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🗓️ 1 March 2024
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0:00.0 | And I am pleased to welcome back to this conversation Benny Morris for the second part of our discussion. |
0:20.0 | Last time we spoke about the first part of the war in Palestine, the civil war between the |
0:25.2 | Arabs and the Jews, between November, 1947 and May, 1948, resulting with about somewhere |
0:31.3 | just around 300,000 Arab refugees fleeing or expelled to the |
0:36.2 | West Bank and neighboring Arab countries in the Middle East. Let's start with just |
0:41.3 | a basic question. What triggered the 1948 Arab-Israeli war? |
0:45.9 | And specifically, why did Arab states |
0:48.7 | in the Middle East invade Israel, |
0:50.9 | or what was now this newly declared Israel? |
0:53.5 | The simple answer, the one which they broadcast to the world was we are invading Palestine |
0:59.3 | in order to protect our Arab brothers, the Palestinian Arabs, who have just been crushed by the Jews in the civil war, |
1:06.4 | and are being massacred by the Jews, that's the way they presented it to the world. |
1:10.4 | But the answer appears to be more complicated. Some of the Arab soldiers, some of the Arab leaders may have been motivated by a desire to help their fellow Arabs and to restore those who had been uprooted from their homes back to their homes, but most of the Arab leaders had interests of their own. |
1:28.6 | Jordan had been long interested in occupying East Jerusalem with the old city of Jerusalem at its center |
1:36.1 | for religious and political reasons and to occupy the West Bank, which is what they did in the invasion of 48. Egypt had its eyes set on |
1:46.0 | occupying the Negev desert, the southern part of Palestine, which had been largely |
1:51.0 | allocated for Jewish statehood. The Syrians |
1:54.4 | apparently were interested in taking hold of the sea of Galilee and |
1:58.2 | the surrounding land around it because they coveted water and perhaps the sea for other reasons. |
2:04.0 | So each of the Arab states invading probably had their own particular |
2:09.0 | geopolitical interests in occupying parts of Palestine. |
2:13.0 | So we're talking about Jordan, Syria, Egypt, and what about Iraq? |
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