Origins of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict Part I: to 1949 

As an Israeli, I hope we will all be able to gather together and learn about our history and discuss our disputes without violence

It is my opinion that Israel should annex the whole Westbank and give the people there full citizenship. With all duties and rights. Then it would still be a jewish-majority land and this crisis would be solved once and for all!

You need a stronger voice and following. All the best dear friend

My Father in 47 was "Palastinian" by nationality -it was on his pasport-but we are Jews Jews didnt adopted this bicause the Romans calld Jews Palastinians to humiliate tham "Palash" in Hebrew means invadors-Jews calld the Greek invadors simply "Polshim" or "Plishtim"(invadors) and the Romans "used" that "against" Jews

i don’t get why some peaceful palestinians even want to identify as palestinian when all their “history” or their identity is built on jew hate..

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Check out Rasheed Khalidi - the 100 years’ war on Palestine. There are videos about it and it’s a book.

This is by far not comprohensive my brother. Example: 25:45 He mentioned the Arab attack on Israel after its creation in May 1948. But zero mention of what was happening in the months prior to the creation of the state: systematic attacks on Arab populations to kill and displace as many Arabs as possible in order to secure as much land as possible for the D-day. Simply put: ethnic cleansing.

Just another pick-and-choose "historian" who aims to serve a colonial narrative.

@relhage100 you should have explained a bit more. To me some suspicion arose.

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You also forgot promises made to Russia before the revolution took place. They would have access to the Mediterranean sea. The British and the French historically did not want Russia to have access to the Mediterranean. That was the reason for the Crimean war.

@@enriquehidalgo630more history I need to learn about so many layers

I can’t keep up 🥴 so much was going on

Outstanding presentation. Of course there are many components of the matter that were not touched on including British economic interests and oil which impacted events in the region. Still this is a great step forward in clearing up lots of confusion and ignorance.

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Yea, almost nobody discusses this as black and white.

Thank for the very kind words.

Agreed ...an excellent overview and summary of the key issues for that area. Very well done.

The term "Palestine" first appeared in the 5th century BCE when the ancient Greek historian Herodotus wrote of a "district of Syria, called Palaistinê"

@@salimegypt6277NOT! The Emperor Hadrian renamed Israel Syria Palestina AFTER THEY SACKED JERUSALEM FOR THE LAST TIME AND MURDERED MORE JEWS!

but he doesnt know geography - he thinks the jordan river is on the west of Israel....

Thanks for the kind words-planning at least two more videos on this topic.

unfortunately nothing about the reasons why the British gave up the Mandate. Zionist terrorism forced them to leave.

Salam, Shlomo, Shalom, Peace. Look Into The Israeli Soldiers Eyes, Voice & Body Language, When He Claimed He Just Happened To Find Hamas Riffles Around The Corner, In The Hospital, He Was Lying.

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Thank you-I look forward to your comments on the next two videos.

Imagine the naivety needed to think that a partitioned Palestine would be a viable solution Even Belgians cannot live in harmony between the French and Dutch speakers Now think of the craziest , most irrational Arabs as neighbours

@@alfredopampanga9356Let's take all the "moderate" Palestinians and give them a state. Name one, of the 22 Arab countries, that is a stable, peaceful democracy. There is no reason to believe Palestinians will do any better. There is every reason to believe that they will become a corrupt bunch of gangsters, led by whoever can build the strongest militia. In other words, Gaza 2.0.

@@alfredopampanga9356Belgium lives pretty harmoniously tbh

@@navyrotc2012 Not exactly. There’s talk of secession of French speakers , strife over the usual petty perceived slights

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You reminded me of when I visited the war museum in Dubrovnik and the man working there told me that they felt they did a good job curating the museum pieces because both Serbians and Croatians were upset that the other side was treated too fairly.

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There is no “modern discourse” sadly in academics. The opinions you should have are pre-determined and any questioning of the narratives perpetuated by the far left are cancelled and shouted down.

these days it’s a lol about what’s woke and isn’t… the internet and tiktok has really made people fucking dumb

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Thanks for the kind words; I try to do precisely what you describe here.

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What are you using to learn hebrew. its on my list to pick it up again. But I havent' done any since I was a child.

That is such a weird comment you spending 24 hours a day learning Hebrew ain't got an hour or two for history weird

@@CountryFriedCracka Ah the cringe of social media

@@gabrielmondragon7317 I'm still trying to understand how a half hour video conflicts with your learning Hebrew schedule. Were you looking for a attaboy here you go attaboy

@@CountryFriedCracka Ah, I see. I'm currently in University, going for a bachelors, so my time budget is rather spoken for. I don't require an attaboy from someone who assumed but could not comprehend the possibility of this explanation, and felt I was obligated to explain my time demands to a stranger on the internet. With all due respect to Dr. Henry Abramson, as I love his work and have been a fan for years, I am a goy, so the history of the Jewish people isn't as high a priority for me as it would be if I were Jewish. I have a list of other data to consume above his content that has more practical application. His work is a luxury.

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Working on that right now

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Thanks for the kind words. I hope the next two videos will meet your expectations!

Well said

I forget what books i read years ago, but there are a number of critical, unbiased books out there that simply provide all the information without inserting any kind of opinions from the author and letting you draw your own conclusion based on it.

Well, Yes. There used to be reasonable discourse surrounding the subject including multiple attempts by world leaders to legitimize a Palestinian state. The violent polarization and partisanship is a new phenomena but sadly not surprising since that’s the case with almost every topic

Many details omitted for the sake of a concise narrative.

@@HenryAbramsonPhD but this is a very important detail, and much more relevant that literal ancient history (which to your credit, you did address as being not relevant to the current conflict).

Thank you. I intend to pick up on the implications of the Nakba in the next video.

When I was a kid visiting Egypt in the 90s, there were still a few older Jews around. These were the guys who identified themselves more as Egyptian I guess. The Jews who moved to Israel from Egypt will usually emphasize the anti Semitism, which is certainly very palpable in Egypt. The ones who chose to stay would emphasize their patriotism, service in the Egyptian military, etc. There was also a sizable group that went to France. What I heard from them was often along the lines of, why would I go to Israel, do I look like a kibbutz farmer? Anyway, the Jewish community in Egypt had a long and glorious history. I’m pretty bummed that it’s gone. I remember when I was a kid there was a German Jewish guy who said that the price of Israel was the end of the Jewish identity in Egypt, and I remember thinking who decided that this price was worth it? European Jews? Did they ask the Jews in Egypt? 🇪🇬✡️🇺🇸

I also recommend Avi Shlaim in the MiddleEastEye interview. He's an Iraqi jew from Baghdad who fled to Israel when he was 5 years old at the time. Very interesting story as well.

Thank you-I recommend starting with Professor Kramer’s book.

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You are sadly correct

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Bless you sir

I’m glad you appreciate them. This one was especially difficult.

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The term "Palestine" first appeared in the 5th century BCE when the ancient Greek historian Herodotus wrote of a "district of Syria, called Palaistinê" between ...

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More planned.

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Valid considerations. See Kramer for a lucid discussion.

Interestingly enough, the Jews bought a lot of swampland and desert land that hadn’t been developed into farmland. Also something to consider, the documentation and observations were that the land was mostly empty until the emigrations of Jews and Arabs. The land wasn’t known as the most abundant nor the most fertile of lands either. It is unlikely that any developed farmland was widely affordable to refugees, and given pan-Arab nationalism, it’s even more unlikely to see large fertile farmland sold to Jews at the time.

Not long ago I saw a map of areas with high malaria morbidity rates in the territory, and they almost all coincided with Jewish owned areas. As a side note, it is known that Jewish Palestinians greatly contributed to research and innovation in regards to combating malaria while they drained the swamps to develop the land.

Dr. Abramson is not a Rabbi, he's a Historian.

@@Long-Ball-Larry The definition of a rabbi is "a Jewish scholar or teacher, especially one who studies or teaches Jewish law." I would say he qualifies.

@@robertdean1579 I get your point, even though I'd say being ordained is an important part of being a Rabbi as well, at least traditionally. However he doesn't teach "Jewish law" (Halacha), meaning he's not a religious teacher - he teaches Jewish history in an academic framework, not a religious one. More importantly Dr. Abramson points out in several of his videos that he''s NOT a Rabbi - assuming he doesn't want to be called a Rabbi for the simple reason it's not appropriate. He has an academic title though - so why not use that?

@@Long-Ball-Larry Point taken. I've only seen two of his videos so far.

To anyone new to Dr. Abramson’s videos, he is an unmatched wealth of history. Dr has himself said on previous videos that he does not consider himself a rabbi, and does as a historian. If you believe that anyone with a black kipah and a white beard, suit and tie is a rabbi, take this as a note, that’s a false assumption

Thank you. Parts two and three coming.

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Well, thank you!

@@HenryAbramsonPhD you really are great.

Just Google, or type into your browser searchbox: Read the Peel Commission

This shouldn’t be a start! The Jewish people have been living on the land for thousands of years. The archaeological and scientific evidence is undeniable.

​@@uria702so have the indigenous Palestinians in fact even longer than Israel and his family that were in Egypt for 400 years in fact Judaism was created at Mount Sinai in Egypt Jews held the land for short periods at a time and continuously got ran out as I'm sure it's going to happen again because of the refusal to live by international norms

​@@uria702just like there are many different native American tribes not One tribe gets preference over another or has rightful claim

@@CountryFriedCracka that’s delusional. Israel has the second largest stock of nuclear weapons in the world and the most technologically advanced military in the world and conscripted service for all men and woman which gives them millions of soldiers at their disposal. You think they’re gonna lay down arms and give up? Their biggest ally has the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons and is the most powerful military in the world and just voted 421-1 to continue supporting their war efforts. To actually believe Palestinians stand any chance to go to war with Israel and the U.S. and win is insanity. It’s an even stupider claim than the claim native Americans will take up arms and overthrow the U.S. government. It’s a decree of certain death on the Palestinian people to have echo chambers of Islamic extremism triumphing over western militaries.

@@uria702 what the f*** are you talking about. First of all Israel only has approximately 5 million citizens 20% are Arab. Second Russia has the most nuclear and the most advanced nuclear technology then the United States Israel don't even admit to having nuclear weapons.

I hope to discuss it in greater detail in the next video.

@@HenryAbramsonPhD I'm very much looking forward to that. I'm grateful that you make your knowledge of Jewish history available on RU-vid; your online content has pretty much revolutionized my understanding of the Bible.

Salam, Shlomo, Shalom, Peace. Look Into The Israeli Soldiers Eyes, Voice & Body Language, When He Claimed He Just Happened To Find Hamas Riffles Around The Corner, In The Hospital, He Was Lying.

Amen

Over the years I have heard some of your lectures and the strength of your demeanor and scholarship has been a rich and gracious blessing to me…..

You are welcome-part 2 coming soon

@@HenryAbramsonPhD looking forward to it!

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We have Nations and we have international rules in order to resolve disputes. We have traditions and believes. Anyway it is useful to remember the Story of the two children quarrelling because they desire to sit on the same chair. When children grow up they may find out that it is not the Earth that belongs to people, but the people who belongs to the Earth while in a physical body: people borrow the Earth’s molecules in order to build up their physical bodies. And if they learn to cohexist in peace, to be good neighbors, they may both live a joyful Life. That means that they have to look at each other, hear to each other, get known with each other, understand each other, respect each other, help each other. It is very important to look at facts, at history without wearing colored glass, so thank you very much for this series of lectures about palestinian-israeli conflict 🍀🕊️

Thank you. Yes, the Romans chose the term ironically--what better than naming the territory after the Jews' biblical enemies? And I tried to include the discussion of expulsions through the reference to atrocities (and the rumor of atrocities). More on that in the next video.

The Philistines were a Grecian group from Crete who disappeared after they were assimilated by the Neo- Babylonians. They weren't Arabs. Their ancient territory only contained a fraction of what became the area called "Palestine". There is plenty of conflicting evidence of what caused the Palestinian exodus, so none of it is definitive or provable. At around the same time, 800,000 Jews were expelled from the Arab lands with nowhere to go but Israel, so one can argue that it was a wash.

A very valuable observation.

There are at least three versions of the phrase that go back to the 1980s. One of them ends "Palestine will be free," still problematic but open to a moderate interpretation. The other two are less ambiguous: من المياه للمياه / فلسطين عربية (Palestine will be Arabic) and فلسطين إسلامية (Palestine will be Muslim).

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yes i just made a comment stating this same thing. The ashkenazi jews oppressed and threatened the native jews(didnt matter of they were white or dark skinned), and made them break contact with all their muslim friends and oppress them and refuse help to them. Much of the land that was bought "legally" was bought legally in much the same way that the maui lahaina land is going to be bought "legally"...which is to say by very nefarious means

the right-wing religious Zionist government ministers are basically going to be kicked out by the end of the war because of the role they played in starting it, the expansion of settlements, etc. they do represent a small section of Israeli society but understand that they do not represent the views of most Israelis, they simply played their parliamentary cards right and forced a secular right winger, Netanyahu, to give them power in order for him to stay in power. religious zionists would be against a two state, just like hamas, but even Right-wing Likud could be pushed into a two-state solution under the right conditions.

Firstly... Palestinians have a right to live in that land without oppression, Exodus 22 v 21 and Leviticus ch 19 v 33-34, but Islamic Fundamentalist ideology and Jihadism and Arab Anti-semiticism are also reasons which have historically made groups attack. Jews were subjected to being inferior as dhimmis, Muhammad, the founder of Islam said the following: "The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews , when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdullah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Among the lies being spread is an effort to undermine Israel’s legitimacy by accusing it of being a settler-colonial state. Those spreading this lie argue that Jews have no historical connection to the land of Israel and that Zionists - those who support the right of Jewish self-determination and national homeland in the land of Israel - came to colonize the land, taking it from the Palestinians beginning in the late nineteenth century. However, this claim ignores the thousands of years of deep connection between the Jewish people and the Land of Israel. The Lord promised a regathering of the nation of Israel, after diaspora judgement and the city of Jerusalem as he had sworn it unto Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Israel), Jeremiah 31 v 38-40, Amos ch 9 v 11-15, Genesis 35 v 12, Exodus 32 v 13, Deuteronomy 1 v 8, Deuteronomy 30 v 1-5 and Joshua 21 v 43. Luke 21 v 24 says: 24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations. Well guess what? Israel as a nation is no longer under Roman or Muslim control. Timeline of Israel and Jerusalem from the 7th Century to 1948: Romans, Byzantines, Persians, Caliph Omar, Umayyads, Abbasids, Saladin, Crusaders, Mamluks, Ottomans and British have all laid claim over Israel and historic record of massacres and pogroms for all Jews without a homeland, including the Holocaust worldwide up until 1948 and still continuing, including October 7th 2023.. Diaspora Jews yearned to return to the Jewish homeland and the holy Jewish city of Jerusalem, both of which are mentioned multiple times in daily Jewish prayers. Traditional Jewish religious thought stated that the Jews had been exiled from their homeland as a punishment from God. They could only return in Messianic times. This belief kept most Jews from thinking about a return to living in Israel. But, in the nineteenth century, as European Jews suffered from growing antisemitism and violence against them, a new ideology was born - Zionism, a national liberation movement of the Jewish people. Zionists saw a return to the Jewish homeland as the path to Jewish redemption from thousands of years of oppression. Small groups of Zionist pioneers began returning to their ancient homeland in the late nineteenth century, joining the community of Jews who had never left. Jews consist of much diversity aside from European Jews or Russians and Ukranians: "Thus, among such Mizrahim there are Iranian Jews, Iraqi Jews, Egyptian Jews, Sudanese Jews, Tunisian Jews, Algerian Jews, Moroccan Jews, Lebanese Jews, Libyan Jews, Syrian Jews, and various others. Other Asian groups that evolved separately from Sephardim include the Georgian and Mountain Jews from the Caucasus, Indian Jews including the Malabar Yehuddim (Cochin Jews), Bene Israel, Bnei Menashe and Bene Ephraim, the Afghan Jews and Bukharan Jews of Central Asia, and Chinese Jews, most notably the Kaifeng Jews. Palestinian forces, though not all people, having largely Islamically inspired have been involved in the 1947-1948 Civil War against Israel (which they lost) which picked up in aggression in January 1948, after the U.N. Resolution for a partition of the Land of Israel. They were also involved in The 1948 Israel-Arab war, when 5 Arab nations which attacked the newly formed Israel after its statehood Declaration lost the war. The PLO were founded prior to the 1967 Six Day War and they openly engaged in acts of violence against Israeli civilians, both within Israel and outside of Israel. The PLO formally came into being during a 1964 meeting of the first Palestinian Congress. Shortly thereafter, the group began to splinter into various factions. Ultimately, the largest faction, Fatah, would come to dominate the organization, and its leader, Yasser Arafat, would become the PLO chairman and most visible symbol. All the groups adhered to a set of principles laid out in the Palestine National Charter, which called for Israel’s destruction. The PLO’s belligerent rhetoric was matched by deeds. Terrorist attacks by the group grew more frequent. In 1965, 35 raids were conducted against Israel. In 1966, the number increased to 41. In just the first four months of 1967, 37 attacks were launched. The targets were always civilians. Most of the attacks involved Palestinian guerillas infiltrating Israel from Jordan, the Gaza Strip, and Lebanon. The orders and logistical support for the attacks were coming, however, from Cairo and Damascus.. 1973 Yom Kippur War: The war began on 6 October 1973, when the Arab coalition (led by Egypt and Syria) jointly launched a surprise attack against Israel on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, which had occurred during the 10th day of the Islamic month of Ramadan. The October 7th 2023 Al Asqa Flood Attack comes roughly 50 years and a day after the 1973 war. Why would this all matter? Jesus is now the new High Priest for Jew and Gentile but man and Satan would still want to nullify God's promises and covenants to Jews and salvation for them, one tactic being to keep them constantly hostile, at war and unforgiving, Jesus says unless you forgive you cannot be forgiven, Matthew 6 v 14-15. Secondly, if nuclear war were to break out and destroy every human on the planet virtually, then future Prophecies regarding Israel, such as the Millennial Reign or Jesus coming to defend Jerusalem, Joel chapter 3, Zechariah 12 and Zechariah 14 might be rendered invalid

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​@@HenryAbramsonPhD An honest thank you for walking through this without biases and judgements. I have an enquiry into your point of view regarding following: 9:32 I agree that we muslims do not accept torah or bible fully, but only those parts which corroborate with Quran. Muslims believe in Moses (as) as much as Jews and Christians do. And then Islam goes on to further follow the next orders of Abrahamic faith. So doesn't the 'sons of Judea' become applicable to both Christians and Muslims in eqaul right. How do Jews (and Zionists) see this point? And has history ever considered this argument?

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Thank you. Sometimes I just ignore the silly comments.

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