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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Tom Davidson

Shoshana review: Timely look at the birth of Israel doesn’t know what it wants to be

Palestine. Late 1930s. Efforts by a growing Jewish population in the region to form the state of Israel have seen terror attacks and bombings from both sides as local Arabs resist the recent influx of Jewish-Europeans fleeing an increasingly hostile central Europe, while the British desperately try to keep the peace.

Shoshana’s events are depressingly relevant once again, as the Israeli attacks on Gaza continue in response to the October 7 massacre by Hamas militants.

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