{"id":284,"title":"The Israel-Palestine conflict: a brief, simple history","description":"This video provides a historical overview of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, arguing that it's a modern conflict over land, not an ancient religious war. It traces the origins from the early 20th century with the rise of Zionism and Palestinian nationalism under the Ottoman Empire, through the British Mandate and the 1947 UN partition plan. The narrative covers the subsequent wars, the 1967 occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, the growth of Israeli settlements, and the cycle of failed peace processes and violent uprisings (Intifadas), leading to the current stalemate.","slug":"the-israel-palestine-conflict-a-brief-simple-history","creator":"Vox","duration":618.718912,"tags":["israel-palestine conflict","history","Vox","Middle East","zionism","Palestinian nationalism","Ottoman Empire","British Mandate","two-state solution","West Bank","Gaza","intifada"],"transcription":"One of the biggest myths about the Israel Palestine conflict is that it's been going on for centuries, all about ancient religious hatreds. In fact, while religion is involved, the conflict's mostly about two groups of people who claim the same land. And it really only goes back about a century to the early 1900s. Around then, the region along the eastern Mediterranean we now call Israel Palestine had been under Ottoman rule for centuries. It was religiously diverse, including mostly Muslims and Christians, also a small number of Jews who lived generally in peace. But it was changing in two important ways. First, more people in the region were developing a sense of being not just ethnic Arabs, but Palestinians, a distinct national identity. At the same time, not so far away in Europe, more Jews were joining a movement called Zionism, which said that Judaism was not just a religion, but a nationality, one that deserved a nation of its own. And after centuries of persecution, many believed a Jewish state was their only way of safety and saw their historic homeland in the Middle East as their best hope for establishing it. In the first decades of the 20th century, tens of thousands of European Jews moved there. After World War I, the Ottoman Empire collapsed, and British and French empires carved up the Middle East, the British taking control of a region it called the British Mandate for Palestine. At first, the British allowed Jewish immigration. But as more Jews arrived, settling in farming communities, tension between Jews and Arabs grew. Both sides committed acts of violence, and by the 1930s, the British began limiting Jewish immigration. In response, Jewish militias formed to fight both the local Arabs and to resist British rule. Then came the Holocaust, leading many more Jews to flee Europe for British Palestine and galvanizing much of the world in support of a Jewish state. In 1947, as sectarian violence between Jews and Arabs there grew, the United Nations approved a plan to divide British Palestine into two separate states, one for Jews, Israel, and one for Arabs, Palestine. The city of Jerusalem, where Jews, Muslims, and Christians all have holy sites, was to become a special international zone. The plan was meant to give Jews a state, to establish Palestinian independence, and to end the sectarian violence that the British could no longer control. The Jews accepted the plan, and they declared independence as Israel. But Arabs throughout the region saw the UN plan as just more European colonialism trying to steal their land. Many of the Arab states, who had just recently won independence themselves, declared war on Israel in an effort to establish a unified Arab Palestine where all of British Palestine had been. The new state of Israel won the war, but in the process, they pushed well past their borders under the UN plan, taking the western half of Jerusalem and much of the land that was to have been part of Palestine. They also expelled huge numbers of Palestinians from their homes, creating a massive refugee population whose descendants today number about 7 million. At the end of the war, Israel controlled all of the territory except for Gaza, which Egypt controlled, and the West Bank, named because it's west of the Jordan River, which Jordan controlled. This was the beginning of the decades-long Arab-Israeli conflict. During this period, many Jews in Arab-majority countries fled or were expelled, arriving in Israel. Then something happened that transformed the conflict. In 1967, Israel and the neighboring Arab states fought another war. When it ended, Israel had seized the Golan Heights from Syria, the West Bank from Jordan, and both Gaza and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt. Israel was now occupying the Palestinian territories, including all of Jerusalem and its holy sites. This left Israel responsible for governing the Palestinians, a people it had fought for decades. In 1978, Israel and Egypt signed the US-brokered Camp David Accords. Shortly after, Israel gave Sinai back to Egypt as part of the peace treaty. At the time, this was hugely controversial in the Arab world. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was assassinated in part because of outrage against it. But it marked the beginning of the end of the wider Arab-Israeli conflict. Over the next few decades, the other Arab states gradually made peace with Israel, even if they never signed formal peace treaties. But Israel's military was still occupying the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza. And this is when the conflict became an Israeli-Palestinian struggle. The Palestinian Liberation Organization, which had formed in the 1960s to seek a Palestinian state, fought against Israel, including through acts of terrorism. Initially, the PLO claimed all of what had been British Palestine, meaning it wanted to end the state of Israel entirely. Fighting between Israel and the PLO went on for years, even including a 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon to kick the group out of Beirut. The stillness of the ceasefire in Southern Lebanon was shattered today by the sound of guns, bombs, and planes. The PLO later said it would accept dividing the land between Israel and Palestine, but the conflict continued. As all of this was happening, something dramatic was changing in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories. Israelis were moving in. These people are called settlers, and they made their homes in the West Bank and Gaza, whether the Palestinians wanted them or not. Some moved for religious reasons, some because they want to claim the land for Israel, some just because the housing is cheap, often subsidized by the Israeli government. Some settlements are cities with thousands of people, others are small communities deep into the West Bank. If you've always felt a deep yearning for Jerusalem, now is a once in a lifetime opportunity, not only to stand within its gates, but also to build the home of your dreams there. The settlers are followed by soldiers to guard them, and the growing settlements forced Palestinians off of their land and divide communities. Short-term, they make the occupation much more painful for Palestinians. Long-term, by dividing up Palestinian land, they make it much more difficult for the Palestinians to ever have an independent state. Today, there are several hundred thousand settlers in occupied territory, even though the international community considers them illegal. By the late 1980s, Palestinian frustration exploded into the Intifada, which is the Arabic word for uprising. It began with mostly protests and boycotts, but soon became violent. Israel responded with heavy force. A couple hundred Israelis and over a thousand Palestinians died in the first Intifada. Around the same time, a group of Palestinians in Gaza who considered the PLO too secular, too compromise-minded, created Hamas, a violent extremist group dedicated to Israel's destruction. By the early 1990s, it's clear that Israelis and Palestinians have to make peace. The leaders from both sides signed the Oslo Accords. This was meant to be the big first step toward Israel maybe someday withdrawing from the Palestinian territories and allowing an independent Palestine. The Oslo Accords established the Palestinian Authority, allowing Palestinians a little bit of freedom to govern themselves in certain areas. But hardliners on both sides opposed the Oslo Accords. Members of Hamas launched suicide bombings to try to sabotage the process. The Israeli right protest peace talks with ralliers calling Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin a traitor and a Nazi. Not long after Rabin signs the second round of Oslo Accords, a far-right Israeli shoots him to death in Tel Aviv. But this violence showed how extremists on both sides can use violence to derail peace, keep a permanent conflict going as they seek the other side's total destruction. That's a dynamic that's been around ever since. Negotiations meant to hammer out the final details on peace drag on for years. and a big Camp David summit in 2000 comes up empty. Palestinians come to believe peace isn't coming, rise up in a second Intifada, this one much more violent than the first. By the time it wound down a few years later, about 1,000 Israelis and 3,200 Palestinians had died. The Second Intifada really changes the conflict. Israelis become much more skeptical that Palestinians will ever accept peace or that it's even worth trying. Israeli politics shift right. The country builds walls and checkpoints to control Palestinians' movements. They're not really trying to solve the conflict anymore, just to manage it. The Palestinians are left feeling like negotiating didn't work, and violence didn't work, and that they're stuck under an ever-growing occupation with no future as a people. That year, Israel withdraws from Gaza. Hamas gains power, but splits from the Palestinian Authority in a short civil war, dividing Gaza from the West Bank. Israel puts Gaza under a suffocating blockade, and unemployment rises to 40%. This is the state of the conflict as we know it today. It's relatively new, and it's unbearable for Palestinians. In the West Bank, more and more settlements are smothering Palestinians, who often respond with protests and sometimes with violence, but most just want normal lives. In Gaza, Hamas and other violent groups have periodic wars with Israel. The fighting overwhelmingly kills Palestinians, including lots of civilians. In Israel itself, most people have become apathetic. For the most part, the occupation keeps the conflict relatively removed from their daily lives, with moments of brief but horrible violence. There's little political will for peace. No one really knows where the conflict goes from here. Maybe a third Intifada, maybe the Palestinian Authority collapses. But everyone agrees that things as they are now can't last much longer. Israel's occupation of the Palestinians is too unstable to last, and that unless something dramatic changes, whatever comes next will be much worse.","timeline":[{"t":0,"speech":"One of the biggest myths about the Israel Palestine conflict is that it's been going on for centuries, all about ancient religious hatreds.","visual":{"action":"The camera slowly pushes in on a wooden desk with a map of the region of Palestine on a clipboard. 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'OPPRESSION'.","colors":{"dominant":"beige","palette":["beige","red","green","brown","black"]},"composition":{"angle":"eye-level","focus":"sharp","framing":"close-up"},"mood":"somber","objects":[{"color":"multi-colored","name":"political cartoon","position":"center","state":"static"}],"people":[],"setting":{"background":"paper texture","lighting":"even","location":"N/A"},"text_on_screen":[{"content":"STOP YOUR CRUEL OPPRESSION OF THE JEWS.","location":"bottom of cartoon","style":"black text"}]}},{"t":59,"speech":"and saw their historic homeland in the Middle East as their best hope for establishing it.","visual":{"action":"A collage of Zionist posters, pamphlets, and images appears on the clipboard.","colors":{"dominant":"brown","palette":["brown","red","black","white","beige"]},"composition":{"angle":"high-angle","focus":"sharp","framing":"medium shot"},"mood":"historical","objects":[{"color":"multi-colored","name":"collage of documents","position":"center","state":"on 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East,","visual":{"action":"An old map of the Ottoman provinces is shown. 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Both sides committed acts of violence,","visual":{"action":"A collage of black and white photos is shown, depicting Jewish settlers in farming communities and early agricultural work.","colors":{"dominant":"brown","palette":["brown","black","white","gray","beige"]},"composition":{"angle":"high-angle","focus":"sharp","framing":"medium shot"},"mood":"tense","objects":[{"color":"black and white","name":"photographs","position":"center","state":"layered on a map"}],"people":[],"setting":{"background":"wooden desk","lighting":"soft, ambient","location":"study or library"},"text_on_screen":[]}},{"t":134,"speech":"In response, Jewish militias formed to fight both the local Arabs and to resist British rule.","visual":{"action":"A collage of black and white photos showing Jewish militias and soldiers is displayed on the clipboard.","colors":{"dominant":"brown","palette":["brown","black","white","beige","blue"]},"composition":{"angle":"high-angle","focus":"sharp","framing":"medium shot"},"mood":"militaristic","objects":[{"color":"black and white","name":"photographs","position":"center","state":"layered on clipboard"},{"color":"blue and white","name":"poster","position":"bottom left","state":"part of collage"}],"people":[],"setting":{"background":"dark wooden planks","lighting":"soft, ambient","location":"study or library"},"text_on_screen":[{"content":"JEWS WANT TO FIGHT AS JEWS","location":"bottom left","style":"white text on blue poster"}]}},{"t":141,"speech":"Then came the Holocaust, leading many more Jews to flee Europe for British Palestine","visual":{"action":"A powerful black and white photo from the Holocaust is shown, featuring a young boy with his hands up, surrounded by soldiers and other Jews.","colors":{"dominant":"black","palette":["black","white","gray","sepia","brown"]},"composition":{"angle":"eye-level","focus":"sharp","framing":"medium shot"},"mood":"tragic","objects":[],"people":[{"age_range":"child","clothing":{"top":"dark coat and cap"},"face":"fearful","hands":"raised in surrender","pose":"standing","position":"center"}],"setting":{"background":"street scene with soldiers","lighting":"natural, harsh","location":"Warsaw Ghetto"},"text_on_screen":[{"content":"HOLOCAUST","location":"bottom center","style":"black bold text"},{"content":"(1941-1945)","location":"bottom center","style":"black text"}]}},{"t":149,"speech":"and galvanizing much of the world in support of a Jewish state.","visual":{"action":"A black and white photo of a massive indoor rally is shown, with a large banner reading 'AMERICA IS FOR A JEWISH PALESTINE'.","colors":{"dominant":"black","palette":["black","white","gray","sepia","dark gray"]},"composition":{"angle":"high-angle","focus":"sharp","framing":"wide shot"},"mood":"impassioned","objects":[{"color":"white","name":"banner","position":"center","state":"hanging above crowd"}],"people":[{"pose":"large crowd seated in an arena","position":"filling the frame"}],"setting":{"background":"large arena or stadium","lighting":"bright, indoor","location":"arena"},"text_on_screen":[{"content":"AMERICA IS FOR A JEWISH PALESTINE - WHY NOT?","location":"center on banner","style":"black bold text"}]}},{"t":154,"speech":"the United Nations approved a plan to divide British Palestine into two separate states,","visual":{"action":"A map of the 1947 UN Partition Plan is shown next to a newspaper clipping about the 'Destiny of a whole people'.","colors":{"dominant":"brown","palette":["brown","beige","blue","orange","black"]},"composition":{"angle":"high-angle","focus":"sharp","framing":"medium shot"},"mood":"pivotal","objects":[{"color":"multi-colored","name":"map","position":"left","state":"static"},{"color":"beige and black","name":"newspaper clipping","position":"right","state":"on clipboard"}],"people":[],"setting":{"background":"dark wooden planks","lighting":"soft, ambient","location":"study or library"},"text_on_screen":[{"content":"1947","location":"top left","style":"black text"},{"content":"PLAN OF PARTITION","location":"top of map","style":"black text"},{"content":"DESTINY","location":"center right on clipping","style":"large bold black text"}]}},{"t":159,"speech":"one for Jews, Israel, and one for Arabs, Palestine.","visual":{"action":"An animated map shows the proposed division of the land into a Jewish state (blue) and an Arab state (green).","colors":{"dominant":"black","palette":["black","blue","green","white","yellow"]},"composition":{"angle":"high-angle","focus":"sharp","framing":"close-up"},"mood":"analytical","objects":[{"color":"multi-colored","name":"animated map","position":"center","state":"animated"}],"people":[],"setting":{"background":"black background","lighting":"bright, graphic","location":"N/A"},"text_on_screen":[{"content":"UN PROPOSAL","location":"top left","style":"yellow text"},{"content":"1947","location":"top left","style":"white text"},{"content":"Jewish state (Israel)","location":"left","style":"white text with blue dot"},{"content":"Arab state (Palestine)","location":"left","style":"white text with green dot"}]}},{"t":169,"speech":"and to end the sectarian violence that the British could no longer control.","visual":{"action":"On the animated map, a British flag icon appears with arms pointing to the Jewish and Arab states, and a hand above it with the text 'We're leaving this mess'.","colors":{"dominant":"white","palette":["white","blue","green","red","black"]},"composition":{"angle":"high-angle","focus":"sharp","framing":"close-up"},"mood":"cynical","objects":[{"color":"multi-colored","name":"animated map graphic","position":"center","state":"animated"}],"people":[],"setting":{"background":"white background","lighting":"bright, graphic","location":"N/A"},"text_on_screen":[{"content":"You get your state","location":"left","style":"black text"},{"content":"You get independence","location":"left","style":"black text"},{"content":"We're leaving this mess","location":"top center","style":"black text with yellow highlight"}]}},{"t":178,"speech":"The Jews accepted the plan, and they declared independence as Israel. But Arabs throughout the region saw the UN plan as just more European colonialism trying to steal their land.","visual":{"action":"An animated map shows the newly formed Israel, which is then surrounded by a red overlay representing the opposing Arab states (Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Saudi Arabia).","colors":{"dominant":"red","palette":["red","black","white","blue","green"]},"composition":{"angle":"high-angle","focus":"sharp","framing":"wide shot"},"mood":"confrontational","objects":[{"color":"multi-colored","name":"animated map","position":"center","state":"animated"}],"people":[],"setting":{"background":"black background","lighting":"bright, graphic","location":"N/A"},"text_on_screen":[{"content":"SYRIA","location":"top right","style":"white text"},{"content":"EGYPT","location":"bottom left","style":"white text"}]}},{"t":188,"speech":"declared war on Israel in an effort to establish a unified Arab Palestine where all of British Palestine had been.","visual":{"action":"A montage of black 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