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Hill 24 Doesnt Answer

• By Kimberly Cruse

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The Israel War of Independence

• The first large-scale assaults began on January
  9, 1948, when approximately 1,000 Arabs attacked
  Jewish communities in northern Palestine.
• The Arabs rejected the partition of Palestine and
  refused to set up the projected Arab state
• The British administration, then still governing
  Palestine under the Mandate, refused to carry out
  the recommendations of the United Nations to
  implement the partition plan.
• The British government made it plain that it
  would do all in its power to prevent the birth of
  the Jewish state.
• Britain announced that she would not -- and
  indeed, she did not -- carry out the orderly
  transfer of any functions to the Jewish
  authorities in the Interim before the end of the
  Mandate on May 15, 1948.

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The Israel War of Independence (Cont.)

• Immediately after the United Nations Assembly
  decision, the Palestine Arabs launched their
  preliminary ambush on the Jewish community
• The British Army gave them considerable cover and
  aid.
• It obstructed Jewish defense on the ground
• It blocked the movement of Jewish reinforcements
  and supplies to outlying settlements
• It opened the land frontiers for the entry of
  Arab soldiers from the neighboring Arab states
• It maintained a blockade in the Mediterranean and
  sealed the coast and ports

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The End of the Independence War

• Even after a strongly-worded Resolution of May
  29, 1948 ordering a four-week cease-fire, they
  went on fighting, and it took lengthy
  negotiations by the UN Mediator to bring the
  truce into force on June 11th.
• Towards the end of the four weeks, the Council
  appealed to the parties to prolong the truce.
• Israel responded, but the Arabs did not, and
  hostilities were resumed on July 9, 1948.
• The War proceeded through the rest of 1948 with a
  series of truces, frequently broken, to the
  negotiated agreements that ended the war in 1949.
  

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The End of the Independence War (Cont.)

• Fighting ended with a cease-fire January 7, 1949
• The War of Independence was formally terminated
  on July 20, 1949 with the signing of the
  Israel-Syria armistice agreement.
• Only Iraq did not sign an armistice agreement
  with Israel. It preferred to withdraw its troops
  and hand over its sector to the Arab Legion of
  Jordan.
• At the end of the War of Independence in 1949,
  Jerusalem was left divided, with a border running
  through the city and cutting neighborhoods,
  streets, even houses.

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Hill 24 Doesnt Answer

• Came out in 1955
• Israeli film
• Black and White
• 1 hour 45 minutes
• Directed by Thorold Dickinson
• Cast Edward Mulhare, Haya Harareet, Michael
  Shilo, Michael Wager, Shoshana Damari

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Hill 24 Doesnt Answer (Cont.)

• Based on stories by Zvi Kolitz, Hill 24 Doesn't
  Answer, is a series of episodes. A group of young
  soldiers, one woman and three men, (an American,
  a native-born Jew, an ex-member of the British
  protectorate and a Yemenite woman) has been
  assigned to secure one of the hilltops on the
  road to Jerusalem during the last hours of the
  War of Independence (1948), before the UN
  cease-fire comes into affect. The entire film is
  told as a flashback and therefore the viewer
  knows at the start that the four soldiers do not
  survive.

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• http//www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hill_24_doesnt_ans
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• http//www.jhvc.org/video_library/index.php?film_i
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• http//www.moviesunlimited.com/musite/product.asp?
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• http//www.jfw.at/alte_jahre/1998/body_givah_24_ei
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