This is from two years ago. Oct 7 shows us what happens if you treat Hamas the way he suggests in the video.
It ends with whatever comes next will be much worse.
Factual inaccuracy #1: "Lived together mostly in peace" - well, I guess that depends on what you call peace. A massacre every few years might be acceptable according to Vox.
Factual inaccuracy #2: the Arabs started developing a "distinct national identity" - please provide evidence of that. Hint, it doesn't exist.
Misframing: "Arabs fought Zionists who were coming to settle" - No, they fought Jews, including non Zionists who had been living there for decades or more.
Misframing: "Fights both between Jews and Arabs" - Where were the fights by Jews against Arabs? The Jewish terrorists fought the British. I'm sure you could find individual stories, but on a communal level, there were Arab riots against Jews, not vice versa.
Lie of omission: The Arabs did not accept the Jewish state because they felt it was European colonialism, not mentioned is the explicitly stated goal of not allowing Jews to exist there.
Lie of omission: Following the 1948 war, the Jews expelled the Arabs. Not mentioned, the Arabs who fled of their own volition (some because they thought the Jews would do to them what they would have done to Jews if the roles were reversed), and the the Arabs who fled based on the surrounding Arab leaders ordering them to, promising them they would be able to return.
Lie of omission: terrorism that murdered Jewish civilians between 1948 - 1967
Lie of omission: Why were there no attempts at the creation of a Palestinian state from 1948-1967? Why were there no complaints against Egypt and Jordan for occupying Palestine?
Lie of omission: "The PLO later said they would accept an Israeli state on some of the land" - but when actually offered that, they refused, multiple times.
Lie: the context of second intifada is stated as "Palestinians realize peace isn't coming" - in fact it was the opposite. Arafat was seen as weak for negotiating, and launched the intifada to save face.
Lie of omission: Israel retreats from Gaza ... Israel places Gaza under suffocating blockade. Missing is that the blockade was as a result of terrorism and attacks from Gaza which necessitated the security.
Misframing: "Settlements expand in West Bank displacing Palestinians who just want to live normal lives." What about Israelis who want to live normal lives? Purposeful framing to show one side as the victim.
Vox is also the place that had an explainer about the conflict talk about the bridge between Gaza and the West Bank. Hint: no, such a bridge has never existed. It would be a pretty damn long bridge.
There's more I could say about the video, but I'll suffice with this
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