an eyewitness account of the war and peace in the Middle East
Bregman, Ahron
2000
Based on the public television series, this covers the Arab - Israeli conflict and its cycles of war, terrorism, negotiation and hope, which date back to the creation of Israel in 1948.
In 1924 British Palestine, Mark Bloomberg, a disillusioned London painter, arrives with his American wife and accidentally witnesses the murder of a prominent Orthodox Jew and becomes embroiled in an investigation which threatens both their marriage and their lives.
The vignettes of personalities in Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip give substance and veracity to complex and sensitive personal and political relations.
This stunning documentary takes an unsparing look at the ways words have shaped the experience of Jewish people, from the first century to the present - a revealing history of anti-Semitism with roots long before the Holocaust and branches that continue to sprout in surprising places today.