The Origins of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Channel: KingMab
Date: 2021-07-26

In 1948, the state of Israel was founded after the expulsion of the indigenous population of Palestine. Specifically the founding of the state of Israel was a direct result of operations carried out by the Israeli founding fathers that resulted in the emptying of 11 urban districts, the destruction of over half of all Palestinian villages and the expulsion of 80% of the indigenous population which numbers around 800,000 people expelled from their homes with no right of return. A number of historians have made the case that this “Nakba” (as this event is referred to) encompasses ethnic cleansing as defined by the UN. That is the topic of discussion in this video.


Background music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx1qHKE_y9Q

Adapted from Ilan Pappe's book "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine". 
Sources:

Haim Arlosarov, Articles and Essays, Response to the 1930 Shaw Commission on the concept of strangers in Palestine's history, Jerusalem 1931

Alexander Scholch, Palestine in Transformation, 1856-1882: Studies in Social, Economic and Political Development.

Hagana Archives, File 1/080/451, 1 December 1939

David Ben-Gurion, In the Battle, pp.255-72.

Milstein, Uri (1991). History of Israel's War of Independence: Out of Crisis Came Decision. 4. Translated by Ami Isseroff. Zmora-Bitan.