re: History buffs: A recommended podcast listen for the history of Israel/Palestine Conflict

What the frick does 2600 years ago have to do with this podcast. Cooper really does not go into all that. He starts off in Russia a the pogroms against the Jews in the late 1800s and how Weitzman lobbies for a back to Palestine campaign before WWI.

So much of this starts after WWI and the collapse of the Ottomans who had ruled the place for close to 500 years at that point. All the Biblical b.s. is irrelevant and what was Judea and what was Israel.....or Samaria or that Palestine was a name derived from the Greeks who had named the place because the Philistines were most probably from Crete.

We're looking at the birth of the modern Zionist movement and how it shaped everything since.