(The Balfour Declaration / The Asia Minor Agreement)
The first document to designate Palestine as the national home for the Jews was part of a series of treaties that accompanied the West’s entry into the territory of the former Ottoman Empire. These agreements redrew the borders of the Middle East, invented new countries, and circumvented the Great Arab State—an idea that ISIS continues to fight for to this day.
The meteoric rise of Zionism and the more hesitant emergence of Arab nationalism are illustrated through the radical transformation of Jerusalem, from a backwater town on the fringes of the Middle East into a hub of international interest and Western longing.
Language :English subtitles only
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Tangled Roots – Episode 2: Nationalis...
(The 1929 Uprisings / The Al-Buraq Intifada)
The final decade of the British Mandate over Palestine saw the conflict escalate and take on an increasingly Islamic character. Violence broke out in 1921 and intensified in 1929, centered in the very places where Arabs and Jews had lived peacefully t...
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Tangled Roots – Episode 3: Rebellion ...
(The Arab Rebellion / The Peel Commission)
The Arab rebellion against the British and the Jewish settlement, which began in 1936 and was finally suppressed in 1939, intensified and underscored the deepening hostility between Palestine’s Arabs and Jews.
The most notable outcome of the rebellion ...
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Tangled Roots – Episode 4: Independen...
(The Partition Plan / The 1948 War)
The complex, multifaceted process that ended with the Jews establishing a state—and the Palestinians becoming scattered refugees across four countries.
Language :English subtitles only
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