Double Helix: Blueprint of Nations
Welcome to 'Double Helix: Blueprint of Nations,' the podcast where we analyze and look at the events, people and actions that have shaped the nations of our world.
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Israel & Palestine: Broken Promises (Part 5) (opens the original)
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September 13th, 1993. The White House lawn. Yitzhak Rabin hesitates, then takes Yasser Arafat's hand. For one afternoon, the impossible is real. In the final episode of our five-part series on Israel and Palestine, we follow the Oslo Accords from a Norwegian living room where enemies discovered each other's humanity to the White House ceremony that shook the world — and then we watch the promise break. We're at the peace rally in Tel Aviv where Rabin sings "Shir LaShalom" minutes before a Jew...
Israel & Palestine: Six Days that Changed Everything (Part 4) (opens the original)
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On the morning of June 7th, 1967, Israeli paratroopers push through the narrow streets of Jerusalem's Old City and reach the Western Wall — the last remnant of the Second Temple destroyed by Rome in 70 CE. Hardened soldiers press their faces against the stone and weep. A military chaplain blows a ram's horn that echoes off the Temple Mount. A brigade commander grabs the radio and broadcasts three words: "The Temple Mount is in our hands." In six days, Israel conquers the Sinai, the Gaza Strip...
Israel & Palestine: War of Independence/The Catastrophe (Part 3) (opens the original)
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Same year. Same events. Two names that can never be reconciled. In Episode 3 of our five-part series on Israel and Palestine, we live inside 1948 — the year a Jewish state was born after two thousand years of exile and 750,000 Palestinians lost their homes. We ride with a supply convoy through the killing gorge of Bab al-Wad as Jerusalem starves under siege. We stand in the village of Deir Yassin the evening before it becomes a word that means massacre and trace the shockwave of terror ...
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