How Palestinians were expelled from their homes

The Palestinian catastrophe, explained.
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Around the time that Israelis celebrate Independence Day, Palestinians commemorate “The Nakba,” or “The Catastrophe.” The Nakba was a series of events, centered around 1948, that expelled hundreds of thousands Palestinians from their homeland and killed thousands. The Nakba isn’t the beginning of the story, but it’s a key part of Palestinian history - and the root of Israel’s creation.
Prior to the Nakba, Palestine had a thriving population - largely made up of Arabs - that had lived and worked the land for centuries. But with the founding of Zionism, years of British meddling, and a British pledge to help create a Jewish state in Palestine - things began to change drastically. By 1947, with increasing tensions between Jewish settlers and Palestinian Arabs - the British left Palestine, and the UN stepped in with a plan to partition the land into two states. What followed was known as Plan Dalet: operations by Israeli paramilitary groups that violently uprooted Palestinians. An estimated 15,000 Palestinians were killed, more than 500 villages were decimated, and roughly 750,000 Palestinians displaced.
Most who were expelled from their homes couldn’t return to historic Palestine. And today, millions of their descendants live in refugee camps in Gaza, the West Bank and surrounding countries. The history of the Nakba has been deliberately concealed and often ignored in western narratives around the creation of Israel. In this episode of Missing Chapter, we break down how the Nakba happened - and how it defined the future of Palestine.
Sources:
Check out the documentary “1948: Creation & Catastrophe” by Ahlam Muhtaseb and Andy Trimlett for more information about the events around the Nakba - tubitv.com/movies/513674/1948...
All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948 was a great resource in helping us understand the Nakba - / all-that-remains
For our maps, we relied heavily on these organizations: Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs, Institute for Middle Eastern Understanding, Palestine Remembered and Zochrot
www.passia.org/maps/view/2
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www.zochrot.org/
This report by Ilan Pappe helped us understand how Zionist forces planned to destroy villages -
www.palestine-studies.org/en/...
For our population breakdowns, we mainly used Australian National University’s Palestine Census reports archive -
users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/ya...
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[@Vox]

The Nakba isn’t a long-faded memory. It’s a deeply felt, visceral, and ongoing pain. And since the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks, Palestinians now fear a permanent displacement. Vox senior reporter Sigal Samuel explains current calls from Israel’s politicians and defense establishment to expel Palestinians and provides context for this rapidly developing crisis. Read: bit.ly/49bOkSr

[@yehoem]

You should be ashamed of yourselves. Where is the video about the brutal attack on Israel?!?!

[@fizzlersizzler9259]

When did Vox become so one-sided and propagandistic? You are essentially hamas media at this point.

[@andrebendahan]

@@fizzlersizzler9259pretty sure they were always one sided in regards to this situation in particular.

[@KarimMohamed-yp3le]

​@@yehoemthis is about the whole conflict beginning to end

[@KarimMohamed-yp3le]

​@@fizzlersizzler9259this is about the whole conflict start to eny

[@alexprice2631]

As a Brit, I am continually shocked at how people can be proud of our colonial past when we were such self-absorbed arseholes

[@Edliren]

As a french I feel the same. Best thing we can do is admit this as a part of our history to avoid repeating it.

[@Sonyboj]

What about mongol empire? Aincent china? Japan in WW1 and WW2?

[@guillerhonora717]

@@Sonyboj bit different

[@Random17Game]

People normally are proud of the huge important place in the world they had at the time, not the atrocities and suffering caused, they are not proud of subjugating

[@exploreAZ]

​@@nonly1nforgiving as In the name of religion? Don't get us started on what horrible things have been done in the name of religion

[@anonymousguy1785]

If you are ever wondering about any conflict in the world, just assume that it is because of Britishers and you would be right 90% of times.

[@berlinosaurus9785]

@@matthewconnole7369 💀

[@Wasserkaktus]

If you think the Ottomans would have handled this any better you are 100% wrong.

[@Wasserkaktus]

@@matthewconnole7369 The Palestinian Cause was originally secular since Palestinian Christians were treated the exact same as the Muslims.

[@Comet-2011-W3-Lovejoy]

​@@matthewconnole7369 ahh yes, the war of 1812, French revolution, American civil war, Battle of the Atlantic, American revolution, Vietnamese war, and the first punic war was all fought because of Muslims

[@bananajesus667]

​​@@Comet-2011-W3-Lovejoy I think the point is you can pick and choose conflicts that support your narrative which allow anybody to seem behind a majority of wars.

[@blurredlocalcat]

"The land without people, for people without land." But they somehow on purpose forgot the land was already full of people (muslims and christians) living in it for generations..

[@Vixxen_Viktoria]

Yeah….. Jewish folx lived there for generations too. Unfortunately due to forced diaspora , colonization, mass violence and displacement, many were forced to leave. History matters.

[@joshrhoads9419]

They learned that from the USA, who pushed the narrative the west was open fertile and FREE land, except it wasnt. Natives already lived there.

[@Snoopydad]

Jerusalem was a Jewish majority city in 1852. Most of the land was owned by the Ottomans during this period.

[@jeffreywilheim5970]

And yet there was plenty of room for Jews too, which is why so many Arabs sold land to Jews, who bought for exorbitant prices.

[@zakialmahin7278]

​@@Snoopydadwe are talking about the population of the region of palestine as a whole which had only 6% Jews 15-20% Christians and the rest were Muslims.

[@YAWSSSSSS]

This didn't start on Oct. 7

[@aniscalisthenix7835]

This is only for western media 😂😂

[@segua]

It didn’t, it started at WWI. Ottomans lost. You lose you pay. The ottomans slaughtered all the Christians of the lands.

[@radish_irrational]

@@segua Bruh 1) Arabs revolted against ottomans 2) Christians in Palestine are Arab and against Israel.

[@user-tl9mc3wm8g]

Youre right it started in the masacres in the early 1920s conducted as usual by the arabs who by the way were not called palestiniens. Just arabs. They came from egypt and syria looking for jobs from the british..

[@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW0]

​@@seguathat's not the arabs fault

[@samonser03]

Kudos to everyone doing their research as we witness what’s happening now

[@glowghost6498]

and i including most sane people will agree that this still does NOT excuse whats happening!!!!!!! if all the natives in canada took women and children from their homes to murder and parade through the street, we and the entire world would be calling them terrorists because thats not how you go about getting whats yours back especially nowadays

[@brownkemosabe]

Just 'reading up', not research.. But yes. Important to be aware

[@xomifred]

@@brownkemosabe re·search The systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions.

[@Lt-Leinad]

Yes people need to know that Israel has the right to exists, and that Hamas are terrorists

[@WeeWeeJumbo]

Hasan sent me

[@blackdiamondnews63]

When I watch the news here in the USA. I am disgusted, yet not suprised. I wish more people would study the history.

[@Salma-zg4dj]

it hurts me so much to see how all the news are phrased to favour the israelis

[@angelawu6842]

I totally agree! So many people take a stand without knowing the history.

[@dutchislax14]

Our media is bought and paid to protect Israeli interests by the same wealth that fueled Zionism and the Nakba. Educated U.S. and global citizens know the truth and we stand with Palestine.

[@SepSol75]

Every Western outlet I listen to gives me a headache. It is really scary that pushing such an agenda is even possible in the age of information...

[@Leroro01]

​​​@@angelawu6842because the western media is too strong and show that israel is the victim part

[@FRISHR]

You won't see this on Fox News or CNN.

[@dodge6571]

You won’t see them saying anything about Israelis living there couple of thousands years ago either. So what?

[@christianmiller9934]

@@dodge6571because they left I diot not their home

[@christianmiller9934]

@@dodge6571you also won’t see their brutal invasion of Canaan

[@mohamedhussein2780]

In that same sense the native americans have every right to get back their land from the US​@dodge6571

[@Anna2W]

Why would they say that on their own media bro

[@GoJoLy2301]

if you had released this AFTER october 7th, they’d have said you supported hamas, bc so many people choose not to think about or consider the fact that israel has been committing atrocities for a long time. decades.

[@benjaminraspael5504]

lol a rocket scientist gamer has listen and swallowed what some socialist garbage has been poured down his throat and thinks he has any clue of what has actually gone on

[@Ardjano234]

Although that Hamas attack was awful, my pro-Palestine stance was really something you should keep to yourself. Now with all the destruction in Gaza, this stance is more accepted thankfully. In my opinion, the current events are nothing else than Manifest Destiny when the American Natives lost everything and were decimated by Europeans who desired their own state where they had settled. Sure, the Natives were really brutal in those wars, but they never deserved to be reduced to a marginalised minority.

[@utubevenky]

so you are saying that this person knows about hamas attack before hand ??

[@NasMas-lz8er]

It is supporting HAMAS because HAMAS started all of this mess. So wym?

[@lastbruh62]

​@@NasMas-lz8erthis video was posted 10 months ago , showing the atroceties Israel is committing which justifies the 7th of Oct attack

[@raisulislam7689]

It's very sad and frustrating that this issue is still termed as a "conflict" when it was a full fledged "invasion"

[@ranonampangom2185]

Eh, the Arabs started rhe massacres, refused peace, lost the war, and haven't stopped crying since.

[@chachomask]

ok guy who never visited Israel / Palestine and obviously consumes his new and ideas from social media influencers.

[@osheridan]

​@@chachomask I have never been to North Korea but I'm anti Kim Jong-Un.

[@servant-of-the-federation]

Harsh reality. Peace will prevail. Untill then, we can only pray😢

[@vaair_]

@@chachomask no i agree as a palestenien

[@IBNHATTUTA]

Thank you Vox for showing the raw facts, very simple history that the whole world is turning a blind eye to

[@dinaelallioui5379]

👏🏻

[@dplameras]

Not a blind Eye, As a westerner I never knew about the Nakba and I've been alive for decades. Most from us from a Judeo-Christian background never knew. I think Palestinians would benefit from teaching the world what happened to them like this video. Our vocabularies should both include Nakba and Holocaust. I think by changing public opinion to the real truth, the Palestinians would get equitable treatment from the West.

[@salam-sl9ob]

​@@dplameras thank you 😢

[@ablab6318]

you did an amazing video as well

[@VikingTravel5]

I stand with 🇵🇸

[@wanderer0013]

You cannot remedy injustice with injustice.

[@Flickvids100]

What if justice is denied by the institutions supposed to guarantee it?

[@christianmiller9934]

Israel has the power to stop it’s apartheid

[@allseeingeye1]

Brits now complaining about muslim invasion of england. Well, you reap what you sow.

[@AMANKUMAR-oh1zt]

Unfortunately Partition and 1947 rings another bell here in India. The horrors of Partition of India still haunt the subcontinent and yes the people involved here were "British" as in Palestine.

[@gamingwithpurple7880]

It is also haunting Pakistan. Britain should fix his mistakes.

[@greenweed3253]

Stop putting everything on British, when it was the Muslim League and elites from Aligarh Muslim university that demanded Pakistan and rest of the indian muslims fully supported them in the elections of 1946.

[@altrag]

@@gamingwithpurple7880 Hundred or so years too late for that. Today's Britain struggles to fix their own problems at home never mind fixing problems elsewhere in the world, regardless of whether or not they're rooted in colonial legacy.

[@gamingwithpurple7880]

@@altrag is UN sleeping?

[@muhammadmahd6429]

​@@gamingwithpurple7880 no it's not haunting PAKISTAN 🇵🇰, we are proud that we aren't being slaughtered like Muslims of Gujarat UP and Occupied Kashmir

[@nodzee97]

So basically if we were to blame anyone for the current state of affairs we should blame Great Britain?

[@lifles2]

Not that great

[@itellyouforfree7238]

for this as for several other problems. just think of india-pakistan

[@billsgotacamera3411]

It makes me mad how many people don't realize who's really to blame for all this initially.

[@itellyouforfree7238]

@@billsgotacamera3411 Mohammed is to be blamed: he started the less tolerating and tolerable religions of all.

[@sebasmana5798]

We should look at the conflict now, and the perpetrators. Israel def has more civilians kills and more violations of human rights. So Israel is to blame

[@anjiwhatever5644]

Its important to note that during the Nakba, Palestinian resistance was already weakened because of the revolt of 1936 where Palestinians revolted agaisnt the British colonizers and were squashed, essentially eliminating political and military strength of Palestine.

[@mahinahmed2316]

Interesting 🤔 But then the question raises; how come they defeated all those other arabs who showed up with bigger numbers after 1948, How did the Israeli got so much overpower with in such a small window of time ?

[@anjiwhatever5644]

@@mahinahmed2316 I recommend you read Ilan Pappe's The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine for details but in a nutshell, the British trained them... Also they brought in their own militias.

[@hungbearlover]

I don’t understand why the British are called colonisers as they only had control because the Ottoman Empire collapse and the League of Nations.

[@anjiwhatever5644]

@@hungbearlover I'm sorry can you not even read what you yourself wrote? The British had "control" over what? How would you define colonization then?

[@hungbearlover]

@@anjiwhatever5644 weren’t the British running the the show? “The British army ruled Palestine until a civil administration was established on 1 July 1920. Britain was granted a Mandate for Palestine on 25 April 1920 at the San Remo Conference, and, on 24 July 1922, this mandate was approved by the League of Nations”.

[@rahaki5445]

You only win the game if the truth is hidden. Once the truth is out, it's game over.

[@GabGotti3]

Isn’t it funny how the British avoid all responsibility and culpability? When the majority of geopolitical issues are Britains fault.

[@Nick-ql6ov]

Without the British and western culture you wouldn’t be typing on your smartphone. Asia and Europe are the reason the world has progressed.

[@KresnaPermana]

​@@Nick-ql6ov that's out of the context

[@imransuhail82]

​@@Nick-ql6ovkeep telling yourself that lie if it makes you feel better. India, China, Arabs, spain and Greeks did all of the fundamental science and culture building while most of Europe was in dark ages living in filth and superstition. Read some history instead of spouting idiotic rhetoric.

[@anotheryoutubeuser]

​@@Nick-ql6ovWithout Britain, the world would have been a far better place than it is now.

[@jonlenihan4798]

The discovery of oil in Arabia brought the long-moribund Arab culture back to life. The Arabs spent the past 100 years trying to recreate their conquests and population cleansings of the seventh century. Now the tide is going back out.

[@salikrohman599]

As sad and shocking this is to watch. Big thanks to Vox for having the courage to share this and inform people.

[@oleggold]

Right. "Courage". As if there is no way to find out what Nakba is.

[@MA-by4dq]

​​@@unaffiliated_razorbladeyou mean Like Hitler yeah sure

[@Ricklyplinth]

​@@oleggold A lot of mainstream outlets don't talk about the real history of Israel and palestine. What's your problem?

[@joesmith4443]

@@Ricklyplinth As many misplace antisemitism (which is real btw) with criticism of Israel and its policies towards Palestine. I.e. The oppressed, oppressing the oppressed

[@joesmith4443]

@@oleggold It’s underreported in the mainstream media in the US.

[@shruti1719]

As an Indian, we read about the history of our country that was attacked and colonized for centuries and how our freedom fighters fought for a democratic India. My heart goes out to every single Palestinian who lost their homeland. No love more than love of homeland ❤❤ Praying for all the innocent children and life being lost in gaza now... Stay strong 🙏

[@Safsafoool]

I think in your case you should look at Israel and India, that has always fought for defending it's borders. The terror organizations that surround Israel is Pakistan kept terrorizing villages in north India. Go on and study this conflict further. Look up "The Palestinian Refugee Problem Explained". Don't fool yourself to think that after a 16 minutes video you start to understand something that Israelis and Palestinians have been arguing about for more than 75 years.

[@sapient74]

Hindu 😢

[@garyjohnstone6422]

they wandered in and Israel tolerated them

[@ThatOneLilDuck]

And india supports israel.

[@shruti1719]

@@ThatOneLilDuck what are saying?l can't even understand you. Is there a question?

[@aartip143]

Exactly why Indians should be in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom

[@alirezadavoodi7955]

I admire your courage, honesty, and clarity in addressing this matter, despite the numerous attempts by lobbyists to conceal the truth.

[@lightbody232]

​@@coastline6027 jews only found peace and safe place to live only in islamic world!, historically fact tho, and what happened next?, zions plotted on them!.

[@talon7305]

The truth is the Israelites were forced out of their land by Roman Empire and 7th century conquests. When they came back to their land it was stolen but apparently their stealing land that belonged to them to begin with?? Every time Israel offers peace the terrorist regime declines. All israel wants is to live in peace but they get provoked. Make no mistake the casualties on both sides is a tragedy and peace is all we can pray for.

[@jokedog]

@@talon7305 The real truth is, if you go back far enough, this land belong to nobody.

[@uknownothing5128]

@@talon7305 Do you also condone Russia attacking Ukraine because it used to be a part of the Soviet Union?

[@talon7305]

@@jokedog if you go back even further I guess all the land didn’t belong to anybody

[@bronko64]

Mad respect for Vox for having guts to make this video. Not only is it instructive, engaging and fact based like other productions from Vox, it's also very bravely telling the real story of Palestine that has been deliberately masked for decades. It's not antisemitic to tell people about history and it's not antisemitic to truthfully report on the news. This video is a great reminder of that.

[@bonkdonk9125]

or, most of this video is clearly one sided without looking at the israeli side but k

[@tiffanysandmeier4753]

@@bonkdonk9125 But most of the history of Isreal is as written by them, so having a video that doesn't take into account the Israeli POV isn't bad. But any time someone is invading, there is going to be pushback. Also negative sentiments from the people being displaced. For the most part those peoples stories are being dismissed/hidden, and people who protest are terrorists or antisemitic.

[@emricquito5107]

@@bonkdonk9125 lol

[@YarroGr]

​@@tiffanysandmeier4753 Yes, you are correct and important, in a video that explains a conflict between two nations, to not take to a count one side's POV every once in while 👍 that won’t create problems down the line, I AM SURE! I'll be with you if vox were to make the same video from an entirely Israeli view but we both know that's not going to happen.

[@binyaminkup2967]

Ya I gotta agree with @bonk donk and also with @tffiny Like I think this story is one sided. I'm now in the IDF and believe 100% in what I do as a combat soldier. But I do think it's VERY important to hear and listen to the other side. Especially if your part of the story. Not enough people listen to things they don't agree with. If we don't ever open up and hear the "enemy" we will never be able to get anywhere. (Personally I really learned a lot about the Nakba from this video. I also feel a lot worse for a lot of Arabs now. Same goes with Gaza and Lebenon but I think the situation is bigger then just a short 17 minutes video.)

[@michaeloden4561]

I’ve been on a learning high of history and you really start to truly understand why the world is the way it is.

[@plozky123]

SAMEE, been watching the history of the middle east from every angle possible

[@pecelramadhan1230]

Have you watched the Israeli angles on this incident?

[@markuskukk6711]

if youre learning your history on fox then rip you history knowlege. so much has been left out

[@bmunsky]

@@pecelramadhan1230 I was going to ask the same question. To understand the truth about any topic you have to hear all sides of the story.

[@noonebutme]

@@pecelramadhan1230can you recommend some videos for the Israeli side? I’m trying to do more research on the conflict but it’s hard to know when information is being left out or not

[@melaninmonroe6885]

Somehow all of the world's conflict always have British tentacles in it....

[@veridicusmaximus6010]

Hey how's the Wakanda economy?

[@mennatantawi]

thank you Vox for spreading the truth and the actual history

[@tristan7844]

Never seen this in American news

[@MTC008]

israel history of 3000 years exists, the kingdom of israel and it's kings king solomon and david are jewish kings from 1000 BCE and ancient objects and structures you can found in israel are only roman and jewish ones, no "palestine" this video did not started from 1st century AD when romans overthrew jewish people from israel to europe

[@SB-od9sl]

​@@MTC008stop u are spreading Islamophobia. You can't say truth

[@oscarg6924]

​@@MTC008 by this logic half of the world population would have to resettle. All of Turkey should be given back to the Greeks, England should be given back to the Welsh, Guangzhou to the Vietnamese, and 90+% of the population of North and South America should be kicked out, to leave space for the indigenous people.

[@eredris]

​@@williams9935ok, where do you live? cause I'm about to call up the descendants of those who lived where you are now from centuries ago and ask them to displace you.

[@parkersummers1287]

as a jewish person, i was shocked when i learnt about this. I am dissapointed that I didn't know about this much earlier

[@J_LOVES_ME]

I am a Christian and wanted to know more about the history as well. Disappointed to hear of the brutality of the Jews in 1948. A lot has changed over the decades, thank God, but what happened back then can not be ignored. Over the last few days I have been praying hard for Israel, after the attack of Hamas, but also have kept the Palestine people in my prayers as well. So many of their innocent civilians now caught up in the violence of Hamas. So much heartbreak all around. They all need our prayers.

[@SepSol75]

I am from Iran and wanted to learn more about the history amidst what's going on. This was well documented and explains a lot about the frustration and desperation in the region. But nevertheless salute to you all for searching for the truth!

[@parsahasselhoff7986]

What do you think would be a good solution? Would a two state system work?

[@SepSol75]

@@parsahasselhoff7986 1.The best would be for Israel to withdraw which they wouldn't. 2. The next best option is to have a fairly-divided 2-state solution. 3. The next best is for Palestinians to at least be able to officially self-govern themselves in Israel. 4. The worst is to have one Israeli state.

[@c.f.okonta8815]

That’s why I support Palestine 🇵🇸 against the atrocities committed

[@zarimc]

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[@smokeTEQ]

No.

[@moradchadni9112]

Who will condamn Isreal ?

[@sosososososo4148]

For what? Winning the wars that Arabs started?

[@handsanitiser9832]

@@sosososososo4148no, the massacres that happened by the Irgun sand Hagganah. Even Israelis now admit to this. Those wars were in response to the killings happening in villages. It’s widely known they weren’t prepared to fight, didn’t want to fight, as they were dealing w the aftermath of colonialism and structuring their countries! Your argument defies logic-it’s only natural to respond if your neighbor is suffering! Nobody even uses this argument anymore.

[@josiahpaez4601]

Wow, the fact that some Palestinian families have kept the keys to their long lost/destroyed homes really struck a chord for me. That was so powerful, I literally burst into tears. Such a tragic catastrophe. 😭

[@asmaaalhashimy5595]

My friend’s grandmother died while she still had the key hoping to return one day…

[@jonlenihan4798]

There's an "Achmed's Palestine Keys" kiosk at every rally.

[@maitreyeesingh5187]

The Pakistani Muslim took Hindu homes. The keys are useless if you can’t return.

[@tech010101x]

Not much different from the partition of India into Pakistan, India, and Bengal. Lots of people died, lots of refugees that left their homes and couldn't/wouldn't return. The Vox presentation here leaves out the "East Palestine" part where Arabs received TransJordan, which is now Jordan. In reality, the Jews received a small part of the overall area of the British Mandate.

[@jonlenihan4798]

1948 was 75 years ago. The 50% of the Gaza population that they claim are children, will never have met any relative who ever lived in today's Israel. They are living in the houses in which their parents and grandparents were born. What has never changed with them, is their Muslim entitlement and their disregard for the Jewish subhumans.

[@MehediHasan-nb7gg]

Didn't expect this from US based channel. But Its great to see this from you guys.

[@user-we4ih1tp7n]

why is it so impressive? who prevents them from feeding their woke viewers those half truths?someone banning al jazeera and trt from "promoting democratic and anti colonial views" in the west while running theocratical dictatorships back in their own countries?

[@user-we4ih1tp7n]

its just amazing,they gave so much disinformation(jews getting most fertile lands in 1947 partition plan when jewish allocated lands were 80 percent the negev desert,brits allowing jewish militants have weapons,middle eastern jews being called "arabs" when many of us mizrahi jews werent even living among arabs and the treatmet we suffered which never consider us arabs,the claim zionis congress considered argentina and uganda before the land of israel) and left out so many important aspects(brits allowing arabs to form militias and the fact most british mandate police and transjordan frontier force was made of arabs,the recruitment of arabs to the british army,the arabs massacres against the local jews-mostly ancient mizrahi/sephardi communities-through the 1920s and 1930s and banishment of jewish civilians from their homes,the fact the brits allowed foreign mujhaideens like kaukji enter israel while they were taking away weapons from haganah,quite few massacres against jewish civilians between 1947 to 1948 some of which by forces subordinated to the brits or british army defectors or the brits themselves turning blind eye to massacres against jews,the facts the surrounding arab countries were smuggling in wepaons for the arab irrgular militias,the fact kingdoms of jordan egypt and iraq all had british officers and british aid as vassals states of britian and jhon bagott glub was even the head of the jordanian ground forces,the fact that in the taking of deir yassin 5 jewish soldiers were killed by the "unarmed" locals and in tantura 13 jewish soldiers were killed by the "unarmed" in an important weapons smuggling point,the fact 1000 jewish soldiers and countless number civilians were killed by the local "unarmed" arab population and their militias before the invasion of the regular arab armies),i am not sure what your respect is for. DW made a less detailed video focusing on the late 40s,but at least with less disinformation .

[@oleggold]

Vox love themselves some Islamic extremist narrative. As long as the side is the "weak" or "small", they're on it. Nothing new here.

[@jmaddalena42]

@@justayoutuber1906 Over 20% of Israeli citizens are Arabs. Only 2% of people in the US are Native American. It's not equivalent at all. Israel is effectively an ethnostate, but so is Japan, Korea, China, the UAE, Saudi Arabia etc. People only have a problem with the Jewish ethnostate.

[@nataliekhanyola5669]

@@jmaddalena42 firstly, don't conflate Arab with Palestinian!! Palestine is a nationality and culture, being an Arab is an ethnic group. This is the equivalent of assuming germans and Italians are interchangeable because they are both European/ white. Most "israelis" aren't indeginous to the region they are currently occupying, and never have been. Israel is a settler colonialist state founded on ethnic supremacy and the displacement of the indigenous people of Palestine, similar to how the United States is a white supremacist, settler colonial state that ethnically cleansed it's indeginous inhabitants.

[@wuhugm]

Not only destroying India and Pakistan, Israel and Palestine too? British too OP

[@akbarnursalam435]

British should be ashamed of this

[@Jinx9lives]

Thanks so much for posting this Vox. My grandmother (who was displaced in the Nakba) showed me the key to her house a few years ago and I had no idea it was such a widespread thing among other Palestinians who were displaced.

[@emptyhad2571]

Yep

[@oltimos8888]

Cry me a river

[@hidar9973]

@@oltimos8888 At least 5 terabytes

[@MasterGamer6000]

@@oltimos8888 You aren't worth anything if you don't respect other humans and have empathy for them. What would you do if this happened to you?

[@oltimos8888]

@@hidar9973 what?

[@intreoo]

Some of these depopulated villages are visible on Google Maps. A notable example is Lifta, which is an abandoned Palestinian village located in the outskirts of Jerusalem. It’s the only abandoned Palestinian village which wasn’t destroyed or repopulated by Israelis.

[@tntboom21]

there are many villages that still stand unattached in Israel. just drive around and you'll see many ruins of old villages

[@markmeyer-delvendahl9766]

Thank you for your comment. I have often taken a bus to get to Jerusalem and shortly before you enter the city at the central bus station you can see these abandoned houses. I often wondered what they used to be, but never tried looking it up. Now I know better, thank you.

[@Summitic]

Google will get a notification to hide it and replace it with pine trees 🌲!

[@patriotsforisrael3610]

The Jewish people have an *unbroken presence* in the Holy Land of thousands of years. Over *850,000 Middle Eastern Jews* made up the state of Israel. The *Hebron Massacres 1929* and other pogroms of Jews by Arab Muslims throughout the centuries testify to their existence and the need for a two state solution which was *rejected* by the Arab Muslims. And instead they started a *genocidal war* against the Jews, and lost it.

[@patriotsforisrael3610]

@@Summitic How do you think the Middle East has become an Islamist Arab zone (99.999%)? If not by the massive conquest of lands of other peoples and minorities, among them the Jewish people. Are you aware of the fact that the *Jews are Indigenous to JUDEA?* That the Jewish people have a history of 3,800 in the Land of Israel? 🤔🕎

[@philasandemchunu3229]

I'm from South African and we fully support the libraries with them and we stand with the Palestinian people.🙏🙏

[@MatiasNdamanomhata-rm4st]

Nakba was allowed to happen so that a colonial project could mature. Britain mainly is responsible for that.

[@andy_huang]

Emma Waston labeled with antisemitism due to pro Palestinian post last year. It actually shocked and made me sad then because I don’t know why this world like to think radically. Empathy and mutual understanding is the best way to build a beautiful country together (not missiles and guns) but how it could be so hard and impossible.

[@stackhat8624]

Funny thing is being pro-Palestine is being pro Semite since Palestinians are Semites too ...

[@supfaathebest]

Agreed

[@antelopelol2865]

They should've curved out Warsaw and made a homeland there.

[@kafu2]

well the Arabs in Israel were given a plan to split the land by the British and instead they (and all surrounding countries) started a war, and lost. it is the Palestinians who used guns Israel protects itself and has attempted to create peace many times.

[@supfaathebest]

@@kafu2 BTW, the plan was very uneven, 70 per cent of the population was arab, and only 30 were Israeli. Yet Israel got most of the land. It's not a fair plan. They stole the land from the Palestinians, just watch the video. :/

[@Bidness32]

Thank you vox for actually speaking out with the truth on this matter that other media outlets wouldn’t dare shed light on

[@DanielKolbin]

Its only one side of the truth though.

[@mohammedkh4321]

​@@DanielKolbinwhich one side? What do you want to know about the side of those who came across the oceans to rob people's homes?

[@M_3_3926]

​@@DanielKolbinbecause it's the true side of the story

[@tamimatharemadi]

@@DanielKolbin because the other side is already covered by basically everyone else

[@DanielKolbin]

@@tamimatharemadi meaning?

[@haleyy_pris]

this is heartbreaking, i can't believe I live in a world like this

[@jeffreywilheim5970]

You don't. The Nakba is "Palestinian" mythology, pure and simple.

[@aa.811]

@@jeffreywilheim5970 if israel has nothing to hide, why are they keeping the documents?

[@KeenanLambert198]

It is up to the world to do whats right for the Palestinian people.....

[@lxix_lxix]

I'm so glad y'all have covered this. I knew roughly the issues between Israel and Palestine. I should've guessed that it started with the British, as most of the awful things have in our history.

[@oleggold]

It started way before that and is much more complex than this one sided video is trying so hard to show.

[@simoncohen9323]

This issue started way before Britain

[@Sietruc]

If the British hadn’t allowed the Jews to move to Israel, the Holocaust would have been much more deadly. The British didn’t just move them there for fun. Antisemitism was on the rise in Europe.

[@Zimbobroke]

@@oleggoldthere’s only so much you can fit into 16 minutes. also, how exactly is this one-sided? like i can tell by the fact that it’s criticizing the british (and a bit israel), but it backs it up with facts.

[@SiMeGamer]

​@@Zimbobrokethere is literally a false map in it, so the evidence presented is falsified. Israel made its independence in 1948 based on the original weird divide presented by the UN. Then when the war ended in 1949 it became the map you see in the video that they show before the declaration. The Jewish settlers did not occupy land until the war started against them, changing the context completely. This one "fact" in the video puts the Jews of the time in murderous light which is completely false, at least according to those maps and videos. The timeline doesn't add up at all.

[@sierra8077]

As a Jewish person in America I'm so sad that I was never taught this history.

[@andrewtan2598]

We will never know what's true. Everyone has there biases

[@NishanthSalahudeen]

History is not the whole truth, but a slice of it purpose built to fit a narrative as set by the winners

[@DyslexicAnaboko]

If you went to Hebrew school, you were taught only the Jewish side of things. Speaking from experience on that. I never liked it and I never agreed with it. All I ever heard from my Rabbis and teachers was, "Arabs have all this other lands and we only have this little sliver that we are defending." To make matters worse then in the Synagogue you would hear people saying that they wanted all Arabs dead. The irony was most of us are/were Arab. The fact that Jewish people want to be semitic-Anti-Semites will confound me until I am dead. To me, it's always been clear what is happening is wrong, but I never saw the whole picture until recently and I am grateful for that. Unfortunately, the genocide is not over. This is an apartheid and the Israeli ambassadors have promised punishment of epic proportions.

[@truthmatters758]

you not a true hebrew

[@dexterplameras3249]

The reason many Jews in Israel are never told the truth is the Israeli government forbids teaching about the Nakba will not release the photos or reports by the military. Holocaust and Nakba should be taught together so that we don't visit injustice upon a whole people again.

[@user-cg7rx7ds6t]

Learning the backstory and current day geo politics I’m ashamed to be an American if this is what we support.

[@sandraaviles-wilkes7036]

Wow the Palestinian were treated just like the Native Americans. Mistreatment from day one!!Heartbreaking

[@worldpeace1822]

@@sandraaviles-wilkes7036they were not … or how are you going to explain all those Arabs that became citizens of Isreal in that time. Those were the smart ones and the ones that didn’t live for hate and anti semitism.

[@khaledabuhaamra2357]

My grandparents lived the nakba and the deir yassin massacre was where my grandpa was killed

[@indie-cloud]

The book “Mornings in Jenin” was gifted me some years ago and introduced me to the Nakba and Palestinian history in a very tragic and brutal way. I’ve never looked at the conflict the same way since.

[@aaraviii]

This book 😢😢

[@GibbyGrant]

Thanks for the reference, just bought it and looking forward to the read.

[@MarvelGamer2023]

This video is full of lies. Search up The Palestinian Refugee Problem Explained (Nakba and the Arab narrative) to see the lies of this video debunked.

[@Bigredfitnessmoshe]

Just wait until you learn about all the Jews who were banished from all the Muslim countries…

[@triola3983]

Palestinians are settler-colonists, and Israel has the right to resist them by any means necessary, including armed struggle

[@pmamidipudi237]

I think another thing worth mentioning about the UN Partition Plan was that all the states surrounding Palestine all vigorously opposed the plan. Among the UN members at the time that voted against the Partition Plan were all the Middle Eastern countries, India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Greece, and Cuba. In other words, the countries that voted against the plan tended to be geographically closer to Palestine, while the states that voted for the plan tended to be further away.

[@dionjohn1744]

becuz they knew that this was not sustainable. They could have just created 2 seperate states or create a unified state with alloted land for all. Human greed and british is the cause for everything i guess

[@RobPires]

The Partition also gave more than half of Palestine to a 1 third of the population who majority were recent immigrants from Europe. I mean, even a blind man can see the injustice.

[@tomshady3530]

So, did ALL muslim countries vote to keep jews from their homeland, or just nearly all? And after all the religious cleansing they had done to Coptic christians for 1200 years, I for one am shocked at how they were treated the same way.

[@kingace6186]

@siri alexa That's the East Bank. That was never in question. How imperialistic could you be?

[@moocowbob5806]

They were vigorously opposed to the partition plan that gave Palestinian Arabs a huge majority of the land

[@tahu6175]

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." -Malcolm X Exact description of what the mainstream media has been doing for the past few years.. Years of pain and attrocities, Years of unheard voices...

[@saranshagrawal923]

This has to be one of the best video out there on the internet which demonstrates nothing but facts. Without polishing or politicizing, pure and simple facts. Hope the world sees it.

[@bluebee5266]

It has already been debunked. The Palestinian Refugee Problem Explained (Nakba and the Arab narrative) shows in detail how this video is inaccurate.

[@amaannanji3113]

Please provide your sources

[@taylorbarrett384]

Google the claims and check them for yourself. This video misrepresents the situation. The Jewish people immigrated to Palestine peacefully and legally and the locals responded with violence and war.

[@Khoubai]

Thank you for sharing this. Many people ignore history and talk about the future.

[@justsayin8700]

If you wanna talk history the Arabs are migrants to the land of Palestine. The Hebrews Greeks and Egyptians Roamed the lands of Canaan and Galilee before Arabs . You’re trying to claim lands that is ancient home to the Jews

[@Popmovies88]

@@justsayin8700you mean the history that the white people wrote because yes Jewish people already lived there but not EuroJew and using religion to conquer a place is the oldest play in the book

[@neatwheat]

We've got to commemorate the past but strive for the future

[@oussamachaouki8477]

@@justsayin8700jews live there after the canaan so it s not jews land it’s canaanian land why would jews ask for something that’s not ever theirs

[@oussamachaouki8477]

@@justsayin8700and who have dna close to canaan ppl for sure not european jews

[@lunatic5478]

Dawud here reminds me of my own grandfather, who was an infant when his parents fled Yaffa in 1948. They took the keys to their home, hoping to return after a few weeks. They left their homes, their families, their whole lives behind; it has been 75 years. There's this song, released in 1969 (twenty years after the Nakba), written by Nizar Kabbani and sung by Umm Kulthum. It sings: "Twenty years of me searching for my land and identity Searching for my home that is there for my home that is surrounded by barbed wire for my childhood for my neighbors for my books for my pictures for every warm corner and for every flower vase" It almost never fails to bring me to tears. One day .. :)

[@Frenchylikeshikes]

Palestinians have been discarded and disregarded for decades and decades, with no real rights of their own. They have lived in appalling conditions under constant threat of war.

[@vivelaresistance3239]

Many years ago, I read the letters of Harold Nicolson (British civil servant, early 20th century) to his wife, Vita Sackville-West. In one, he tells her that he just spent an evening with two Cabinet ministers, a yardstick, a pencil, and a map of “Arabia.” They laid down the borders of invented countries and he acknowledges that they didn’t have a clue what they doing. He hopes trouble doesn’t come of it in future.

[@joshsowerbutts]

Can you explain or link how you read those?

[@angr3819]

And for that, all of our forebears are blamed. By association, so are we.

[@vivelaresistance3239]

@@joshsowerbutts The book’s out of print in the US but you can find it used. Google “Vita Sackville-West Harold Nicolson, edited by Nigel Nicolson”.

[@yasserel-harmil535]

I respect how you did this amazing work, and especially in a media environment where no one is willing to hear anything except what the US administration supports

[@SepSol75]

100% agree. One man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist

[@LUVBUG24K]

Exactly

[@estebanpena6784]

US should stay out of this completely. This looks like a British problem

[@lynchzchiller1416]

@@estebanpena6784 they send billions every year to support Israël in weapons etc

[@dexterplameras3249]

The issue isn't any administration it's because us in the west have never understood the issue. I'm 49 years old and only after years of believing that it was anti-semitism, did I learn about the Nakba. To these day the majority of people in my country Australia still think its anti-semitism. Those Palestinians that grew up in the west are explaining to us in English what has happened. For anyone reading this, you should be spreading the truth so that a just solution can be found.

[@micahbush5397]

I knew that Israel was engaged in a reforestation campaign, and that it was arguably being extended into areas which didn’t make ecological sense, but I never realized that it was being used to cover up forcibly emptied and destroyed villages. Incidentally, props to Vox for underlining Hebrew texts from right to left.

[@dexterplameras3249]

Vox was cofounded by two American Jews

[@abhijeetpathare1328]

Nothing but truth....bitter truth

[@altela1597]

We should build memorial sites to denounce the Nakba just like memorial sites for the Holocaust or the Armenian Genocide or any site that commemorates a genocide that took place on earth.

[@Ayr1n_0]

For videos like these I often need to pause every once in a while as it majorly conflicts the narrative I’ve been taught. I wish there was more news outlets that did this, especially leave us sources so we can continue to search for more and more information. Thank you Vox!

[@l-cx7-l]

This is the truth we lived

[@thomaskortvelyessy]

Thank you I5 for doing the work of listening . I feel encouraged to follow your example.

[@dosadoodle]

I remember reading a watered down version of how Israel was formed in a library in high school. I was shocked that even that more mild version took place. It seems like the scars of the Holocaust ran so deep that efforts to support the people impacted led to a cascade of tragedy for Palestinians that continues to expand 75 years later.

[@mohamedsalehbahri6833]

look for davide ickes books. thank me later

[@howlandcrowe9807]

@@mohamedsalehbahri6833, David Icke the Holocaust denier?

[@emmajay2401]

In my world history class in high school about we briefly went over the creation is Israel but only from the Israeli prospective. We didn't really learn about the Balford Declaration or the reason why Israeli's neighbors began conflict with them. The narrative, "oh they didn't like them because they weren't Arab or Muslim." It wasn't until college where I got the bigger picture, starting with the birth of Zionism in Russia, the Ottoman Empire, England, etc. etc.

[@howlandcrowe9807]

I mean... the Israeli narrative isn't entirely wrong. A major sticking point in the idea that the British were to blame and it wasn't all "Arabs hate Jews" are the facts that A) the Jews in Palestine revolted in 1944 to kick the British out because they refused to leave and they broke their promise in the Balfour Declaration to help form a Jewish state and B) over 900,000 Jews were persecuted, murdered, and forced to flee from over a dozen Muslim-majority nations across north Africa and southwest Asia because the Jews' Muslim neighbors turned on them. If their neighbors didn't hate them, why were they attacking them in places literally thousands of miles away from Palestine?

[@Omar-Hamad]

​@@howlandcrowe9807 you know nothing about history. I would recommend you read some and come back and re-edit your comment

[@lemonaaaa]

Same I was taught it in American history and it just shaped Palestinians as the problem- further shaping Arabs as people who don’t want peace :((

[@lemonaaaa]

@@howlandcrowe9807it’s literally documented in history that Jews originally were originally against Zionism and mostly disagree with the colonial forces

[@sentient3408]

@@lemonaaaa maybe learn a bit more about modern Jewish history before commenting the Jewish movements that where against Zionism mostly died out in the beginning of the 20th century, jews moved to Israel there rightful and only homeland because of mass persecution which had been happening for centuries

[@vergil-am]

And no one is calling those militias terrorists.

[@ry5551]

this is so important to watch right now

[@OZTutoh]

Yep, it's an example of how far the truth can be distorted. 13:06 The Arab Nations around Israel didn't attack because Palestinian refugees were coming into their countries. No, the authorities in Egypt and Syria had made it very clear that they would exterminate the Jews as soon as the British Mandate ended on May 15th, 1948. The King of Egypt himself said that the Jews would be defeated. Syrian president Shukri al-Quwatli said "We shall eradicate Zionism" and ordered his troops into Israel immediately on May 15th, 1948. Israel knew it was going to be invaded. The Jews were the minority population in Palestine at that point. The Jews had militias that would disable every Palestinian military base that attacked them, but new Palestinians would reoccupy it every time they left. In order to have tactically decent ground to defend themselves on against Syria, they had to expel Palestinians from it first. Otherwise, they would simply be allowing themselves to be wiped out and the Western world would cry "Oh no!"

[@khaledhussien9245]

palestinian have the right to fight for the land of palestine

[@classproject00111]

I’m shocked an American journal had the courage to show this. THANK YOU Vox

[@user-we4ih1tp7n]

they gave so much disinformation(jews getting most fertile lands in 1947 partition plan when jewish allocated lands were 80 percent the negev desert,brits allowing jewish militants have weapons,middle eastern jews being called "arabs" when many of us mizrahi jews werent even living among arabs and the treatmet we suffered which never consider us arabs,the claim zionis congress considered argentina and uganda before the land of israel) and left out so many important aspects(brits allowing arabs to form militias and the fact most british mandate police and transjordan frontier force was made of arabs,the recruitment of arabs to the british army,the arabs massacres against the local jews-mostly ancient mizrahi/sephardi communities-through the 1920s and 1930s and banishment of jewish civilians from their homes,the fact the brits allowed foreign mujhaideens like kaukji enter israel while they were taking away weapons from haganah,quite few massacres against jewish civilians between 1947 to 1948 some of which by forces subordinated to the brits or british army defectors or the brits themselves turning blind eye to massacres against jews,the facts the surrounding arab countries were smuggling in wepaons for the arab irrgular militias,the fact kingdoms of jordan egypt and iraq all had british officers and british aid as vassals states of britian and jhon bagott glub was even the head of the jordanian ground forces,the fact that in the taking of deir yassin 5 jewish soldiers were killed by the "unarmed" locals and in tantura 13 jewish soldiers were killed by the "unarmed" in an important weapons smuggling point,the fact 1000 jewish soldiers and countless number civilians were killed by the local "unarmed" arab population and their militias before the invasion of the regular arab armies),i am not sure what your respect is for. DW made a less detailed video focusing on the late 40s,but at least with less disinformation .

[@user-we4ih1tp7n]

why? who prevents them from feeding their woke viewers those half truths?someone banning al jazeera and trt from "promoting democratic and anti colonial views" in the west while running theocratical dictatorships back in their own countries?

[@patriotsforisrael3610]

It's time to FREE JUDEA! 🕎 🇮🇱💖🇮🇱💙🇮🇱💜🇮🇱💚🇮🇱💛🇮🇱🤍🇮🇱

[@ilhamrj2599]

why though??? I ve watched rhe exact same nuance documentary made by CNN and MSNBC before…. you would not find it on Fox News though,,,

[@mkadi70]

@@ilhamrj2599 When do you ever find truth on Fox?

[@user-fq5kg6gk1g]

Peace 🕊️ for Palestine 🇵🇸

[@salamyaya162]

It was the British who crushed the Palestinians in 1936 - 1939.

[@taksha0]

I don't understand how a group of people who had experienced the savagery and the brutality of oppression do the same to another group of people, while using the same narrative of historic oppression. This is just mind-boggling to me.

[@alonbegin8044]

Perhaps Vox conveniently overlooks the the countless deaths of Jewish people for over two decades at the hands of the Arabs before the establishment of Israel. The haunting memories of countless lives lost drive home the desperate need to ensure that another Holocaust never becomes a reality. Faced with such a dire situation, the Jewish community recognized that they had to fight back with unwavering determination, employing any tactic within their reach to safeguard their existence. It was a fight for survival, born out of the depths of pain and a solemn vow to never let history repeat itself.

[@8is]

The Jews have learned their lesson of how important national determination is for your own people's protection so much so that they were willing to go to great lengths to secure their newly formed nation. It's like drafting your own population when your country is under attack. There is nothing moral about the draft, but sometimes it's what necessary to secure your nation's sovereignty and independence. If the Israeli believed that displacing Palestinians was what was necessary to secure their nations existence, then that decision was inevitable, no matter the immorality of doing so. It's honestly incredible that Israel even exists today looking back to when it was invaded by nearly all its neighbors on the same day it became independent, especially *with* the horrible and defenseless borders it got from the UN.

[@popanimation1]

That’s because they are not the same people as the holocaust survivors. These people are the minority of the area with little connection to the European Ashkenazy Jews that died during the holocaust.

[@enkryptron]

@@8is That still didn't justify its action. Israel is an apartheid state no matter how you wanna cut it

[@esanahka9284]

Because this video paints a very one sided picture when violence was done by both sides. Muslims despised Jews and Jews despised Muslims.

[@HellSpawn83]

This is horrifying, but what is worse is that we were never taught this in school. The war against Israel was basically taught that they just wanted a home and the Arab states didn’t like the Jewish state being there. This flips the script and it makes more sense why the Arab states were mad. I don’t care how good or bad history is, but how are we supposed to learn from the past if you just whitewash it.

[@pressftopayrespects6325]

Except that first version taught at school you mentioned is true, it’s backed by tons of historical evidence and reasoning.

[@Saladid]

​@@pressftopayrespects6325 it's only a part of the manipulated truth.

[@pressftopayrespects6325]

@@Saladid And how?

[@jakerichards9259]

Well they didn’t tell you in the video that Plan D was due IN CASE of invasion by neighbouring countries. (Since it’s in Hebrew and nobody understands) which eventually happened because the Arab countries expelled and massacred hundreds of thousands of Jews from their countries.

[@Ferociousplayz_11]

@@pressftopayrespects6325Because the land belongs to Arabs. I frankly don’t care how you justify it’s Jewish, it’s still Palestinian.

[@LomyaAlghamdi]

تاريخهم أسود مثل حاضرهم ضميرهم مات من العام ١٩٤٨ كيف تسمي نفسك إنسان يا إنسان وأنت لا تملك أي ذرة من الإنسانية ؟ هكذا خسرتم .. لا نأمل أن تقوم دولة على الشر والظلم بيننا ونرفض هذا الإحتلال! فلسطين حرة عربية..

[@ankra12]

Prior to the formation of Israel in 1948, the territory was the “Palestinian Mandate”, a protectorate of Great Britain. Prior to 1918, the territory was entirely within the Ottoman Empire and was essentially an Arab province of a Turkish Empire. Arabs had the same religious beliefs as Turks (Islam) but completely different languages and customs. In 1918, The Ottoman Empire collapsed. Turkey was created as a secular state out of the Turkish portion of the empire. The Middle East possessions of the Ottoman Empire were carved by the English and the French into spheres of influence. Some were immediately made monarchies (e.g. Saudi Arabia) and others took longer to develop into countries.

[@TheReaperAngel]

The world needs to watch this

[@1Osama9]

Story of my mom, her family and relatives….

[@rubenvargas4233]

Why was Britain even able to give land to a group of people where the land originally did not belong to them? That is the core problem.

[@moledude]

Define original. The Arabs took it from the Byzantines, who inherited it from the Romans, who took it from the Jews.

[@Altunumad]

@@moledudeno yeah Britain had no business over there

[@Altunumad]

@@moledudeso yeah Britain had no business over there

[@a.a.6789]

​@@moledude Change of leadership doesn't mean the people changed, Palestinians match Canaanite remains, they are undoubtedly the people of the land, not that we need to go that far back to prove people that existed in 1948 deserve to freaking stay!!! India has many names under differebt kingdoms but the ppl are the same, British Raj doesn't mean Bristish people were a majority in the country.

[@a.a.6789]

Imperialism is the reason... Horrible and awful and it wasm't the only case of modern settler colonialism, there was also Algeria, Zimbabwe, South Africa and more...

[@muzaffarkhan8091]

It dint started in 7th october

[@christianmiller9934]

Nope it’s been going on for 75 years

[@bismihamsa2054]

Truth kind of disturbing....😢😢

[@arturogonzalez6184]

Learned about this in college, but never knew how deep it really went. Wow, thank you.

[@everesttran7687]

I wish they taught me this in school.

[@b_melly]

I’m saddened and shocked that as a full adult I’m finally getting the truth about this so called conflict. This is sad and heartbreaking.

[@farhatk6054]

Spread the word ,speak for Palestine

[@islander5858]

@@farhatk6054 I'm seeking knowledge also. These settlers need to give palestinians they country back. Now I know the truth

[@alphawhiskey3311]

The Jews don’t want you to know the truth

[@jawad3563]

This is just a sort of recap. The history is much darker, my brother.

[@user70331]

​@islander5858 most jews lived in Arab countries peaceful including Palestine. But they had to declare independence to avoid mass terrorism, rapism, and genocide against them

[@WeLiveWeDie]

So they aren't the bad guys...

[@reem3266]

I can’t stress the atrocities that were inflicted upon the Palestinian people during that time, whenever I listen to my friends share their families’ stories it’s heartbreaking 💔

[@wr2899]

@@Valokaarithey didn’t say it wasn’t.

[@dannyarcher6370]

But no mention about what they were doing to the Jews at the time, I'm sure.

[@kingfillins4117]

Did they tell you of the Jewish communities massacred and burned to the ground?

[@elitealice]

What about the atrocities inflicted upon Jews by Arabs from 1920 to 1948 under pogroms?

[@exp-eri-mental]

Far less than were inflicted on Jewish people that's for sure. The Arabs started the war. The Nakba was instigated by Arabs. They lost.

[@ethanswann7707]

Wow! Western media is actually not hating on Palestinians for once.

[@ramisalem1744]

My grandmother teared watching this brave report, thank you Vox.

[@rainel.6807]

@sirialexa9001 Only bot would say that 😎

[@ratatosk8935]

this video is pure Pallywood...

[@simonvanderwerf]

It takes a real monster to take away someone's home like that.

[@angkhoa1216]

Its war bud, one that Palestine’s waged. And we all know what happened to the losing side

[@randomness0]

It's a theft and we all know what happened to the people defending their land.​@@angkhoa1216

[@sosososososo4148]

​@@randomness0 Actually Arabs invaded Israel not the vice versa.

[@spicrown]

@@randomness0Imagine starting a war, loosing it, starting again and again, loosing it. And playing the victims. Your time on that land is over. Cope hardwr

[@charlotte96ify]

Good job vox. History is too often made by the powerful ones and injustices and crimes like these are forgotten.

[@rph8704]

Fool

[@YaronZ-fr6fm]

Israel - the size of New Jersey Israel has: - An Arab Supreme Court judge - Countless Arab judges - Police chiefs - Freely elected Parliament MPs - 1/3 of all Israeli doctors are Arabs (same with professors) - Freedom of speech & religion - Gov. ministers

[@YaronZ-fr6fm]

Have a nice day

@@YaronZ-fr6fm Just because they may have these things now does not negate nor make up for what was just witnessed in that video. In the same way having a black president or black judges and governors rarely does anything to benefit black people in the US after 400+ years of enslavement that realistically ended less than 100 years ago, the people of palestine -- many of which were actually present for these atrocities -- should not be expected to move on or forgive such events for a few government positions which hold no power to actually replace what was lost.

[@RR-nf3qh]

⁠​⁠@@YaronZ-fr6fmHow does negate the facts in the video is beyond me.. It’s like asking a Turkish person about the Armenian genocide then he starts saying his country is a democracy and that there are Arminians living in Turkey

[@wedonteatbears]

As someone not deeply invested in Middle Eastern politics but still who heard some things about them, I’ve only known so much about why the relationship between Israel and neighbor Arab states was so hostile they went to war the second day Independence is achieved. This video puts it so much into context. Thank you!

[@jonlenihan4798]

Arabs have the Holy Allah right to take former Ottoman mixed-race territory, and to eliminate the non-Muslim Arab populations. That's the issue.

[@estera4176]

This video is full of half truths.

[@suzannakassouf3778]

Thank you for this great summary of the history. So helpful.

[@yuv525]

it's not comprehensive. It shows only the Palestinian viewpoint and creates hatred towards jews in Israel worldwise, endangering the lives of jews (even those not living in Israel at all)

[@Killshot15]

“A land without people for people with out a land” is the single most insulting and inaccurate statement I have ever heard how is a land without people if the place is litteraly know as Palestine and the people Palestinians that’s just wild

[@youmaycallmeken]

That was said by an individual in the 1800s when it was still the Ottoman Empire, and at a time when the locals did not yet call themselves Palestinians.

[@connectingthedots100]

It's really disheartening to see that human beings can go from victims to perpetrators in a heartbeat.

[@SmokeyChipOatley]

And completely miss the irony in their actions. It's as if all the years persecution and having experienced the h*locaust only made them want to be the bad guys instead learning their lesson and vowing never to put others through what they went through. It's unbelievably sad really. Ever since the horrific attack by Hamas just days ago I've seen countless people speak of Palestinians they way N*zis spoke of Jews during WWII. I'm neither Jewish nor Arab/Muslim so I don't have a dog in this fight before anyone attacks me. Just calling it as I see it now after countless hours of research into this conflict.

[@shutdamn6376]

You should read this letter called “Albert Pike Letter To Mazzini 15.Aug.1871” I highly recommend you look it up if you are interested to see what is really going on in the world.

[@Buryadbasagan]

So true😢

[@Desbo]

This. Exactly this. Really sad. Go to 12:48 even the cadence of speech sounds familiar. Yes not the same but really made me sit up

[@LaraCookie5]

When the oppressed becomes the oppressors.

[@juliegolick]

I was raised in Jewish private schools (in Canada) and we were taught the history of Israel through the lens of "anything that Israel did was by definition right, because if they didn't, it would have be wiped off the map by neighbouring Arab states." (This lens continued into contemporary history as well.) It's only as I've gotten older that I've realized how one-sided this framing of history actually was, and what large swathes of the story it left out.

[@patangaha]

As per Vox, no Jews were murdered by their Arab neighbours between 1945-48

[@asheraharonov]

Do you remember that these guys opposed the UN peace plan and attacked the young Jewish state with 5 armies the day it was established yes? They attacked us, they lost - and they are the poor ones?

[@Abey608]

​@@asheraharonov USA aided billions aid of money and a'lot of advanced equipment while the arabs didn't have any one supporting them , also worth mentioning the arabs were winning the war in the beginning before USA got involved AND also THE USA saw the soviets getting in the matter so they announced a truce in which NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO MILITIRIZE .....and guess what , the US broke their words and supplied and train israel behind everyones back while the arabs actually LISTENED /...

[@asaa9946]

@@asheraharonov how would you feel if your land that your ancestors have lived in for thousands of years got taken away from you and is given to settlers and your forced to live in very bad conditions while someone is comfortable in a home that you built?! Us Arabs are tied to our lands and we see then as our birth right because unlike the western part of the world it’s actually where our roots are. Arabs are not 25% Irish 60% Italian etc .. we are 100% arabs and owned that land for many centuries.

[@askosefamerve]

​@@asheraharonov I wonder why Arabs attacked Isreal. Maybe it has a reason like those Jewish paramilitary groups who DESTROYED villages and KILLED villagers.

[@untouchable360x]

"We are never the villain in our own stories. We are always the hero." GRRM

[@fortuner123]

I always viewed the decision of Jews and the UN making their claim to Israel as a mistake. No Palestinian families should have been made to lose their homes. Losing ones home is like your worst nightmare.

[@jeffreywilheim5970]

And no "Palestinians" would have lost their homes had the Arab countries agreed to live peaceably alongside Israel. Way to go at victim blaming.

[@aa.811]

@@jeffreywilheim5970 except israel kicked people out of their homes to "arab" nations and they were defending the palestinians. You're victim blaming

[@amjadshehadeh34]

I genuinely did not expect Vox to talk about this at all. I am shocked (in a good way)!! Thank you Vox for making such a video talking about this!

[@user-we4ih1tp7n]

its just amazing ,they gave so much disinformation(jews getting most fertile lands in 1947 partition plan when jewish allocated lands were 80 percent the negev desert,brits allowing jewish militants have weapons,middle eastern jews being called "arabs" when many of us mizrahi jews werent even living among arabs and the treatmet we suffered which never consider us arabs,the claim zionis congress considered argentina and uganda before the land of israel) and left out so many important aspects(brits allowing arabs to form militias and the fact most british mandate police and transjordan frontier force was made of arabs,the recruitment of arabs to the british army,the arabs massacres against the local jews-mostly ancient mizrahi/sephardi communities-through the 1920s and 1930s and banishment of jewish civilians from their homes,the fact the brits allowed foreign mujhaideens like kaukji enter israel while they were taking away weapons from haganah,quite few massacres against jewish civilians between 1947 to 1948 some of which by forces subordinated to the brits or british army defectors or the brits themselves turning blind eye to massacres against jews,the facts the surrounding arab countries were smuggling in wepaons for the arab irrgular militias,the fact kingdoms of jordan egypt and iraq all had british officers and british aid as vassals states of britian and jhon bagott glub was even the head of the jordanian ground forces,the fact that in the taking of deir yassin 5 jewish soldiers were killed by the "unarmed" locals and in tantura 13 jewish soldiers were killed by the "unarmed" in an important weapons smuggling point,the fact 1000 jewish soldiers and countless number civilians were killed by the local "unarmed" arab population and their militias before the invasion of the regular arab armies),i am not sure what your respect is for. DW made a less detailed video focusing on the late 40s,but at least with less disinformation .

[@carl4243]

Unlike 90% of US media, they are not owned/controlled by the [REDACTED]

[@moonbook12]

As someone who is Jewish in Israel I was often was wondering what happened to arbic people who live there before. As I grow older I raised that they just deleted their stories but also how much is important to learn about the arbic people but also how much racism happened during both in Jewish community but also the outside

[@shairafaiza7261]

At least you’re trying to know the truth about this apartheid state

[@moonbook12]

@@shairafaiza7261 ok thanks

[@sosososososo4148]

​@@shairafaiza7261They just bet everything including the their future and lost the war. Realistically Palestinians will forever remain as 2nd class ppl for generations.

[@Etyopia]

@@shairafaiza7261 yeah yeah aparthied state but the arab pop keeps growing, i dont think u know whats aparthied means but meh ur are the defintion of the average muslim 🤷‍♂

[@iyedabidi5304]

​@Etyopia the black population of south africa was also growing under apartheid. Apartheid isnt nazism and doesnt necessarily include genocide. You're the one who doesn't know what apartheid means. Also the palestinian cause ain't islamic, its arab, its just that most of palestine's allies are muslim nations. Palestine also has non muslim allies. Its not in islamic theology.

[@ha_ross]

ليس عليك أن تكون مسلماً لدعم فلسطين 🇵🇸، عليك فقط أن تكون إنساناً You don't have to be a Muslim to support Palestine🇵🇸, you just have to be a human being

[@Stressymessy]

This is heartbreaking

[@pocari04]

oh. the British. how surprising.

[@oussamariad5774]

Can't believe a Western media outlet spoke on this. We should appreciate Vox's freedom and courage to irritate rich and powerful people on both ends of the political spectrum.

[@dndn808]

Exactly

[@marina12345678911000]

You (Arab countries) pay, they speak; it is the reason they "speak."

[@mardasman428]

"rich and powerful people" I sense an antisemitic code here... and a populist ideology, as you seem to believe that pro-Palestinian viewpoints are surpressed, which is very far from the truth.

[@patrickkirby6580]

@@mardasman428 antisemitic = a person I don’t like

[@andrewmikhailov3173]

There are no two sides here. The Arabs started this conflict and they will be the one’s to end it.

[@gainingvisionsa]

How is it possible for Israel to be allowed to do what it's doing.... I just don't get it....

[@satriareza7501]

well because they had the power

[@matswessling6600]

what happened to the Palestinians in Kuwait? what happened to the jews in Iran? Iraq? Qatar?

[@ShakaCthulu]

The Saharawi. The Armenians in Artsakh. Seems like muslims are always getting Get Out Of Ethnic Cleansing Jail For Free cards.

[@christianmiller9934]

Why did Algerias Jews support the French in the war of independence and now cry they were expelled

[@abdulkasseb100]

Thank you for your real show. You are one of the few Western channels that have the courage to tell the truth

[@googlekonto2851]

most western channels which are on the left or center show the palestinian struggle.

[@user-we4ih1tp7n]

they gave so much disinformation(jews getting most fertile lands in 1947 partition plan when jewish allocated lands were 80 percent the negev desert,brits allowing jewish militants have weapons,middle eastern jews being called "arabs" when many of us mizrahi jews werent even living among arabs and the treatmet we suffered which never consider us arabs,the claim zionis congress considered argentina and uganda before the land of israel) and left out so many important aspects(brits allowing arabs to form militias and the fact most british mandate police and transjordan frontier force was made of arabs,the recruitment of arabs to the british army,the arabs massacres against the local jews-mostly ancient mizrahi/sephardi communities-through the 1920s and 1930s and banishment of jewish civilians from their homes,the fact the brits allowed foreign mujhaideens like kaukji enter israel while they were taking away weapons from haganah,quite few massacres against jewish civilians between 1947 to 1948 some of which by forces subordinated to the brits or british army defectors or the brits themselves turning blind eye to massacres against jews,the facts the surrounding arab countries were smuggling in wepaons for the arab irrgular militias,the fact kingdoms of jordan egypt and iraq all had british officers and british aid as vassals states of britian and jhon bagott glub was even the head of the jordanian ground forces,the fact that in the taking of deir yassin 5 jewish soldiers were killed by the "unarmed" locals and in tantura 13 jewish soldiers were killed by the "unarmed" in an important weapons smuggling point,the fact 1000 jewish soldiers and countless number civilians were killed by the local "unarmed" arab population and their militias before the invasion of the regular arab armies),i am not sure what your respect is for. DW made a less detailed video focusing on the late 40s,but at least with less disinformation .

[@waterboyme5154]

​@@googlekonto2851 not really

[@googlekonto2851]

@@waterboyme5154 how so? i can find videos and articles on the nakba in french, german english and spanish. the conservative newspaper i read printed an article about the nakba today, Deutsche Welle has a documentary about it. so does euronews, the guardian and le monde published articles.

[@_peaklight_7763]

As an Israeli, I can tell you that we don't really learn about the Nakba in schools here (because no country like's talking on it's evil side) and a lot of people don't really know about what we did in to gain all this land, I think most people just assume we won the Independence War and those Palastinians just left rather than being banished. Anyways, this video explains it really good, while managing not to pick a side in the conflict. Very recommended!

[@TheMattsem]

You do know if the tables were turned they're going to do the same to you without hesitation actually I think they did it back in the old times

[@superelizabeth9253]

They were going to do the same to us. Delete the comment.

[@Astoraxar]

@@superelizabeth9253 Just trying to find hate for no reason..

[@mkadi70]

THank you for your courage...It takes alot of courage to stand for the truth, even against your own people.

[@asheraharonov]

Do you remember that these guys opposed the UN peace plan and attacked the young Jewish state with 5 armies the day it was established yes? They attacked us, they lost - and they are the poor ones?

[@thakillerb]

How ANYONE could ignore the plight of the Palestinians is just pure ignorance Free free Palestine 🇵🇸