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EXODUS 1947

“The Founding of Israel”

Family Content: -1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.

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EXODUS 1947 is a documentary on the massive illegal immigration effort by the Jewish underground group, Haganah, in 1947 in order to break the back of British rule in Palestine and to help create the modern nation of Israel. In 1947, the Haganah bought the 330-foot flagship “President Warfield” and converted it to carry 4554 Jewish WWII Holocaust survivors to Palestine. The British rulers of Palestine intercepted the unarmed vessel, seized it and shipped the refugees back to Germany. The ensuing worldwide outrage forced the British to give up control of Palestine. A new, divided state of Israelis and Arabs was formed.

Although the filmmakers argue their cases for the illegal immigration of Holocaust survivors very convincingly, the Bible teaches against civil disobedience unless the ruling authority is violating God’s Law. Was civil disobedience the best way to help the Jews get their own land in Palestine? When Jesus was questioned about whether to pay taxes to the grossly oppressive Roman government, He replied, “Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and to God the things which are God’s.” (Mark 12:17) With a powerful and well-written script, Morley Safer’s narration is subtle, professional, and convincing. Understated, home movie footage and fuzzy black and white still shots of the era add to the authenticity.

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(Ro, L, AB, N, PC, V, B, AB) Romantic worldview of the goodness of individual man & the evil of civilization & government with a mock blessing of a crowd as if by Jesus Christ; 2 obscenities & 2 profanities; brief still shots of Holocaust skeleton in oven & men fight aboard ship; naturalistic nudity; and, politically correct doctrine of unrestricted immigration, biblical ideals of Jewish immigrants coming back to their Promised Land and Anti-biblical elements of civil disobedience

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EXODUS 1947 is a documentary on the massive illegal immigration effort by the Jewish underground group, Haganah, in 1947 in order to break the back of British rule in Palestine and to help create the modern nation of Israel. In 1947, the Haganah bought the 330-foot flagship “President Warfield” and converted it to carry 4554 Jewish WWII Holocaust survivors to Palestine. The British rulers of Palestine intercepted the unarmed vessel, seized it and shipped the refugees back to Germany. The ensuing worldwide outrage forced the British to give up control of Palestine. A new, divided state of Israelis and Arabs was formed.
Although the filmmakers argue their cases for the illegal immigration of Holocaust survivors very convincingly, the Bible teaches against civil disobedience unless the ruling authority is violating God’s Law. Was civil disobedience the best way to help the Jews get their own land in Palestine? When Jesus was questioned about whether to pay taxes to the grossly oppressive Roman government, He replied, “Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and to God the things which are God’s.” (Mark 12:17) With a powerful and well-written script, Morley Safer’s narration is subtle, professional, and convincing. Understated, home movie footage and fuzzy black and white still shots of the era add to the authenticity.