{"id":94446,"date":"2025-07-22T02:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T06:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=94446"},"modified":"2025-03-02T14:33:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T19:33:37","slug":"battle-for-gaza-1917-the-palestinian-campaign-of-ww1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/07\/22\/battle-for-gaza-1917-the-palestinian-campaign-of-ww1\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle for Gaza 1917: The Palestinian Campaign of WW1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cXqnw1OWecw?si=wm8NMOZT8mrqnK0W\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Great War<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 14 Feb 2025<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict has its roots in another war more than a century ago. When the First World War began in 1914, the territory of today\u2019s Israel and Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire. But in 1917 the British Empire began a campaign that would change history: there would be bitter fighting in Gaza, wild cavalry charges, even talk of a modern crusade. And it would lay the foundations for a century of violence.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00bb SUPPORT THE CHANNEL<br \/>\nNebula: <a href=\"https:\/\/nebula.tv\/the-great-war\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/nebula.tv\/the-great-war<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00bb THANKS TO OUR CO-PRODUCERS<br \/>\nRose Flaglor, Reed Spilmann, Erik Ritter, Cardboard, Ken Brownfield, David Garfinkle, Raymond Martin, Konstantin Bredyuk, Lisa Anderson, Brad Durbin, Jeremy K Jones, Murray Godfrey, John Ozment, Stephen Parker, Mavrides, Kristina Colburn, Stefan Jackowski, Cardboard, William Kincade, William Wallace, Daniel L Garza, Chris Daley, Malcolm Swan, Christoph Wolf, Simen R\u00f8ste, Jim F Barlow, Taylor Allen, Adam Smith, James Giliberto, Albert B. Knapp MD, Tobias Wildenblanck, Richard L Benkin, Marco Kuhnert, Matt Barnes, Ramon Rijkhoek, Jan, Scott Deederly, gsporie, Kekoa, Bruce G. 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