‘The British kindled the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They are to blame’

Armed British soldiers patrolling the old city of Jerusalem during the Arab riots, under the British Mandate, in 1936.

Armed British soldiers patrolling the old city of Jerusalem during the Arab riots, under the British Mandate, in 1936. Credit: Matson Eric

New Israeli series ‘The Birth of a Conflict’ goes back to the beginnings of the Jewish-Arab conflict and its creator tries to explain ‘why Bibi is an idiot, but the mufti was indeed a Nazi’

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Two years ago, the Jewish-Arab conflict now known as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict celebrated its 100th birthday – it all started with a pogrom by local Arabs in which six Jews were killed. “This isn’t a biblical conflict, despite what many Jews and Palestinians think. There’s a moment when it began,” says Yaron Niski, a writer and director as well as a producer for both film and television. And he’s unambiguous about who’s to blame for the conflict – the British.