History Channel Pre State Jewish Insurgency
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C4 Narrator: Sir Ian McKellen
Between 4 and 5 on Tuesday morning, July 29, 1947, the A
C4 Narrator: Sir Ian McKellen
Between 4 and 5 on Tuesday morning, July 29, 1947, the Acre prison gallows were operated three times in quick succession. Avshalom Haviv, Yaakov Weiss and Meir Nakar, Irgun fighters who had participated in the May 4th prison break which set free 41 Irgun and Lehi ( Stern ) members from that same Acre prison, were hanged by Captain Clough. Thirteen hours later, at 6 p.m., in a disused diamond polishing workshop in Netanya, Amihai Paglin, Irgun operations chief, hanged Clifford Martin and Marvin Paice, soldiers in the British army in Mandatory Palestine. They had been held as hostages in a vain attempt to dissuade the British from applying the death sentence.
On the first day of July 1947, a small group of British soldiers, Jewish residents, and newspaper reporters was making its way through a thicket of eucalyptus trees at the outskirts of Netanya, a small town north of Tel-Aviv. They were searching the woods to find the dead bodies of two British sergeants, Clifford Martin and Marvyn Paice, who were killed several days earlier by the Etzel or Irgun, the National Military Organization a dissident Zionist underground movement. As they approached their target ,a horrifying sight appeared. The corpses of the two soldiers were hanging from a tree, their shirts covering their heads, dry blood that had dripped from their open mouths staining their close, and a short statement attached to their chests. The note explained that the two were executed after an Irgun court had heard them testify to their crimes and added that the two asked for pardon but the court rejected their plea. The note neither mentioned nor tried to hide the vengeful character of this deed. The execution of three Irgun members several days earlier by a British military court left little room for doubt.
Less than an hour after the corpses of the dead sergeants were found, Ben-Ami, the Mayor of Netanya distributed the following declaration to the press: "Of all the crimes that took place till this day on this land, this is the most grievous and disgusting one and will stain the purity of our peoples struggle for freedom. May this act of hanging remain as a sign of Cain on the doers of this disgraceful deed! The heavens and the earth are my witnesses", continued the Mayor, "that most of our population took desperate measures to free the hostages and prevent this shame. Ben-Ami was expressing, the mainstream response of the Yishuv (the Zionist establishment), which opposed the terrorist attacks of the Irgun not least out of fear for British retaliation.
For the Irgun, the killing of the two British sergeants had a different significance. It was clearly not an extraordinary crime of violence, but nor was it an ordinary attack against British military targets. The British soldiers were kidnapped in an attempt to deter the British authorities from executing three Irgun members who were caught during a previous operation the break-in to the most guarded prison-house in Akko and the release of its Jewish inmates.
The Irgun had good reason to hope that the British would yield to their demand to abolish the death penalty, as they did in the past, when a similar threat was posed. The kidnapping of the two British sergeants, however, did not have the expected impact. The reason is not fully clear, but it would seem that the British believed that the situation in Palestine was gradually getting out of control, and that they had to show a firm hand. The Irgun captives were thus executed despite the threat, and Martin and Paice were expected to pay the price. A grave decision was now facing the Irgun's leadership, but there was no real hesitation, it was clear that the execution of the sergeants would take place.
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C4's Mark of Cain (2007)
Directed by Marc Munden. With Gerard Kearns, Matthew McNulty,
C4's Mark of Cain (2007)
Directed by Marc Munden. With Gerard Kearns, Matthew McNulty, Leo Gregory.
The Mark of Cain is a British television film first broadcast in 2007 following three young men as they experience the extremity of war for the first time, and the permanent effects of what they have seen and done as they return from their tour of duty. Rather than heroic stories, all they bring home are tawdry trophy photos, as well as the secrets of what they really did, until the consequences of their actions surface to confront them.
The film's title comes from Royal Irish Regiment Colonel Tim Collins's eve-of-battle speech in Iraq in 2003.
Plot
The film begins with Private Shane Gulliver (Matthew McNulty) of the 1st Battalion, Northdale Rifles marching to a court martial. The film then cuts to Gulliver's arrival in Basra, Iraq with fellow soldier Mark Tate. Once there, they are briefed by their commanding officer, who tells them to treat the people of Iraq with respect. While on patrol the troops are ambushed by insurgents, and the men witness the death of their major whilst trying to rescue a Territorial Army private who is struck with shock while in a Land Rover and is incapable of taking cover. After this the troops receive reports that the insurgents came from a village nearby.
When the troops arrive in this village, they arrest several men suspected of being insurgents, and take them back to their base. Once there, they are told to leave the prisoners to the Royal Military Police (RMP), but due to their anger over the death of their major, they begin to beat, torture and sexually abuse them. When Corporal Gant orders a reluctant Tate to join the troops he refuses at first, but is bullied into helping them. During the torture, Gulliver takes some photographs
After the torture scene, we see as they arrive home, they resume their normal lives, during which Gulliver shows his girlfriend the pictures of the torture. After she discovers that he has been cheating on her, she reports him to the civilian police. Gant, Gulliver and Tate are subsequently arrested by the RMP.
Gant is fined, while the two privates are court martialed. Upon hearing this Tate kills himself. In the final scene of the films we see Gulliver's trial, he pleads guilty to all charges, but rather than solely take the blame he tells the court what Gant and the other soldiers did. When Gulliver is returned to his cell he is beaten by his fellow soldiers.
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The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs
PBS with the joint BBC-WGBH production traced
The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs
PBS with the joint BBC-WGBH production traced the turbulent events of the last half century since the founding of the modern nation of Israel.
Following in the footsteps of Palestinian historians such as Walid Khalidi of Harvard University and Shairf Kana'ana of Bir Zeit University in Ramallah, West Bank, they show that the massacre of Deir Yasin in 1948 was exaggerated by the Arab side. Rather than encourage resistance, this precipitated the flight of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians into neighbouring Arab countries.
As a result of this propaganda, Arab civilians panicked and fled by the tens of thousands. This was confirmed in the PBS documentary called The Fifty Years of War in which Deir Yassin survivors were interviewed. They testified that they had begged Dr. Hussein Khalidi, director of Voice of Palestine (the Palestinian radio station in East Jerusalem) to edit out the lies and fabrications of atrocities that never happened. He cynically exaggerated the casualties of the Deir Yassin battle, making up stories of gang rape, brutalizing of pregnant women, killing unborn children cut from their mothers' wombs by blood-thirsty Jews, and massive murders with bodies thrown into a nearby quarry.
In the PBS special, "The Fifty Years' War," and in the accompanying book by the same name, written by Jihan El-Tawri and Aaron Bregman, the lie for the greater good—"Al-Taqiya"—reappears, as an Arab eye-witness recalls:
The following morning the surviving villagers [after the battle] went to a meeting with the National Committee, the local Palestinian leadership in Jerusalem. It was up to the committee to decide how they should handle what had happened. Mahmoud [Mahmoud Assad Yassini] remembers that the survivors were asked to exaggerate some aspects of the terrible events: "When we arrived in Jerusalem, we were taken to a hotel near the Damascus gate. We started asking each other who had been killed, who was alive. Then the leaders of the National Committee arrived, including Dr. Hussein Fakhri Al-Khalidi [head of the National Committee in Jerusalem]. He invited some of us to his headquarters. He said: ' We want you to say that the Jews slaughtered people, committed atrocities, raped, and stole gold.' He said you have to say this so that the Arab [not Palestinian] armies will finally make a move and come to liberate Palestine from the Jews."
Hazem Nusseibah, a senior program assistant for the Palestine Broadcasting Corporation, was also contacted by the National Committee. "Dr. Hussein Khalidi phoned me," he remembers, "and said we must alert the Arab countries to what is happening. I was sure there were no rapes, but we were shaken by the events." Ironically, it was Nusseibah's broadcast exaggerating the atrocities that triggered the mass exodus of Palestinians [Arabs] from their homes. He recalls: "We transmitted Dr. Hussein Fakhri Al-Khalidi's statement mentioning rape and this and that. It had a devasting impact on everyone in Palestine, and the exodus began....It was the biggest blunder that could have happened."
Abu Tawkif and Abu Mahmoud resent the way these distortions of the truth led to Arabs fleeing their homes. Mahmoud observes, "Dr. Hussein Fakhri Al-Khalidi was the one who caused the catastrophe. Instead of working in our favor, the propaganda worked in favor of the Jews. Whole villages and towns fled because of what they heard had happened in Deir Yassin." And while relating the story on PBS, Hazem Nusseibah and Dr. Hussein Khalidi can be seen chuckling with one another about how wrong they were in creating the lie of Deir Yassin [which] definitely caused the Arab population to run away every time they thought a Jewish soldier was coming near.
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The Age of Terror (2002)
A 3BM Television (London) production, in association with Dis
The Age of Terror (2002)
A 3BM Television (London) production, in association with Discovery Europe
Directors Jon Blair, Dan Korn, Polly Williams
Narrator ........................ Tim Piggot-Smith
In effect Israel had set in train the model of the sort of terrorism that most of the world deplores.
Episode 1: In the Name of Liberation begins with an act that many consider the first real act "modern" terror - the bombing of the King David Hotel, and moves on to the struggles for independence by "terror" groups in Algeria, Malaysia and South Africa.
Stressing that "one society's freedom fighter is another's terrorist" the writer-directors uncover the uncomfortable post-modern truth that we live in a relative world, The series' message in the end is very much that of Ghandi: an elegy to the victims of violence perpetrated under many guises, and a finger pointed unwaveringly at those who would delude themselves into thi é§g they can justify what they have done.
Calling the King David hotel explosion 'the first terrorist attack of the 20th century' and generally treating the whole idea that Jews invented terrorism as indisputable fact.
The narrator stated categorically that the Jews were the first terrorists of the 20th century and said future terrorists learned from their example.
The Irgun copied Arab tactics after the 1939 White Paper when it saw violence could influened British policy.
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Narrator: Ian McKellen
July 22 1946 the KING DAVID HOTEL wing occupied by the British
Narrator: Ian McKellen
July 22 1946 the KING DAVID HOTEL wing occupied by the British civil-military authorities in Jerusalem was blown up killing 91 people -- 28 British, 41 Arabs, 17 Jews and 5 others. The Irgun carried out the attack and claimed responsibility.
Mr. Begin's Irgun took on the task of blowing up the King David, but only after warning the British so that they would evacuate the building. Adina Hay-Nissan, then a teen-age girl who moved easily as an Irgun courier, was given the job of calling inthe warning.
She recalled that she had waited for a long time outside the hotel until she got a signal that the charges were planted. Then she telephoned the British command from a pharmacy across the street, she said, and spoke first in English, then in Hebrew: ''This is the Hebrew resistance uprising. We planted bombs in the hotel. Please vacate it immediately. See, we warned you.''
Then, she said, she ran to King George Street and phoned the French Consulate, which was near the hotel. Then she went farther along and phoned The Palestine Post, a newspaper that is now The Jerusalem Post. She walked slowly up Jaffa Road, and as she passed a police station near the market at Mahane Yehuda, she recalled, ''I heard the big explosion.'' When she learned later that the British had ignored her warnings, she said, ''I was baffled; there we were, genuinely trying to save lives, and they took no heed.''
The British went out of their way to try and prove there had been no warning. They clung to this lie as if it were an article of faith, and hitched to it all the official propaganda machinery available to them in this country and abroad.
They carried on with this even after the British Forces newspaper in the Middle East, the Middle East Post, reported in its 23 July issue (the day after the explosion): "Fifteen minutes before the explosion, the telephonist of the King David Hotel received an anonymous tip-off, warning that the hotel was about to go up and she should run for her life."
It took the British a little longer - 33 years - to admit that a warning had been given by the IZL: Lord Janner, formerly president of the Zionist Federation and not a political ally of Begin, made a speech in the House of Lords on 22 May 1979, a speech absolving the IZL of responsibility for the heavy loss of life caused by the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in 1946. Ninety-one persons died in the King David Hotel explosion: 41 Arabs, 28 Britons, 17 Jews and five of other nationalities.
WHY DID Shaw not order the evacuation of the hotel?
Twenty-three years after the explosion - when he was interviewed for a Voice of Israel radio program - this was still a mystery to Begin: "...It didn't occur to them that we really had smuggled explosives into the hotel. As I've said before, it was a fortress, and it was hard for them to imagine us succeeding in penetrating the wire fence, evading the mobile patrols and the machine-gun emplacements and all the rest; and then there's the matter of the incendiary bomb outside, the one that preceded the main explosion - maybe they thought that was it, end of story! Perhaps they thought it was all a joke at their expense, meant as a blow to the prestige of the British government and the British empire; the Jews wanted to see the British ruling class running in panic from the hotel...They all should have gotten out, and what would it have mattered if it did turn out to be a false alarm, or just a smoke-bomb or something? If they assumed the warning wasn't serious and the intention was to humiliate them, that could explain why they preferred to stay put. And there's a third possibility: they were simply afraid to come out. Perhaps they thought we wanted to get them out of the fortress and into the open so we could ambush them. But of course these are only speculations. No one will know for certain, so long as Mr. Shaw declines to explain his reasons for not evacuating the hotel, despite the warning that was received."
Despite the bombing's importance, the contentious nature of the affair prevented the accurate recording of the chain of events leading up to it. The official account of the attack was not publicized by the Defense Ministry until the past few years. British accounts were kept confidential for 30 years, and to date some relevant documents remain closed in the British Foreign Office.
According to Neil Cobbett, of the British Public Record Office, certain documents pertaining to the bombing are kept closed because they may "cause distress to former members of the government, or personnel, or to public opinion."
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MURDERING FELLOW JEWS
- THE ALTALENA AFFAIR -
One of Rabin's proudest military moments
MURDERING FELLOW JEWS
- THE ALTALENA AFFAIR -
One of Rabin's proudest military moments came on June 22, 1948. Menachem Begin's Irgun, another Israeli military group, was in the midst of negotiating a pact with David Ben-Gurion under which Irgun would join the new Israeli Defense Force. Meanwhile, the Irgun had loaded a ship, the Altalena, with weapons and Jewish fighters (many of them Holocaust survivors) to join the IDF. Ben-Gurion ordered that the Altalena be fired upon. Rabin carried out his orders to the letter. Later, Rabin bragged how he had "bumped them off on the deck of the burning ship and while they were trying to swim to safety." Sixteen Jews were killed, many shot while swimming to shore.
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