May 1948: The Battle for Jerusalem | Free Documentary History

May 1948: The Battle for Jerusalem | History Documentary Watch ’How Britain Started the Arab-Israeli Conflict’ here: One war, ten days, three stories: the Old City of Jerusalem, at the dawn of a new Middle East. For the Brits, it’s the shameful end of the 30-year Mandate. For the Jews, it’s the birthday of their State. And for the Palestinians, it’s a catastrophe. Only now, 60 years later, images can be shown from three opposing points of view, telling a whole new story. The events of the 1948 war of Jerusalem, which would lead to the founding of Israel, had been immortalized through the photographs of two war photographers, British and Palestinian. John Philip, the British photographer, was one of the first photojournalists in the world on the war in Jerusalem. His camera documents the Jews’ perspective, the evacuation of thousands of Jews from the Old City of Jerusalem. Philip captures, for Life Magazine, the destruction of t