WATCH: Pillar Of Fire – The Jew Returns, The Arab Awakens (1896-1920)

Back in 1976, the Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA) started production on a documentary series on Zionism, motivated by the Yom Kippur War and the notorious 1975 UN General Assembly Resolution that compared Zionism to Racism. It took five years to make, with the supervision of five historians. The result? Pillars of Fire, one of the biggest productions ever undertaken on Israeli Television.

Pillars of Fire first aired in 1981 and ran for five months. The English version (which first aired in 1988) is narrated by famed actor Ian McKellen.

Here is part one of the English version of the series: The Jew Returns – The Arab Awakens (1896-1920).

https://youtu.be/RD_M1DIoIpo
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8 thoughts on “WATCH: Pillar Of Fire – The Jew Returns, The Arab Awakens (1896-1920)”

  1. Missing a few facts but, than this is the British version. The Sultan allowed purchases of large tracts of land by absentee landlords to the Jewish people this also caused both Arab hostility and immigration because the Jewish ownership wanted to buildup the land. The population in Jerselum was a Jewish majority not Arab which for some reason is always left out .

  2. Fasil might not have been given everything he wanted but he was definitely given a lot to rule, do not understand why that negates his deal with the Jewish leadership sounds like excuses to justify violence against the Jewish people.

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