Elyas Ayoub fled his childhood house in Jerusalem in the 1948 war

In 1948 the British government promised Jewish leaders a homeland in Palestine, which was at that time under British control.

As a result, many Jews looking for a home after the trauma of the holocaust, decided to immigrate to Palestine.

There was one problem: there was already another people in Palestine who had been living there for centuries, Palestinian Arabs.

In this programme, made almost 60 years on, Khaled Ezzelarab challenges Jews and Arabs in Jerusalem to talk to each other about the common themes of displacement that both sides have had to endure.

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This programme was first broadcast in June 2007 and was produced by Khaled Ezzelarab of BBC's Arabic Service.