James Lindsay lays out the legal and historical foundation of modern Israel — the late-19th-century Zionist endeavor, Ottoman control to 1917, the Balfour Declaration, the British Mandate, the UN partition, and the 1948 war launched by surrounding armies. He connects the standard land-acknowledgment argument to its logical conclusion and explains why the same standard applied to North America also supports Israel’s claim.
In this clip:
• The Zionist endeavor’s 19th-century origins
• How the Ottomans lost the region in World War I
• The British Mandate and the path to partition
• The 1948 war and what “from the river to the sea” really means
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00:00 — World War II as a punctuation mark
01:20 — The Ottomans lose the region in WWI
02:40 — The Balfour Declaration and British Mandate
04:10 — The UN partition and the 1948 war
06:00 — Land claims, conquest, and the same standard
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