Historical Context of Palestine and Israel

I wanna show you something, okay? I'm gonna show you something

that I think can help you contextualize what's going on around you.

This

is an International World Atlas published by Rand

McNally.

Here you go.

Published in nineteen forty-one for the first time,

and nineteen forty-seven

most recently. That's what this edition is, okay?

I want you to look at these flags

and see if you notice

an Israeli flag or a Palestinian flag.

You won't,

because at the time that this was published,

there was no Israel.

Look right here.

Where's Israel?

It didn't exist.

It was called Palestine.

So we're gonna go to page one hundred and twenty-five.

And we're just gonna take a look,

okay?

Palestine.

Now, I want you to look at the names of the

towns.

They're all in Arabic.

If you want an example of what happened to all of these towns after nineteen

forty-eight,

look up Tantura.

It was a fishing village that was depopulated,

forcibly, ethnically cleansed, okay?

You don't see the West Bank here, do you?

Because this is Palestinian territory, all of it.

Palestine.

And yes, you're gonna see Judea here

because

prior to the invention of the so-called state of Israel,

Jews, Christians, and Muslims lived in peace in

Palestine.