History of the West Bank since 1947

INA00644

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History of the West Bank since 1947

Collection title

Seven days of the world

INA00644

Source

INA (FR)

First broadcast date

05/10/1963

Production year

1963

Abstract

At the time of this story, The West Bank, which was annexed by Transjordan since 1949, is part of Jordan, where 900,000 Palestinians, victims of the 1947 Israeli-Arab conflict have found refuge. Historical background of this situation, illustrated by images of riots in Amman, a map and pictures of Palestinian refugees living in the West Bank.

Type

video

Production companies

ORTF - Own production

Broadcaster

ORTF

Audiovisual form

Magazine

Primary theme

Contemporary historical challenges 19th-20th c.

Secondary themes

Society and way of life / Migrations

Credits / Cast

Sablier Edouard - Journalist

Period of events

From 1925 to 1950

Map locations

Jordan - Transjordan Plateau - Amman
Palestine - West bank

Original language

French

Media running time

1m45

Transcript

- silence

- The entire world is looking at Jordan worrily.

- Every time riots such as those explode in the streets of Aman, the peace in the Middle East is threatened.

- The reasons for this war danger, only a map is needed to understand them.

- In 1947, after England that abandoned its mandate to Palestine, the UN decides to split this country into 2 states,

- a Jewish one and a Muslim one, this one picured by those 3 black stains.

- The Jew accept, the Muslim countries refuse and the year after they invade Palestine.

- Israel pushes them back, everywhere, except in a zone that troops from Transjordan occupy.

- This zone where the Arab refugees gather will be annexed by Transjordan and will make with it the new kingdom of Jordan.

- And it is in this zone that the tragedy of the Middle East has been brewing for 15 years.

- 900,000 refugees, twice the Jordan population,

- it also is people that has been living from international charity for 15 years, UN founds financed by the Americans,

- the Canadians, the English, the French, provide for the needs of those unprivileged people.

- Those refugees could have started a new life somewhere else, found a job in Iraq, in Syria, some countries that are desperately lacking workforce,

- but they refuse, and Syria, Iraq, all the Arab countries support them to refuse.

- Because it is essential that to the world this million of men remains as a living reproach for Israel, as much as for the great powers who accepted it.

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History of the West Bank since 1947

History of the West Bank since 1947

- silence

- The entire world is looking at Jordan worrily.

- Every time riots such as those explode in the streets of Aman, the peace in the Middle East is threatened.

- The reasons for this war danger, only a map is needed to understand them.

- In 1947, after England that abandoned its mandate to Palestine, the UN decides to split this country into 2 states,

- a Jewish one and a Muslim one, this one picured by those 3 black stains.

- The Jew accept, the Muslim countries refuse and the year after they invade Palestine.

- Israel pushes them back, everywhere, except in a zone that troops from Transjordan occupy.

- This zone where the Arab refugees gather will be annexed by Transjordan and will make with it the new kingdom of Jordan.

- And it is in this zone that the tragedy of the Middle East has been brewing for 15 years.

- 900,000 refugees, twice the Jordan population,

- it also is people that has been living from international charity for 15 years, UN founds financed by the Americans,

- the Canadians, the English, the French, provide for the needs of those unprivileged people.

- Those refugees could have started a new life somewhere else, found a job in Iraq, in Syria, some countries that are desperately lacking workforce,

- but they refuse, and Syria, Iraq, all the Arab countries support them to refuse.

- Because it is essential that to the world this million of men remains as a living reproach for Israel, as much as for the great powers who accepted it.

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