The Israelis seized Zion Gate and carried supplies to the beseiged Jewish Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem. But then the Jews left Zion Gate, and the feared Arab Legion finally arrived. T...

16 minutes, 24 seconds
Published: 4/29/2008

The Jewish Quarter of the Old City was under siege and about to fall, so the Israelis attacked Jaffa Gate. After a fierce fight, the Jews withdrew and the Arabs begged for the Arab Legion to c...

18 minutes, 25 seconds
Published: 4/21/2008

After declaring independence, Israel was attacked by five Arab armies. Was it a miracle that the new state survived, or were the Arab armies just ineffective? In the first days of fighting, A...

22 minutes, 05 seconds
Published: 4/10/2008

Violence between Jews and Arabs continued through the month of January, 1948. Jewish leaders apologized for the Semiramis Hotel bombing, but the Irgun set off a bomb at Jaffa Gate, and Arabs b...

18 minutes, 19 seconds
Published: 2/12/2008

The war between Jews and Arabs continued, and just as Jerusalem was cut off from the rest of the Jewish settlement, so the Jewish Quarter of the Old City was being cut off from Jerusalem. Jews...

21 minutes, 11 seconds
Published: 2/5/2008

The Arabs responded to the UN vote on Partition by attacking and looting the Commercial Center. The war between Jews and Arabs had begun, as over 70 people on both sides were killed in the fir...

16 minutes, 11 seconds
Published: 1/22/2008

The Riots of 1936 and the Revolt that lasted from 1937-39 demonstrated to the British that they could not afford further uprisings in Palestine if war broke out. So to placate the Arab populat...

24 minutes, 30 seconds
Published: 11/27/2007

Jewish immigration to Palestine dropped off during the 1920's. This was due to divisions within Zionist leadership about the type of Jews they wanted in the Jewish state, and also to prosperit...

26 minutes, 26 seconds
Published: 11/6/2007

Violence broke out between Arabs and Jews in 1920. The Arab mobs were incited by Haj Amin Husseini, who would continue to incite violence for many years. An armed band of Jews, led by Vladimi...

19 minutes, 29 seconds
Published: 10/23/2007

Theodor Herzl abandoned assimilation- the idea that Christian society would accept Jews who quit being Jewish- when he saw angry crowds at the Dreyfuss court-martial who wanted to kill the Jews...

22 minutes, 08 seconds
Published: 8/14/2007