What If BOTH Israelis & Palestinians Are Right? | Unpacked

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2 peoples. 1 land. 2 irreconcilable stories. For Israelis, it’s the return of an exiled nation reclaiming its home. For Palestinians, it’s the loss of theirs. From exile to occupation, from the H0l0caust to Hamas, this conflict is a collision of memory and survival — where every side sees justice, and neither finds peace. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:42 1st Aliyah 01:23 Zionist movement 01:48 Palestinian nationalism 02:59 1929 Hebron M@ssacre 03:23 1936 Arab Revolt 03:45 Ill3gal Jewish immigration 04:07 Fight against the British 05:08 1947 UN Partition Plan 06:26 Israel's independence 06:45 1948 W@r/Nakba 08:50 6-Day W@r 09:55 Khartoum Conference 10:20 Settlement movement 11:44 Yom Kippur W@r 12:23 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty 12:54 1st Int!fada 14:01 Oslo Accords 14:41 Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty 15:06 Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin 16:40 Camp David Accords 17:29 2nd Int!fada 18:38 Gaza Disengagement 19:44 Hamas control of Gaza 20:33 PA's Pay for Slay policy 21:17 Settler v!olence 21:37 Abraham Accords 21:50 October 7 23:15 2023-2025 Gaza W@r Recommended video — Is Peace Impossible After Gaza? | Unpacked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YyO_FC4LyM&list=PL-DNOnmKkUabqcF6QfiANjwxU4AkRMcwm&index=31 ----------- Sources: -“Claim 5: Palestinian refugees have a right of return.” UN Watch. -“Detailed Findings On Attacks Carried Out On & After 7 October 2023 in Israel.” Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, & Israel, Human Rights Council, A/HRC/56/CRP.3, 10 June 2024. -“Fatalities in the First Intifada.” B’Tselem. -“Humanitarian Update, Occupied Palestinian Territory (November - December 2005),” UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. -“The Arab-Israeli War of 1948.” U.S. Department of State. -Abdul-Hussain, Hussain. “Why Is There No Palestinian State?” Hoover Institute, 5 June 2024. -Barnett, David & Efraim Karsh. “Azzam's Genocidal Threat.” Middl3 East Quarterly, Volume 18, Number 4, Fall 2011. -Bazelon, Emily. “The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict & the Long Shadow of 1948.” NYT, 1 February 2024. -Bensoussan, Georges. “Pogroms in Pal3stine before the creation of the state of Israel (1830-1948).” Fondation Pour L’innovation Politique (Fondapol), April 2024. -Beska, Emanuel. “Political Opposition to Zionism in Pal3stine & Greater Syria: 1910–1911 as a Turning Point.” Jerusalem Quarterly, Issue 59, Summer 2014. -Bowen, Jeremy. “1967 war: Six days that changed the Middl3 East.” BBC, 5 June 2017. -Brown, Nathan J. “Palestinians: Fighting & Governing.” Wilson Center, 27 August 2015. -Dajani, Mohammed. “The Oslo Accords Held Promise; Extremists Derailed Them.” The Washington Institute Fikra Forum, 1 September 2023. -Gritten, David. “Israel minister tells army to plan for Palestinians to leave Gaza.” BBC, 6 February 2025. -Hammouri, Shahd. “A Forgotten Detail: The Right of Return was a Condition of the Establishment of the State of Israel.” OpinioJuris, 11 March 2024. -Herzl, Theodor. "The Jewish State." 1896. -Kanter, Maximilian. “Unravelling Mahmoud Abbas’s Deafening Silence in the Wake of October 7.” TOI Blogs, 13 February 2024. -Khalidi, Rashid Ismail & Nabih Amin Farris. “Pal3stine & the Palestinians (1948-67),” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 31 July 2025. -Khdour, Nasser, & Dr. Amenah Mehvar. “After A Year Of War, Hamas Is Militarily Weakened — But Far From 'Eliminated'.” ACLED, 6 October 2024. -Manna, Adel. “Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966.” Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestinian Question. -Morris, Benny. 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War. Yale University Press, 2008. -Muslih, Muhammad. “Arab Politics & the Rise of Palestinian Nationalism.” Journal of Pal3stine Studies, (1987) 16 (4): 77-94. -Perlmutter, Efraim. “Zionist attitudes towards the Arabs: 1902 until today.” openDemocracy, 16 December 2014. -Quandt, William B. “Palestinian Nationalism: Its Political & Military Dimensions.” The RAND Corporation, November 1971. -Resolution 242 (1967). UN. 22 November 1967. -Scheindlin, Dahlia. “Neither Intractable nor Unique: A Practical Solution for Palestinian Right of Return.” Century Foundation, 28 April 2020. -Shurafa, Wafaa, & Samy Magdy. “Palestinian D3ath Toll in Israel-Hamas War Passes 60,000, Gaza Health Ministry Says.” AP, 29 July 2025. -Stein, Kenneth W. “What if the Palestinian Arab Elite Had Chosen Compromise Rather than Boycott in Confronting Zionism?” in Gavriel D. Rosenfeld (ed.) What Ifs of Jewish History, Cambridge University Press, 2016. -Waxman, Dov. The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know. Oxford University Press, 2019. ----------- Image/footage credits: Getty Images United States H0l0caust Museum Library of Congress Smithsonian ----------- Executive Producers: Michael Steinhardt Co-Executive Producers: Marc Shmuel Levine Iris & Shalom Maidenbaum Gold Level: The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life ----------- Portuguese: Saymon Pires #israel #palestine #history