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what would happen if you build a refuge for persecuted people in a
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place where another people already lived and in the next few minutes
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you'll learn why this moral are the root of the struggle between Israelis
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and Palestinians
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and what you can do to help achieve a just peace
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for everyone in the region
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first there are couple of things it's helpful to understand. one:
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many jews fled harsh persecution in Antisemetics Europe
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especially the Nazi Holocaust
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Zionist encouraged massive immigration in Historic Palestine
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at that time of the British Colony reduce an age-old connection and were
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small jewish communities's had long existed among larger groups of
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indigenous peoples (Arabs in Palestine)
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but when the UN offered the Jewish immigrants the majority of the land for
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new state called Israel
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for the indigenous Palestinians who live there it was a massive destruction of
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life
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they've rejected the UN's partition plan
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and several Arab States invaded the
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new State of Israel
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Israeli forces essentially raze over four hundred Palestinians
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Villages and towns
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by the end of the fighting, Israel controlled seventy eighty percent of
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Historic Palestine with three quarters of a million palestinians who fled or
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were expelled during fighting
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tried to return to their homes with the new state now stood
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they would permanently barred (banned) by the Israeli government. well over a hundred
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thousand their relatives and neighbors who hasn't left became second-class
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citizens in the new state
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along with the new Jewish majority
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today palestinian refugees and their descendants number in the millions most
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in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and Jordan
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many are spread throughout the world with million still living in refugee
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camps seeking to return to their homeland
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to sum up
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one group of refugees kinda much needed home
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but in the process a new group of refugees was created
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here's the second thing to understand
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Israel was founded as a Jewish state
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but now ask yourself
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what exactly does that mean
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people had lots of ideas about what a Jewish state should look like
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some called for equality for all citizens (include the Palestinean)
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but what was created
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in practice
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was Institutional Discrimination against non Jews (Arabs, Muslim & Christians)
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in other words
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Israel ended up being built on a blue printed paper
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the Israeli government wants the maximum lands and resources for Jews
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but not the Palestinians living here
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that's why inside Israel, Jews get special privileges including rights to
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land and housing
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better denied to the Palestinian citizens who make up twenty percent of
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Israel's population
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that's also part of why Israel is never defined its borders (NO OFFICIAL BORDER)
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in fact they still hold onto land, the West Bank and Gaza
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that they conquered in the war in 1967
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since then Israel has built Jewish settlements throughout the
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occupied West Bank, building jewish only cities and supplying them quick infrastructure
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like roads and army camps, schools and even a college
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military occupation are meant to be temporary
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but after 40+ years this one looks permanent an entirely unjust
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in the West Bank, Israeli Jewish settlers and Palestinians live on the same land
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but must live under two completely separate and unequal systems of Israeli
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law
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the Jewish Settlers dominate the natural resources including water and
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agricultural land
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and they're backed by the Israeli army
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to maintain the occupation, Israel demolished thousands of Palestinian home
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and orchids
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confiscated Palestinian Land
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bomb and captive civilian in Gaza
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and punished resistance
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with raids, arrests
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and assassinations
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All to gain Maximum land
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or making life so difficult for Palestinian
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that they will either
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leave or be too afraid
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to resist
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Palestinians have fought back
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for decades they try to achieve national liberation through on struggle
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some group still do
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but for the majority now support popular protest instead
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the deeply wrong for pattern of control repression and violence profoundly harms
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Palestinians living under occupation and Israelis living as occupiers
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this must be broken to reach a peaceful and secure future for both peoples
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now that you understand the problem, what about the solution, what about peace
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talks
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so far over two decades of US-backed peace talks actually made things worst
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by helping Israel continue the occupation, it's been years of talking
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while Israel massively expanded the Jewish settlements
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and literally redrew the map
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peace talks are good if they're real! but not when they are bad to cover a land grant
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So now what, the current world superpowers the USA has been a terrible friend
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and it links Israel's destructive in self-destructive expansion on
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Palestinian land by funding the Israeli military
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the biggest recipient of US foreign aid in the world
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but there's another superpower they can make the difference... YOU!
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there's a movement with hundreds of thousands people just like you across
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the world
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including Palestinians and Israelis
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protesting
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educating
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divesting
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and boycotting
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all to bring non violent
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international pressure
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on Israel
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to stop
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violating human rights of Palestinian
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throughout history
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our government failed to push for justice
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people just like you, like us
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have taken the lead and won
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now its the Palestinean turn
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for freedom
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and justice
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we can pressure Israel to END the occupation and
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the discrimination
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we want all want people, Jews and Palestinean
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to have quality
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human right
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and democracy (well thats not necessary)
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we can change history!!!!
