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Before visiting Palestine, I had no knowledge about it until I turned 18. It's concerning how our education system and media fail to provide a balanced understanding of the situation. Initially, I had some idea about Palestine, but the reality is far worse than I imagined.
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Speaker 0: Did you have one opinion of that situation before you went there and then a different one after you came back?
Speaker 1: Well, I didn't even know what Palestine was until I was 18 years old. So when people say, oh, you're only telling us one side of the story. Look, I didn't know the Palestine side of the story until I was an adult, which really should say something about our education system and our media when you completely obfuscate an entire reality and are only told one side. But before I went there, I I I, you know, I had a a a conception of what it was, but once you go, you really see how much worse it is. So this is
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I was raised by my great grandmother, a Holocaust survivor who lost her entire extended family. She never supported the State of Israel because she believed it was wrong to inflict on others what was done to the Jewish people. She saw the state and the Zionists as becoming what they had once fought against. As a woman raised Jewish, it's unpopular for me to say this, but I no longer believe in the faith. However, the Jewish people are still my family.
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Speaker 0: I was raised by the oldest, angriest Jewish woman alive, and her entire extended family was exterminated in the holocaust. And that was my great grandmother. She made it out in time, but her family didn't. And it's for that reason that to this day, we still don't know the names of some of them. We don't know if we still have existing family in Europe.
We just we don't know. And we'll never know. And one of the things that she always told me is that she never supported the State of Israel because how could you take what was done to the people in the Holocaust? How could you take what was done to them knowing it was done to you, to your people? How could you do that to someone else?
And that's what the state of Israel is doing. That's what the Zionists are doing. They have taken what was inflicted on the Jewish people as a whole, and they're now doing that to someone else. They ran so hard from the Nazis that they became the f Nazis. And that's, that's a really unpopular thing to say, as a woman who was raised Jewish.
Now I don't I've had my own issues. I don't I don't personally believe in the faith of Judaism anymore, but those are my people. That's my whole family.
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The Empire Files team traveled to the West Bank and Palestine, witnessing a severe human rights disaster caused by a growing military occupation supported by US funding. The largest military aid deal in history, worth $38 billion, will further strengthen this occupation. The mainstream media's portrayal of Palestine is often biased, presenting Israel as a peaceful country under threat from Muslims. However, the reality on the ground is very different. To understand the current situation, it is important to examine the history of Palestine. The Zionist movement, seeking an exclusively Jewish state, claimed rights to Palestine based on ancient biblical kingdoms. Zionist settlers began purchasing land in the late 1800s, leading to tension and conflict with the indigenous Arab population. British colonial control and the Balfour Declaration further facilitated the Zionist project, resulting in the dispossession of Palestinians and the growth of settlements. The Palestinians launched an armed uprising against British rule in 1936, which was brutally suppressed, leading to thousands of Palestinian deaths. The Zionist armed forces, including the Haganah and the more radical Irgun, were formed during this period. The Irgun carried out terrorist attacks, including the bombing of the King David Hotel. Albert Einstein and other Jewish intellectuals compared the Irgun to Nazi and fascist parties.
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Speaker 0: For 2 weeks, the Empire Files team traveled the West Bank and Palestine. What we saw was one of the biggest human rights disasters on the planet, A brutal and growing military occupation that thrives off US sponsorship. Soon to be strengthened even more by another 38,000,000,000 in US tax dollars. The largest military aid deal in history. This stark reality is never taught to us in school.
And whenever we do hear about Palestine signed in the media. Might as well be directly from the Pentagon. It's a place the majority of Americans only get a firsthand look at on so called birthright tours, which Sell Israel as a fun, peace loving country, living under threat of genocide from Muslims. The side we saw was very, very different. But the truth is actually much clearer.
And before we show you what we saw on the ground, we must go back to understand the real history of how things got to where they are today. Many people have seen this famous map showing the ever shrinking borders of Palestine. But likely far less people could explain why the borders have changed so dramatically. Each phase and the stories behind them are essential pieces to a puzzle that we're told is just too complicated. 1st, How did these original borders of Palestine form from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea?
The countries of the modern Middle East were once the same swath of Territory owned by the Ottoman Empire. Of the nearly 500,000 people living in Ottoman Palestine, 75% were Muslim, 20% Christian, and 5% Jewish. Nearly 100% were Arab. Its cities, especially Jerusalem, were buzzing hives of Arab art and culture, A destination for intellectuals across the Middle East. Before Palestine had borders, it was a recognizable nation.
Its cultural identity is distinct, with deep roots in the land. But plans for that land were being made elsewhere in the world. In the late 1800, it was being eyed to be colonized. In the United States, Europe, and Russia, anti semitism was a dangerous and growing force. Mob killings of Jewish People were a regular occurrence.
In this climate of terror began what is known as Zionism, or the belief in an exclusively Jewish state to be established Somewhere in the world. From its founding through the first half of the twentyth century, the Zionists remain an extremely small minority among Jewish people. The ideology was rejected by both religious and secular Jewish people, who agreed that anti semitism was a great danger, but that they should organize to Feeded in their home countries rather than by mass exodus to another people's land. Many argue that exporting entire Jewish populations from Europe was an essence guessing to the demands of anti semites. But Zionism, however marginalized, became a fervent political movement led by its proclaimed father, Theodore Herzl, an Austrian atheist.
While first considering Argentina and Uganda as a homeland, the Zionist movement Claimed rights to what it called greater Israel, which includes all of Palestine and part of today's Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, and Egypt. Their right to this land was based on the ancient biblical kingdoms of the old testament, which disappeared 600 years before the birth of Jesus. Herzl's job became jet setting around the world lobbying those in power he thought would be sympathetic to his project. The Zionists, more than anything, Needed money to fund settlements, and ultimately, a decree from the world's colonial powers. Herzl wrote to the grand duke of If it is God's will that we return to our historic fatherland, we should like to do so as representatives of western civilization, and bring cleanliness, This order and well established customs to this plague ridden, blighted corner of the orient.
The early Zionists It's promised to make Palestine a vanguard against barbarism, AKA an extension of western military power. And build Highways of the civilized peoples, AKA, trade for European millionaires. The center of the campaign for Before the creation of Israel was the slogan, a land without a people, for a people without a land. The assertion that there were no people in Palestine prior to Zionist settlements became the keystone of their policies. They were always very well aware of the people there.
In the words of another leading Zionist, Israel Zangwill, Palestine is not so much occupied by the Arabs as overrun by them. From its inception, political Zionism was not only a plan for colonization and expansion, but one of expulsion of the land's indigenous inhabitants. Much of historic Palestine was semi feudal, with farmers living and working on land owned by wealthy individuals who lived far away in fancy cities of Syria and Jordan. Zionist settlers began purchasing this land in 18/82. Many evicted its indigenous people to build the first settlements.
Despite Jews, Muslims, and Christians living in relative harmony for 1000 of years, this sprouted immediate tension and conflict. With the Zionist project getting a slow start, a new opportunity presented itself with the outbreak of World War one. Herzl and his partners knew the victors would be Placing up the colonies of the losers, which included Palestine. Aristocrats from Great Britain, France, and Russia were secretly Carbing up the Middle East amongst themselves. The infamous Sykes Picot agreement drew new borders, creating Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and the first Formal borders of Palestine.
It was put under British colonial control. Riots in Jerusalem protested the takeover by yet another empire. With Ottoman Palestine becoming British Mandate Palestine, the Zionist movement had won a major step. With the flick of a wrist, A small group of British lords issued the Balfour Declaration, pledging to help achieve this objective. The British made it much easier for well funded settlement projects to take poor Palestinian land, dispossessing even more people.
Yet Zionists aim for a homeland in all of greater Israel without the indigenous Arabs was still In 1919, a US envoy reported, the Zionists look forward to a practically complete dispossession of The present non Jewish inhabitants of Palestine. Settlers have now become 10% of the population, growing with large Nations from western tycoons. The settlements had already created a refugee crisis. This photo from 1929 depicts a rally in Syria of Palestinian refugees, Jeez. Of which there were 50,000.
With this new backing, the colonial project picked up its pace, purchasing even larger chunks of earth The feudal landlords in creating small pockets of territory. Leader in the settlement movement, Ben Gurion, who would become Israel's 1st prime minister and mascot for Tel Aviv's airport wrote about the early days. We were not just working. We were conquering, conquering, conquering land. We were a company of conquistadors.
From 1920 to 1939, the settler population rose From 10 to 30%, and there was no confusion about what they were there to do. As Gurion himself said, we must Spell the Arabs and take their places. Throughout these years, Palestinians launched several attacks on the encroaching settlements. Big clashes between settlers and Palestinians in cities grew deadly, killing many on both sides. But an era of wildly Proportion of death was about to begin.
In 1936, the Palestinians launched a mass general strike. Protests Lit up in numerous cities, and the strike held strong for 6 months. While initially peaceful, the British occupiers responded by Clearing martial law. They recruited Zionist fighters to join them in raiding and attacking Palestinian villages. Scores of dissidents were executed.
The strike evolved into an armed uprising against British rule. The British, along with their Zionist partners, used a strategy of blowing Thousands of Palestinian homes. In a single day, in the village of Jaffa, they demolished over 200. This uprising was drowned in blood by the sheer force of the British imperial machine by 1939. 5,000 Palestinians were left dead.
On the other side, 300 settlers and 250 British soldiers. It was through this bloody repression the Zionists formed a bonafide armed forces with 1,000 The them who were trained and armed by the British army. In reality, it consisted of 2 wings. The Haganah, the official military force recognized by British authorities. And the other, a more radical wing, the Zionist militias.
The biggest, the With membership in the 1,000. The Irgun was a more hard line terrorist organization that mostly targeted Palestinians, Bombing civilian markets and more. Years later, they would also start attacking British soldiers. Their most famous attack was the bombing of the King David Hotel, Murdering 91 people. Among them, 17 Jews.
This ruthless approach of the Irgun was so popular in the settler consciousness, That one of its head commanders, who presided over many massacres, would later become prime minister of Israel, Menechim Begun. Albert Einstein and dozens of other Jewish academics and icons published a letter in the New York Times describing Beginnings movement as a political party Mostly akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy, and social appeal to the Nazi and fascist parties.
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I am not pulling my perspective on Israel Palestine out of thin air. I have studied and researched this extensively. As a Jewish woman raised by a Zionist family, I have overcome my pro-Israel bias to see the viciousness and violence of the Zionist state. My college experience and coursework on Israeli-Palestinian politics further solidified my pro-Palestine stance. This conflict is not as complicated as people make it out to be. It stems from Britain and the US wanting to exploit Palestine for military labor and land colonization. The establishment of Israel was never intended as a gift for Jews, but rather a trap to exploit the land and its people. Israel's actions over the years amount to a genocide, slowly exhausting and harming the Palestinian population while benefiting the primary stakeholders.
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Speaker 0: Okay. It feels important to say this. I am not pulling my perspective on Israel Palestine out of my ass. Okay? I'm not just guessing that Israel is committing a genocide against Palestine.
I have studied and researched this. I have bona fides, and I will share them. First of all, I'm a Jewish woman. I was raised by a Zionist family. My grandfather was a holocaust survivor.
My family talks about our spirit of resistance and resilience constantly. Desiring goodness from the nation of Israel is in my blood, and still, I can see that this Zionist state is vicious, violent, and evil. If someone who was raised by a Zionist family, by people who believe that Israel has the right to exist, and that it is our salvation. If I can overcome my pro Israel bias and learn about this conflict, so can you. And frankly, I should not be calling it a conflict.
It's a genocide. So when I was in college around 2012, 2013, a bunch of my friends and loved ones started going on birthright trips. And I knew enough then to ask the question when they got back from the birthright trips, what about Palestine? And when these people I love, admire, and respect, started talking about Palestinians and using language like terrorists, I knew I had to learn more. I also knew that I wanted to go on birthright, and I was nervous about being brainwashed by the trip, and I should have been nervous.
So before I went on birthright, I decided at my small liberal arts school in Massachusetts to get a well rounded perspective, educational perspective on Israeli Palestinian politics. I took 4 courses, suffering and evil in the Jewish tradition, the Jewish experienced, Middle East politics and Arab Israeli conflict. I also took international comparative politics courses that often brought up Israel and Palestine in comparisons to, for example, apartheid South Africa. And by the time I finished my ample coursework on the subject, before I went on birthright, I was already pro Palestine. Because once you are in the literature, once you are in the research, not the media stories about this, not the pro just rigmarole on CNN and MSNBC.
Once you are in the literature and the data, this isn't a debate. This isn't a question. People talk about Israel Palestine like it is incredibly complicated, and I reject that premise. It is not. We know that antisemitism exists globally.
Right? We know that Jews are not the most beloved population in the world. We know that Britain has a colonial history, and they have taking on colonial projects even through the 20th 21st centuries. Essentially, Britain already wanted to colonize Palestine, so did the United States. And at the end of World War 2, Britain and the US got to talking, and they thought, who do we want to exploit for military labor, someplace that is surrounded by brown people, so that we can rape and pillage land that we don't currently have access to.
Where is one part of the globe we haven't effectively colonized yet? And there was Palestine. And Britain had been trying to colonize Palestine already. And so this was passed off to Jews who had just survived the Holocaust as a gift. Here, we're granting you this parcel of land so that you and your progeny can exist in peace and not be violated anymore.
Congratulations. Except that land already belong someone. Palestinians were already living there, and the US and Britain didn't give a shit about the well-being of Jews. They didn't care. This wasn't a gift for Jews.
This was always intended to be a trap of you do our military labor for us. We'll put you here, and we'll grant you this parcel of land that already belongs someone that there are already people on, and in return, you will rape and pillage that land for us, and we'll just all share in the wealth. And it might be a good idea too if, like, your higher population were to, you know, have conscripted military service, so you can really defend that land that is yours, totally totally yours, Bucko. And if you see who has emerged as the political leadership of Israel over the last few generations, this won't surprise you. This insidiousness will not surprise you.
This is how you get Benjamin Netanyahu, someone who absolutely agrees to the premise of Israel as a Zionist ethnonationalist state, who says, we are here for one thing and one thing only, is to get garner as much wealth from this earth that we have, as much tourist property from this plot of land, convert it to dollars, and build up a military so mighty, a military apparatus so great that we wind up producing the world's weaponry. Yes. We have mined this land, and we have used the land to give you war machinery so that we can all murder each other a 1000 times over. And to the people already living here, well, we'll murder them too. I took basically a semester and a half of college courses on this, and I know in my bones that what Israel is doing right now is a genocide.
It's evil. What they've been doing for the last 75 years is a genocide. It is drip violence, slow violence, protracted harm. It is meant to exhaust the civilian population of Palestine. It is meant to exhaust all Palestinians out of their will to fight.
And all the benefit, the wealth garnered from that land goes to the primary stakeholders, not the Palestinian people to whom the land originally belonged.
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We used to live together peacefully, babysitting each other's children. We stand in support of the Palestinians and feel humiliated by the Zionist occupation. They have taken our religion and use it to intimidate and silence others. Speaking out against them is labeled as anti-Semitic, but religious communities continue to oppose them.
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Speaker 0: We have a picture here even. You can see how we used to live together, and we babysat each other's children. We lived in total peace. This kind so the the the that is why the very religious around the world, we stand in total support. We hurt.
We cry with the Palestinians. We are humiliated because the Zionist took our religion, and they're using it as a tool full, to occupy, to intimidate, to silence other people because if you speak up against them, you're called anti Semitic. So we we we we the religious communities, Stay in that opposition.