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Palestine 1920: The Other Side of the Palestinian Story

Al Jazeera World Documentary | February 2, 2022

“A land without a people, and a people without a land” is how the relationship between Palestine and the Jewish people was described by Christian writers in the 1800s. And the 20th-century history of the Middle East has largely been written through these eyes.

But this film from Al Jazeera Arabic looks at Palestine from a different angle. It hears from historians and witness accounts, and features archive documents that show Palestine as a thriving province of Greater Syria and the Ottoman Empire at the dawn of the 20th century.

The evidence suggests that its cities had a developing trade and commercial sector, growing infrastructure, and embryonic culture that would enable it to meet the challenges of the decades ahead. However, the political ramifications of the Balfour Declaration, San Remo Conference and British Mandate set in motion a series of events that profoundly affected this vibrant, fledgeling society and led to the events of 1948 and beyond.

This film is the other side of the Palestinian story.

November 6, 2023 - Posted by | Ethnic Cleansing, Racism, Zionism, Timeless or most popular, Video, War Crimes | , , , ,

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  1. It explains why western media and historians who want to preserve the myth remain silent. I had no idea so much high culture and industry were a part of ever day life of the Palestinians. It explains the deafening silence of western media and British historians whose obvious intent was to spread the fraud to provide the cover for another British geopolitical deception. By occupying Palestine with blood and soil Zionist believers, British planners created another “cockpit” from which they could steer war between Arab and Jew from the British Foreign office at a time of their choosing. But, as in two past world wars, events may spiral out of hand, engulfing the region and leading to thermonuclear world war three!

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