Al nakba - Palestinian catastrophe - dispossession of Palestine by Israel - P1

2014-07-30T23:11:41.013Z

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 first video installment, the British role is detailed, over the course of 30 years of British rule, explaining how the Jewish population in Palestine rose from only 50,000 in 1908 to 500,000 by 1948. On 19 April 1936, the Palestinians launched a national strike to protest against mass Jewish immigration into the Palestinian homeland and what they saw as Britain’s alliance with the Zionist movement. The British responded with force. During the six months of the strike, over 190 Palestinians were killed and more than 800 wounded.

As the Palestinian revolt continued, Britain’s response hardened. Between 1936 and 1937, the British killed over 1,000 Palestinians; and committed crimes such as ethnic cleansing and collective punishment.

In the face of Jewish terrorist attacks designed to hasten the departure of the British, attacks which killed some 37 British military police, the British eventually capitulated, abandoning their mandate over Palestine and handing it over the the United Nations.

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

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

2014-07-30T22:54:16.983Z

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

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