The origins of the Palestinian liberation movement are neither organically Palestinian nor truly liberating. The PLO was instead a key piece on the Cold War chessboard; co-opted, financed, and armed by the Soviet KGB.

Israeli commandos attempt one of the most daring rescue operations in human history when 94 of its citizens are held hostage by Marxist and Palestinian terrorists in the Ugandan capital of Entebbe.

Israel is caught off guard by a sudden invasion in the Fall of 1973 and finds itself in yet another existential conflict with its surrounding Arab neighbors.

Faced with impending annihilation by its Arab neighbors, the Jewish State strikes first in June of 1967, winning a stunning victory that reclaims all of Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, Gaza, and the Golan Heights in just six days.

After a stunning defeat in Israel's War of Independence, a new Egyptian regime attempts to cut off Israel from the rest of the world, provoking Israel's second major conflict with his Arab neighbor.

European Jews flee from the Third Reich towards their ancestral homeland, only to encounter the complexity of wartime politics in the Middle East. Leaders of the Yishuv propose another all-Jewish regiment in the British Army.

Tensions continue to escalate in the Promised Land between the sons of Abraham while a new Beast arises on the European continent.

The barbarity of October 7th, 2023, was not an isolated event. Rather, it was another episode of brutality against the Jews in their homeland over the last century.

Upheaval in the nations in the wake of World War I combined with the Balfour Declaration fuels a Third Aliyah to the Eretz Yisrael. But as Jews begin to reclaim their ancestral land and build the institutions of a modern society, an ancient antagonism begins to resurface with some of their new neighbors, leading to violent pogroms in 1920-21.

While the British army rolled back the Ottoman Empire across the Middle East, the British Foreign Secretary was drafting a letter that held the promise of making the Zionist dream a reality.

As the world goes to war for the first time, Zionist Jews from the Russian Empire and Ottoman Palestine see an opportunity to throw off the shackles of the last Caliphate.

Another devastating wave of pogroms in the Russian Empire leads to the Second Aliyah in the early twentieth century. Larger and better organized, Jewish olim begin building cities and forming defensive militias against their hostile neighbors.

One man singlehandedly transforms an ancient vocabulary into a living language.

An insidious affair in France inspires a Jewish publisher to write the pamphlet that would spark a movement for a Jewish state in the Jewish homeland.

A devastating pogrom in the Russian Empire and reforms in the Galilee lead to the first large wave of Jewish emigration to the Promised Land in the 1880's.

In the midst of the world’s first international antisemitic incident, rabbinic voices are heard calling for a Jewish return to the Land.