If it were that simple, we would have already found a solution. The series follows the history of the conflict through the mid-late 20th century, focussing on major incidents, pressure points and conflicts. It was commissioned by Daisy Scalchi, BBC Head of Religion and Ethics. Palestinian gunmen killed in Israeli Jericho raid. Len breaks it up, and later thanks the servant, learning his name: Mohammed. 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It shows the demeaning humiliation at. [18] "A big change came in the final months, as they saw what would happen to the Palestinians, and realised both sides were to be abandoned to a war. 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. From a bus on the way to Hebron she rings Omar and asks if he could meet her there. But Palestinians say it was caused by Israeli officers throwing stun grenades. 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. They razed it and built a beach resort instead. "[15] What he hoped to create was a kind of unstable equilibrium, so that audiences would find their sympathies shifting, repeatedly, from one side to the other.[11]. But Len is unconvinced, and he is dragged off to join the others, being held in a hole under a trapdoor, with just enough room for an oxygen cylinder. There even used to be a historical cemetery in the old village. Some were forced to dig graves for themselves before getting shot. Julia Bacha with state senator Bart Hester in Arkansas. [110] Senator Kroger stated that "SBS appears to have put a business decision ahead of independent assessments which determined that it was offensive to the Jewish community." In Germany it was shown on ARTE Channel on 20 April (Part 1 and 2) and 27 April (Part 3 and 4). Unhooded and in the open, he expects to be shot, but finds he has been released. Thank you so much. On February 20, the United Nations Security Council approved a statement, described in the media as a 'watered-down' version of an earlier draft resolution which would have demanded . Movies Documentaries. ABC ALJazeera BBC CitiTV CNN DW France24 NBC Net2TV Others RT TV3 UTV DelayTV KofiTV . Using guest speakers, this video clip discusses the background and impact of the UN Partition Plan for Palestine in 1947. 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. [27], Filming used conventional Super 16mm film, which was then processed and edited in England. Previewing the final episode, The Times said it was "ambitious" and "packs a considerable punch";[55]Time Out chose the programme as its pick of the day, and gave it a four-star recommendation, calling it "brave filmmaking and a brave, entirely successful commission". However pre-sale negotiations for America and Germany ran into the sand. The forced showers and captivity behind wire fences remind Len of what he saw in Germany. 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". The meeting, at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, is a briefing on "Operation Bulldog", the upcoming cordon and search of Tel Aviv. Boycott is released to rent digitally on 1 March in the US and the UK, US supreme court lets Arkansas law penalising Israel boycotts stand, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. [115] It is also extremely balanced";[49] He went house to house to every soldier from the Alexandroni Brigade who was still alive at the time and spoke to them. The idea for The Promise arose from the 1999 drama Warriors, Kosminsky's sympathetic portrayal of British troops peacekeeping in central Bosnia in 199293, their hands tied by an impossible mandate. [70][71] Interviewed in The Jewish Chronicle, Any Human Heart's director, Michael Samuels, said about The Promise, "I respect it for having a point of view. "[18] "I would be very sad if someone were to consider the series as partisan. He also tells Erin that he is a Palestinian Christian. MOHAMMAD: So Schwarz went back to the veterans who were still alive and interviewed them on tape. "[107], Responding, ECAJ Executive Director Peter Wertheim said: "Professor Wootten denies that The Promise makes and invites judgements, but this contention is belied by the strident comments made by other defenders of the series in posted comments on the SBS and other websites, and is as low on the scale of credibility as the stream of non-sequiturs that have been put forward in its defence, including posts asserting that The Promise could not possibly be antisemitic because Kosminsky is Jewish, or because it was filmed in Israel and included Jewish actors, or because it was nominated for a BAFTA award. The controversial BBC documentary titled . Israeli veterans sued Katz for libel. [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. Erin is to be questioned at the IDF base when Paul appears, and greets his former colleagues. 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. Len finds Hassan fighting with a group of Arabs, under fire from a sniper. 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]. 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. After Holocaust due to guilty conscience Europe made justice for the Jews by making an injustice for Palestinians. [10], Tranter passed the letter to Kosminsky, who initially put it to one side. In 1945 the Jewish plight had the sympathy of most of the world, but "just 60 years later, Israel is isolated, loathed and feared in equal measure by its neighbours, finding little sympathy outside America for its uncompromising view of how to defend its borders and secure its future. For us, it felt really important to call attention to that.. [119], In the United States a screening of the series was presented at the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan, New York in November and December 2011, with the first part shown as part of the "Other Israel" film festival, and the remainder of the series shown in weekly episodes over the following three weeks. I knew I couldn't recreate those things. Login; . In particular, it found "that the characterisations in The Promise did not cross the threshold into racism, and in particular that it did not promote, endorse, or reinforce inaccurate, demeaning or discriminatory stereotypes". I didnt need the locals opinion on this, he said. Supporting Israel is of the greatest importance to me. [1] Why is Israel-Palestinian violence surging? He later confronts Rowntree, but Rowntree is under a direct order that British lives are not to be risked protecting the Arabs. Israel's media summarised the contents of the. At the hospital Erin finds Paul, just as his father arrives. The remaining 22 percent became known as the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.. Clara invites him home for tea, where her father tries to get him to talk about Stella Maris. Themes: Nonviolence, Jewish religious leader, peace activism Trailer: http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/israel_vs_israel_2010/?trailer=true Later, Len beats him, and he admits to having told her everything just as he told Clara about Robbins and Nash. Len reaches for his revolver, but two men with handguns shoot all three. "Our children must be protected from anti-Muslim bigotry and abuse at school," CAIR's national office . Despite the horrors of war, this documentary will uncover stories of strength, courage and defiance, and will look for the light as well as the shade in the experiences of both Israeli and Palestinian families., Colette Flight, Executive Producer at Wall to Wall Media, says: Hearing these powerful and moving family stories, which still resonate through the generations, gives a fresh and deeply personal perspective on the human impact of these events. MOHAMMAD: Until one day, Schwarz was working on a completely different documentary when he came across the story of Tantura and a 20-year-old research paper by an Israeli grad student named Teddy Katz. MOHAMMAD: El Ali is also a part of that committee, and he says while they don't need testimonies from soldiers or the Israeli establishment to confirm the credibility of their story, this is information Palestinians everywhere can leverage to get a recognition of the Nakba from the state of Israel. Paul also seems not entirely happy. [14] After leaving Palestine nobody had wanted to remember,[11][15] the veterans had been "shunned"; they had "returned home to find the nation that wanted nothing to do with them", with no memorial, and were denied even "the right to march to the Cenotaph in formation". That night, Len rounds on Clara for having known in advance and trying to protect him. 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. 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. 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. Out on armoured patrol a chamberpot is emptied over the soldiers. The cinematographer, David Higgs, had been keen to try the new Red One high resolution digital camera. Erin sits by herself on the roof, overlooked by a military watch-tower. He asks Len to join, but Len is not interested. [99] The Australian Jewish News headlined this complaint as "TV series The Promise akin to Nazi propaganda".[100][101]. She told NPR that one of her uncles dug the mass grave at the orders of the Israeli soldiers. [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". But as Hassan sets out across open ground, he is hit by a bullet. Clara explains that the club's purpose is to generate goodwill for the Jews, and that she is paid to be there. Palestine Post bombing. Jenin, Jenin is directed by Mohammed Bakri, a prominent Palestinian actor in order to portray what Bakri calls "the Palestinian truth" about the Jenin Invasion. [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. BBC World Service. Some Israeli soldiers who were there deny that any massacre took place or that there was a mass grave in Tantura. 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". 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. The Australian Jewish Democratic Society stated "We agree with the ECAJ that the Jewish characters portrayed are generally unsympathetic in comparison with the Arab characters. Which is why Bacha said she was not surprised by Ledings admission that he had not read the law he voted for. I didn't know what I would find. Kosminsky flew to Israel with David Aukin, to visit places that would feature in the story, including the normally closed-off Deir Yassin, accompanied by modern Israeli historians organised by their pre-production partners, an Israeli documentary film company. Available for over a year. [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. In normal parlance, human shields are. The conditions of the imprisonment of Robbins and Nash, and the display and booby-trapping of their bodies, closely correspond to the fate of Sergeant Clifford Martin and Sergeant Mervyn Paice in what became known as, According to Kosminsky, the sequence of the girls being stoned was a "direct reconstruction" from documentary video footage (e.g. [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. and Rachel Cooke in the New Statesman[50] Israeli police said in a statement that it was the result of fireworks thrown by Palestinian worshippers. Erin's passionate response "He does to me, he does to me!" Rob and Sarah are joined by a father and son whose relative was caught up in Israel's War of Independence, as well as a woman whose grandmother survived one of the . They say it sits underneath the parking lot for a beach. An Israeli documentary examines what happened to one seaside Palestinian village in the 1948 war. Filmed shortly after the 2014 Gaza war, this documentary examines how violence has transformed the lives of 10 Palestinian children. Erin Matthews is a British teenager about to start her gap year. "Tantura" is a new Israeli documentary challenging Israel's understanding of the war. [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. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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. He writes that the Jewish state has been born in violence and cruelty, and worries that it will not thrive. Paul tells Erin that Mohammed's family is now in Gaza, which is an unreachable war-zone. However, Kosminsky had grown increasingly estranged from the BBC, later saying that film-makers no longer saw "that flash of mischief" when pitching ideas. The Arkansas Times needed the revenue and Leveritt said it had never occurred to him to boycott Israel. Video, 00:01:10, Drone footage shows extent of damage after Jenin raid. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict dates back to the end of the nineteenth century. [96] Senator Glenn Sterle joined the criticism, calling the series "derogatory" and "anti-Semitic". He tells her the army is there to protect the settlers, not to keep the peace. Erin finds a toolbox, and chains herself and Samira to a pillar. media fund. in Israel. A young girl Samira pulls her in, miming that it is not safe. Eliza's parents start to have a serious talk with Erin, but she is struck by another fit. . 3 min read. [12] "She becomes obsessed with him she feels what he's feeling so, by the time we get to Gaza, she patterns herself on what she thinks he would have done. 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. [25] But "It does not help anyone by claiming that good and justice are on one side only. This is not unusual, she said. 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