oh how wonderful it is to live here in Europe alongside people of so many religions and nationalities staying together through thick and sire I just did the math we don't have enough food to make it through the winner Gentlemen please things may be dire now but this is not the first time our people have faced hardship our ancestors face this and much more and they always endured how did they do that sire well I'm glad you asked Thomas the solution is simple we beat up the Jews how does that solve anything and Thomas we beat up the Jews and [Music] Thomas anti-Semitism has a long history and many different reasons some Christians saw Jews as responsible for the death of Christ and the fact that Jew were usually minorities in the countries they lived in meant that they had little political power which made them great scapegoats in time of Crisis even before the Holocaust there were countless pograms in Europe so in the late 19th century a movement began for the Jewish people to find a place they could call home and where no one would program them anymore this was the beginning of Zionism a bunch of influential Jews formed the world Zionist organization and came up with options for a possible Homeland but the lucky winner was Israel the land that they believe had been promised to them by God and from where they had been expelled by the Romans almost 2,000 years ago there was just one slight problem there were already people living there the Palestinians while some zionists wish for Arabs and Jews to live side by side in harmony the majority believed that Jews would never be safe unless they had a state with a majority Jewish population how can we make a majority Jewish population if there are only 4% Jews and over 90% Arabs well we will take the land from them how it's simple we'll harass them until they get out as soon as we have a big settlement here and become strong we will expel them from the West Bank of the Jordan River too let them go back to the Arab countries unfortunately European Zionist just like many Europeans at the time were were also very racist in a time in which Europe was committing unspeakable atrocities across the world the need of a few 100,000 Arabs were of little concern to them Kim vitman president of the Zionist organization would later say The British told us that there are some 100,000 Negroes in Palestine and for those there is no value interestingly then just like today many of the most fervent zionists were not Jewish many many Christians have been supporting the Zionist movement since its Inception believing that a Jewish return to their historical Homeland would cause the return of Christ and all faithful would go to heaven while all non-believers including the Jews would go to hell to suffer for eternity it seems odd but in the US today the largest base of support for Israel are not American Jews but Evangelical Christians what also seems odd is that you have not yet heard of World of Warships today's 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of the Bloons 7 Days Premium Time a million credits special dday missions and a choice from one of these cool ships so sign in now using my link in the description anyways it was decided that Palestine would become Israel but how could this be achieved the strategy was simple in Palestine most of the land was owned by wealthy individuals living abroad for centuries Palestinians lived and worked on land that did not belong to them and when the landowner decided to sell the Palestinians living there would continue to do so but the zus organization formed the Jewish National Fund which became the agency through which the Zionist purchased land for Jews to settle this guy became heavily involved in making sure that Jews would evict the Palestinians from their newly purchased land even if they didn't plan to live on it the Jewish National Fund also began a secondary mission to carefully document each V gather information of their defenses layout and inhabitants this information would be vital in the conflict ahead when World War I broke out the British looked for ways to gain support and influence from the Arabs during the Hussein MCM correspondence check out my Lawrence of Arabia video if you don't know what that is they promised Independence to the Arabs in exchange for their help against the Ottomans but the British also realized the importance of control over the Middle East and they saw in z ISM an opportunity to create a European forward base in a strategic location one of the founders of Zionism Theodor hle said it himself the Jewish state would form a part of a wall of defense for Europe in Asia an outpost of civilization against barbarism with this in mind Lord balur former British prime minister and currently foreign secretary made an official declaration in which he promised to establish in Palestine a national home for the Jewish people understanding that nothing shall be done with May Prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-jewish communities in Palestine now don't get confused B for support for Zionism was not because of his love for the Jewish people in 1905 while many Jews escaped Russia to flee the pams by the brutal Zar Lord balur as prime minister prided over the passage of an act that put firm restrictions on immigration into Great Britain balur wrote in 1919 the Zionist movement would mitigate the agong miseries created for Western Civilization by the presence in its midst of a body which it too long regarded as alien and even hostile but which it was equally unable to expel or to absorb bford did not make his declaration to give the Jews a place to go it was about giving them a place to leave to another problem was that he only mentioned the native Arabs as non-jewish communities and only guaranteed their religious and civil liberties not their political rights the needs of the Arabs were of no concern to him as he had a mild case of being insanely racist he was recorded saying we have to face the fact men are not born equal the white and black races are not born with equal capacities they are born with different capacities which education cannot and will not change despite all this the bathur Declaration was incredible news for the zionists it meant that Great Britain one of the largest superpowers in the world would officially support them but the balur Declaration might as well have been a war declaration for the native Palestinians who began to realize that the Jewish state would be created at their expense with help from the British Kim vitman established the first zus office in Jerusalem in August 1918 a Jewish newspaper wrote a few years later the Jews must purify their Homeland Palestine of those who have usurped it the Muslim inhabitants of Palestine must go to the hijaz and the desert and its Christian inhabitants must move to Lebanon in February 1920 the British military governor of Palestine confirmed in a public statement that the British would try to establish a Jewish National homeland in Palestine which led to large protest and violent clashes between the local population and Jewish settlers even leading to the death of a Jewish Soldier during the Feast of the Prophet Moses Arab celebrating felt threatened by Jewish settlers nearby who they believed were being challenging this escalated leading to more violent clashes both in Jerusalem and T high in which five Jews and four Arabs died with hundreds more injured realizing that the local Palestinians were beginning to resist their colonial project the Zionist founded a paramilitary organization called hagana apart from the riots Palestinians also resisted through peaceful means they formed congresses comprised of both Muslims and Christians and sent letters to the British the Paris peace conference and even the League of Nations advocating for their self-determination hello there I know you guys have asking for Independence and an end to the zus Colonial project we hear you and would be glad to find a solution that makes everyone happy that's great it's all we want there's just one tiny small thing I need you to accept our Rule and the bath declaration before we begin negotiating but that goes completely against what we wanted oh also I'm appointing this dinus Jew as a High Commissioner of Palestine [Music] in 1920 the League of Nations created the British mandate for Palestine officially putting it under their control the Mandate document included the bful Declaration in its Preamble almost word for word and strongly encouraged Jewish immigration by giving them Palestinian nationality it also essentially allowed for the creation of a Administration parallel to the British mandatory government with the power to control health education Public Works Palestinians were given no such political power the British foreign secretary strongly opposed this document 580,000 Arabs and 30,000 Jews live in the country we then proceed to draw up a document that is an avowed Constitution for a Jewish State the poor Arabs are only allowed to look through the keyhole as a non-jewish community indeed the Arabs were not happy about the conditions of the Mandate on May 1st 1921 clashes broke out during a protest between communist and anti-communist Jews after being dispersed by the police some of the protesters then marched into an Arab neighborhood and the locals thought the Jews were demonstrating against them tensions escalated leading to the death of 47 Jews and 49 Palestinians with another 200 injured after this blood spill and another Palestinian diplomatic mission in London Winston Churchill who was minister of colonies became convinced that the British had no choice but to promise something to please the Arabs I know that some of you are a bit upset about the way we've handled things so far so I hope this white paper will set things straight the B declaration did not mean that Palestine would become a home for the Jews but rather that there would be a home for Jews in Palestine and the Jewish National home does not mean a Jewish State that's two very different things Jewish immigration can continue you but we have to restrict it a little also I know that during the Hussein MCM correspondence we kind of promised you Independence but that's not happening so suck it up already good there's no way this would make anyone upset this white paper completely ignored the core Palestinian demands as it did nothing to hold the expanding Zionist project so they held more conferences and continued to show their anger at the Zionist project things went from bad to worse when some prominent zionists such as David benguan and menah mishkin made declarations expressing desire for the Temple Mount to be taken over by the Zionist but this place was also one of the holiest places for Muslims as it was the location of the alaka mosque in 1929 Jews erected a cloth dividing their prayer zone between men and women as was customary in synagogues while this was not an attempt ATT to take over it was received by many Muslims as an appropriation of their holy sight could you guys please just like take it down oh I'll take you down wo wo everyone calm down this holy site belongs to the Arabs but Jews have and will continue to have permission to visit it are we all clear now great another 10 situation diffused but the situation was not diffused once again the British made everything worse Jews demonstrated against these statements on August 15th they raised their zus flag and even sang their Anthem in the Holy sight while also making fiery speeches calling for control of the wall the next day it was the Palestinians who protested and got rid of the supplicatory notes that the Jews had left in their holy sight both Arabs and Jews were now furious at each other tensions burst into violence in Nablus bisan hia Jaffa acre Jerusalem and herbron Palestinians and Jews retaliated against each other's attacks committing unspeakable atrocities in the end 133 Jews and 115 Palestinians died with over half a thousand injured most of the Jews were killed by Arabs and brutal massacres While most of the Arabs were killed by the British who sided with the Jews but many Arabs knew that not all Jews were zionists and during the violence Palestinian families in nebron concealed and protected Jewish families in their own homes sometimes at the expense of their own lives hey um quick question what in the ever loving was that well sir people back home are really afraid because they think that the Jews are trying to take over the land I see no worries this white paper stresses the importance of giving Palestinians some autonomy and stopping Jewish immigration to Palestine this will fix everything I will resign if you do that whoa because of this dumb little paper don't worry let's just forget about the whole thing during the 1930s anti-Semitism was rising in Europe especially in Germany with the US the UK and other countries having discriminatory laws that limited Jewish immigration into their own countries many Jews felt that they had no place to go but Palestine wait shouldn't we maybe stop being so anti-semitic that the Jewish people feel forced to migrate abroad and cause a massive Regional problem elsewhere did did anyone hear something no oh that's weird anyways in 1914 Jews were just under 5% of the population in Palestine by 1934 they had become almost 26% and while Jewish immigrants were given economic privileges in employment investment and Taxation Palestinians suffered from economic stagnation to make matters worse some Jewish communities began to publicly train their paramilitary forces in a direct provocation to the local Arabs and sometimes they even raided Arab Villages Palestinians once again protested across the country the protest were violently quelled leaving 30 dead and hundreds injured including musak katham Al husseini one of the leaders of the Palestinian Congress who later died from his wounds in October 1935 an Arab worker at Jaffa Port had discovered by chance a large sient of arms hidden in barel of cement that were meant for the hagana and it became evident that this was not the first time it had happened over a decade of protest congresses and delegations had left Palestinians feeling like they had exhausted every possible diplomatic solution and the British had made it clear that they would never cave to their demands so far much of the violence the Arabs had engaged in was a reaction to some sort of Jewish or British action or provocation but now Palestinians will become proactive active as underground groups began to form aspiring to fight for National independence from the British is Al alham formed iron bands that began to strike British forces as he prepared for a fullblown rebellion but in November 1935 alasam and his men were surrounded by British police unwilling to surrender alasam encourages men to die fighting and he fell after a fierce battle alasan became a martyr a symbol of Palestinian resistance against the occupiers and inspired many more to rise in arms on April 15th 1936 a group of alam's followers shot three Jews killing two of them the following night a group of Jews killed two Arabs as retaliation the funeral for the killed Jews turned into a large demonstration during which Jews shouted anti-arab slogans the Arabs then set up a committee which assumed the responsibility of running the Revolt the grand Muti hajam Min Al husseini was unanimously chosen as chairman of the committee the Arab National Committee called for a generous strike throughout all Palestine announcing that it will continue until the British put a stop to Jewish immigration the British government used all means available to break the strike and end the Revolt including the demolition of large parts of the old neighborhood in Jaffa where they grew up more than 200 12 houses the British also arrested killed and tortured many Palestinians while ignoring their demands by allowing the entry of another 4500 Jewish settlers in July 1937 the British published the peel commissions report recommending that Palestine be partitioned into two states one for the Arabs and one for the Jews the Jews agreed but the Palestinians refused outright from their point of view it was was their land most of the Jewish settlers had not even been in the country for more than two decades the partition plan would not only give them a large portion of land but also require the expulsion of 200,000 Palestinians from their lands the Rebellion turned even more bloody and Arab Rebels attacked Bridges railway tracks oil pipelines and even Jewish settlements the British baned the Arab High committee and expelled many prominent Palestinian leaders from the country including hajam Al husseini the Palestinians replied by escalating their violence and even assassinating Captain Lu Andrews the British High Commissioner of the Galilee the British armed and trained tens of thousands of Jews which severely strengthened the growing Jewish paramilitaries at the same time the Jews also accelerated the construction of settlements knowing that the borders of a future partition of the land would likely con consider the location of settlements and they developed a settlement method called Tower and stade in which settlements were set up and populated literally overnight with a wall around them and a watchtower for defense in just 3 years they built over 50 such settlements as Jewish political parties increased the illegal immigration into their country to bypass British limits the iron and offshoot of the hagana was Notorious for responding to Arab Terror with their own the suppression of their Revolt was so violent that any Palestinian found in possession of even a single bullet could be executed on the spot tired of having their convoys and trains ambushed by Palestinians the British began tying Palestinian civilians to the front of their cars and locomotives to prevent attacks a tactic they had also implemented against the Irish during their war for independence and just just like in Ireland the British demolish the houses of Presumed Rebels and sometimes even of their family members as they imprisoned anyone remotely suspected of being part of the Rebellion many Palestinians would be held in what the British themselves called concentration camps the most notable one being in saund during the Revolt the Palestinians managed to take control of a large portion of their country and on November 9th 1938 the British government published a declaration abandoning the partition plan they met with Palestinian and Jewish representatives to discuss possible solutions and even considered granting dependence to the Palestinians but rumors spread that the British were planning to declare the independence of Palestine and now it was the Jews who started a terror campaign they threw grenades at Arab cerin killing over 40 people and injuring almost 100 without an agreement and with British reinforcements arriving the Europeans regained control by the end of the Revolt there were 100,000 British soldiers in Palestine one for every four adult men the Revolt left 10% of the entire adult male Palestinian population either dead wounded exiled or imprisoned the Arab Revolt during this period claimed over 500 Jewish and more than 4,000 Palestinian lives the Palestinians were left divided without clear leadership in a deep economic crisis and overall simply debilitated by the spring of 1939 it became clear that the world was headed for another world war and the British wished to stabilize their hold over Palestine so the last couple white papers didn't work out all that well but no worries I just negoti iated a great deal with Hitler and completely prevented Another World War so let me now solve this crisis this new white paper will put a limit to Jewish immigration and land sales and you will get representative institutions within 5 years and self-determination within 10 as long as the Jewish agency approves it another crisis averted the crisis however was very much not averted the Palestinian leaders knew that this was not not an honest attempt to grant them their desires but merely a deceit to pause the Revolt until Britain would be in a position to suppress them once again the zionists were even more displeased and turned to violence and Terror to express their opposition in 1940 a branch of the iron split and turned into the Lei a self-proclaimed terrorist organization with the outbreak of World War II the Palestinian Revolt gradually died down the British worked alongside the hagana and trained a defensive militia to counter a possible German invasion which became a real threat between 1941 and 1942 when Syria and Lebanon were held by vishy forces a pro-german Revolt occurred in Iraq and the German Army reached El alamain in Egypt thousands of Palestinian Jews fought alongside the British against natzi Germany the British created a special unit made exclusively of Palestinian Jews which mented the basis of a well-trained and organized military they also formed an elite Strike Force for the hagana called the Palm but the Lei believed that the British were a bigger threat to Zionism than the Nazis themselves for having restricted Jewish immigration so they sought alliances with fascist Italy and Nazi Germany hoping to build a Jewish State on the basis of Nationalist and totalitarian principles the Lei would fight the British throughout to the war at the same time hajam Min Al husseini also reached out to Hitler promising an uprising against the British and Jews in exchange for support however Hitler was more interested in his fight against the Soviet Union and nothing concrete came out of this meeting it is important to note that both Sid's attempts to reach out to Nazi Germany were mostly politically motivated in an enemy of my enemy type of way as I mentioned thousands of Palestinian Jews fought against the Nazis much more than those who wish to join it and over 12,000 Palestinian Arabs volunteered to fight for the British army but there was one crucial difference there was no single Palestinian unit which made it harder for post-war Palestinians to take advantage of their combat experience while Jews would return to Palestine with a cohesive armed and trained military organization as it became clear that the US would become a superpower the zionists began to try to obtain its support in 1942 prominent Zionist leaders met in New York City at the builtmore hotel and publicly declared their intention to take control of all of Palestine and to establish a Jewish State they also called for unlimited immigration into Palestine and the establishment of an approved military force there as the word learned about the horrors of the Holocaust the US Congress and even President Truman fully endorsed the Zionist project and as the German defeat became imminent the iron joined the Lei in their actions against the British in Palestine hoping to force them to change their policies or to get out of Palestine Alto together the Lei assassinated the British minister of State for the Middle East in Cairo in November 1944 and after the war the established the Jewish resistance movement which liberated illegal immigrants from detention camps blew up a British radar station that was designed to detect incoming ships with illegal immigrants as well as railway tracks and during the night of the bridges they even blew up 11 Bridges connecting Palestine to adjacent countries the Jewish Insurgency left over 100 British and at least 50 Jews dead the Arab deaths are harder to estimate but are somewhere between several hundred and 5,000 during operation Agatha the British authorities arrested over 2,000 Jews and confiscated a large amount of weapons they also confiscated large quantities of documents that implicated the hagana in the Jewish Insurgency the British stored these documents at their headquarters at the King David Hotel the Aon blew up the British officers at the hotel to eliminate the evidence killing 91 people and injuring 4 six more during the Arab Revolt many Palestinian leaders were killed imprisoned for years or exiled but during the Jewish Insurgency their leadership was already out just four months after their arrest World War II is over yay ass but now there are hundreds of thousands of Jews who survived the Holocaust and they need a new home well that's easy to fix Let's help them go to their former countries if they want to and if not maybe the UK can take some of them in or you Americans you have plenty of space back home I'm sure you can fit them in somewhere yeah I know we barely let them in during the Holocaust we're not doing it now yeah that's what Palestine is for Europeans and the Americans saw Palestine and the Zionist movement as a way to both relieve their guilt for centuries of anti-Semitism while also getting rid of Jews and setting up a western Outpost Po in the Middle East there was little to no concern about what this might mean for the native Palestinians who were already seeing a Proto State emerging as the British violently suppressed any attempts to form their own come on things I care about you're exaggerating unfortunately I am not let me quote chl's comments when ask about the B food declaration and how it could be an injustice to Palestinians I do not agree that the dog in a Manger has a final right to the manger even though he may have La there for a very long time I do not admit that right I do not admit for instance that a great wrong has been done to the red Indians of America or the black people of Australia I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race a higher grade race a more worldly wise race to put it that way has come in and taken their place the reality was that Palestinians were facing a colonial project that had worldwide support and the outspoken goal of driving them from their land and there was little they could do about it the Palestinians at this point had no foreign Ministry no diplomats and no centrally organized military force in 1947 the AR National Fund was trying to raise money for Palestine and after a year had managed to collect about 176,000 Palestinian pounds to put this into perspective a single Rich Jewish Widow from AP parite South Africa had gifted the Jewish National Fund 1 million Palestinian pound in March 1945 a bunch of Arab countries formed the Arab League but refused used to allow Palestine to participate keep in mind that all these countries had only recently become independent and their foreign policy was still incredibly influenced by the British but the British were now weakened by the world war and it had become obvious that the mess they created in Palestine was out of their control so they began looking for a way out the Zionist led by David benuron began to prepare for the fight that would come they came up with several plans but ended up going for plan C the purpose of this plan would be to mask an offensive by retaliating with disproportionate strength to any Arab attack or provocation plan C was very clear about the punishments they would inflict it also made clear that all data required could be found in the village files that the Jewish National Fund had been preparing for decades