If you watch this work, you will hear from dozens of people who (including both Palestinians and Israelis) who were witness to the events discussed.

What happened in 1947-1948? In short, the Israeli’s cleared out hundreds of Palestinian towns and cities and 700,000 Palestinians were forced from their homes. Upwards of 12,000 Palestinians were killed, along with more than 6,000 Israelis.

I found the entire documentary to be gut-wrenching and emotionally exhausting, but I am now better prepared to understand modern events. I also found myself repeatedly wondering many things I don’t yet know: For example, there had to be other options to this horror. What were those options? How was it possible that this nightmare for the Palestinians even considered? I know I’m looking at this with hindsight, but blowback had to seem like a certainty, even in 1948.  It seems like this operation was the equivalent of kicking the can down the road without any consideration for the lives of the mostly defenseless Palestinians. Also, I repeatedly wondered who funded this operation. It appears to have been through Jewish diaspora movements throughout the world, including from the US. I want to know more about the extent of US involvement in the operation. Who supplied these military grade weapons to the Israelis and under what understanding and conditions?

Also, 1947-48 seems to have been …

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NOT ONE of the following is an extraordinary claim:
The CIA not only gathers intelligence but kills people, violates rights, gaslights and evades scrutiny and oversight.
The U.S. hides bioweapons programs.
The U.S. engages in regime change through charity and aid programs.
We in the U.S. medically experiment on our own citizens without consent.
We run drugs.
The DOJ and FBI are actively and flagrantly obstructing justice.
Putin easily kills people outside Russia.
We conspire and use academics for sheepskin washing our dirty work.
U.S. newspapers actively avoid reporting stories about which the U.S. population is desperate for information. They also carry extremely non neutral biases.
We actively conspired to hide open and obvious presidential dementia. And by extension, there are massive conspiracies at every level below that one. At a mind boggling level.

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“People now in that stage of demoralization where they calculate what levels of infrastructure failure they can tolerate given their incomes and life expectancies.”…