Erin meets Eliza's brother Paul, described by Eliza as "crazy", who left the army transformed into a peace activist. Read about our approach to external linking. "[10] Men are being forced into the village square and shot. Clara invites him home for tea, where her father tries to get him to talk about Stella Maris. The ECAJ reaches the opposite conclusion only by itself imputing unfavourable attributes to the Jewish characters, judging them by harsh and unrealistic standards, interpreting their conduct in the worst possible way, and making quite absurd comparisons. She shows him the key, and he explains its importance to displaced Palestinian families, and then shows her the key to his own uncle's house in Jaffa. He tells her the army is there to protect the settlers, not to keep the peace. And not just in Arkansas. I can't really know. From a bus on the way to Hebron she rings Omar and asks if he could meet her there. But he rejected claims of negative stereotyping. At the meeting they are ambushed; their Jewish informant is led away, and Len and the two sergeants are abducted. NPR reached out to the Israeli military, which declined to comment on this event. He went house to house to every soldier from the Alexandroni Brigade who was still alive at the time and spoke to them. Alan Leveritt, centre, in an Arkansas Times meeting. When Len regains consciousness, he sees that a wing of the building is destroyed. The next morning, they find a woman who is the grand-daughter of Mohammed's cousin. In this documentary, witnesses and survivors talk about the 2002 attack by the Israeli army on Palestinian refugee camp Jenin. Still, the descendants of the victims and survivors are demanding answers. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. The Holy Land And Us: Our Untold Stories follows actor and writer Sarah Agha and barrister, author and broadcaster Rob Rinder, MBE, along with four families of Jewish and Palestinian heritage, as they explore their personal family stories, and the ways in which they have been defined by events in Palestine and Israel. Israel-Palestinians: Old grievances fuel new fighting, Angry protests erupt over Greek rail disaster, Messages reveal battle over UK Covid policy, Isabel Oakeshott: Why I leaked minister's messages. In May 1949, Israel was admitted to the UN and its grip over 78 percent of historic Palestine was consolidated. In normal parlance, human shields are. In the hospital, she holds her grandfather's hand, and tells him she has given Mohammed's daughter the key. Foreign critics, including politicians in the US, Britain and Europe, accuse it of singling out Israel. That night, Len rounds on Clara for having known in advance and trying to protect him. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: (Through interpreter) How many do you think you killed this way? [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. Audio, 9 minutesWitness History, Mordechai Chertoff was the editor on the Palestine Post when it was bombed in 1948, Israel to speed up gun applications after attacks, Israel arrests 42 after deadly synagogue shooting, Israel hits Gaza sites after militants fire rockets, Nine Palestinians killed in Israeli raid in Jenin, Gaza's only all-girl boxing club finds a home. [18] The paratroopers' base at Stella Maris had been a challenge to find, but eventually the monastery at Beit Jimal was used and proved very accommodating. Eliza takes Erin shopping and clubbing in Tel Aviv, cut short when Erin's epilepsy is triggered by flashing lights in the club. More than 30 states have passed similar laws to punish boycotts of Israel in support of Palestinian rights, inspired by the anti-apartheid campaign in South Africa. [31], Daybreak had initially costed the drama at 8 million, which with some trimming they had been able to pare back to 7 million. But the demand rubbed him the wrong way. Operation Bulldog gets underway. MOHAMMAD: Katz's thesis was awarded an outstanding score, a 97 - that is, until the Israeli media got hold of it. Paul also seems not entirely happy. Israeli veterans recall horrors of country's victory in six-day war New documentary Censored Voices records ex-soldiers telling of their regrets over brutal 1967 conflict Israeli troops. I was always told they were forced to leave, but I know little about the exact circumstances in which they left, so I want to follow in their footsteps and uncover what happened. It went for the kill. Some survivor accounts collected by Israeli and Palestinian researchers over the years say the troops separated the men from the other villagers and killed them, burying them in a mass grave. The life story of Jesus, one of the most famous of people ever said to have lived does have many gaping holes in it as between the ages of 13 and 29 there is no Biblical record of the whereabouts of Jesus in Palestine. It was a place where Jewish people from all over the world could go to finally feel safe. . Erin is dropped by taxi at Abu Dis, where Omar lives, which is near the separation wall. SCHWARZ: I focused on the Hebrew tapes of the soldiers that were there. I doubt there was any question. [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. Parliament orders an inquiry after dozens of women speak of abuse on British-operated tea farms. A purported British Army major apologises to Len that it has been a ruse, to determine whether Robbins is a spy. 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. As they fly out Erin starts to read the diary, and becomes fascinated; it opens with Len describing "the worst day of his life so far" the horror of liberating Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Israeli settlers destroy Palestinian homes in violent rampage | Al Jazeera Newsfeed . Mohammed commands Hassan to keep the house key safe, because one day they will return. For Palestinians, it's the beginning of Nakba, the catastrophe. A spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared a video on Twitter which he claimed showed Hamas firing rockets at Israel "from populated areas". The controversial BBC documentary titled . My father also told me that our Palestinian ancestors used to have a lot of land and influence in the nineteenth century. It's propaganda. Please, whitelist realscreen.com in your ad blocker and refresh your browser. WhatsApp. She shows Paul a press cutting about Robbins and Nash; he remembers it, and says it was what broke the British will to fight. Hassan goes missing in the crowds, and Len promises to go back and find him, persuading Mohammed to get his wife and daughter to safety. This story and the dispute over what happened to Palestinians at Israel's founding moment still fuels the Israeli-Palestinian conflict today. Israel's media summarised the contents of the. The Brief Global Pitch Guide Introduction. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. [87] The Israeli embassy in Paris made no comment.[88]. 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 orthodox woman from the previous day arrives to taunt her. One widely shared tweet claimed to show footage of Palestinian militant group Hamas moving truck-based missiles down a street in Gaza. Rather than presenting a comprehensive history, the series lets the human stories of the time speak for themselves, enabling viewers to reach a richer understanding of the divisions that have lasted to this day. Meanwhile, in 2005 Erin is staying with Eliza's well-to-do family, who live in Caesarea in a beach-front villa with a pool. Harriet Sherwood and Ian Black, Jerusalem correspondent and Middle East editor of The Guardian respectively,[52] You cant boycott a company based on their equity shortcomings. But the video is old and the footage is from Syria, not Gaza. 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. However, an IDF soldier takes away the box. CRIF did not ask for the broadcast to be pulled, but rather to be balanced with a programme taking a different position, and for the fictional nature of the series to be made clear. Kosminsky felt the trait wasn't often shown on screen unless it was a major plot point, so he liked the idea of showing "an eighteen-year-old girl who is trying to live a normal life, despite the fact she occasionally had epileptic fits; and how other people cope with that as well". MOHAMMAD: Another Israeli historian, Benny Morris, wrote an op-ed in Haaretz Newspaper, criticizing the film and its findings. But I grew up within the story that we were all told - that in '48, the Arabs ran away by themselves, basically. [12] These oral accounts were compared with archive material in books and from the Red Cross, the National Archives and the Imperial War Museum, including the weekly military intelligence digests. 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". Filmed shortly after the 2014 Gaza war, this documentary examines how violence has transformed the lives of 10 Palestinian children. 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. 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. This is just some random content to show the different layouts possible, Realscreen is a trademark of Brunico Communications Ltd. Site copyright 1997-2023. This time, though, there was no faking it. BBC World Service. The trouble was, it is virtually unknown for a British TV crew to shoot in Israel. Exceptionally, Channel 4 agreed the extra funding, and filming started in Israel in early 2010 under the revised title Homeland, beginning with the period scenes at Stella Maris. ANI. Further pressuring the Israeli leader were images unseen for years in Tel Aviv where police fired stun guns and scuffled with Israeli protesters on a . They are waved through the checkpoint, but Omar goes back to remonstrate with the border guards about a couple being split up, and is detained. An IDF officer takes Erin's name and address, while the son is marched away. Clara however follows Len down the stairs and embraces him. He was Jewish. They say it sits underneath the parking lot for a beach. But the house is raided by Israeli soldiers. 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. "[27], The early scene of the flat in Leeds was created in an Israeli studio. Len's platoon is in Haifa, stationed between the Jewish and Arab-controlled areas, overlooked by armed Jewish irregulars. Outside, she is bundled into an IDF vehicle. "[18] "I would be very sad if someone were to consider the series as partisan. A single tear runs down his face. 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. It hasn't really been established because at first, I got a figure that 20 people were killed. It tells the story of Gaza past and present, showing rare archival footage that explains the history never acknowledged by mass media. Overnight ratings for The Promise were 1.8 million for the first episode, followed by 1.2 million, 1.3 million, and 1.2 million for the subsequent episodes. [11][25] He also writes that what struck him most is a question: "How did we get from there to here?" Wikipedia Israel-Gaza: How can conflict de-escalate? For Israelis, it's the war of independence. 2023 BBC. She was sleeping in her home when she awoke to heavy gunfire and people screaming. "[28] The BBC agreed to sell its interest and let the project go into turnaround for a generously low rate according to Kosminsky[12] and in 2007 he secured an exclusive deal with Daybreak Pictures,[29] run by Channel 4's former head of film David Aukin, with whom he had previously made The Government Inspector (2005) and Britz (2007). Erin starts to remonstrate, but is seized by another fit. "The Holy Land And Us: Our Untold Stories" is a documentary that will air this spring on BBC Two and iPlayer. the US supreme court refused to take it up. She thanks Eliza's parents for her stay, and Paul hopes she may come back one day. Hester tells Bacha that he didnt think there was any point in consulting Block. 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. Tracing the journey of my grandfathers cousin, Moshe Malinicky, I want to understand why he risked so much to reach this land and why he made this choice. The serial was shown by SBS in a Sunday evening slot from 27 November to 18 December 2011. The meeting, at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, is a briefing on "Operation Bulldog", the upcoming cordon and search of Tel Aviv. There is video circulating online showing the IDF standing by, doing nothing, as settler terrorists set a Palestinian home on fire. 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. Erin hardly knows him, but whilst helping her mother to clear out his flat she finds a diary of his time in the 6th Airborne Division in British Mandate Palestine after the Second World War. How did Israel squander the compassion of the world within a lifetime?" Len breaks it up, and later thanks the servant, learning his name: Mohammed. When she recovers, Paul comes to see her; she senses that he is upset with her, but he denies it. Paul takes her through a checkpoint into the Occupied Territories. [8] The IDF commander tells Eliza to get a cutter, and she is freed. Len stumbles, but Clough catches Ziphora, his girlfriend, but lets her go. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. The first episode was reviewed widely and generally very positively,[45] 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. Israeli police said in a statement that it was the result of fireworks thrown by Palestinian worshippers. [115] Later, Erin is back in Caesarea, gathering her things. Erin produces the key, and as soldiers come in she clutches it in her hand. Clara can't believe he still does not trust her. He is unapologetic, and tells them that his father, mother, sister and brother had all died in German camps. Read about our approach to external linking. Returning to the beach Len finds a straggler, and is about to let her go when they are spotted by a passing patrol. The War of 1948 is understood in two different ways. Posted. We've investigated examples of misinformation from both sides that have provoked intense debate on social media. Boycott follows Anawi and Jordahl through their legal fights, and the court victories that forced their respective states to narrow anti-boycott laws to exclude individuals. ABC ALJazeera BBC CitiTV CNN DW France24 NBC Net2TV Others RT TV3 UTV DelayTV KofiTV . 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. As soon as they hear the sound of sirens, they leave the body on the ground and run off. Jordan hosts Israel-Palestine talks as violence escalates . I had a machine gun with 250 bullets. 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. [1] 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. Julia Bacha with state senator Bart Hester in Arkansas. On a laptop, she watches news of another suicide bombing. "[94][95], The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council and the Friends of Israel Western Australia urged viewers to complain, reiterating negative comments that had been made in the UK. Omar drives back to Caesarea, where Erin tempts him into the house, and then into the pool. Bahia Anawi lost her job as a paediatric speech pathologist in Texas schools after refusing to make the pledge because she is a Palestinian American. This episode will examine recent attacks on the BBC and lay out how BBC ability to report on Palestine is constrained from multiple Zionist influences. 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