1. Marcus Dysch,“Peter Kosminsky Says He Kept Promise,”Jewish Chronicle, January 24,2011, accessed January 13, 2012,www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/47277/peter-kosminsky-says-he-kept-promise.
2. Naomi Shepherd writes about the Irgun and the active part it took in planning and carrying out terror acts during the last years of the British Mandate in Palestine: “until 1944, although there were Jewish extremists who challenged the authority of the Jewish Agency, the administration had been able to live with—and make use of—the Hagana. But rival militias had been set up by right-wing Jewish political groups, who now called for open rebellion against their British rulers and targeted the Arabs and the British alike. The Jewish Agency had no control of these militias, chief among them the Irgun … and the breakaway Stern Gang. … From the time of the Arab Revolt, the Irgun had rejected the Jewish Agency's policy of restraint, carried out indiscriminate revenge bombings and killed Arabs. Now they raided RAF airfields, stole arms from military bases, killed British soldiers, and kidnapped British officers whom they held as hostages, hoping that death sentences on their own men would be commuted” (Naomi Shepherd,Ploughing Sand: British Rule in Palestine 1917–1948[London:John Murray,1999],223–224).
3. Rachel Cooke,“The Promise,”New Statesman, February 17,2011, accessed December 24, 2012,www.newstatesman.com/television/2011/02/israel-promise-eliza-palestine.
4. Of course, the fear of mixing blood was prevalent in colonial Europe as much as it is prevalent in modern-day Israel. As Yosefa Loshitzky argues, “stories of ‘forbidden love,’ dealing mainly with interracial romances, are a recurring theme in Western culture. European colonizers and their settler descendants have always been terrified by the prospect of miscegenation” (Yosefa Loshitzky,Identity Politics on the Israeli Screen[Austin:University of Texas Press,2001],113).