-Arafat-admits-husband-premeditated-Intifada https://www.timesofisrael.com/we-were-in-a-craze-to-see-blood/ https://web.archive.org/web/20150526210520/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4570672.html https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/background-and-overview-of-israel-s-security-fence https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-mohammed-al-dura-case http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3677206.stm https://2001-2009.state.gov/p/nea/rls/22698.htm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3677206.stm https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-middle-east-quartet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_map_for_peace http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3677206.stm https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-temple-mount#aksa ~~~~ Unpacked is a division of OpenDor Media

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Norm Weisman, and you're listening to unpacking Israeli history,
0:04.0	the podcast that takes a deep dive into some of the most intense,
0:07.6	historically fascinating, and confusing events in Israeli history.
0:12.0	All that in just about 20 minutes. Yala, let's do this. We the people of Israel are people in Israel.
0:25.0	We, the people of Israel, are prepared and anxious to meet the representatives of our neighbors without any preconditions.
0:36.0	There are people in Israel elsewhere say it's impossible to make peace within the Arabs and Israel of the Jewish people.
0:45.0	I think they're home.
0:49.0	The spring of 2002 was a defining period for me. As a junior in high school I was not so unique
0:55.8	three things were on my mind, my basketball team, my social life, and awaiting my
1:01.2	SAT results.
1:02.9	And in the spirit of oversharing,
1:04.6	my first SAT scores were nothing to write home about.
1:08.8	In the spring of 2002, something else happened
1:10.9	that changed my identity forever.
1:13.4	My parents decided that our family should fly to Israel for the Passover holiday
1:17.6	to visit our extended family and also to see my older brother Hanan who was spending a year
1:22.4	in Israel after high school.
1:24.8	But following the tradition of Manishtana, this Passover was going to look different
1:29.6	than all of my previous Passovers.
1:32.3	In synagogue, the morning after the first night of
1:35.2	Passover, every single person looked like a ghost. What was it, I wondered?
1:41.2	Whisper's, tears, what was going on?
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