Len takes charge, only to find that the sniper is Clough, who has joined the Jewish militants. Days pass, and Len is again taken to the "major", who tells Len he was indeed a wartime officer, in the Palestine Jewish Brigade, and had then spirited Jews out of the camps onto boats. Israel arrests 42 after deadly synagogue shooting. The new documentary series will explore the personal stories of families of Jewish and Palestinian heritage. It was taken during a Syrian government operation against rebel groups in the city of Deraa in 2018. Libration called it "admirable", praising the "excellent director" for telling a "tragedy in two voices", while "pointing the finger at neither one side nor the other". They are listing all kinds of industries, not just guns and oil, but also causes. Palestinian officials say two of the dead were. But we fundamentally disagree that this bias amounts to anti-Semitism in our view The Promise is a worthwhile contribution to the debates about the intractable conflict". The mosque complex in Jerusalem's Old City is one of Islam's most revered locations, but its location is also the holiest site in Judaism, known as the Temple Mount. These seven video. Arkansas, like other states, dressed up the law as combatting antisemitism in the US, which came as a surprise to Rabbi Barry Block, of Temple Bnai Israel in Little Rock. However, Kosminsky had grown increasingly estranged from the BBC, later saying that film-makers no longer saw "that flash of mischief" when pitching ideas. Israel's military has been carrying out arrest raids in the occupied West Bank - a frequent event since a wave of deadly attacks by Palestinians against Israelis earlier this year.Dozens of Palestinians, mainly militants, have been killed during army incursions, and the UNs human rights office has raised concerns over excessive force and possible collective punishment. There even used to be a historical cemetery in the old village. The BBC is to air a new documentary series following the lives of four families of Jewish and Palestinian heritage. I didn't know what I would find. MOHAMMAD: Katz's thesis was awarded an outstanding score, a 97 - that is, until the Israeli media got hold of it. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. He writes that the Jewish state has been born in violence and cruelty, and worries that it will not thrive. 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. The War of 1948 is understood in two different ways. [75] Les Echos called it "exceptional, stunningly intelligent" and said the considered dialogue and tense, serious acting fully measured up to the ambition of the film. And he's the one who told me 270 people. BBC World Service - The Documentary Podcast, Israel and Palestine Listen now Israel and Palestine How did the relationship between Israel and Palestine reach its current point? "[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. Subsequently he visits Mohammed and his family for dinner. Louis Theroux investigates ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem, Hebron and Nablus. 10,000 Pakistanis came on street to protest against 7 Palestinians who were shot by Israeli forces last week. Len digs a dead woman out of the rubble of the King David Hotel. This Morning's Top Headlines - Feb. 27 27.02.2023 | NBC 'Early wake-up call': Storm chaser describes severe storms in central US 27.02.2023 | CNN. Jehan Sarhan is Rashida Al Amar's daughter and one of the members of the committee. According to Reuters, the tree was only 10 metres from the mosque. SAMI EL ALI: (Through interpreter) He said, when the soldier got to me in the line and tried to shoot, the bullet got stuck. They're taken from a longer documentary about the Israel/Palestine conflict, from 2004. and The Observer, where she said it was "the best thing you are likely to see on TV this year, if not this decade. "Israel looks like nowhere else: the Bauhaus architecture in Tel Aviv, the physiognomy of its people, who come from all over the world, and most of all the Wall. [98] The ECAJ rejected the relevance or validity of the British Ofcom inquiry, and called for a halt to DVD sales while the complaint is investigated. Rob Rinder and Sarah Agha, along with four other families of Jewish and Palestinian heritage, explore how their families' histories were impacted by the founding of the state of Israel . This is powerful stuff, distilling enormous difficulties to a deeply personal level",[92] and the newspaper selected the series for its annual television review, writing that it was "gripping it dazzled via a raw and complex portrait of conflict in the Middle East Kosminsky's storytelling was mesmerising. Thereafter the series intercuts between the two stories as they develop, hers in 2005 and his in the 1940s. Len gives the bunch to Mohammed, only to be told he has now put Mohammed under an obligation, and Mohammed will be duty-bound to offer him dinner. Also features events happened in Jerusalem, Ramallah. Len returns to Clara's flat in fury, but she has gone. It's the most serious flare-up since an 11-day conflict in. In the car Erin admits that she is forbidden to drive because of her epilepsy. Men are being forced into the village square and shot. He tells Bacha he wasnt paying attention. Later at the club, Clough teases him that Clara is seeking a passport from marrying him. Behind her the man rebukes the woman. Read about our approach to external linking. Kenya to investigate 'sex for work' exposed in BBC tea documentary. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #4: (Through interpreter) People went wild in Tantura. Tuesday, Feb 28, 2023 . [12][18] The casual relationship Erin has with Eliza, "the way they talk, the way they react, their limited attention span" was very much drawn from his experience of his daughters and their friends,[24] and he felt that the combination of naivety and flinty assertiveness were not atypical of an "eighteen-year-old kid from London", particularly given an emotionally rather unsympathetic upbringing. "[63] On the other hand, Liel Leibovitz, writing for American online Jewish magazine Tablet, took the view that, "contrary to these howls of discontent, the show is a rare and riveting example of telling Israel's story on screen with accuracy, sensitivity, and courage". Erin finds a toolbox, and chains herself and Samira to a pillar. Series 1. The study analysed nearly 100,000 news headlines about the Israel-Palestinian conflict in the US press over the last five decades from five major publications - the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune - employing Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to identify frequently Through powerful and profoundly moving family stories, this series gets to the heart of what happened to people on both sides of the conflict as the Middle East was reshaped. I didnt need the locals opinion on this, he said. [10], Tranter passed the letter to Kosminsky, who initially put it to one side. It didn't seek out the teacher's account of what happened. MOHAMMAD: Rashida Al Amar, who was 18 at the time, recalled what happened in a 2015 interview for a Jordanian TV channel. They say it sits underneath the parking lot for a beach. 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. 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. [56] 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. ALON SCHWARZ: I grew up in Israel in a Zionist leftist family. Eva Mendes "loved watching" Pamela Anderson's Netflix documentary. Zena Agha, the U.S. policy fellow with Palestinian think tank Al-Shabaka, told +972's Edo Konrad in 2019 that Israel's occupation "creates a situation in which it is impossible for . Like her previous series, Israel and the Arabs: Elusive Peace relies extensively on . The Ultra Zionists is a British documentary that was televised on 3 February 2011. VideoIsabel Oakeshott: Why I leaked minister's messages, How 10% of Nigerian registered voters delivered victory, Sake brewers toast big rise in global sales, The Indian-American CEO who wants to be US president, Blackpink lead top stars back on the road in Asia, Exploring the rigging claims in Nigeria's elections, 'Wales is in England' gaffe sparks TikToker's trip. [44] Consolidated ratings, which include time-shifted and online viewing, generally added about a further 0.5 million. 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[33] Ben Gurion Airport stood in for Heathrow,[36] and the bombed rubble of the King David Hotel was filmed against a blue screen in a car park in Petah Tikva. Left alone, the supposed body also gets up and runs away. Supporting Israel is of the greatest importance to me. Attribution. Settlers drop broken glass onto her yard from what had been her grandfather's house. [12] Overwhelmingly, the veterans told a similar story: they had started out "incredibly pro-Jewish"[10] but they had shifted their allegiance and by the end "were feeling a great deal of sympathy for the Arabs". Len's platoon is in Haifa, stationed between the Jewish and Arab-controlled areas, overlooked by armed Jewish irregulars. Video, 00:01:10Drone footage shows extent of damage after Jenin raid. She was sleeping in her home when she awoke to heavy gunfire and people screaming. Paul replies that she should tell Erin about some of the 'animals' who blew up the King David Hotel, including her own father. Some Twitter users spread what they claimed were screenshots of posts from the Israel Defense Forces' (IDF) Twitter account saying: "We just love killing" and "Just bombed some kids". He says that his generation had been determined that the Jewish people would never again capitulate in the face of genocide, and want to secure land that could alwaya be safe. "[10] 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. The laws are primarily driven by the Israeli government and its allies in the US as a reaction to the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. An Israeli policeman secures the site of a shooting attack in East Jerusalem on Saturday. You can not have everything on one side or the other, everything is meshed together"[11] "There are no good guys and bad guys in this sad situation and we have tried very hard to show pluses and minuses on both sides. Accuracy and availability may vary. Palestine Post bombing. Arte announced it would show the series over two Friday evenings, on 20 and 27 April 2012. But not even a single Palestinian came on street to protest against 89 Pakistanis who died in today's Mosque bombing in Peshawar. the US supreme court refused to take it up. It hasn't really been established because at first, I got a figure that 20 people were killed. The American was killed when a Palestinian gunman opened fire near the West Bank city of Jericho on Monday, hours after Israel deployed hundreds more soldiers to the occupied West Bank amid . [82]L'Express considered it beautiful but too long. Israel-Palestine: Conflict Intensifies After Palestinian. Foreign critics, including politicians in the US, Britain and Europe, accuse it of singling out Israel. Paul's mother complains that the suicide bombers at the caf are 'animals'. But he voted for the law, how can he not know about it? Paul tells Erin that Mohammed's family is now in Gaza, which is an unreachable war-zone. Filming was entirely in Israel, with a predominantly local crew and through the Israeli production company Lama Films; something unusual for a UK television drama production. It looks at what happened in a Palestinian village called Tantura. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict dates back to the end of the nineteenth century. Paul is alive, but his leg, arm and eye are bandaged. Len agrees to stay and fight, if Hassan will go to the docks. [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. The Holy Land And Us: Our Untold Stories will air on BBC Two and iPlayer in spring 2023. BBC Teach > Secondary Resources > GCSE History. He was surprised to receive a demand to renounce boycotts of Israel if his newspaper wanted advertising from one of the states universities. Our thanks go to Sarah Agha and Rob Rinder and all our contributors for their bravery in delving into and sharing these stories.. After criticism, Mr Gendelman deleted the tweet. [115] Unhooded and in the open, he expects to be shot, but finds he has been released. [12] However, he hoped that the audience would be won over as they came to understand the character, and that having the audience make this journey would make more powerful what he saw as her later bravery and single-mindedness. When Len regains consciousness, he sees that a wing of the building is destroyed. Len's unit is posted to Stella Maris base near Haifa, as part of the forces keeping the fragile peace between Arabs and the growing Jewish population. And somehow, the moment I arrived in Tantura, it became apparent to me very quickly, according to the answers of the people from Tantura, that something very different and very drastic happened relative to the other places. The BBC has commissioned a docuseries that will apply a personal lens to the fractious and violent history of the relations between Palestine and Israel, in time for the 75th . [25] But "It does not help anyone by claiming that good and justice are on one side only. Andrew Anthony in The Observer acknowledged some flaws, but found it still "an exceptional drama". Clara is in the bath; much of her hair has been torn out, and she has been daubed with oil and feathers. Len relents and tells her everything, including the name of the spy that he, Robbins and Nash are going to meet. 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