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Did it work? only pay for what you need ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ spider-man no way home in theaters december 17th herod the great is determined to prove he is a true jewish king. after making a deal with the romans, he descends on jerusalem. >> it was a bloody massacre. heaps of corpses lying around the city. the slaughter of a lot of innocent civilians. you know, men, women, children. >> herod's harshest actions are saved for the royal family.

>> the occupation of aqaba by the forces of faisal was a panic moment for the germans because they realized they cannot depend on the ottoman army alone to keep the british at bay from occupying the middle east. >> germany sends thousands of reinforcements to jerusalem. >> and now what has been up until this point a proxy war between the british and the germans now becomes an actual front of world war i. >> general allenby sent lawrence back into arabia, and at the same time, plans his push and his move via sinai towards gaza and then towards jerusalem. and here is a very important point that ...

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, we are with you, and let's do that, and in the end, the british were working for the british. >> to ...

>> when the plot against herod the great involving jonathan fails, cleopatra is furious. >> the egyptian queen works at convincing mark antony to turn on his close friend. >> cleopatra uses her huge influence with mark antony to undermine herod whenever possible. she tells tales about herod's treatment of his wife, his treatment of the jews in jerusalem. his ruthlessness. but mark antony aspires to run the whole roman empire. his interest is not to have his client kings, even such a powerful monarch as cleopatra, his partner, mother of his children, fighting amongst themselves. >> so, mark ant...

She is able to trade with them. >> all of these trade routes coming in from the far east go down into what is now modern syria, modern lebanon, and israel. and they all kind of meet together. so, if you want to take goods, either east or west, jerusalem is an incredibly important place to be. >> but above all, jerusalem, of course, was part of judaea and judaea had once been part of egypt back in the 3rd century bc. and so, cleopatra viewed the territory that herod had been given as her birthright. >> it was her job, her mission, as the divinely ordained monarch of egypt to reunite and to rean...