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Since 1967, half a million settlers have moved here. all in contravention of international law. many in contravention of israeli law, though in effect, it seems to make little difference. theyre here, and in ever larger numbers. this is noam, one of our drivers from tel aviv, who i asked about the graffiti on this house near the settlements. >> anthony: so, what is price tagging? >> noam: if something happens in the settlement or some attack towards jews, kids from the settlements would come and...

Has either arrested or driven the palestinian arab leadership into exile. so the palestinians had no formal leadership on the ground. so for many palestinians , this british rule and palestine is a bitter one. >> the main gain of the arabs is again the british policy in palestine. a policy which f continued, would surely have a rival, the replacement of the arabs by the jews. >> it wasnt just naked chauvinism opposed to people coming and living with them. >> they saw their land being taken over ...

That we are experiencing today. youve seen it experienced in jerusalem for thousands of years. for the jews, solomon built the holy temple. for christians, this is a place where jesus was crucified. >> for muslims, jerusalem is where the prophet muhammad made the night journey. >> people are said to have conquered the world that have swept through the city. >> no other individuals changed the landscape in the way herod the great did. >> solodyn determined to take on the christians. >> at a time ...

Led to a humanitarian crisis as hundreds of thousands of arabs are displaced or forced to live under occupation. >> from the beginning there were a handful of people in israel, particularly in jerusalem who said give it all back. this is not something we need, we dont want to be occupiers, and nobody listened to them. >> when they first took over the old city, they literally brought bulldozers in that night and over 1,000 arabs had their homes destroyed to build a plaza where people now come to ...

Public, a lot of the modern arabs believed that british would be honest with them, and establish the government, and it was only much later they realized that the british were playing everybody against everybody. >> it was the great powers carving up the middle east and allocating slices of territory which became the modern states of palestine, lebanon, jordan and syria and iraq, and those lines were drawn artificially. >> did they ask the arabs in syria, palestine, iraq and lebanon what they wa...

Hostilities are mounting across the middle east but while every countries wants to avoid an outright war, a faction of palestinian arabs are done waiting for their own independent state. >> on the palestinian side, there was a rising organization that was formed in the earlier part of the 1960s that came to be known as the plo that was meant to bring under its umbrella, the diverse palestinian movements that were taking matters to their own hands. >> the plo is using the territory around israel ...

They were turks. >> the arabs said, screw them. we should be united ourselves. >> the arabs dont have their own country. for 400 years, they have been a province. they have been subjects of a turkish sultan, ruled from far away in istanbul. and they begin to want independence. >> so the rise of arab nationalism started with a dream to create some kind of an arab kingdom to combine and unite all the arabs in one nation. >> but djemal pasha despised arab nationalism. he viewed it as a direct threa...

Charge of mecca at the time. they are part of the hashemites, which is the same family as prophet muhammad is from. >> faisal is tall, slim, soulful, a bit melancholic. but he has charm, and he has finesse. >> faisal had this ability to really listen to people and to compromise. >> faisal spoke turkish, spoke english and french, was educated and was being prepared by the ottoman empire to be a turkish ruler in his area, but loyalist to the ottoman empire. yet he harbored extreme resentment again...

Region to this day. >> and one wonders what would the arab world be today were it not for what imperialism did to snuff out the national ambitions of people and to impose regimes on them, and to spoil their wealth and exploit them. imperialism commited a sin that is still taking a toll today. >> the british played everybody to their advantage. they told the you jews that you wanted a home in palestine, here is your land, and they told the arabs that you want to be independent and have kingdoms, ...

The opposite direction. >> very quickly the turks realized there was no way out for them. so they surrendered. >> the battle of aqaba proved the importance of an alliance with the local tribesmen. they knew the lay of the land, and they were fighters. these were tribesmen who survived by protecting what was theirs in the desert. and it would not have been successful had faisal not been part of it. >> aqaba is the turning point because it puts the arabs in a position where they can spread the rev...