Jew Oughta Know

Palestine descends into civil war between Jews and Arabs immediately following the UN's vote for partition. Jewish communities come under siege while Ben Gurion orders the Jews not to retreat from a single inch of territory.

Is there a just way to partition Palestine between Arabs and Jews? The United Nations considers that question, and November 29, 1947, goes down as an historic day for the Jewish People.

Jewish resistance, not by killing people, but by rescuing them. The Haganah's difficult Aliyah Bet operation to bring Holocaust refugees to Palestine gets a huge PR boost.

Menachem Begin pushes the bounds of morality in the final blow of the Jewish resistance against the British.

The Irgun busts their guys out of prison.

The Jewish defense groups join together to resist the British, culminating in a defining terrorist attack on the King David Hotel in 1946.

The Lehi assassinates a high-ranking British official, and the Jews turn on each other in a minor Zionist civil war.

Hannah Senesh, Haviva Reik, and the only rescue mission sent to Europe by the Yishuv.

Menachem Begin, a man of many contrasts, bursts onto the scene to take over the Irgun.

Israel's iconic heroes get their start as special operations soldiers during World War Two, and the Irgun gets a new leader.

As the threat to European Jewry rises to desperate levels, the Zionist movement launches a secret, high-risk rescue operation, and prepares for war.

Jewish fighters of the Irgun wage a campaign of terrorism during the Arab Revolt.

From out in the Atlantic Ocean the Zionist movement suffers serious setbacks in 1939, while the Palestinian national movement plays a destructive zero-sum game.

The Great Revolt continues as Britain comes up with a novel idea: what if we partitioned Palestine to create two separate states for Arabs and Jews? Interesting idea -- but will anyone go for it?

Arab nationalism turns towards violence. The Zionists try to defend Jewish immigration. And the British try to preserve stability in the region. Then the Nazis start meddling in Palestine.

The Zionists in Palestine cut a deal with the Nazis to save Jewish lives. But it will cost Chaim Arlosoroff his.

The nature of the Arab-Jewish conflict completely changed in 1929, when the Arabs massacred Jews throughout Palestine. With the British in charge, the Arabs rioting, and the Nazis just over the horizon in Europe, the Zionist project was entering a dark and challenging era.

Einstein, Ben-Gurion, Weizmann, and Jabotinsky all bring different ideas about Zionism to the Roaring Twenties in Palestine.

Vladimir Jabotinsky, the founder of right-wing Zionism, argues with mainstream Zionism over relations with the Arabs, Jewish immigration, and Jewish territory in Palestine.

The Arab-Israeli conflict begins at Tel Hai on March 1, 1920. These first instances of violence set the precedent for the next century of Jewish-Arab relations.

Part 2 of the Balfour Declaration. It's vague and messy, but it promises a Jewish homeland. And the Jews and Arabs came so close to reaching an agreement on how to live together in Palestine.

A hundred years ago the British issued the Balfour Declaration, promising to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Today we're looking at why the British were interested in Palestine in the first place -- from the exigencies of World War One to Christian prophecy.

The first Jewish fighting unit in nearly two millennia takes to the battlefield of World War One, while an espionage unit back in Palestine goes up against the crumbling Ottoman Empire.

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