This is what The Promise sets out to explore. They take a group photograph outside. Watching all of this from the sidelines with a grin on his face is Bart Hester, the Republican majority leader in the Arkansas state senate and primary sponsor of the legislation that sailed through his chamber without a single dissenting vote. All the latest content about Israel & the Palestinians from the BBC. The Nouvel Obs and Le Journal du Dimanche both identified the series as reflecting the viewpoint of the "British pro-Palestinian left", but the latter praised it as "nevertheless a historical fiction useful for understanding an intractable conflict",[79] while the former commended its "epic spirit, rare on television". Paul tells Erin that Mohammed's family is now in Gaza, which is an unreachable war-zone. Middle East. 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Read about our approach to external linking. The son, who is with Hamas, is brandishing a gun and telling Omar, a Fatah member, to go. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The War of 1948 is understood in two different ways. In the video, a large crowd of young Jewish Israeli men can be heard singing an anti-Palestinian song behind the Western Wall, with flames visible in the distance. 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[74], The subscription channel Canal+ aired the drama under the title The Promise: Le Serment over four weeks starting 21 March 2011, in a prime-time Monday evening slot that it tends to use for more serious or historical drama. 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. [42] A particular challenge was how to realise the events at Bergen-Belsen. 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. More Americans understand the actions of the Israeli government, the role of the United States in supporting Israeli policies, and the effects it has on the Palestinian people. Sarah will learn about the circumstances under which her family fled their . I didn't know what I would find. They are ordered to pull back, but Len orders them to hold the position to prevent Jewish mortar attack on the souk. 2023 BBC. [6] Erin tries to intervene, but Paul leads her away, saying it would make things worse. The video is real, but additional footage from other angles makes it clear that a tree near to the mosque had caught fire, not the mosque itself. 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. [76] 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". [31], Daybreak had initially costed the drama at 8 million, which with some trimming they had been able to pare back to 7 million. Israel and the Arabs: Elusive Peace is the name of a three-part British documentary series shown in October 2005 on BBC Two about the attempts to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after the 2000 Camp David Summit.. They're taken from a longer documentary about the Israel/Palestine conflict, from 2004. I regret not knowing more about the issue when I voted. A young girl Samira pulls her in, miming that it is not safe. It was also felt that relying on comparatively simple well-known technology would be sensible operating so far from home. BBC World Service. An Israeli documentary examines what happened to one seaside Palestinian village in the 1948 war. That night, Len rounds on Clara for having known in advance and trying to protect him. It also discusses how the war inspired Palestinian resistance movements, such as the PLO under Yasser Arafat. Israel claims it is antisemitic, has ties to terrorism and is aimed at the destruction of the Jewish state. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. After Holocaust due to guilty conscience Europe made justice for the Jews by making an injustice for Palestinians. "saga au vitriol pour une dsinformation assassine! "[27], The early scene of the flat in Leeds was created in an Israeli studio. [12][30] Scripts followed quickly, and by mid-2008 Channel 4 announced its backing for the project. [60] Writing in The Independent, novelist Howard Jacobson said that in The Promise, "Just about every Palestinian was sympathetic to look at, just about every Jew was not. As of 2006 the project had the working title Palestine and was to be made for the BBC by Carnival Films,[26] best known as makers of the Poirot series for ITV. Len breaks it up, and later thanks the servant, learning his name: Mohammed. 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. You have to have that, otherwise you are not writing". Erin wakes in the night and is almost shot by a sniper bullet. 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. She shows Paul a press cutting about Robbins and Nash; he remembers it, and says it was what broke the British will to fight. "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. For Jews across the world, this represented a longed-for opportunity to find a place of safety. And as the case went on, he faced pressure even from family, and he retracted his claims and then reasserted them later. Paul kisses her, and she wakes up the next morning in Paul's bed. Israel's media summarised the contents of the. A Palestinian gunman opened fire in East Jerusalem, wounding at least two people less than a day after. Here I am the rabbi of the largest congregation in the state. Twitter labelled the tweet as "manipulated media", adding links to fact-checks confirming the clip was from the Syrian war. 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. Erin is on the point of going home, but reads the last page of Len's diary and finds with it, in an envelope, a key. Returning to base, the soldiers are serenaded by schoolchildren handing out flowers. 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. As Len and Jackie struggle for their lives, they are ignored by onlookers sitting in cafs.[2]. 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. She told NPR that one of her uncles dug the mass grave at the orders of the Israeli soldiers. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #4: (Through interpreter) People went wild in Tantura. In France, a deal giving Canal + first-run subscription broadcast rights, with free-to-air rights on ARTE a year later, was negotiated by Daybreak's long-standing production contact Georges Campana, bringing in a further 1 million. Clara can't believe he still does not trust her. Palestine Post bombing. That night there is shooting; Erin comforts the girl. Eliza's parents start to have a serious talk with Erin, but she is struck by another fit. It didn't seek out the teacher's account of what happened. "[10] You cant boycott a company if you think theyre transphobic, said Bacha. Witness History. [1] There is an explosion outside. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: (Through interpreter) Some guys took flamethrowers and ran after people and incinerated them. Kaisa doglapan hai ye? Phil Harrison, Pick of the day: The Promise, Muriel Frat, Sense and Sensibility in Palestine. EL ALI: It's so hard for Israelis to digest this story because it shakes our ground because we're taught that we're the most moral nation, the most moral army. 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. [96] Senator Glenn Sterle joined the criticism, calling the series "derogatory" and "anti-Semitic". And some of them told him how they killed civilians after the battle ended. He was Jewish. For the Israelis, the six days of war in June 1967 were a series of stunning victories that doubled the amount of land under their control. In this documentary, witnesses and survivors talk about the 2002 attack by the Israeli army on Palestinian refugee camp Jenin. Robbins and Nash are buried with military honours. But the more we listened, we realized that these veterans did tell him things about how - what happened. "[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. He confiscates his rifle and lets him go. Read about our approach to external linking. Complainants were advised that they could take their concerns to the Australian Communications and Media Authority. Movies Documentaries. 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. Paul also seems not entirely happy. [11] "I was determined that their story be told. A senior BBC producer who is currently working on a documentary focused on Israeli activities within east Jerusalem has been accused of not being impartial in her research. Six decades before Norway helped the CIA destroy the Nord Stream gas pipelines, it gave the agency heavily-armed boats that it used to target North Vietnam, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh . [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. According to Kosminsky they also looked at Morocco, Cyprus, Southern Spain and Tunisia, and could have recreated the 1940s sequences there; but nowhere else would have replicated the "buildings, range of cultures or topography" of modern-day Israel. 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. For Palestinians, it's the beginning of Nakba, the catastrophe. [58] The Zionist Federation and the Board of Deputies of British Jews both also lodged letters of complaint. [117] In Jerusalem the series was scheduled with the four parts shown over two days, on 14/15 and 29/30 April. The Promise is a British television serial in four episodes written and directed by Peter Kosminsky, with music by Debbie Wiseman.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.It premiered on Channel 4 on 6 February 2011. Using guest speakers, this video clip examines how the Suez Crisis of 1956 changed international relationships and the landscape of power in the Middle East. [45] By the second episode Andrew Billen, writing in The Times, was concerned that both Len and Erin were meeting from the Arabs a "little too much kindness for the comfort of all of us hoping that Kosminsky will parcel out recriminations in exactly equal proportions"; but nonetheless applauded the "immersive and emotional" quality of the series. Israel arrests 42 after deadly synagogue shooting. 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 . 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. Erin is shocked to read about Len's fit. [106] In contrast, Hal Wootten, Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales and former president of the Indigenous Law Centre, considered the ECAJ position to be misguided: "There is a striking irony in a Jewish organisation's striving to show that every Jewish character is a demon and every Arab character a saint. Leding claims not to know about the contentious but not uncommon piece of legislation that may well end up before the US supreme court. BBC Documentary Proves Jesus Was A Buddhist Monk Named Issa. BDSs Palestinian organisers ask who it is they are expected to protest against, using peaceful methods, if not Israel. Salman Khurshid in an interview with ANI said the UK-based . And he's the one who told me 270 people. [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. Since the start of this year, theres been 30 new bills that have been introduced. It just flew through, he told the documentary makers. The top Democrat in the Arkansas state senate was blithely going about his business when he ran into the makers of the documentary film Boycott, and a difficult question. He listened to dozens of hours of recorded interviews. 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. As the Israel-Palestinian conflict has escalated, posts containing misleading or false claims have been widely shared online in recent days. Theres even federal legislation in the works that would make it a criminal offence to boycott Israel. 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. 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. Nobody had talked to me about this proposal, he said. We found the same video posted in March 2020, with reports at the time suggesting that it showed a group of boys in Jordan trying to avoid strict Covid-19 restrictions by pretending to hold a funeral. Erin slips past into the zone. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Supporting Israel is of the greatest importance to me. As we show in the film, some of the funding to oppose it came directly from the Israeli government to organisations in the US that were at the forefront of the lobby for the anti-boycott laws.. [82]L'Express considered it beautiful but too long. 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. Len finds Klein in solitary confinement in Acre, but he is unwilling to appeal, saying that every movement needs its martyrs. The BBC is to air a new documentary series following the lives of four families of Jewish and Palestinian heritage. She thanks Eliza's parents for her stay, and Paul hopes she may come back one day. 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