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The use of stock footage from the era gives the viewer a “feel” for the times. Mr. Gilbert’s visits to some of the locations in which fighting took place was also interesting and I hope to visit some of these spots myself before I return to the United States.
Undoubtedly it’s difficult to adequately describe the history of any nation’s birth in one 50 minute documentary. The History Channel and Sir Martin Gilbert made a creditable attempt. Yet, the overall result is disappointing.
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As another reviewer mentioned, the film is too much comprised of historical footage major War of Independence battles–from before the Nov. 29, 1947 United Nations partition vote, before and after Israel’s May 14, 1948 Declaration of Statehood, through the February, March, April and July 1949 Armistice agreements and their aftermath.
The film includes interviews with retired Jewish defenders and survivors of massacres at Kfar Etzion, Mount Scopus (Hadassah Hospital medical convoy, Apr. 13, 1948), Sha’ar HaGai and Yad Mordechai. There is also wonderful 1949 footage of post-war Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and so on shot by Briton Bernard Beecham, who visited specifically to document life in Israel’s first days as a sovereign state.
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On the down side, the only Arab archival footage was reportedly staged anti-Israel military propaganda. This seems imbalanced.
There are also 1948 clips of Galilee Druze and Negev Bedouins who look happy to have accepted Jewish sovereignty.
But viewers miss any adequate Arab League political or Islamic theological explanations for the refusal to accept a new Arab state alongside the Jewish one. There’s only the demand of Transjordanian King Abdullah I–that Israel submit to Muslim rule, or face war.
Also missing are any extant archival radio or news clips of Arab exhortations to flee–or destruction of Israel. Possibly only the news clips survive, but the documentary missed an important opportunity to air them.
Finally, while Jewish immigration from Arab nations is mentioned in passing, the forced exodus of nearly one million Jews from Arab and Muslim nations is not reported here, nor is Israel’s absorption of their vast majority. That’s unfortunate, since Middle Eastern Jews had lived in Arab and Muslim countries for thousands of years, in the case of Iraq, since long before the coming of Christ.
Birth of a Nation tries, but doesn’t adequately present the intricacies of Israel’s founding.
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