WEBVTT - The Nakba and the Deir Yassin Massacre 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:09.200 Welcome back to what could happen here. It's still Cherene 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:12.320 and I'm still joined with the one and only James Stout. 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:15.160 Thank you for joining me, Thank you for having me. 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:19.040 Yeah, anytime the listeners they get what they want, you know, 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:20.880 they demanded it, and here we. 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:23.599 Are delivery log onto the subreddit. 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:30.280 I was interested in having someone else receive the information 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:33.120 I had because it's really hard to do it with myself. 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:36.720 And it's also hard not to like sound like a 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:39.120 boored professor or something, because I just sound. 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:43.199 Like this something I have experienced with. Yeah, you like 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:46.000 a pro professor. But it's also very emotionally challenging to 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:47.920 just be like, here some terrible fucking things that have 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:49.800 happened again and exactly. 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:54.840 Yeah, when you buy yourself, it's like it feels a 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:58.080 lot heavier for some reason. Uh, And so I'm glad 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:02.560 to have someone else on Thank You today. I wanted 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:05.319 to talk about something that happened seventy five years ago 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:07.600 this month. So there's going to be some history here, 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:11.360 but I think it's really important history, So please stay 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:14.360 tuned if you want to learn some stuff. But seventy 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:19.080 five years ago this month, before Israel was officially established 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:23.640 the Dairya scene massacre happened. This massacre was part of 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:27.800 the Nekba, or the catastrophe, and it matters even seventy 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:30.600 five years later, and it should always serve as a 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:34.040 reminder of the atrocities and massacres that took place in 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:39.360 order for a country that was already there to be stolen, renamed, terrorized, 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:42.920 have people killed and forcibly removed from their homes, and 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:47.080 the indigenous people were expelled from their homes and the 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:49.840 ownership of their own land was granted someone else. And 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:53.320 I think reminding everybody of what happened to make that 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:58.120 happen is extremely important because we're not that far removed 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:01.880 from that. Brulu. It's not like we can say, like, oh, 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:04.760 that was medieval times, like people were different. It's like, no, 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:06.840 that was like less than one hundred years ago. 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:07.360 Shut up. 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:11.520 The Nakba aka the catastrophe in Arabic, it refers to 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:15.679 the violent expulsion of approximately three quarters of all Palestinians 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:19.040 from their homes and homeland by Zionists militias in the 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:22.880 New Israeli Army during the State of Israel's establishment between 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:26.040 nineteen forty seven and nineteen forty eight. The Nekabo was 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:29.919 a deliberate and systematic act intended to establish a Jewish 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:34.560 majority state in Palestine. Amongst themselves, Zionist leaders used the 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:38.480 euphemism quote unquote transfer when discussing plans for what today 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:42.240 would be called ethnic cleansing. The roots of the Nakba 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:45.799 and the ongoing problems in Palestine and Israel today they 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:48.760 lie in the emergence of the political Zionism from the 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:53.040 late eighteen hundreds, when some European Jews, influenced by the 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:56.800 nationalism that was sweeping the continent, they decided that the 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.560 solution to anti Semitism in Europe and Russia was the 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:02.840 establis publishment of a state for Jews and Palestine. They 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:07.440 began immigrating to Palestine as colonizers, where they started depossessing 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:12.480 indigenous Muslim and Christian Palestinians. In November of nineteen forty seven, 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:16.120 following World War II and the Holocaust, the newly created 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:20.040 United Nations approved of a plan to divide Palestine into 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:23.520 Jewish and Arab states, against the will of the majority 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:29.200 indigenous Palestinian Arab population. Again, this was not their decision 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:33.120 or choice to make regardless the UN approved of a 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:37.040 plant divide Palestine into Jewish and Arab states against the 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:40.640 will of Palestinian people. It gave fifty six percent of 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:44.520 that land to the proposed Jewish state, despite the fact 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:47.560 that Jews only owned about seven percent of the private 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:50.200 land of Palestine and made up only thirty three percent 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:53.280 of the population, and a very large percentage of this 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:56.840 percentage of thirty three percent were recent immigrants from Europe. 0:03:57.120 --> 0:03:59.840 So handing over more than half of someone else's land 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:03.040 truly does it make sense. I don't care what religious 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:06.200 text or citing, it was wrong at this point in 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:09.320 time to take that land. It was just wrong. The 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:12.720 Palestinian Arab state was to be created on just forty 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:16.800 two percent of Palestine, even though Muslim and Christian Palestinians 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:19.640 made up a large majority of the population and were 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:23.200 indigenous to all of the land. Jerusalem was to be 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:28.680 governed by a special international administration. Almost immediately after the 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:32.920 partition plan was passed. The expulsion of Palestinians by Zionists 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:37.480 militias began months before the arming of neighboring Arab states 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:41.080 began to be involved, so there was no other person 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:44.320 to say don't do this, or like there was no 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:46.039 one else to fight to hold them back. I guess, 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:48.239 is what I'm trying to say. And by the time 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:52.080 these Zionist militias and the new Israeli Army finished, the 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:56.840 new State of Israel covered seventy eight percent of Palestine. 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:59.440 So they didn't even follow the rules either. They just 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:01.840 kept on following up the land that wasn't even there, 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:08.039 speakin with with this violent Nekba that it's just it's 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:11.159 it's a terrible, horrific thing they did. There is a 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:15.719 film on Netflix called Farha. It's the first film that 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:20.000 depicts any kind of story about the Nekba, and it's 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:24.200 by Palestinian filmmaker. It's really powerful. I would recommend seeing 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:26.280 that if you want an example of what happened, because 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:29.120 it's all factual as far as like the terror that 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:32.440 they did, so I'd recommend that film. Give it five 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:33.920 stars for the haters, you know what I mean? 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:40.760 Oh guy, I can imagine. There were reviews just like yeah, death, Yeah. 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:43.080 That was the film that the Israeli government tried to 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:45.520 to ban, and they were a lot of Zionists were 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:48.240 commenting like terrible things about it and giving it one 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:51.080 star or whatever. They wanted Netflix to take it off Netflix, 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:55.520 but no, we fuck the haters. Help us out five stars. 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:56.800 Put it on the background of your TV. 0:05:56.839 --> 0:06:01.120 It doesn't matter, just keep streaming on those we get Exactly, Yeah, 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:04.479 strike a blow against colonialism, but that's. 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:09.120 Just an example of how important and scared they are 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:12.880 of the truth because it's a movie. It's a fucking movie. 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.599 Yeah. The control of the narrative is so important in 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:19.440 these things, exactly. Yes, And even the way you refer 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:21.400 to it, right, not not calling it the knock, like 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:26.920 calling it a transfer, not a cleansing, exactly, calling it, 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:29.560 like not referring to it in the same terms as 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:34.200 we would do like the genocidal set of colonialism that 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:37.640 settled this country, or you know, the way that Britain 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:40.919 and France and Germany behaved in Africa, like trying to 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:44.920 not like specifically opposing calling it an apartheid state, right 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:48.080 when when that's what it is, is what it does. Like, 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:50.200 all of those things are so important, and they might 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:55.080 seem like petty battles, but they really control how we 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:57.360 see things. I think when you control language, you can 0:06:57.400 --> 0:06:59.480 control how people perceive things. 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:05.159 And I think controlling the narrative is so parallel to 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:09.360 like controlling the history books, because that's what gets remembered 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:11.680 by the people that want to the narrative to have 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:13.960 a certain thing. Not all history books, obviously, but a 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:17.760 lot of the times the things that are considered facts 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:22.360 are biased. You know, I don't know if that makes sense. 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:25.240 Yeah, Oh, you're only getting half of the things, right 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:29.080 or like, Yeah, I mean, as a historian, we are 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:33.280 all biased, and so we should declare our biases and 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:35.720 sort of go forward that way, rather than presenting our 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:39.400 biases as unbiased and neutral and then obviously creating a 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:42.280 biased thing, which is what we tend to get in 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:44.040 the US, especially when we look at this stuff. 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:47.040 Right, Yeah, No, totally. I love that. I Like, I 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:49.720 didn't bash historians, but I criticized them. But you're like, 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:50.520 I'm a historian. 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:55.160 Yeah, I will not jump to the defense of science 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:59.960 historians I've worked with. Like, there's a chapter in my 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:03.640 book about volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, and like 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:07.560 about thirty percent of volunteers were Jewish people, right, and 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:11.320 many of them had been like couldn't go back to 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:13.960 Like there are some of them who like fought in 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:17.560 the Spanish Civil War, were gorillas in the Second World War, 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:21.240 survived the Holocaust in some cases, and they were anti Zionists, 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:24.600 and so like they didn't have a place like the 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:26.680 you know, there wasn't a place for them as people 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:31.200 who had had stuck to their very decent principles of 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:33.719 like you shouldn't impose shit on force for people who 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:36.360 don't want it, and we're opposed to fascism or opposed 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:39.920 to colonialism. There wasn't a place for them in that 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:43.400 sort of post World War two Jewish movement, that Zionist movement. 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:47.720 There were in other places, but yeah, it's very sad 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:51.160 that their stories aren't like like if a friend of 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:53.840 mine was the person who first wrote articles about them, 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:58.080 but like their memory is completely erased, right, or at 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:01.360 least it's not present, And then they should be people that, 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:03.720 like any reconall person would be very proud of, right 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:05.840 they were willing to die for someone else's battle, and 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:09.120 then yeah, they were kind of that. They're they stuck 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:11.120 to the same principles the whole way through it, and 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:13.240 the world kind of moved around them. 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:19.439 Yeah, And I mean, I think as time goes on, 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:23.480 those things won't even be existing in people's reality, you 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:25.360 know what I mean, Like if no one remembers that 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:27.720 that happened, if no one is part of what that happened, 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:29.720 like it's just going to go away. It's going to disappear. 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:32.600 Yeah, that's why it's so important to do history and 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:35.360 to do like to use different sources, right, and to 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:39.520 do history from a people's perspective, not from a perspective 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:42.960 of people who were in power. Exactly, history from below, 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:45.640 that's what we call it. Say that sounds one more 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:48.120 time if people call it a history from below, but 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.800 like and to look at other sources, right, like without 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:55.520 like riding my hobby horse too much. Like I was 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:59.440 primarily a historian of sport and anti fascism, and like 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.839 specifically sport. I got a ton of pushback on when 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:05.600 I started because it's not important, right, and it's not 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:08.360 you know, it's not like fucking I don't have any 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:13.079 charts or whatever, and like, it's actually very important to 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:15.880 where people were able to express who they were and 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:17.120 who was on the team and who was not on 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:19.320 their team, right, And that's where you find these people 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:21.960 who are very impactful lots of other areas. And I 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:26.439 think like if I was a younger person and I 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:28.200 was trying to find my way from my identity and 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:30.040 be like, hey, the Sionism seems wrong, like in the 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:32.080 same way that other things seem wrong. To have those 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:35.160 people to be like, yeah, these people also saw that right, 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:38.000 Like they didn't want a boot on anyone's neck, not 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:40.280 just not, I didn't want it to be their boot 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:42.360 on someone else's neck. And that was fine, you know, 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:44.880 they like having seen the Holocaust, having seen what happened 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:46.600 in to Spain, the like, now that this shit is wrong, 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:48.480 it's still wrong, doesn't matter if we're doing it. 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:50.520 Yeah, their humanity prevailed. 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:54.600 Yeah, And it's important for people like to have those 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:57.160 those stories to be like, Okay, well I'm not fucking 0:10:57.200 --> 0:11:00.160 crazy or it's not that I just don't understand what 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:02.320 it was like back then, because a lot of people 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:04.440 could see it and were like, no, we shouldn't be 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:04.800 doing this. 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:09.120 Yes, well, historian James, thank. 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:10.120 You for joining me today. 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:13.240 Sorry, No, why are you apologizing? I love that shit? 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:18.280 Fuck No, I love it history from below that you said, Yeah, 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:21.079 just quite no theme now, I think it's a good 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:23.959 thing to abide by. So I'm glad that there's a 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:25.079 little catchy phrase for. 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:28.880 It, Stewart Hale and things like that. Yeah, we'll do 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:30.439 another episode on this one day. 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:34.360 Yes please. So, as we mentioned before, Israel stole about 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:37.800 seventy eight percent of Palestine and then this left twenty 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:40.760 two percent, and the twenty two percent was compromised of 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:44.640 the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza, and these regions 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.920 fell under the control of Jordan Egypt, respectively. In the 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:52.000 nineteen sixty seven war, the Israeli military occupied the West Bank, 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:57.000 East Jerusalem and Gaza, and Israel began colonizing them shortly afterwards. 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:01.000 And just to give you some numbers, I think they're 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:03.880 important sometimes just to get the context of the scale 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:07.760 of something. But the Nekaba, by the numbers, is what 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:12.080 I'm about to continue. Between seven hundred and fifty thousand 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:15.400 and one million Palestinians were expelled from their homeland and 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:19.520 they were made refugees by Zionist militias, amounting to approximately 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:23.480 seventy five percent of all Palestinians. Between two hundred and 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:26.360 fifty thousand and three hundred fifty thousand Palestinians were driven 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:29.040 out from their homes by Zionist militias Between the passage 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.640 of the UN Partition Plan on November twenty ninth of 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:34.559 nineteen forty seven and the establishment of Israel on May 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:37.520 fifteenth of nineteen forty eight. Prior to the outbreak of 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:41.240 war with the neighboring Arab States, several dozen massacres of 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:44.880 Palestinians were carried out by Zionist militias and the Israeli Army, 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:48.160 which played a critical role in prompting the flight of 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:52.040 many Palestinians from their homes. More than one hundred Palestinians, 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:56.080 including dozens of children, women, and elderly people, were massacred 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:59.640 in the Palestinian town of Dariusne near Jerusalem on April 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:03.240 nineth of nineteen forty eight by Zionist militia. This is 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:05.439 the main massacre I want to talk about today because 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:08.720 it's been exactly seventy five years on April ninth. But 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:11.840 it was one of many massacres, and it was the 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:14.640 one that is cited as igniting a lot of the 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:18.360 Codomino effect. The massacre at Daria scene was one of 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:21.960 the worst atrocities committed during the Nakba and a pivotal 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:25.720 moment in Israel's establishment as a Jewish majority state, and 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:28.600 again it triggered the flight of Palestinians from their homes 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:33.760 in Jerusalem and beyond. The Dariacene massacre is commemorated annually 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:37.600 by Palestinians around the world. Approximately one hundred and fifty 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:41.840 thousand Palestinians remained inside what became Israel's borders in nineteen 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:46.280 forty eight, a quarter of them internally displaced. These Palestinians, 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:49.640 who are sometimes referred to as Israeli Arabs, were granted 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:53.600 Israeli citizenship, but stripped of most of their land and 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:57.960 governed by violent, undemocratic military rule as of nineteen sixty six. 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:01.439 As of twenty twenty three, there are more than two 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:05.800 million Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, comprising more than twenty percent 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:08.640 of Israel's population, and they are forced to live as 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:12.480 second class citizens in their own homeland, subject to dozens 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:15.440 of laws that discriminate against them in almost every aspect 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:20.040 of life because they're not Jewish. Let's take our first 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:22.080 break here and I'll come back and tell you more 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:35.960 terrible things. So here we okay, we're back. I'm going 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:37.720 to finish up a little bit more of these numbers 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:40.520 and then I'm going to talk about Darius. More than 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:44.240 four hundred Palestinian cities and towns were systematically destroyed by 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:47.680 Zionist militias and the New Israeli Army, or they are 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:50.840 repopulated with Jews. Between nineteen forty eight and nineteen fifty, 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:56.240 most Palestinian communities, including homes, businesses, houses of worship, vib 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:59.520 urban centers, they were destroyed to prevent the return of 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:02.760 their palace Stinian owners who are now refugees outside of 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:07.240 Israel's borders, or they were internally displaced inside them. Today, 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:11.600 there are more than seven point two million Palestinian refugees, 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:16.040 including Neckbus survivors and their descendants. They're located mostly in 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:19.640 the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza and neighboring 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:23.320 Arab countries such as Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria, and they're 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:27.440 denied their internationally recognized legal right to return to their homeland. 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:30.280 This is the last big number I want to say, 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:32.080 just because I think it's it's so big I had 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:36.640 to say it. Approximately four million, two hundred and forty 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:40.840 four thousand, seven hundred and seventy six acres of Palestinian 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:44.000 land was stolen by Israel during and immediately after the 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:47.920 establishment of the state in nineteen forty eight, millions of acres, 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:52.080 Like it's not just a tiny little place that no 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:55.400 one was in before, like noe, millions of acres of 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:58.240 land were forcibly stolen. 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:02.400 Yeah, so yeah, and all of them, like the land 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:04.920 that people have had for generations that they're farm Like 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:08.720 this is like it's not the oldest settlement on earth, 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:10.960 but people have been living here for tens of thousands 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:11.800 of years. 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:15.080 I said, Aluxey Yesterday was built in ten thirty five. 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:18.680 Like yeah, this shit is very old. And like sometimes 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:22.440 the same people or people's sort of family. It's not 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:25.680 just a loss of property, so lots of everything that's 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:29.440 sacred and like the Aluxa Mosque or these things that 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:31.680 are sacred and important to you, you know. 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:34.880 And yeah, and so more it's what you said earlier. 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:38.840 It's like we have to remember these things because otherwise 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:41.800 they'll get forgotten the in whoever's recording the history, you. 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:43.760 Know what I mean, Like it's yeah, I mean they 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:46.200 have been here. Right when we look at how America 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:50.040 sees itself, it sees the land that it expanded into. 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:54.120 It's like Terrannullius, like like empty land that was unoccupied, 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:57.520 which it was not. There was not a wilderness to tame. 0:16:57.680 --> 0:16:59.960 Like there were people living here and they were living 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.440 very happily, and they were living they weren't like I 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:05.880 don't want to do the whole like like in commune 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:08.199 with nature thing, but like this wasn't a wild and 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:11.520 savage place, right. There were people existing here and taking 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:13.439 from the land and living on the land, and like 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:17.119 we that just doesn't get fucking like Ruth Bader Ginsburg 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:20.159 was citing the doctrine of discovery, you know, like you 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.480 all the libs love Ruth Bader Ginswick, but like it's 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:28.720 so subsumed into what America is that Like like Obama 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:30.639 did a fucking tweet like this nation was built on 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:35.520 peaceful protest. It was built fucking genocide, Like fuck off, yeah, 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:39.280 but we've allowed that to just go completely forgotten, right, 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:42.920 Like you don't go to school in California and be like, oh, 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:45.400 there is a fucking unit they just changed. Actually there 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:48.800 was a Unipero Hessea High School and like this is 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:53.159 a person who did genocide. Like we wouldn't have a 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:56.800 fucking Gerbels High School in Germany, you know, and then 0:17:57.080 --> 0:18:00.159 Britain does a shit too. I'm not not like I'm 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:02.640 in a glasshouse, so I didn't say that, but yeah, 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:06.280 this wasn't an empty place, and. 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:09.119 It's really important to remember that because that is so 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:12.720 often the talking point of fucking stupid people that try 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:16.160 to defend what Israel is doing. Let's go to now 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:19.439 the main massacre or topic I want to talk about today, 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:22.840 which happened on April ninth in nineteen forty eight, just 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:25.840 weeks before the creation of the State of Israel, when 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:29.720 members of the Urguon and Stern Gang Zionist militias attacked 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:32.840 the village of Dryasin and they killed at least one 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:38.000 hundred and seven Palestinians. Zionist militias tore through Palestinian villages, 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:42.440 massacring villagers and expelling those who remained alive, to clear 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:44.720 the way for the creation of the state of Israel, 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:47.960 and this was one of the many massacres that happened 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:52.160 during the Nekba, where again an estimated fifteen thousand Palestinians 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:55.080 were killed and some seven hundred and fifty thousand fled 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:59.960 their homes as refugees. Ignited a very terrifying domino effect. 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:03.840 This year, the UN will host its first ever high 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:07.520 level event to commemorate this forced displacement that resulted in 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:09.800 the establishment of the state of Israel in May and 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:11.880 nineteen forty eight. So this is the first time ever 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:14.640 that the U one has recognized that the Nekbu even happened, 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:19.040 or like is it happened enough to mention it and 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:23.280 commemorate it. But Palestinians have never ceased to commemorate the 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:25.840 loss of each village that was once part of their homeland. 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:28.880 Among them was Darya Sine, and it was a village 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:32.679 perched on a hill west of Jerusalem. And this massacre 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:36.119 has become emblematic of the suffering that Israel would inflict 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:39.680 on the Palestinians. Many of the people slaughtered, from those 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:42.639 who were tied to trees and burned to death to 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:46.320 those lined up against a wall and shot by submachine guns. 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:50.000 Many of these people were women, children, and the elderly, 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:53.640 and Fudha does a really good job of showing this 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:57.200 lack of discrimination of life in general in that movie 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:01.560 that I mentioned earlier. As the new of these atrocities spread, 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:05.200 thousands fled their villages in fear so again. On April 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:08.240 ninth and nineteen forty eight, the Israeli militia struck theiry, 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:11.800 A scene where about seven hundred Palestinians lived. According to 0:20:11.840 --> 0:20:18.399 the Israeli narrative, operation Nashon and Ahhson apologies if I 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:21.919 mispronounce that, but this operation aimed to break through the 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:26.159 blockaded road to Jerusalem, and the fighters encountered stiff resistance 0:20:26.200 --> 0:20:29.880 from the villagers that forced them to advance slowly from 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:33.840 house to house. It's kind of silly and strange how 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:37.240 the same excuse is being used a century later to 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:41.120 justify acts of terror. They're saying that villagers resisted them 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:47.320 and that's why they butchered them. It's yeah, it's pathetic. 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:49.200 It's stupid and pathetic. 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:52.320 And like, yeah, for having the I don't know, temerity 0:20:52.440 --> 0:20:56.040 to be like no, you can't take my home. Yeah, 0:20:56.119 --> 0:20:58.560 they carried out a collective punishment on Yeah. 0:20:58.600 --> 0:21:01.400 And that's the Israeli narrative. That's what their history books say, 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:04.280 is that this was the aim of this operation. They 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:07.199 were simply encountering the stiff resistance and they had to 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:09.359 go from house to house like that. It's just a 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:13.800 fucked up narrative, but Palestinians and some Israeli historians say 0:21:13.840 --> 0:21:17.159 that the villagers had signed a non aggression agreement with 0:21:17.280 --> 0:21:21.040 the Haganah, which was the pre Israeli state Zionist army. 0:21:21.720 --> 0:21:25.119 They were nevertheless murdered in cold blood and buried in 0:21:25.200 --> 0:21:29.720 mass graves. According to a nineteen forty eight report filed 0:21:29.720 --> 0:21:32.879 by the British delegation to the UN, the killing of 0:21:32.960 --> 0:21:36.480 quote some two hundred and fifty Arabs men, women and 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:40.960 children took place in circumstances of great savagery. Women and 0:21:41.080 --> 0:21:45.240 children were stripped, lined up, photographed, and then slaughtered by 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:48.800 automatic firing. Those who were taken prisoners were treated with 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:53.280 degrading brutality. This is from a nineteen forty eight report 0:21:53.600 --> 0:21:54.920 filed by the British delegation. 0:21:55.119 --> 0:21:58.360 Like it's in the record, wouldn't they both like the 0:21:58.520 --> 0:22:02.440 stern going and the the whatever the military was called 0:22:02.480 --> 0:22:04.879 the beginning was in It's like I said, l I 0:22:04.880 --> 0:22:08.920 think were like they hadn't really done any military operations before, 0:22:08.960 --> 0:22:11.240 right that they'd just been they just like bomb like 0:22:11.240 --> 0:22:14.080 they did car bombs and shit to this, like the 0:22:14.920 --> 0:22:19.000 British had already like like that. They were like they 0:22:19.040 --> 0:22:22.720 were killing British people and I guess Arab people in 0:22:23.200 --> 0:22:25.600 Palestine before this, yes. 0:22:25.560 --> 0:22:33.560 Yeah, I mean the escalation in violence was like pretty severe, right, 0:22:33.680 --> 0:22:35.439 but I think they would have gone there eventually, you know, 0:22:35.480 --> 0:22:36.760 they's kind of hit forward. 0:22:36.920 --> 0:22:39.280 I think they'd already like established an intention or like 0:22:39.280 --> 0:22:42.000 a willingness to kill just about anyone who got in 0:22:42.040 --> 0:22:44.280 their way, right, and they wanted to show that they 0:22:44.400 --> 0:22:49.320 were like unlike the like I guess the labor aligned 0:22:49.600 --> 0:22:52.040