08-01-2007, 10:36
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חבר מתאריך: 03.07.06
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מלחמת העצמאות לפי BBC
אתמול (7.1.07) היתה תוכנית ב-BBC PRIME במסגרת סידרה Days That Shook The World
הוצג בה שבן גוריון חיכה ורדף אחרי הכרה של ארה"ב ב-14 במאי.
להלן תקציר מאתר BBC:
The birth of Israel is a political thriller. At stake is not just the fate of the Jews, but the Palestinian Arabs and the whole of the Middle East. The roots of the conflict are deep and by 1948, very, very tangled. May 14, the incumbent British are eager to leave behind the constant terrorism and growing civil war between Arab and Jew. Midnight is the cut-off point. As the Brits pack up this Sabbath Friday, both sides rush to fill the void. For Prime minister in waiting, David Ben Gurion, it is a race against time to get his fledgling nation declared and above all internationally recognised by the time the British are gone.
The armies of four Arab nations wait at the border poised to invade the moment the Union Jack is down. Ben Gurion's one hope is that the United States will recognise his new state. Two days earlier there was a UN ceasefire on the table, and the Jewish cabinet's determination to ignore it and press ahead with declaration is a monumental gamble. Without recognition they cannot buy weapons and they will not survive, but with the backing of America, Ben Gurion knows they have a chance. Not for the last time, the fate of the Middle East will be decided in Washington.
All through the 14th, the clock ticks and the civil war rages. Jewish Kibbutzim fall and Palestinian towns are overrun. In Tel Aviv, the declaration of Independence is read in an atmosphere of muted triumph. But as Ben Gurion officially brings to an end 2000 years of Jewish exile, 5 miles down the road in Jaffa, Palestinian brothers Saeed and Hassan Al-Lughod are being forced from their home. Over the course of the next few days 750,000 fellow Palestinians will join them in exile. As the clock hits midnight, the Arab invasion begins, but Ben Gurion's gamble pays off. Truman signs his recognition, confounding his party, his country and the UN. In the early hours of May 15, as Ben Gurion broadcasts his thanks to the people of America, Arab bombs can be heard to fall on Tel Aviv. In these first few minutes of Israel's existence, the pattern is set for the next 55 years. And Counting.
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