The 50 Years War: Israel and the Arabs - Miniseries
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Air Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998
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1948-56
Season 1 - Episode 1
In 1948, the state of Israel was proclaimed. This episode recounts how the US, later Israel's greatest ally, came close to stopping the crea...
1967
Season 1 - Episode 2
Tracing the pattern of dramatic and covert events leading to the Six Day War of June 1967.
1967-1982
Season 1 - Episode 3
The Palestinian story, beginning with Yasser Arafat's first secret crossing of the River Jordan to launch raids on Israel and ending with hi...
1970-79
Season 1 - Episode 4
Israel was not prepared for the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War. Ex-US president Jimmy Carter recalls how, in 1978, he managed to broker the ...
1987-1991
Season 1 - Episode 5
The protracted search for peace was repeatedly sabotaged. The deadlock was finally broken by the Intifada - a Palestinian uprising in the oc...
1992-98
Season 1 - Episode 6
A series of cloak and-dagger manoeuvres sealed a historic first peace agreement between the Palestinians and Israel in September 1993.