Then there is Alan Leveritt, editor of the Arkansas Times, an alternative newspaper he founded nearly half a century ago. You know, I didn't know if he was lying or telling the truth. At a military checkpoint a liberal Israeli guide is explaining to a group that part of the city has been closed off as a "sterile zone"; he is being barracked by an orthodox settler with a megaphone. Erin starts to remonstrate, but is seized by another fit. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: (Through interpreter) Some guys took flamethrowers and ran after people and incinerated them. You cant boycott a company if you think theyre transphobic, said Bacha. The serial was shown by SBS in a Sunday evening slot from 27 November to 18 December 2011. "[12] Through the modern story, Kosminsky wanted to show how the past can have consequences for the present, and that having left "chaos, political confusion, bloodshed and war", Britain has a responsibility for what happens today. All the latest content about Israel & the Palestinians from the BBC. In normal parlance, human shields are. Some were forced to dig graves for themselves before getting shot. [1] There is an explosion outside. At the hospital Erin finds Paul, just as his father arrives. Left alone, the supposed body also gets up and runs away. "[19] The series was led by what had come out of the interviews, what the soldiers had said and felt, and what they had actually experienced,[20] rather than wider historical events with which rank-and-file soldiers had little contact. But he voted for the law, how can he not know about it? Feb 24, 2023. "[17] This was always his aim for the drama, to "honour the original letter sent to the BBC", so this was always going to be the path of Len's journey. However, Kosminsky had grown increasingly estranged from the BBC, later saying that film-makers no longer saw "that flash of mischief" when pitching ideas. MOHAMMAD: Now, most of the veterans interviewed in the documentary say it was a few rogue soldiers, that it wasn't the entire battalion. The family leaves home and Len drives them to the docks, where the Royal Navy is taking people to Acre. Critical reaction was positive, with The Australian selecting part one as its pick of the week, calling its character development and performances "compelling", and saying that the series "offers insight into the history of one of the world's most conflicted places". Paul is alive, but his leg, arm and eye are bandaged. The local Jewish leaders I dont agree with. He tells Bacha that no one asked for his opinion and that the first he knew about the legislation was when the Arkansas Times took up the challenge against it. [12][13], Kosminsky says that his overriding aim was to present the experience of the 100,000 British soldiers who served in Palestine,[12][13] "to remind us all of what happened". Erin starts to explain her quest, when two IDF soldiers arrive, brought by the daughter, to lead Erin away. Theres even federal legislation in the works that would make it a criminal offence to boycott Israel. That is not the truth. [41] Extensive use was also made of CGI and digital post-production, including for the caf explosion, the destruction at the King David Hotel, and the refugee ship of would-be immigrants. For Israelis, it's the war of independence. Bacha, who has made a number of documentaries about Palestinian and Israeli life, said she turned her lens on the US to understand the sudden proliferation of laws to protect a single foreign country from a form of political protest with a long tradition in America. Ledings told its a pro-Israel bill, that its just going to protect Israel. He is leaving Palestine as prisoner on a Royal Navy ship. For himself, he says all he has to look forward to is a long prison term and a dishonourable discharge. One of the fighters is Clara. Israel has rejected such accusations.In the city of Jenin, Palestinian militant groups have been rearming, raising fears of further violence.Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog#BBCNews How did Israel squander the compassion of the world within a lifetime?" Which is why Bacha said she was not surprised by Ledings admission that he had not read the law he voted for. Using guest speakers, this video clip discusses the background and impact of the UN Partition Plan for Palestine in 1947. Though I, too, have found Palestinians to be people of immense charm, I could only laugh in derision at The Promise every time another shot of soft-eyed Palestinians followed another shot of hard-faced Jews. 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[109] It had not been his decision to buy the series, but asked whether in hindsight he would have made the decision, he answered that he probably would. Searching for the source of the Kol Zion underground broadcasts, Len's men raid some flats; Clough's gun accidentally misfires. [27], Filming used conventional Super 16mm film, which was then processed and edited in England. The Holy Land And Us: Our Untold Stories will air on BBC Two and iPlayer in spring 2023. Erin is dropped by taxi at Abu Dis, where Omar lives, which is near the separation wall. I can't really know. And I never challenged that. It shows the demeaning humiliation at. However, we found that the video was uploaded to Facebook on 25 November 2018, with a caption saying it was taken in the town of Abu Snan in Galilee, in Israel. A single tear runs down his face. It looks at what happened in a Palestinian village called Tantura. The UN Security Council will meet to discuss the escalating crisis on Sunday. [65] Viewers complained that the drama was antisemitic, used upsetting footage of concentration camps, incited racial hatred, was biased against Israel and presented historical inaccuracies. Erin is to be questioned at the IDF base when Paul appears, and greets his former colleagues. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. As the Israel-Palestinian conflict has escalated, posts containing misleading or false claims have been widely shared online in recent days. He listened to dozens of hours of recorded interviews. "Tantura" is a new Israeli documentary challenging Israel's understanding of the war. Audio, 9 minutes, Gaza's only all-girl boxing club finds a home. It was also felt that relying on comparatively simple well-known technology would be sensible operating so far from home. A remarkable British documentary about the birth of Israel state which was created at the expense of palestinians who lost their homes and homeland, were driven out from their lands by Jews and suffered ethnic cleansing and genocide. Filmed shortly after the 2014 Gaza war, this documentary examines how violence has transformed the lives of 10 Palestinian children. [21] For personal reasons, Kosminsky had long wanted to explore the idea of a young person gradually coming to appreciate "the young man inside the shell of an older, sick man",[18][22] to the extent that he sees the drama as an unconventional love story,[23] capped when Paul tells Erin that the young Len of the diary no longer exists. One widely shared tweet claimed to show footage of Palestinian militant group Hamas moving truck-based missiles down a street in Gaza. Len takes Clara home; there is no-one in, so she takes him to bed, asking him to stay longer, but he has to attend a meeting. [89] Press agency AAP wrote that "Foy shines amid a powerful storyline" and learns "a few harsh truths". Israel has responded with hundreds of air strikes on Gaza, a densely populated and built up coastal strip in which the militants have embedded themselves within civilian populations. Video, 00:01:10, Drone footage shows extent of damage after Jenin raid. And some of them told him how they killed civilians after the battle ended. [62] Historian, Professor David Cesarani, accused Kosminsky of "deceitmassive historical distortion": omitting the Balfour Declaration's promise of a Jewish national home; downplaying selfish British geo-strategy; and exculpating the British, "chief architects of the Palestine tragedymaking responsibleonly the Jews"; turning a tricorn conflict of British, Arabs and Jews "into a one-sided rant. Len's platoon is in Haifa, stationed between the Jewish and Arab-controlled areas, overlooked by armed Jewish irregulars. At the CWGC cemetery she finds the graves of two more names from the diary: Sergeants Robbins and Nash, who at that point in the diary are still alive. I doubt there was any question. I want to find out how in less than a century they went from power-brokers to refugees., Rob Rinder MBE, Barrister, Broadcaster and co-Presenter, says: I am from a Jewish family and for me, the State of Israel was a sanctuary, at the heart of the yearning of the few Jewish prayers I knew, which begins with Hear O Israel. I could not be stronger in my opposition to boycotts of any Israeli products. [109] He accepted that the series conveyed a negative view of Israel and said he would not claim that it tried to be balanced. She told NPR that one of her uncles dug the mass grave at the orders of the Israeli soldiers. According to Paul, his father's liberalism misleads people into thinking Israel is a normal country like their own; he says the truth is that it is dominated and led by former military leaders. Read about our approach to external linking. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. For Palestinians the events of this period, which created over 700,000 refugees and resulted in hundreds of towns and villages being destroyed, are known as the Nakba, Arabic for the Catastrophe. The son, who is with Hamas, is brandishing a gun and telling Omar, a Fatah member, to go. In the morning, the IDF are searching the house. There was a short battle between the Israeli troops and villagers. [5] The group point her to a house that matches her address, where she is met by a Jewish orthodox woman and led to a room where orthodox men are eating. Noel Thompson looks at the history of the Arab Israeli conflict, examining the key events and personalities on both sides of the conflict and tracing the issues of the country. Israeli police said in a statement that it was the result of fireworks thrown by Palestinian worshippers. It just flew through, he told the documentary makers. RASHIDA AL AMAR: (Non-English language spoken). Len's superior Rowntree encourages Len to contact the Jewish underground, suggesting that a crowd at a rally would be a safer place to meet them than Clara's flat. In Canada, TV Ontario had scheduled the programme for Sunday evenings, from 15 April to 6 May; but the channel has since decided to present a geology series with Iain Stewart in this slot, with The Promise held over to a later date. NPR reached out to the Israeli military, which declined to comment on this event. However, teacher review is advised. These screenshots are fakes which can be made using freely available online tools. However, after completing The Project in 2002, Kosminsky presented the subject as a possible theme for a future drama, and the BBC agreed to support research on it. [18] It was also important to make the character contrast with the "endlessly heroic and gentlemanly"[18] Len, so it was intentional that she should be harder to like. although Andrew Anthony in The Observer[46] was more critical and A.A. Gill of The Sunday Times was unimpressed. Conflict between Israelis and Palestinians boiled over this week, escalating rapidly into one of the worst rounds of violence between the two sides in the last several years. [104] Video, 00:01:10Drone footage shows extent of damage after Jenin raid. So we said, no, he told Bacha. "The Holy Land And Us: Our Untold Stories" is a documentary that will air this spring on BBC Two and iPlayer. All rights reserved. "[12] "It was always going to be necessary for us to faithfully reflect this in our drama,"[18] "I either had to reflect it or abandon the project. and David Chater, previewing the serial for The Times, who called it courageous and applauded its lack of didacticism. Outside, Erin finds Jawda being loaded into an ambulance, as the houses are blown up. Middle East. She shows Paul a press cutting about Robbins and Nash; he remembers it, and says it was what broke the British will to fight. As the presenters and contributors explore how this period of chaos and upheaval impacted their relatives, they discover how their families destinies were changed forever. Erin secretly sends a text from her phone. [44] Consolidated ratings, which include time-shifted and online viewing, generally added about a further 0.5 million. He tells Bacha he wasnt paying attention. [120], In May 2012 it was announced that the series would be a featured offering on the internet television service Hulu from 11 August, and it has been available on demand from Hulu. The documentary Israel vs Israel is a film about Jewish peace activists who in both words and actions take a stand again 40 years of occupation and illegal settlements. Checkpoint: Yoav Shamir's 2003 documentary focuses on Israeli checkpoints across Palestine and vividly demonstrates the banality of the occupation. And the darker parts are sugarcoated. Ultimately, it came to this - that the one who buried the people was someone from Zikhron Ya'akov. A BBC documentary discussing whether Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon could be charged with war crimes has made front page news in Israel. Back in 1947, a crowd is celebrating the UN partition resolution which will create a Jewish state. Harriet Sherwood and Ian Black, Jerusalem correspondent and Middle East editor of The Guardian respectively,[52] The meeting, at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, is a briefing on "Operation Bulldog", the upcoming cordon and search of Tel Aviv. She is told that the Palestinians left in 1948, but some had returned to found a new Ein Hawd in what had been their orchards above the old village. Israeli-American killed in West Bank amid unrest, Hawara: 'What happened was horrific and barbaric', Settlers rampage in West Bank after Israelis killed, West Bank town set alight after Israelis killed. The controversial BBC documentary titled . TV magazine Tlrama called it "remarkable", confronting its subject "head on". And after reviewing aerial imagery from 1949, the film concludes that even if bodies were buried there after the takeover of Tantura, they're probably not there anymore. An Israeli documentary examines what happened to one seaside Palestinian village in the 1948 war. Men are being forced into the village square and shot. "[12], The character of Erin was influenced by his two teenage daughters, one of whom has epilepsy. It tells the story of a young woman who goes to present-day Israel and Palestine determined to find out about her soldier grandfather's involvement in the final years of Palestine under the British mandate. There are rights and truths on each side, that compete with each other. Behind her the man rebukes the woman. Attribution. And it's the aftermath of the battle that's the subject of the film and the debate. Series 1. "1/3 of these 250+ rockets . Israel and Palestinian tensions on the rise in the West Bank - BBC News BBC News 13.8M subscribers Subscribe 3K 163K views 6 months ago #BBCNews Israel's military has been carrying out. Explosions and gunfire sounded as troops entered the old city of Nablus on Wednesday morning, sparking armed clashes with Palestinian gunmen. Paul's mother complains that the suicide bombers at the caf are 'animals'. However, an IDF soldier takes away the box. Please note, these clips have been edited from the original 2004 broadcast version to remove some scenes young audiences might find disturbing. Erin's passionate response "He does to me, he does to me!" MOHAMMAD: So Schwarz went back to the veterans who were still alive and interviewed them on tape. The BBC devoted 14.25 lines to references to the Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian territories and 10.5 lines to the blockade. Israel arrests 42 after deadly synagogue shooting. Robbins and Nash are buried with military honours. What is going on between Israel and the Palestinians? Some Israeli soldiers who were there deny that any massacre took place or that there was a mass grave in Tantura. The film-makers considered and rejected a number of options, including live-action and CGI, before reluctantly deciding to fall back on black-and-white library footage from the Imperial War Museum in London, only to come to the view that the resulting sequence had more artistic and moral power than anything they might have been able to create.[43]. Haunted by this, and knowing her grandfather has been unhappy all his life, Erin decides to stay. Schwarz went through all of Katz's findings about Tantura. 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