What The Heck Is Going On In Israel?

Unpacking Israeli History

Unpacked

Judaism, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

The news coming out of Israel is scaring and confusing all of us. Is Sheikh Jarrah a housing dispute, or something bigger? Who is responsible for the protests and riots all over the country? Why are thousands of rockets being launched, and what does it mean for the region? What is going on?? Here at Unpacking Israeli History, we’re here to make sense of the present by exploring the past. Our goal is always to explore the questions of Israeli history — to really get to know the stories, including the confusing grey areas, and to make meaning of the present. To be transparent, and give the real context to the complicated, messy world of Israel, which has a few warts perhaps, but is also full of wonders. Only with that nuanced approach will we really understand Israeli history, and only when we understand that history will we be able to understand the very textured Israeli present. ~~~~ The Unpacking Israeli History Podcast series is sponsored by Andrea and Larry Gill ~~~~ Learn more about Unpacked: https://jewishunpacked.com/about/ Visit Unpacked on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/unpacked ~~~~ Unpacked is a division of OpenDor Media

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Noam Weisman, and you're listening to unpacking Israeli history, the
0:07.9	podcast that takes a deep dive into some of the most intense, historically fascinating and often misunderstood events and stories surrounding
0:15.9	Israeli history.
0:17.9	Shechjara, many of us probably had not heard of this Jerusalem neighborhood before
0:22.3	May of 2021. And now we're hyper-focused
0:26.1	on questions surrounding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Why is there an eviction? Is this
0:31.6	a housing dispute or something else? How is any of this related to
0:35.2	Hamas suddenly shooting rockets from Gaza? These are excellent questions, but to
0:40.3	be fair, my take is that precisely in the heat of the moment, we don't want to raise the temperature.
0:47.2	My style is to take a step back and ask, how did we get here? What do I need to know? What is the history?
0:54.0	We're deep in the weeds prepping season two, working on episodes about critical events in Israel's history,
1:00.0	and topics that are often unexplored, like Sovereign Chateila, the 1982 massacre of Palestinian
1:06.6	civilians in a refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon. Many blame Israel for this, but that seems overly simplistic.
1:14.0	What is the real story?
1:16.0	And UN Resolution 3379 passed in 1975 in which the United Nations declared that, quote,
1:23.0	Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination.
1:27.0	This topic seems quite relevant right now.
1:29.0	These are intense topics.
1:31.0	We know.
1:32.0	We call these sorts of topics the eye of the storm and we think
1:36.0	it's just so important to learn history in order to understand the present. But we couldn't
1:42.3	wait until the new season to record something because as we speak
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