Len agrees to stay and fight, if Hassan will go to the docks. [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. [38] Period military vehicles were also a challenge to source without shipping them in at prohibitive expense; the tracked armoured vehicle used in the series was an amalgam of parts from five different vehicles found in a junkyard, cobbled together into one that worked. Sami El Ali is part of the film's research team. When Len regains consciousness, he sees that a wing of the building is destroyed. We've investigated examples of misinformation from both sides that have provoked intense debate on social media. Israel-Palestine: Conflict Intensifies After Palestinian. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. 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. [116], The series was screened in April 2012 by the Tel Aviv Cinematheque and the Jerusalem Cinematheque in Israel, and in May 2012 by the Haifa Cinematheque, with five showings in the month for each episode in Tel Aviv, two in Jerusalem, and one in Haifa. They are confined in the room of a bedridden old woman, who tells Erin she learned English from the British. media fund. Len finds Klein in solitary confinement in Acre, but he is unwilling to appeal, saying that every movement needs its martyrs. Men are being forced into the village square and shot. The IDF lay explosives in the house. 2023 BBC. - BBC Newsnight BBC News 13.8M subscribers Subscribe 15K 1.6M views 1 year ago. The documentary also follows Theroux as he tours the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem with Daniel Luria of the Ateret Cohanim Zionist Movement. Ultimately, it came to this - that the one who buried the people was someone from Zikhron Ya'akov. LINAH MOHAMMAD, BYLINE: It was the night of the 22 of May, 1948, when the Alexandroni Brigade's 33rd Battalion of what would become the Israeli military entered Tantura. So we said, no, he told Bacha. Clara explains that the club's purpose is to generate goodwill for the Jews, and that she is paid to be there. He confiscates his rifle and lets him go. This footage is actually video of fighting in Syria, A viral video reportedly from Jordan is being passed off as a 'fake funeral' in Gaza, Misleading tweets claimed that al-Aqsa mosque was on fire, A tree at the mosque was set on fire - some people thought the mosque itself was ablaze, Footage of these suspected "dummy" missiles is not from Hamas-controlled territory, Video of rocket fire is from Syria, not Gaza, Viral tweets by 'Israeli forces' are fake, A video does not show a 'fake funeral' in Gaza, Video does not show al-Aqsa mosque on fire, Old footage does not show missiles on a street in Gaza, Isabel Oakeshott: Why I leaked minister's messages. The post, from a US-based pro-Israel account, claims: "Once again we see Hamas using civilians as a shield to murder Jews knowing that Israel will not retaliate due to the risk of hurting innocent people". However, I was appalled that a newspaper would have to sign an oath that it would not participate in any kind of political action.. Before he dies, he asks Len to promise to give the key back to his father. How did Israel squander the compassion of the world within a lifetime?" Such a portrayal cannot be justified in ANY context." [77]Le Figaro said it was "magnificently filmed and masterfully acted perfectly balanced great television", and gave it a maximum rating of four stars out of four. Read about our approach to external linking. Themes: Nonviolence, Jewish religious leader, peace activism Trailer: http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/israel_vs_israel_2010/?trailer=true The editor of the Australians for Palestine website wrote, "Although people had written to SBS commending it for showing "The Promise", [Managing Director] Mr Ebeid received only one supportive letter addressed to him personallyMany more are needed in defence of the series for the hearing. Read about our approach to external linking. She decides to take up her best friend Eliza's offer to spend time in Israel, while she undergoes basic training for her compulsory Israeli military service. [109] Senators Scott Ryan and Helen Kroger both later issued press releases critical of the series. It premiered on Channel 4 on 6 February 2011. You cant boycott a company based on their equity shortcomings. Then at the base several of Len's men are shot, some in the back while they are hosing down the vehicles, in a raid by Jewish militants. The son, who is with Hamas, is brandishing a gun and telling Omar, a Fatah member, to go. Channel 4 committed 4 million, roughly in line with the channel's hourly rate for prestige drama. It is a documentary about the historic Great March Of Return protests, which occurred every week from March 2018 until December 2019, but covers so much more. Regardless, the university removed the thesis from its library and downgraded his master's degree. The War of 1948 is understood in two different ways. "It is our problem, at least in part, and we should take some responsibility for it". It was commissioned by Daisy Scalchi, BBC Head of Religion and Ethics. Mik Jordahl, a lawyer, lost a job with the Arizona prison system and struggled financially after refusing to sign a work contract that included an anti-boycott clause. In the hospital, she holds her grandfather's hand, and tells him she has given Mohammed's daughter the key. It was a place where Jewish people from all over the world could go to finally feel safe. Then there is Alan Leveritt, editor of the Arkansas Times, an alternative newspaper he founded nearly half a century ago. [97] In January 2012 the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) filed a 31-page complaint with the SBS[98] claiming that the series "unrelentingly portrays the entire Jewish presence throughout the country, including modern-day Israel, as an act of usurpation by Jews who, without exception, are aliens, predators and thieves and who enforce their usurpation by brutal, racist policies akin to those inflicted by the Nazis upon the Jewish people", and compared it to the infamous Nazi film Jud Sss. On a laptop, she watches news of another suicide bombing. Video, 00:01:34, Gaza's only all-girl boxing club finds a home, Drone footage shows extent of damage after Jenin raid. It just flew through, he told the documentary makers. "[10] We were starting from zero. RASHIDA AL AMAR: (Non-English language spoken). She is also found. [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. They say it sits underneath the parking lot for a beach. The remaining 22 percent became known as the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.. A young girl Samira pulls her in, miming that it is not safe. 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". Movies Documentaries. The IDF did not make these statements on their official Twitter account or anywhere else. She shows Erin a photograph; it is the photograph of Len with Mohammed and his family. He tells her the army is there to protect the settlers, not to keep the peace. and The Observer, where she said it was "the best thing you are likely to see on TV this year, if not this decade. Six-Day War, also called June War or Third Arab-Israeli War or Naksah, brief war that took place June 5-10, 1967, and was the third of the Arab-Israeli wars. This is what The Promise sets out to explore. I knew I couldn't recreate those things. The trouble was, it is virtually unknown for a British TV crew to shoot in Israel. 28 Jan. ABC ALJazeera BBC CitiTV CNN DW France24 NBC Net2TV Others RT TV3 UTV DelayTV KofiTV . There are bills so you cant boycott a company that doesnt offer comprehensive reproductive care. 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. Harriet Sherwood and Ian Black, Jerusalem correspondent and Middle East editor of The Guardian respectively,[52] I had a machine gun with 250 bullets. Like her previous series, Israel and the Arabs: Elusive Peace relies extensively on . Using guest speakers, this video clip examines the events surrounding the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Jeremy. "The Holy Land And Us: Our Untold Stories" is a documentary that will air this spring on BBC Two and iPlayer. 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. The series follows the history of the conflict through the mid-late 20th century, focussing on major incidents, pressure points and conflicts. . Still, the descendants of the victims and survivors are demanding answers. Erin is shocked to read about Len's fit. When she recovers, Paul comes to see her; she senses that he is upset with her, but he denies it. I doubt there was any question. [105], A further complaint was made to SBS on 1 February 2012 by Stepan Kerkyasharian, Chair of the New South Wales government's Community Relations Commission, noting "concern that the series negatively portrays the WHOLE of the Jewish People. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict dates back to the end of the nineteenth century. Copyright 2023 NPR. Sarah Agha, Actor and co-Presenter, says: My Palestinian father was just two years old when his family was displaced from their village near Tiberias in Galilee in 1948. 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. In Nablus Erin hears him addressing a meeting of Combatants for Peace together with Omar, a former member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades. And I never challenged that. 6 February 6 Feb. She meets Palestinian schoolgirls walking home from school. Later, Erin is back in Caesarea, gathering her things. It didn't seek out the teacher's account of what happened. from BBC News - World https: . Louis Theroux investigates ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem, Hebron and Nablus. "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. There was also praise from Stephen Kelly in Tribune,[51] the US supreme court refused to take it up. A purported British Army major apologises to Len that it has been a ruse, to determine whether Robbins is a spy. (SOUNDBITE OF BADBADNOTGOOD AND GHOSTFACE KILLAH SONG, "STREET KNOWLEDGE FEAT. But the video is old and the footage is from Syria, not Gaza. 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This story and the dispute over what happened to Palestinians at Israel's founding moment still fuels the Israeli-Palestinian conflict today. 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. It was awful. He is playing cards on the roof, and non-plussed when Erin says he had agreed to give her a driving lesson. They're taken from a longer documentary about the Israel/Palestine conflict, from 2004. [86] The demonstration in front of the Canal+ offices on the night of the first showing was reported to have attracted a few hundred people, with CRIF represented by its vice-president. Benny Morris let Kosminsky read a pre-publication proof copy of his book 1948; and from a recent PhD student of Motti Golani at Haifa University Kosminsky heard about the city hospitality clubs, still a stigmatised subject, which shaped the background for Clara in the story. 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". 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