September 23, 2012

Indepenence and Catastrophe

Click on the links below to view the human repercussions of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War...

Palestinian Arab refugees (PalestineSpring, YouTube)
Middle Eastern Jewish refugees (DavidProject, YouTube)

What are your observations/reactions about the historiographic and ideological perspectives of these presentations? About their respective production values? About their intellectual and emotional impacts?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

They both portray the affects and aftermaths of wars and battles. If we looked at footage from WWI or WWII from either side, we would see similar things. A basis simply on the hardships of the peoples does not give us a better image of the issue in terms of resolving it. Both sides of battles have losers.
-Shaun