🎵 ’This Land Is Mine’ (TURN ON the captions!)

𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 #𝐢𝐬𝐫𝐚𝐞𝐥/’#𝐩𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨?? 0:18 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐌𝐚𝐧: Prehistoric human hunter-gatherers and settlers. 0:28 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞: Many diverse groups including the Philistines (origin of the name ’Palestine’). The figure is based on ancient Sumerian art. 0:38 𝐄𝐠𝐲𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐧: Empire of the great river on the west (Nile) 0:48 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: Empire of the great rivers on the east (Mesopotamia/Iraq) 0:56 𝐈𝐬𝐫𝐚𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞: The Old Testament describes their conquest as rather genocidal (Jushua 6-21) 1:06 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧: Destroy the 1st temple of the Hebrews and exile them. 1:10 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧/𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐤: Alexander the Great 1:18 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐤/𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧: Alexander’s generals divide the huge territories he conquered and fight each other. 1:24 𝐏𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐜: Descendants of Alexander’s general Ptolemy who rule Egypt (e.g. Cleopatra!) 1:28 𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐝: Descendants of Alexander’s general Seleucus who ruled Syria. 1:32 𝐇𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐰 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬𝐭: After the Persians conquer Babylon, Cyrus the Great allows the Hebrews to return from exile re-build their 2nd Temple in Jerusalem. 1:36 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐞: Judah “The Hammer” fights the Seleucids and saves the Temple. The Jewish holiday Hanukah celebrates his victory. 1:48 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧: After destroying the Hebrew’s 2nd Temple the Romans rename the Judaea province ’Palestinian Syria’ after the Philistine Canaanites. 1:56 𝐁𝐲𝐳𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞: Rome splits and its (now Christian) center moves eastwards to Byzantium (Constantinople) 1:58 𝐀𝐫𝐚𝐛 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐡: ’replace’ Mohamed as rulers of the Islamic community (’ummah’), conquer territories larger than Rome. 2:01 𝐂𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫: killing in the name of Jesus Christ and establishing the ’Kingdom of Jerusalem’. 2:04 𝐌𝐚𝐦𝐥𝐮𝐤 𝐎𝐟 𝐄𝐠𝐲𝐩𝐭: Slaves used for fighting who became a powerful ruling caste 2:07 𝐎𝐭𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐓𝐮𝐫𝐤𝐬: Ruling from Istanbul (formerly Christian Constantinople) they build on the Temple mount in Jerusalem the famous ’Dome of the Rock’ and Al-Aqsa mosque. 2:10 𝐀𝐫𝐚𝐛: During WWI the British and French help the Arabs of the Middle East rebel against the Ottoman empire, then take over with a mandate from the “League of Nations“ to help the locals form self-ruling nation-states. Bad idea! 2:12 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐡: they promised the land to both the Arabs and the Zionist Jews as part of the good old ’divide and rule’ strategy. It proved useful in showing the hated Jews the way out of Europe and straight into a clash with the Muslims. You see, Islam was that young sister religion who had similar aspirations for global reach, so getting it bogged down in a fight with the Jews allows the Christians to just sell arms to both sides, condescendingly condemn mutual atrocities, and secretly wish both to perish. 2:19 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧: Since the Arabs of Palestine were 90% of the ~700,000 population in 1917 so they got quite angry when the British then promised the land to the Jews, who were then just 10%. They got even more angry (and belligerent) as the British didn’t stop the continued influx of Jewish migrants whose number doubled 10 times over the next 30 years from just ~60,000 to ~600,000. In the same period, the Arab population doubled from ~600,000 to ~1.2 million, mainly due to high fertility rates. 2:27 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐙𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐉𝐞𝐰: Desperate and traumatized by European racist nationalism, pogroms and death camps, Jewish Zionist settlers were excited to return to their ancient homeland, promised both by their grandparents’ God (they themselves were mostly secular) and the British Empire. They were quite surprised to discover that the land wasn’t empty. 2:39 𝐏𝐋𝐎/𝐇𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐬/𝐇𝐞𝐳𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚: Various militarized resistance movements, supported by other Muslim countries. 2:45 𝐈𝐃𝐅 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐫 (Israel Defense Forces): With tons of USA given weapons and the only nukes in the region. 2:51 𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚/𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐅𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫/𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭: Creeping up alongside them are illicit nukes possibly from Iran or elsewhere in the region. Who’s Next? 3:02 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥 𝐎𝐟 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡: His little idea of exclusive national ownership of land is super effective, and his real aim - his land - is actually global. * * * This clip is the revised version that the genius animator 𝐍𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐲 created: I only added the captions (turn them on!) and this description. Her original version wrongly showed the Zionist settlers as ultra orthodox Jews, while in fact most were secular (2:27): The song is from the 1960s movie Exodos. Copying is an act of love!: * * * 🔥🌏 My piece about the 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 this conflict needs: 🔥🌏 My lecture on Democracy’s great crossroads: (12min)