There is no way of crossing here from Lebanon into Israel. Mediterranean with Simon Reeve II, BBC 2018
Israel relies on the Mediterranean for its survival. ibid.
Israel has become one of the most crowded countries in the world. ibid.
‘But this duck is a nuclear duck.’ Netanyahu: Prime or Crime Minister? Netanyahu, RT 2018
‘To the tyrant of Tehran: do not test Israel’s resolve.’ ibid.
Over his alleged involvement in corruption cases. ibid. RT news
The man dubbed their Crime Minister. ibid.
Four cases involving corruption and bribery within Netanyahu’s circle … Then there’s case 2000: Sheldon Adelson. ibid.
‘You’re fed up with him, but I have to deal with him even more often than you.’ ibid. Obama to Sarkozy
Sarah Netanyahu has not helped her husband’s image. ibid.
At home he’s lashing out at a growing cast of enemies. ibid.
Israel was now determined to finally destroy the power of the Palestinians. And in 1982 they sent a massive army to encircle the Palestinian camps in the Lebanon. Two months later thousands of Palestinians were massacred in the camps. It horrified the world … Israel had allowed it to happen. Adam Curtis, HyperNormalisation, BBC 2016
Israel: ‘We need to excel in fighters. That is what is unique about Krav Maga. It is a very uniquely Israeli approach.’ Fightworld s1e5: Israel: Masters of War, instructor
November 2nd 1917: This is the Balfour Declaration, the first moment that the British government acknowledged there should be a home for the Jewish people. The Holy Land & Us: Our Untold Stories, BBC 2023
For the Palestinians there was nothing to celebrate. ibid.
More than 700,000 Palestinians refugees were created by the events between 1947 and 1949. ibid.
For centuries there had been a minority Jewish population in the region. But by the late nineteenth century onwards Jewish immigrants began arriving from around the world to escape rising Anti-Semitism. ibid.
By the mid-1930s Arab fears of losing their land to the new Jewish immigrants led to an uprising against the British who controlled Palestine at the time. In response, in 1939, the British severely limited the number of Jewish immigrants they allowed into Palestine. ibid.
For the Arabs too this was their land and the UN plan divided it against their will. ibid.
The British mandate for Palestine came to an end, and the Jewish leadership declared the establishment of the state of Israel. ibid.
By 1949 the scale of the Palestinian refugee crisis was clear. Hundreds of Arab towns and villages had been depopulated and many destroyed, making around 100,000 families homeless. ibid.
The idea that there is a land, a place, a home, for the end of the wandering, changes the entire complexion of what it means to be Jewish. The Holy Land & Us: Our Untold Stories II