"[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]. 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 . "[12] "It was always going to be necessary for us to faithfully reflect this in our drama,"[18] "I either had to reflect it or abandon the project. 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. "[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. How did Israel squander the compassion of the world within a lifetime?" Middle East. 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. It was awful. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: (Through interpreter) How many do you think you killed this way? 2023 BBC. MOHAMMAD: So Katz told NPR he decided to explore it further. "Depictionsinclude Jewish children stoning Arab children, blood-thirsty soldiers, conniving double-agents and members of an extremely wealthy, cosmopolitan family. although Andrew Anthony in The Observer[46] was more critical and A.A. Gill of The Sunday Times was unimpressed. Erin and Eliza visit Eliza's grandfather. Erin is to be questioned at the IDF base when Paul appears, and greets his former colleagues. 1st March 2023, 12:55 GMT+11. and Rachel Cooke in the New Statesman[50] It tells the story of Gaza past and present, showing rare archival footage that explains the history never acknowledged by mass media. [53], London free newspaper Metro felt that the third episode dragged, having warmly received the first two parts; but then praised the series as a whole. [109] Senators Scott Ryan and Helen Kroger both later issued press releases critical of the series. [78] The BBC has commissioned a docuseries that will apply a personal lens to the fractious and violent history of the relations between Palestine and Israel, in time for the 75th . He explains that the British stood in their way, so they wiped them out. I was always active for peace. Schwarz went through all of Katz's findings about Tantura. Paul replies that she should tell Erin about some of the 'animals' who blew up the King David Hotel, including her own father. He is told that the entire secretariat at Stella Maris is Jewish and leaks are very common. They say it sits underneath the parking lot for a beach. Nevertheless he and Paul clash over politics. 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. [11] "I was determined that their story be told. Operation Bulldog gets underway. The Twitter account posting the video later deleted it, and apologised for their "incorrect data". He tells Bacha he wasnt paying attention. Jordan hosts Israel-Palestine talks as violence escalates . Len gives the bunch to Mohammed, only to be told he has now put Mohammed under an obligation, and Mohammed will be duty-bound to offer him dinner. [104] In response, the ECAJ said that it stood by its position, but would not be appealing. Still, the descendants of the victims and survivors are demanding answers. The next morning, they find a woman who is the grand-daughter of Mohammed's cousin. It hasn't really been established because at first, I got a figure that 20 people were killed. Before he dies, he asks Len to promise to give the key back to his father. Israel has responded with hundreds of air strikes on Gaza, a densely populated and built up coastal strip in which the militants have embedded themselves within civilian populations. 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. 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. Len relents and tells her everything, including the name of the spy that he, Robbins and Nash are going to meet. And he told NPR his uncle was one of those lined up to die. Clara is in the bath; much of her hair has been torn out, and she has been daubed with oil and feathers. KATZ: (Through interpreter) There was a very big killing of Palestinians. One of the fighters is Clara. [17] Le Point predicted Kosminsky would receive a "shower of awards[a]nd also gibes". Supporting Israel is of the greatest importance to me. There is video circulating online showing the IDF standing by, doing nothing, as settler terrorists set a Palestinian home on fire. Series 1. And they're currently campaigning for recognition of a massacre and asking the Israeli government to build a memorial for their relatives where the parking lot currently is. 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. 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. 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. 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". Despite the broadcasters' prejudiced. Read about our approach to external linking. Israel has rejected such accusations.In the city of Jenin, Palestinian militant groups have been rearming, raising fears of further violence.Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog#BBCNews "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. However, I was appalled that a newspaper would have to sign an oath that it would not participate in any kind of political action.. perhaps this video, The chain incident was based on the experience of an, DVD Commentary (Peter Kosminsky and Hal Vogel), at 20:10, Macha Sry, Israel-Palestine: to the origins of the conflict, DVD featurette: Behind the Scenes Filming in Israel for 2005, at 00:20, The Blu-ray release includes a 5-minute featurette presented by Paddy Eason of digital effects house. Please, whitelist realscreen.com in your ad blocker and refresh your browser. TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) In Israel's divisive debate over the government's planned legal overhaul, proponents claim that curtailing the power of judges and courts is good for the country. However, an IDF soldier takes away the box. He is able to give Omar a Hebron address for the family, although when Erin asks Omar to take her, he suggests that Paul might be a better guide. 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. 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". Some Israeli social media influencers shared a video claiming it showed Palestinians faking a funeral ceremony for an individual supposedly killed by Israeli air strikes in Gaza - in order to attract global sympathy. Video, 00:01:10, Drone footage shows extent of damage after Jenin raid. [27], Filming used conventional Super 16mm film, which was then processed and edited in England. He is leaving Palestine as prisoner on a Royal Navy ship. An old man agrees to let them drive him, and they identify what had been Mohammed's house. Read about our approach to external linking. As the Israel-Palestinian conflict has escalated, posts containing misleading or false claims have been widely shared online in recent days. Erin starts to remonstrate, but is seized by another fit. 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. 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. Thank you so much. Theres even federal legislation in the works that would make it a criminal offence to boycott Israel. Erin feels out of place at a party with Eliza's friends. However, the team were concerned by the potentially limited contrast ratio using digital a serious consideration in strong Mediterranean light and that its potential bulkiness might inhibit Kosminsky's trademark hand-held cameras following the action. IDF soldiers take Samira for a human shield when they go to occupy the brother's house. Len goes to find Rowntree, but he is gone and the last personnel is evacuating. [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. Andrew Anthony in The Observer acknowledged some flaws, but found it still "an exceptional drama". In Germany it was shown on ARTE Channel on 20 April (Part 1 and 2) and 27 April (Part 3 and 4). 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. 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. 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. A purported British Army major apologises to Len that it has been a ruse, to determine whether Robbins is a spy. 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. Audio, 9 minutes, Gaza's only all-girl boxing club finds a home. Len comforts her, but later needs to leave for an appointment. 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. Theres such a dramatic change, in particular among Democrats and liberals, in their perception of whats happening in Israel and Palestine, she said. Eliza takes Erin shopping and clubbing in Tel Aviv, cut short when Erin's epilepsy is triggered by flashing lights in the club. Using guest speakers, this video clip discusses the first Palestinian mass uprising in 1987, and how it became a turning point in the conflict. A former soldier wrote to its executive producer Jane Tranter at the BBC,[9] suggesting she should do a film about the forgotten British soldiers who had been in Palestine. [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. Clara protests she was only trying to show that she loved him. As Len and Jackie struggle for their lives, they are ignored by onlookers sitting in cafs.[2]. 6 February 6 Feb. And to this day, no one has an exact number of those killed, with accounts ranging from a few dozen to more than 200. US appeals for peace amid continuing tensions between Israel and Palestine over violence in Jerusalem. "[27], The early scene of the flat in Leeds was created in an Israeli studio. They take a group photograph outside. 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. News/Politics 2023-01-30T18:25:21.437Z . 363K views 13 years ago 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. [83], A letter of protest to the channel was written by the President of the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF), arguing that "the viewer sees the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, however complex, only as a consequence of violence and cruelty of the Jews, who are represented as so extreme that if any empathy towards them is excluded." There was a short battle between the Israeli troops and villagers. For Jews across the world, this represented a longed-for opportunity to find a place of safety. The Brief Global Pitch Guide Introduction. Jewish fighters are going from house to house, throwing grenades and shooting the occupants. [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". "[63] On the other hand, Liel Leibovitz, writing for American online Jewish magazine Tablet, took the view that, "contrary to these howls of discontent, the show is a rare and riveting example of telling Israel's story on screen with accuracy, sensitivity, and courage". Rowntree asks Len to persuade Klein to appeal to the Privy Council to avoid his execution. [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. According to Paul, his father's liberalism misleads people into thinking Israel is a normal country like their own; he says the truth is that it is dominated and led by former military leaders. MOHAMMAD: Another Israeli historian, Benny Morris, wrote an op-ed in Haaretz Newspaper, criticizing the film and its findings. Returning to base, the soldiers are serenaded by schoolchildren handing out flowers. Len's platoon is in Haifa, stationed between the Jewish and Arab-controlled areas, overlooked by armed Jewish irregulars. 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. Len's platoon storms a house where one of the King David bombers had been hiding. The BBC repeatedly stressed the word [Israeli]. Erin goes to see Omar, but he too refuses to help. At a military checkpoint a liberal Israeli guide is explaining to a group that part of the city has been closed off as a "sterile zone"; he is being barracked by an orthodox settler with a megaphone. MOHAMMAD: Al-Ahmad says she witnessed the Israelis kill 13 men after the fighting ended. It was a place where Jewish people from all over the world could go to finally feel safe. This is what The Promise sets out to explore. Video, 00:00:43, West Bank town set alight after Israelis killed, Drone footage shows extent of damage after Jenin raid. 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