{"id":5154,"date":"2026-04-29T07:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T07:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-birth-of-israel-2008-bbc-documentary-israel-israelconflict-israellife-middleeast-history\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T07:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T07:15:10","slug":"the-birth-of-israel-2008-bbc-documentary-israel-israelconflict-israellife-middleeast-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-birth-of-israel-2008-bbc-documentary-israel-israelconflict-israellife-middleeast-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The Birth of Israel 2008 BBC Documentary #israel #israelconflict #israellife #middleeast #history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/11Mjjf3lIm0?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>The Birth of Israel 2008 Documentary:<\/p>\n<p>Documentary examining the the events leading up to the Israeli war of Independence in 1949, its continuing impact on Arab\/Israeli relations and the implications for the Middle East peace process.<\/p>\n<p>Sixty years ago Israel established itself in the wake of the British Mandate of Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>For the Palestinians, expelled from their homes in the process, the Israeli War of Independence is still known as The Catastrophe (al-Nakba).<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Bowen, the BBC&#8217;s Middle East editor examines the events leading up to the conflict, the war itself and the lasting legacy for the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>#israel<br \/>\n#israelconflict<br \/>\n#israellife<br \/>\n#israelpalestineconflict<br \/>\n#israelites<br \/>\n#israelunitedinchrist<br \/>\n#bbcdocumentry<br \/>\n#documentary<br \/>\n#historyfacts<br \/>\n#history<br \/>\n#middleeast<br \/>\n#palestine<br \/>\n#gaza<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=11Mjjf3lIm0\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Birth of Israel 2008 Documentary: Documentary examining the the events leading up to the Israeli war of Independence in 1949, its continuing impact on Arab\/Israeli relations and the implications for the Middle East peace process. Sixty years ago Israel established itself in the wake of the British Mandate of Palestine. For the Palestinians, expelled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4155150830,"featured_media":5155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10114,10111,10112,10113,10117,10109,10123,369,10122,10115,1858,10118,10116,10120,8939,10121,10124,10108,10110,10119],"class_list":["post-5154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-historyfacts","tag-israelconflict","tag-israellife","tag-middleeast","tag-14-may-1948","tag-10109","tag-a-middle-eastern-country","tag-bbc-documentary","tag-first-arab-israeli-war","tag-independence-in-1949","tag-israel","tag-israel-declared-its-establishment-on-14-may-1948","tag-israeli-war","tag-on-15-may-1948","tag-tel-aviv","tag-the-armies-of-five-neighboring-arab-states-invaded-the-area-of-the-former-mandatory-palestine","tag-the-biblical-holy-land","tag-the-birth-of-israel","tag-the-birth-of-israel-2008-documentary","tag-the-day-the-british-terminated-the-mandate","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4155150830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}