on may 14, 1948, just one day before the end of the british protectorate over palestine, david ben-gurion, the leader of the jewish agency, announced the establishment of israel. this new country is 78% of the territories. who had taken palestine as his territory under the guardianship. forcing more than 700,000 palestinians to leave their homes and become refugees in neighboring countries. their movement was calculated. palestine was not free. it is a superstition to say that palestine was barhut. palestine had its own nation. it is a prosperous, active, intelligent, thoughtful and creative nation. they built an infrastructure, not only in haifa, but also in jaffa, acre, sefe tabrian , besan al-nasra, barrasbeh, lad, ramla, quds, and other palestinian cities. all these institutions were built by the palestinians themselves, and they built their country's economy and the zionist movement took all of this into account. it was when they carried out ethnic cleansing and expelled the palestinians institutions and buildings remain for the use of jewish settlers and immigrants who came from all

may 14, 1948, just one day before the end of the british protectorate over palestine, david ben- gurion, the leader of the jewish agency. hasis declared israel. this new country had taken over 78% of palestinian lands under the trusteeship. forcing more than 700,000 palestinians to leave their homes and become refugees in neighboring countries. their movement was calculated. palestine was not empty. it is superstition to say that palestine was barhut. palestine had its own nation, it was a prosperous, active, intelligent, intellectual and creative nation. they built infrastructure. not only in haifa, but in jaffa, acre, safa tiberian, bisan, nasra, barrasbah, led, ramla, quds and other cities of palestine. all these institutions were made and built by the palestinians themselves. they are themselves. the zionist movement had calculated all this when they carried out ethnic cleansing and evicted the palestinians from all these institutions and buildings for the use of jewish settlers and immigrants who came from all over the world. in the main cities , the jewish immigrants were immediat

i recently came across a supplement that david ben-gurion wrote, the passage you read on passover, for his kibbutz, and it was during the 1966 war so it was about imagining the egyptians of that story as the egyptians of nassar's government, but they also imagined a story that many of the jews did not leave egypt because they decided to essentially accept their bondage and that whole group of non-israelites actually left. this exodus is not an israelite exodus but includes a multitude of people who take the opportunity to leave. the mizrah suggests that in the 10th plague, the killing of the firstborn, it imagines that as many firstborn egyptians being killed by their own parents because they were in an uprising against pharaoh's subjugation. so those stories seem to be what these people in this movement are trying to do, which is tell a different kind of story about what it means to be jewish and palestinian, think behind the notion of -- beyond the notion of a kind of tribal conflict. we were talking earlier about south africa. i am the child of south africans. it also rehearses an o

advocate on this issue is the founding prime minister of israel who was, himself, you know -- david ben-gurione man, probably more than any other single human being created israel and allowed it to survive, when the war takes place in '67, a few months later he says, "give back the territories. you'll regret this. trust me." this is a man who, in founding israel, had to take a lot of land and expelled a lot of palestinians. >> right. >> this is a tough guy. >> right. >> he said, "you're going to rue this. because you're going to be stuck with this problem," which is exactly what has happened. >> right. >> land acquired by force is something the world is not going to recognize. we don't recognize it when putin does it. we don't recognize it when israel does it. therefore, making -- you know, the reason we have accepted the fact that israel has these occupied lands is because it has always been -- the idea has always been, there is a path here. you know, we're trying to work this out. this is a temporary acquisition. >> right. >> the settlements make that permanent. but, to be fair, it's always