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Israel and Palestine: One Land, Many Memories
From ancient Canaan to today's war, the story of a land that became home to two peoples.
About
Who ruled the lands of present-day Israel and Palestine in antiquity? How did Zionism and modern Palestinian identity emerge? And why did the founding of Israel in nineteen forty-eight become independence for one people and the Nakba, a catastrophe, for the other?
This historical audiobook follows the land from the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, through the empires of antiquity, the Roman and Byzantine periods, Arab and Ottoman rule, the British Mandate, nineteen forty-eight, the Six-Day War, the Intifadas, peace efforts, and the war that began in twenty twenty-three.
This is not a story with one heir and one guilty party. It is the story of two peoples with real bonds, fears, and traumas, in a land where ancient memory meets modern politics and history is still being written.
Sources
- United Nations, Question of Palestine: Historical Timeline — https://www.un.org/unispal/historical-timeline/
- United Nations Special Committee on Palestine, Report A/364 (1947) — https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-179435/
- United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 (II), Future Government of Palestine (1947) — https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-185393/
- Balfour Declaration (1917), Avalon Project, Yale Law School — https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/balfour.asp
- The Palestine Mandate (1922), Avalon Project, Yale Law School — https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/palmanda.asp
- International Court of Justice, Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall (2004) — https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-178825/
- United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Occupied Palestinian Territory — https://www.ochaopt.org/
- UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls — https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/148/
- Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Merneptah Stele — https://www.imj.org.il/en/wings/archaeology/merneptah-stela
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