not before it's time

Both My late father-in-law & Uncle were stationed in Haifa between 1945-1948 and had often regaled me with the state of affairs in this region at this time. On the whole, the series so far is very balanced and accurate, It was a very nasty period of history, and what used to annoy my FIL was that his colleagues efforts were never recognised by the British Government, in fact they seemed to have been erased from history so as not to upset the Americans or Israelis. To him, it seemed that the Government was embarrassed by this period of history and so ignored those who served in the British forces there.

I found the whole series so far very poignant, because it's like watching a film of all my FIL recollections. My FIL was not anti-Israeli or anti Jewish, however it upset him that the likes of the Stern and Irgun gang were feted as heroes by most of the successive Israeli governments. In fact at his wake we learned that his best friend was shot dead out there in front of him by a sniper whilst they were playing football. He was in a barbers shop down the road from the King David hotel when it went up. He recounted to me vividly the aftermath of the Deir-Yassin massacre initiated by Zionist terrorists in 1948 The behaviour of the Irgun gang at this atrocity was tantamount to that of the Nazis is not an understatement.

Yes, the Irgun and Stern gang were as brutal and vicious as they are portrayed. To say that they were freedom fighters is to say the IRA and al-Qaida are the same. We all know what the Palestinian terrorists have done so at least we are now seeing that both side played an equal part to the mess that is Israel/Palestine today.

For the record I am not anti Jewish and I support the existence of Israel, In fact I would support the Jews before I would the Muslims. However the creation of Israel could have been handled better by all sides.

This series should have been made years ago.