Against All Odds - Israel Survives: The Complete First Season

Against All Odds - Israel Survives: The Complete First Season

Against All Odds - Israel Survives: The Complete First Season
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Artist: Artist Not Provided
Brand: QUESTAR INC
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 540 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-10-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: QD3680
Studio: Questar
Product features:
  • AGAINST ALL ODDS (DVD MOVIE)

DVD Reviews of Against All Odds - Israel Survives: The Complete First Season

DVD Review: The Modern Day Miracle of Israel Documented
Summary: 5 Stars

When the Roman General Vespasian and his son Titus smashed the city of Jerusalem and burned King Herod's (the Jewish) Temple, the Israelites (the Jews) ceased to be a nation. Those that survived were dispersed into the far reaches of the Roman Empire, a typical fate of any population that rebelled or defied the Roman government. The thinking was that a dispersed people would never again organize to rebel, and that they would cease to be identified as an ethnic group. Time alone would absorb them into the existing culture and forever erase their unique identity.

But is was not to be.

Israel returned as a nation on May 14, 1948, and many consider this to be a modern-day miracle. The reestablishment of Israel and its many battles with its hostile neighbors Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan, are documented in this 13-part series by Michael Greenspan. Greenspan uses each episode to document whether a "miracle" may have taken place in certain events in Israel's history. He documents Hitler's Holocost and how this led to international sympathy for a Jewish state. He shows how the British Empire tried to suppress the establishment of the new state of Israel, and how the Jews drove Great Britian out of Israel. He documents in horrific detail the life of an Israeli woman spy who was captured in Lebanon and tortured in prision, and then later miraculously released (my favorite episode). Greenspan tells the story of the establishment of the nation of Israel in 1948, the 1956 war with Egypt and Syria, the 6-day war in 1967, and the surprise Yom Kippur war of 1973 where Israel was saved at the "last hour" by President Nixon's arms shipments. All these wars stories are told from the perspective of certain individuals who encountered "miracle" conditions.

This is a compelling documentary. It is very well-done, mixing documentary information with dramatic reenactments of historical events. Greenspan does not directly answer his question of miracles, but leaves this up for the viewer to decide.

For anyone interested in the history of modern-day Israel, this is a most enlightening documentary that has faith implications as well as rich historical information.

I have enjoyed this series so very much, and have shared it with my friends. I intend on using it for a future Sunday School Class, as I believe that God has been, and is continuing to, supernaturally intervene in the history and future of the country of Israel.

Highly recommended.

Jim "Konedog" Koenig (avid reader of history)
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