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’
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.
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