Al nakba - Palestinian catastrophe - dispossession of Palestine by Israel - P2

Documentary on the forced exodus of Palestinians from their homeland, film produced by Al Jazeera in 2008, to mark 60 years since the founding of the state of Israel, underwritten by the United Nations, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

In the second video installment, how the United Nations made a complete hash of it, allowing hundreds of thousands --perhaps 700,000 people-- to be forced out of their homes and out of their homeland. On 29 November 1947, the UN General Assembly met to devise a plan for the partition of Palestine. UN Resolution 181 divided Palestine into an Arab and a Jewish state, with Jerusalem as an international city. The Jewish state was granted 56 percent of the land, previously considered part of the Palestinian homeland. Israeli paramilitaries seized yet more land with impunity.

Swedish diplomat Count Folke Bernadotte was appointed as the UN Mediator in Palestine. On 17 September, 1948, the day following his UN report, Count Bernadotte was assassinated in Jerusalem, by members of the Jewish Stern gang.

Arab, Israeli and Western intellectuals, historians and eye-witnesses provide the central narrative which is accompanied by archive material and documents, many only recently released for the first time.Editor’s note: Since first running on Al Jazeera Arabic in 2008, this series has won Arab and international awards and has been well received at festivals throughout the world.

further details:
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/specialseries/2013/05/20135612348774619.html