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Oct 2019
1h 9m

Israel And Palestine Part I

ISLAMIC HISTORY PODCAST
About this episode

We are going to the Israel-Palestine conflict, one of the most controversial subjects of your time. And in true fashion, we're going to try our best to avoid bias.

This will be a multi-part series. In this first episode, we discuss the history of the Jews and Arabs. We start from the biblical era and end up on the eve of WWI.

More episodes about Palestine are available at IslamicHistoryPodcast.com/Palestine.

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