{"id":261903,"date":"2024-05-20T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=261903"},"modified":"2024-05-07T06:10:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T05:10:10","slug":"palestine-1920-the-other-side-of-the-palestinian-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/05\/palestine-1920-the-other-side-of-the-palestinian-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestine 1920: The Other Side of the Palestinian (Hi)story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\">\u201cA land without a people for a people without a land\u201d is how the relationship between Palestine and the Jewish people was described by Christian writers in the 1800s. And the 20th-century history of the Middle East has largely been written through these eyes. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\">But this documentary looks at Palestine from a different angle. It hears from historians and witness accounts, and features archive documents that show Palestine as a thriving province of Greater Syria and the Ottoman Empire at the dawn of the 20th century. Its cities had a developing trade and commercial sector, growing infrastructure, and embryonic culture that would enable it to meet the challenges of the decades ahead. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\">However, the political ramifications of the Balfour Declaration, San Remo Conference and British Mandate set in motion a series of events that profoundly affected this vibrant, fledgling society and led to the events of 1948 and beyond. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\"><em>This is the other side of the Palestinian (hi)story.<\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Palestine 1920: The Other Side of the Palestinian Story | Al Jazeera World Documentary\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QUCeQt8zg5o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>TRANSCEND VIDEOS <\/em>STAY POSTED FOR 2 WEEKS BEFORE BEING ARCHIVED<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA land without a people, for a people without a land\u201d is how the relationship between Palestine and the Jews was described by Christian writers in the 1800s. And the 20th-century history has been written through these eyes. This is the other side of the Palestinian (hi)story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[3182,865,260,88,2416,2552,767,2571,3298,427,2418,413,639],"class_list":["post-261903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-videos","tag-balfour-declaration","tag-genocide","tag-history","tag-israel","tag-israeli-occupation","tag-jews","tag-middle-east","tag-official-lies-and-narratives","tag-ottoman-empire","tag-palestine","tag-palestinian-rights","tag-syria","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261903"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261909,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261903\/revisions\/261909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}