Promises & Betrayals: Britain and the Struggle for the Holy Land (TV Movie 2002) Poster

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9/10
Honesty is the best policy
DrD322 May 2021
Fairly accurate documentary, except for the fact that they didn't go far enough into the wheeling and dealing and scheming and stealing by the sinister group behind the continued malicious madness we still see today. Albert Einstein was spot on when he stated in a letter published by the New York Times in 1948 that Zionists "have preached an admixture of ultra-nationalism, religious mysticism, and racial superiority."
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1/10
Misleading premise
luiseriesco-900343 July 2020
The main thesis of this documentary is that a broken promises was the cause of the angriness of the arabs towards Israel and Britain, this is ridiculous as it was the british who defeat the otomans, the arabs have never managed to make their own country, still today they are in the middle of lots of civil war and coups, all of this because of the tribalistic mindset, not the civilization mindset, instead of the mindset of respecting other, dialogue, speaking, hard work, enterprise, entrepreneurship, business, education, open mind, instead, violence, stealing, cheating, lazy. The arabs lived under the rule of the Otoman Empire, the arabs wanted their independence, but they never managed to achieve anything, they didn't build industry, education, they didn made it, and in First World War, Britain fought for them, when the war has finish they received for free their freedom, so for this made a lo of sense that the arabs fought, because it's their freedom to win, not only with that Britain paid them 10 millions of euros per month. Is it fair that the british people die for the arabs? No, it's unfair. So even the promise of a united arab country was not deliver the reality was that the arabs were asking too much, and their effort to war was less than 1% in the war, without Britain and France they would have never managed to free themselves. The arabs should be thankful towards western and Israel and instead, they had a revenge mindset, violence and terrorism, which is ungrateful.
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