Saturday Night Cinema: Israel, Birth of a Nation

 

Saturday Night Cinema feature is a documentary, Israel: Birth of a Nation, made by the History Channel and one of our generation's leading scholars on the subject matter, Sir Martin Gilbert. The Muslim lies have become so pervasive and repeated that the truth is little known or spoken of. I recently finished Gilbert's In Ishmael's House: A History of Jews in Muslim Lands — if you are unfamilar with his work, start reading. Being here in the holy land, I thought it an appropriate choice.

This documentary made by the History Channel and Gilbert is a good introduction. Bear in mind, Arab is the euphemism for Muslim. And missing from this account is: 

the  Arab [Muslim] League's  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.

But it covers much history:

The legends of the stolen land and "ethnic cleansing" are hard if not impossible to support if you carefully step through the evidence presented here by one of the most respected English-speaking historians of the century.