Saturday Evening Film: The Birth Of Israel—A BBC Documentary With A Reputation Of Fairness
"The bride is very beautiful, but she's married to another man."
“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. Israeli-Arab conflict is the result of this history. After Holocaust due to guilty conscience Europe made justice for the Jews by making an injustice for Palestinians. The documentary presents an unbiassed view on Israeli-Palestinian conflict which is still ongoing in Middle East. Also features events happened in Jerusalem, Ramallah.”
YouTube description of this BBC documentary “The Birth of Israel”
Greetings all, this Saturday evening. I’m trying to get back on track with our Saturday evening film series. Just to have something that feels a little grounding.
We’re all confronting this history at our own pace. Even if something appears to be not in accordance with what well versed people may know, we’re still in the general ballpark of learning the basic history.
It confounds me that nobody seems angry at Britain.
Does that confound anybody else?
The series continues when you get to the end of the clip, automatically.
My thought was to introduce a thorough BBC documentary as a starting place for some of the indisputable facts, then to proceed from there. There is a way more excruciating film made by an Israeli that I'm also going to present, but it's potentially too painful. The Israeli settlers were induced into trance states by Ben Gurion—they too are victims. The architects are the guilty ones—the most guilty. They told the settlers things that made them go into trance. Post trauma trance after the Holocaust. It's an immense tragedy, like a gash wound that may never heal. And then what will we do?
This is an older documentary and I think it's useful to find things a little older, just listen to all the historical voices and begin to put it all together in a way that accommodates Oct 2023, by going to the roots.
The video now rolls over—had wrong version before, sorry.