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1948 (Al-Nakba)....
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This documentary explores the beginnings of the 50 years of conflict
between Palestinians and Israelis. At the heart of the conflict are the
five and a half million Palestinian Arabs, half of them refugees, one
million of whom live in camps. Their exodus from Palestinian cities and
villages was a direct result of the 1948 war between Israeli and
Palestinian forces, referred to by the Palestinians as Al Nakba, the
Catastrophe.
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That war is methodically chronicled by interviews with
Palestinian refugees, Israeli military veterans,
Arab and Israeli citizens,
historians, a poet and an Arab-Israeli member of Parliament. These diverse
voices tell the history of the past five decades, illuminating the decisions
of individual leaders that created and continues to create the political
climate of this Middle East region. |
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In the late 1800s, 2,000 Jews, fleeing anti-Semitism,
settled in Palestine. Although the Arabs resented it, the occupying
British
rule nurtured the Jewish Zionist movement. In 1947, the British turned their
mandate over to the newly formed United Nations, which, in response to the
Holocaust and a call for a Jewish homeland, partitioned Palestine into two
independent states, one Jewish and one Arab. Jerusalem was to be an
international city. |
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Almost immediately armed bands of
Palestinians and Jewish
militia groups clashed with one another. The day after the
British
withdrew from Haifa, a prosperous port city with
Palestinian inhabitants, the Jewish militia attacked and overran the
Palestinian neighborhoods. Throughout the region a pattern of attacks and
retaliations emerged on both sides. In 1948, the State of Israel was
established and war between the new state and the Arab armed forces began,
only to end four weeks later with mass expulsions of Palestinian citizens.1948
(Al-Nakba) was a great big disaster for the
Palestinians many people until today is paying the price and just
effected of what had happened many lost there houses and there lands and
there money and this effected there lives and this case remains till today
the focal point between Israel and Palestine
and till today they are waiting for the day that will come again to get
back there houses and lands that was stolen from them by force. |
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