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1913: Seeds of Conflict

Season 1 Episode 1 | 53m 38s

Explore an overlooked moment in pre-WWI Palestine when people’s identities overlap and Jewish, Muslim and Christian communities intermingle freely, yet few can contemplate the conflict that would engulf their region for the next century.

Aired: 06/29/15 | Expires: 12/31/69
Extras
After the first immigrants settled, a second wave aspired to connect with the land.
Examine seeds of the Middle East conflict, sown in pre-WWI Ottoman Palestine.
From 1882 to 1903, unrest in Russia leads to the emigration of 2 million Jews.
The Zionist movement began using a slogan with lasting implications.
Jews began to see the importance of buying land and establishing clustered settlements.