Name: How Palestinians were expelled from their homes
Uploaded: 2023-07-22T07:33:00.000Z
Duration: 16 min 26 s
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And it faces the main road  to Jerusalem.

This is a story about  what happened here in 1948.

That history has been carefully concealed...

purposefully distorted, and in the West,  largely forgotten.

They put our village as an example of what they can do.

The massacre in this village was one of many

When hundreds of thousands  of Palestinians

were violently displaced  from their homeland...

The borders of Palestine have been  changed forcefully over time.

But historically, this region has been home  to Palestinians for centuries

with hundreds of villages and thriving cities.

One of them being the central city  of Jerusalem...

By the late Ottoman Empire,  Palestinians living here

with minority Christian and  Jewish native populations, too.

Palestinians were often  referred to as Arabs.

Palestinians have long distinguished  themselves as Ahl Filastīn...

They developed a distinctive  Arabic accent.

They developed regional food, regional dress,  and family ties.

were competing for control of these lands.

First, there was a growing Arab  political movement...

looking for independence from  the Ottoman Empire

in hopes of a unified Arab state  that would include Palestine.

a political group that had one main goal:

Zionism was a response to  an increasingly brutal climate

for Jewish people, particularly  in Europe and Russia...

where there was a massive wave  of antisemitism...

including large scale attacks  in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

After briefly considering other areas for a new state

because of its connection to early religious history.

But there was a third key group  with political interests here.

Control of the region would  allow them to expand

their spheres of influence and protect  trade routes to India.

During World War I, since both  the British

and the Arab independence movement  wanted Palestine...

they decided to go after  the Ottomans together

an Arab leader and a British official agreed

that if Arabs would help the British  fight the Ottomans

and give the British economic and other  foreign privileges in Arab lands...

in return, the British would recognize and support

making it easier for the British to move in.

But the next year the British issued  a new declaration

“In 1917, Lord Allenby conquered  the Holy Land...

and the Jews were promised  a national home in Palestine.”

Without consulting the native  Palestinian population...

the British issued what's known as  the Balfour Declaration:

Supporting the establishment in Palestine

of a national home for  the Jewish people.

So instead of supporting  the idea of Palestine

as part of a unified and independent  Arab state...

the British pledged to help secure this land  for Zionists.

This declaration opened up a pathway for Britain

that it was supporting the self-determination of another people...

As for Palestine's majority  Arab population

the declaration referred to them as  non-Jewish communities...

who would be given civil  and religious rights...

A few years later, after World War I ended

Britain gained control of Palestine  through a mandate...

that also required them  to put the Balfour plans

the Jewish population  more than doubled.

The migration helped the  Zionist movement gain steam.

“A land without people for, a people without land.”

And it sends a message to Western leaders...

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