What is it about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that prevents it from ending? Is what happened between us truly so unforgivable and insoluble? These are the questions "Homeland Lesson" seeks to answer. The series returns to the roots of the conflict, retracing the collision course that led from the Balfour Declaration (the "deal of the century" of its time) to the war that shaped and fixed the conflict to this day—the 1948 War.