Who were the people of Palestine and what were their lives about in the late 19th century, before the first Zionists began arriving from Europe in the 1880s?   This episode focuses on the fellahin – the peasants of Palestine who comprised 70% of its population in the late 19th century, who are the first to clash with Zionist immigrants, and who later bore the brunt of the 1948 war which established the modern state of Israel.     We also look at the Bedouin, whose social structure and culture are the archetype for fellahin culture, and who were the founders of Arab civilization as a whole.   This is the 2nd in a multipart series about the “secret” or hidden origins of the Israel/Palestine conflict, focusing on episodes of history that both Israeli and Palestinian nationalist historians and partisans ignore and overlook because they don’t fit into either nationalist narrative. TO SUPPORT MY EXISTENCE: PAYPAL ONE TIME OR MONTHLY DONATIONS PATREON PER EPISODE DONATIONS KO-FI ONE TIME OR MONTHLY DONATIONS TRANSCRIPT BIBLIOGRAPHY VIDEO VERSION (includes high entertainment hi val-u images and memes) RSS FEED tweeter: @worbsintowords ALL MUSIC BY STARSIXNINE cover image: 19th century tatreez / embroidery on a dress from an unspecified village between Hebron and Jaffa 0:00 Hello fellow kids 1:53 Diaper Warning 3:25 Secret History? 6:51 Why focus on peasants and Bedouin? 10:59 Origins of Palestine 13:48 Origins of the Palestinians 14:45 Ottoman Palestine 15:48 Europe and the Ottoman Empire 26:35 The Millet System 30:27 Ottoman social structure 31:33 Intro to the fellahin 36:00 Tribes vs the state: Bedouin social organization 46:05 Material roots of Bedouin culture 57:44 Advantages/disadvantages of tribal organization 59:16 Urban vs Rural religion 1:01:13 Fellahin social organization 1:10:20 Fellahin attachment to land 1:15:01 Male dominance 1:26:22 Slavery  1:27:51 19thC population pressure 1:31:38 Communal land vs. economics 101 vs. Papa Smurf 1:47:13 Village religion 1:52:16 Village sectarian relations 1:55:17 Next time on Secret History of Israel/Palestine https://archive.org/download/12.2-palestine-before-zionism/12.2%20-%20PALESTINE%20BEFORE%20ZIONISM.mp3