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This meant the creation of the jews. people danced in the street. children gave flowers to the british soldiers. this was a dream come true for the jews all over the world suddenly we have a jewish state. >> bengorian was not celebrating fw because he knew the war is coming. on the palestinian side it was viewed as unfair. there were protests and uprising and violence and both sides started to prepare for the outcome which was war and more bloodshed. they turned their focus to the palestinian co...

>> and you make people laugh, not only at you but themselves. >> but everyone will think i am weird. jerusalem is the universe city, the chosen city, the holy city. thats its blessing but it also gives its danger and its uglugl ugliness, too. it means that people must believe they possess it absolutely. the palestinians really conflict

Prime minister. ben gurion was very happy. there was no time or opportunity of reflection. and, so on may 15th, five arab states declared war against israel. egypt, lebanon and iraq and trans jordan. they all wanted for themselves. king abdullah was the first to lead an invasion. jerusalem under sieged was very democra dramatic for the people living there, they did not have enough to drink or eat.

Speech in chicago. >> if you want to see 800,000 jews die, thats your choice if we have to fight sticks and rocks because you dont buy us weapons and she raised $50 million. by the time she travels back to jerusalem, mayir surpassed all ex expectations. they bought guns and ammunitions and they armed the entire community. you are talking about people who came off the boat on tuesday out of darkdarkness. >> despite his best effort, bengorian knows shes greatly

750,000 became displaced by the 1948 war. you are talking about two-thirds of the population becominging displaced. it is a moment of history that the palestinians never emerged from. >> the city of jerusalem is divided in an eastern part and the western part, it is not a wall but it is barbed wire but you cant cross it. the real symbolic places were part of jordan. >> jews were deprived access to their holy religious place, the western walls. and i think introduces an element of tension and per...

There were no representatives at the u.n., there were no former lead leadership. you had leaders speaking but not speaking within the palestinian community itself. all the while you have the outside actors making decisions on behalf of palestinians did not take their interests at heart. united nation votes for a palestinian arab state in palestine. they draw unrealistic partition of the country. >> it is decision on what to do in palestine to cut the baby in half. >> the partition plan separated...

Western palestine. it was a great territory allocated by the u.n. >> the palestinian state did not exist because jordan and egypt grabbed these pieces for themselves. egypt controls the gaza trip and transjordan controls the west bank. and now abdullah takes the west bank and jerusalem. the old city we know was placed into jordan. >> never been filmed before. we see king abdullah. >> abdullan continues to rule transjordan until he was

They set their site on jerusalem central. >> that was the heart of all social activities in jerusalem. >> king david represented the future of jerusalem. and the british carefully chose to have their headquarter there. >> on july 22nd, 1946, operatives fairy these very large milk turns into the building. inside a half dozen of the milk churns were high explosives. they set a timer and left. and 91 person were killed, majority of whom were palestinians. the attack on the king david hotel was noth...

It is been two decades since the end of the first world war. and while another global conflict looms on the horizon, jerusalem is already in chaos. the british continued to control the holy city through a system known as the mandate. the mandate system was a way british were going to be able to colonize palestine without calling it colonization. the british played everybody to their advantage. they told the jews you want a home and palestine, here is your land. they toll d the arabs, you wanto b...

That we are experiencing today. you see it experienced in jerusalem for thousands of years. for the jews, solomon built the holly temple. for muslims, jerusalem is where prophet mohammed made the journey. >> no other individuals changed the landscape in the way herod the great did. >> solodyn determined to take on the christians. >> at a time of islamic rule, the british wanted to control the holy land.