This is the fourth episode of The Same Small Land, a grounded, from-the-beginning look at the Israel-Palestine conflict.
The last episode followed the Jews into exile -- scattered across the religious empires of Islam and Christendom, yet facing a homeland most of them would never see. This episode turns back to that homeland, and to the people who were living on it while the Jews were gone. Episode two left the land in the year fifteen seventeen, freshly taken by a new empire. We pick it up there, and explore the changing states of the region of Palestine for the next three and a half centuries, up to the beginning of our modern age.
For the next four hundred years, the Ottoman empire is the frame.
I’m Allen Schyf, and this is Polite Disputes.
Music: Truth Be Told by Maarten Schellekens
