#1 - Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem, pt. 1

The Martyr Made Podcast

Darryl Cooper

History, Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2015

⏱️ 141 minutes

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Summary

The conflict between Israel and Palestine can often seem like a permanent feature of the global order. The wars, intifadas, refugees camps, suicide vests, UN resolutions, and peace talks have been painfully burned into our collective consciousness. But how could this have happened? Was it always this way? That's what we'll seek to find out in this three-part series on the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In Episode #1, nations are rallying to throw off the yoke of the Great Powers, and demanding the sovereign right to rule their homelands. A group calling themselves Zionists puts out a call to awaken the oppressed Jews of Europe from their thousand-year slumber. The time had come, after two thousand years of homeless wandering, to return to Palestine, the land longed for in so many psalms and lamentations. But there was a problem. While the Jews were in exile, another people had moved into the land, and they had been living there for 1300 years.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, this is Darryl Cooper, you're listening to the Martyrmade podcast.
0:08.1	You're about to hear episode 1 of Fear and Loathing in the New Jerusalem, a six-part
0:12.9	series on the early history of Zionism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
0:18.9	If you enjoy this series, please consider subscribing to my sub-stack page where I post
0:23.6	supplemental writings and exclusive podcast episodes available to subscribers for just
0:28.7	$5 a month or $50 a year. To all of you who are already contributing, I really appreciate
0:35.3	you allowing me to do what I do. So I hope you guys enjoy this show. Let's go.
0:44.2	I'm content to die for my beliefs. So cut off my head and make me a martyr.
0:52.7	The people will always remember it. No. They must get.
1:22.7	I want you to close your eyes. Take a breath and imagine you're lying in your bed.
1:44.8	It's maybe 3 a.m. Your wife's sleeping next to you. It's had a long, exhausting day work and you've
1:52.8	got another one ahead of you, but you're a little anxious and having trouble sleeping.
1:58.6	See, she's pregnant and you're excited about it, but you're also wondering how you're going to feed
2:03.1	a third child. Or it's been tough to come by lately because more and more employers are
2:09.0	looking for people like you. In fact, your family is starting to get 30 looks and a neighborhood
2:15.4	you've lived in for years. Your kids are going to ask why people don't seem to like us as much
2:20.6	anymore and your wife has to avoid certain streets because of the way some of the young men will
2:25.2	shout at her and the other women. Just breathe. Try to relax. It was worse than this last year and
2:33.9	things calmed down then. They'll calm down now. You listen for your wife's breathing.
2:40.6	It's deep and even. She's asleep. You've always been the warrior, but the truth is she's got a
2:47.8	better sense of these things than you do and she's sleeping like a baby, right? So just go to sleep.
2:54.5	As you close your eyes and turn over, you hear some glass breaking the distance outside.
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