Zionism and It's Discontents

Having avoided it for as long as possible, Aimen & Thomas
finally turn their attention to the state of Israel: its backstory,
its modern re-emergence, and its impact on the civilizational fault
lines crisscrossing the Middle East. In the present day, Arab
statesmen have never been closer to their Israeli counterparts,
both sides united around a shared enemy: Iran. This marks a
dramatic sea change from the past, and to help explain it, as so
often this season, this episode reaches back into the Bronze Age,
establishing the mishmash of peoples who have long called the Holy
Land home, before returning to the pivotal late-Ottoman period, as
Jewish migration to that corner of the Ottoman Empire, under the
banner of Zionism, inspired the local Arabs to respond with
nationalist ambitions of their own—culminating in the first
Arab-Israeli war of 1948 Listen to exclusive bonus content and get
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