In this Episode, Professor Zachary Foster and I discuss the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine that took place starting in 1948 and has continued till the present day. We discussed the events that led up to the creation of the state of Israel and the subsequent expulsion of nearly 800,000 Palestinians from their villages and towns in an event that became known as the Nakba (Catastrophe).
Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
03:35 - False narratives about the 1948 war
18:10 - Initial aims of the Zionist movement
26:10 - Plan Dalet
29:45 - Ethnic cleansing post war
38:50 - 1950s in Palestine
45:40 - Israel's nation state law
50:40 - Preparing to occupation of West Bank
51:54 - June 1967 War
56:30 - Occupation after 1967
1:08:05 - Conclusion
Guest Intro:Professor Zachary Foster is a Jewish Historian and has a PhD in Near Eastern studies from Princeton University. He is a fellow at the Rutgers Study for security race and rights. He runs a digital archive called Palestine Nexus. He writes a newsletter called "Palestine in your inbox" and he teaches courses on the history of Palestine and Zionism at palestinenexus.com. His PhD was titled "The Invention of Palestine”.
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