Why the Nakba is key to understanding Palestinian history  

When the oppressed becomes the oppressor

Conveniently skipped the part where all Arab nations attacked the Jews right when UN made it a state lol.

This is honesty disgusting. You are feeding people lies

This is extremely shady journalism. Very important details are being left out.

I am not Jewish. Nor do I support the current Israeli policy. But this is simply not accurate history. It has omitted some key events in order to paint a certain narrative.

Y'all decided not to tell 99% of the story

"Historic Palestine" more like Historic Judea.

Fun fact: this is called "lying by omission", its essentially telling only part if the story to push the narrative that you want, for example: Say you stole something, and have had it for a week by now, if someone asks you if you stole it and you say that its yours and you can prove it because you were seen with it last week, thays called lying by omission, ik the example is prrtty bad but it kinda gets the point across, i hope

You did just skip the part where Israel did accept the UN plan, thereby becoming a real country, while Palestine did not, under pressure from other Arab states, and chose to attack Israel. Had they also accepted the plan, today perhaps the conflict would be much less one sided as both would have the sovereignty rights of a country.

Yeah let’s just skip the 1948 war completely where Egypt Syria Jordania and Palestinians arabs all declared war on Israel, and lost

Pro Israel 👇

Let’s not forget how many times the Arab states tried to attack the Jewish state and failed every single time which this video did not cover

Cycles of violence & hatred are supposed to be broken not continued.

once again, let's all thank the British Empire and European colonialism for creating war and conflict

Dont skip 3000 years of history! Who was there

Plan Dalet has been the subject of much historical debate and controversy, particularly regarding its intentions and directives toward Arab villages. The text of Plan Dalet included provisions for securing areas within the proposed Jewish state and dealing with Arab villages based on their level of hostility and strategic importance. It specified various actions that could be taken, including the possible destruction of villages that were deemed hostile or were located in strategically critical areas. The plan stated that in the case of resistance, the armed forces were to be destroyed and the population expelled outside the borders of the state. If no resistance was met, the area was to be controlled according to military considerations. In cases where hostile villages resisted or were located near Jewish settlements or vital lines of communication, the plan allowed for more severe measures, which included the destruction of the village through various means such as setting fire, blowing up buildings, and planting mines in the debris to prevent return. These aspects of Plan Dalet have led to significant interpretation variations. Some historians argue that the plan was primarily defensive, aimed at securing and holding territory expected to be part of the new state and to ensure the safety of its inhabitants. Others view it as having laid the groundwork for expelling Palestinian Arab populations from strategic areas, thus facilitating demographic changes in favor of a Jewish majority in key areas. The implementation of the plan during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War led to numerous villages being depopulated and destroyed, which has been pointed to as evidence of both interpretations.

You forgot the part where they were rejecting the proposal and starting a war against Israel 😂

Skipped the Palestinians declining the two states and the war they started. Classic Vox

It is important to note that Plan Da-l-et were implemented before the 1948 war. The Nakba had started, with the help of the Haganah and Plan Da-l-et, before the war. The upheaval this violent expulsion plan caused in the Levant region is without a doubt a main reason for the 1948 war.

There was never a country called Palestine. It's the English and the French, who carved up the Middle East. The Arabs, living under the Ottoman rule, were a tribal society, where the sliver of land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, held no significance. There was no leader, because they were not a nation. A leader only arose, when the British elevated one. That leader had no qualms about killing those who did not want war.

If you give a mouse a cookie, it’s going to ask for a glass of milk.

They never seem to mention that Palestinian territory was lost when they and other Arab states invaded Israel but ended up losing territory.

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You are confused, they were nomads during the British mandate, there was no state here, this is a historical area that belongs to the Jewish people and in practice it is bigger than it is supposed to be today. The British Mandate on behalf of the League of Nations over Palestine (the Land of Israel), known in Hebrew as the "British Mandate" or simply "the Mandate", was a mandate (power of attorney, deposit) that the United Kingdom received from the states of the agreement at the San Remo Conference in 1920, and was given additional validity by the League of Nations in 1922. The mandate was intended, among other things, to help the Jewish settlement[1] and to ensure the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel, in the spirit of the Balfour Declaration and according to what is said in the mandate text.[1] The British ruled Israel from the summer of 1917 until May 1948. "Mandate rule" is an abbreviated name for the period of British rule in the Land of Israel, which began with the validity of the mandate it received from the League of Nations. The "mandate government" is the British government that operated in Israel by virtue of the mandate it received from the League of Nations, from 1923. The "mandate period" is the period from when the British army entered Israel in the summer of 1917, until the end of the mandate at midnight between May 14 and 15, 1948.😎

Left out the part where Israel said yes to the devision deal and the Palestinians said no because they wanted the whole country (this happens like 2 more times).

And when Palestinians fight back they cry out in anger but when Israelis murder Palestinian civilians they say “It’s war what do you expect”

“Losing a way you started doesn’t make you the victim”

The Jews had been there way before but were forcefully removed. They went back to their ancient holy land.

Leaving out some VERY key details here

I don’t care about who supports who I care about the innocent civilians who are dying because of this conflict. Babies, women, entire families are dying because of this conflict

99% of Americans don’t know this side of the story

What do you mean " Palestinians have lived there for generations" , jews can comeback to their homeland whenever they please They have been there before there was anything called islam or Palestine This is like saying, i left my home for work and was not living there for 4yrs , in that time some people came and started living there , now after 4yrs i come back and you are saying to me , ohh these people are living hear for so long , you cant kick them out " yes i can , and i should"

Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can't help but think that, before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East.

When the victim of genocide become the monster who commit the Genocide...

It's interesting how you forgot to mention that the Jewish committee accepted the 1947 proposal.

This video is about 3%historically accurate

As Freire once said: Sometimes the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor. Perfect for this situation.

A crash course on history of the PALESTINIAN STATE: 1. Before Israel, there was a British mandate, not a Palestinian state. 2. Before the British Mandate, there was the Ottoman Empire, not a Palestinian state. 3. Before the Ottoman Empire, there was the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, not a Palestinian state. 4. Before the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, there was the Ayubid Arab-Kurdish Empire, not a Palestinian state. 5. Before the Ayubid Empire, there was the Frankish and Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem, not a Palestinian state. 6. Before the Kingdom of Jerusalem, there was the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, not a Palestinian state. 7. Before the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, there was the Byzantine empire, not a Palestinian state. 8. Before the Byzantine Empire, there were the Sassanids, not a Palestinian state. 9. Before the Sassanid Empire, there was the Byzantine Empire, not a Palestinian state. 10. Before the Byzantine Empire, there was the Roman Empire, not a Palestinian state. 11. Before the Roman Empire, there was the Hasmonean state, not a Palestinian state. 12. Before the Hasmonean state, there was the Seleucid, not a Palestinian state. 13. Before the Seleucid empire, there was the empire of Alexander the Great, not a Palestinian state. 14. Before the empire of Alexander the Great, there was the Persian empire, not a Palestinian state. 15. Before the Persian Empire, there was the Babylonian Empire, not a Palestinian state. 16. Before the Babylonian Empire, there were the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, not a Palestinian state. 17. Before the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, there was the Kingdom of Israel, not a Palestinian state. 18. Before the kingdom of Israel, there was the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, not a Palestinian state. 19. Before the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, there was an agglomeration of independent Canaanite city-kingdoms, not a Palestinian state. 20. Actually, in this piece of land there has been everything, EXCEPT A PALESTINIAN STATE. 🤔

You forgot to mention that in the declararon of Israel, Israel did not wish to forcefully remove Arabs. 8 Armies attacked the newly small state of Israel with the goal of destroying it, and Israel miraculously survived and even won. In its declaration, the state of Israel clearly states full equality for all citizens with no regard to ethnicity or religion. It also states a goal of living alongside peaceful nations. It’s the cost of a war Israel did not start.

The arabs said they would throw the jews into the sea in 1947 .Then after losing the war Morroco Algeria and libya expelled their jewish populations .And now they are crying that they are the victims.

It’s important to remember history goes further than the 1900s

HOLY SH!T I've never in my life heard such a botched version of history told as if this is how things have happened. I REALLY hope people don't believe you, even though the video sounds and looks really official. I'll add the things you missed real quick (even though you should read the history for yourself because I also have holes in my knowledge). So first of all most of the Arabs that lived during the end of WW2 were immigrants from nearby Arab nations, they came there to work for the British who owned the land, that didn't have an official title, nor was it recognised as a country. Second of all, Jews have been living in Israel for years and years before the second or first WWs. Third, Israel accepted those borders suggested by the UN, while the Arabs decided to ethnically cleanse all of the Jews, but failed luckily and Israel was made, though it was much bigger than we know it today. They gave a lot of that land back to Egypt and maybe Jordan for a peace agreement. It is true that there were horrible things done in that war, but then again, it was a war... And I do not appreciate the fact that Israel destroyed these Arabs' houses after they left/were killed, but it happened. Please, if any of my facts are wrong, feel free to cite me an article that says otherwise, but until that happens, I would massively appreciate it if you'll report this video for misinformation. It twists history in a way it shouldn't be twist, especially not now.

Palestine should of just said yes to the UN border change.

History means the entire history not just a cherry-picked era to support biases.

Skipped the part where Palestine has rejected every country’s proposal for peace among both people. Skipped telling over the fact that every piece of culture dug up is some kind of Jewish artifact while no Palestinian artifacts have been found. 💀

Conveniently skipped all the tensions that led to the Nakba. Since everyone wants to say something had to happen to create Hamas something had to happen to create the Nakba.

Maybe cutting out a chunk of land in a region full of newly independent nations whose boarders were drawn up by a bunch of Europeans with no regard for the ethnic groups that were already there and then shoving another ethnic group on top of it all was a bad idea. We've only made the situation worse because over the last 80 years, that new state we plopped in there now has new families who lived there for generations, and no neither side can get what they want without repeating the atrocities of the past.

All of a sudden they had a historical amnesia

So are we just going to conveniently chose the timeline that works for your story? History didn't start in 1931

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700,000 haven't been "forcely exiled" most of them ran away out of fear

Skipped the part where arabs started waging constant wars against Israel, losing every war and thus losing territory. If they'd sit tight and cooperate peacefully, they'd live much better

Free the Palestinians from Hamas

When your country is founded on ethnic cleansing....

There was no such thing as “historic Palestine”.

Tell me half the story without telling me you're telling half the story.

This is so unbelievably one-sided but not unexpected from Vox.

Palestine was a region not a country, Arabs from Jordan Syria Lebanon and Egypt and Jews were living together under many empires, there is no mention of Palestinians untill the British mandate for Palestine started the creation of Israel. After arab nations opposed they decided to divide the region of Palestine between the Jews and Arabs with majority vote by the UN in 1947. The Arabs of the region , now Palestinians, rejected all offers ever since .

This is how you spread misinformation kids 👏

Conveniently forgetting 3/4 of Palestine became the Arab state of Jordan.

Remember that the Palestinian Arabs would not have been there if the area was not conquered by Muslims in the past.

To Palestinians , it is Nakba. (because they lost) To Israelis, it is independence day. (because they won) To other countries, it is just a conflict or a war. (because they weren't involved)

If this channel covered WWII like it does this conflict, it would keep reporting on how Hitler was nice to animals and a vegetarian and how mean America was to interrupt such a virtuous man.

Isn't the story kinda incomplete if you tell it like this?

So we gonna leave the part where all Arabs surrounding them wanted to eradicate the Jewish state. 😂

This practically misses all of the factors of the conflict. And that “Plan D” was never carried out in any serious manner. Attacks were made against Arab armies and paramilitary groups. Arabs who weren’t forced out by other Arab armies and did not attack Jewish forces were not kicked out and instead they and their families make out roughly 20% of the Israeli population today. With full rights of citizenship. And these Arab Israelis are judges, politicians, doctors, shop keepers, military members, and are found in every walk of life in Israel. The real change in balance of population came around the time of the war of independence when a dozen Arab countries expelled nearly 700,000 Jews of which the majority moved to the new state of Israel.

Please let us know what’s happened with thousands Jews from other Arabic countries at same time? And who refused to the UN plan and “two state solution” and any agreement at all and started instantly war with Israeli ? And lost it?

Praying for Palestine 🤍

Im isreali but this war should end and both of us should live in peace and hormony

One clarification, Palestinians have been living there for generations as in thousands of years. There is no know migration of Palestinians to the area. At somepoint these people were Cannites, Jews, Christians, etc before eventually mostly becoming muslims.

Maybe you should tell people why israel expanded. It's because the arabs attacked them multiple times with the goal of wiping out israel but lost every time

Left out how Arab leaders told Palestinians to leave their lands to make way for Arab army. Also left out that Jews were expelled from Arab countries that contributed to the large immigration of Jews to Israel.

The least pro-palestinian trying to seem neutral on the conflict:

British Empire accepted Jews, not "Palestine". Stop saying these arab tails.

Some questions: - Who was their ruler before 1948? - If it was under the British mandate, how could they have a country? - Why did they attack the Jews first? - Why didn't they form a state like Israel did? - Why no Arab nation (there are 22) except Palestinian refugees? - Gaza as a border with Egypt. Why is it also closed for 16 years? - Why Egypt doesn't allow building refugee camps for the suffering people of Gaza? - Hamas in Gaza say they ran out of water and medicine, but they don't seem to run out of missiles? Free Gaza from the tyranny of Hamas 🙏🏻

The local Jewish people councils approved the division proposed by the British, it was the Arabs who opposed this suggestion and started the war against Israel. Israel fought against 7 different armies from every direction and after 6500 casualties, stood up with the borders that split the land up until 1967.

You forgot to mention that the Arabs started three big wars on Israel and lost each one of them.

How is a verified news outlet allowed to post 10% of the story and say it’s complete? 💀

Did forget Israel was attacked by all their neighbours the day after declaring independence

As an israeli and a hebrew speaker, i do know that the "hagana-הגנה" was somewhat of a an exirimist defence group but i don't know the specifics about them BUT in hebrew dalet-ד is the fourth letter which in that case when you say plan "dalet" you mean the fourth plan if the three before that failed, just like "plan D" in english, so i feel like they are perpusfully hiding the full intentions of this story

Can we all agree on one thing? This all happened because Britian played two ends towards the middle?

You left out a couple of seriously important details. The UN proposed to create two states in the former British Palestine Mandate. Jewish leadership accepted. Arab leadership rejected the deal specifically because they were against any plan that would result in a nation for the Jews in that region of the world. They wanted the entirety, including Jerusalem, to be an Arab Muslim state. And they weren’t satisfied simply with protesting the plan. Instead, they kicked it up a thousand notches by declaring war on the new Jewish state, attacking with the intent to eliminate the new nation, and encouraging the local Arabs to leave their homes and villages while the invasion was being carried out. The Arab armies were driven back and ended up losing the war they started. When you start a war, as the surrounding Arab nations did, or ally yourself with the side who started the shooting, as the local Arab (later called Palestinian) population did, and then lose the war you started, you shouldn’t be surprised at the resulting negative consequences.

Did you just forget about the Arab invasions and the Palestinian refusal to accept a two state solution!?!?

Context - The Arab-Israeli War of 1948 broke out when five Arab nations invaded territory in the former Palestinian mandate immediately following the announcement of the independence of the state of Israel on May 14, 1948

How can a minority newcomer be given half the land is beyond my understanding.

The Jews have been living there for centuries and in 1948 were given the land . The Muslims did not agree so they went to war and the winner takes it all . 😊

Just a clear tendentious and selective presentation of history. 1.Missing the war following the UN declaration of Israel, 2. missing the Israeli people’s right to return to their homeland, 3. missing that many jews were living in today's Israel when the British and Turkish controlled the area, means not only immigration was populating the area. 4. Not mentioning the main reason for “hagnah”s existence- to protect (hagna in Hebrew means defend) Jewish settlements that were on free lands, 5. Missing out “the Arab revolt in Palestine” that erupted before UN deceleration of Israel, and exhibited the Palestinians and Arabs dedication to expel all those who live in the area jews and British alike.

No mention of the first arabian war... classic vox

Never let the UK do the bordering

There is no “historic Palestine” unless referring to Palestinia under Roman rule. The area we know as Palestine has been Syrian, Jordanian, Ottoman, etc. and what this clip fails to mention is that plan D wasn’t carried out “just because” -it was because the Jewish people were first kicked out of their homes in Europe, thought “okay, we’ll just go back to our ancestral homeland” only to be harassed and threatened there, too. So instead of waiting for the Arab population to start killing them, the Jews fought back, albeit preemptively. But such is the story of the Jewish people all throughout time. They’re always the bad guys. Doesn’t matter what’s done to them. They’re always somehow in the wrong.

Around 700.000 jews lived in north africa and middle east and where also forced to move out. Where palestinians expelled during Nakba to return, would also those jews be able to safely return to their lands, to their previous homes? With safety and political rights that arab citzens inside Israel enjoy? I dont think so. And NO ONE ever talks about that

That’s not entirely accurate about the Jewish people fleeing to Palestine to escape Hitler. The British mandate wouldn’t allow more than a trickle in and turned away many ships. My father was in northern Palestine until 1948.

Respect to everyone in the comments for not blindly listening to the context-less video

Why does everybody ignore the fact that the reason palestine refused was because that the un drew the border where israel had the lands of people that are majority native palestinians

Convenient starting point on your timeline...

Cant believe vox went into this narrative without presenting all the facts.

*Casually defending terrorism* *casually excluding information*

India always with you Israel🇮🇱

You left out the part where at that time the area was controlled by Britain and before that the Ottoman Empire. The Palestinian people had the opportunity to have their own state and be left alone. They chose poorly.

Why would they agree to FORCEFULLY GIVE HALF OF THEIR COUNTRY to others? Would you?