"The History of Palestine"

I initially did not know much about the history of Palestine previous to this class. Just from simply watching the YouTube video of "The History of Palestine," I have already broadened my horizons concerning Palestine. For example, Palestine was once known and viewed as a land with a high level of people, culture and education. Since the first clash between the Palestinians and the Jewish in the 1920s, this has gone downhill. The tension between the Palestinians and the Jewish continued for many years past the 1920s...The Jewish population drastically increased in Palestine during 1932-1936 up to about 174,000!

The biggest aspect that stuck out to be during this video was during 1947 when the United Kingdom gave the situation between the Palestinians and the Jewish over to the United Nations. They decided to split the lang between an Arab state and a Jewish state. Keeping in mind that the Arabs were 2/3 of the population and the Jewish were 1/3 of the population, and nonetheless the Jewish ended up getting 43% of the land, and the Jewish ended up with 56%. Not only did the Jewish get more land with a smaller population, they also had the more fertile land.
...This aspect has got to be one of the most obvious that the Arabs were not favored during this time. They were clearly treated unequally and poorly to other nationalities and ethnicities during this time. The only thing that seperated the Jewish from the Arabs was religion and they were constantly treated as a lesser people.

The ending scene also shows a lot when it is stated that to get a citizenship in Isreal, all that is needed by someone is to be Jewish. Having a family tie, knowing hebrew, or any relation to Isreal is irrelivant...all that is concerned is being Jewish, which just baffles me because there should beso much more to it than simply someones religion!