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The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs

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The main decision-makers from Israel, the Arab states, Russia and the US tell the inside story of the Arab-Israel conflict.

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15th March 1998 - 19th April 1998
Producer
Norma Percy
Top Cast
Tim Pigott-Smith
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1948-56
15th March 1998

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 creation of the new state.

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1967
22nd March 1998

Episode 2

Tracing the pattern of dramatic and covert events leading to the Six Day War of June 1967.

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1967-1982
29th March 1998

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 his exile to Tunis.

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1970-79
5th April 1998

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 Arab-Israel agreement

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1987-1991
12th April 1998

Episode 5

The protracted search for peace was repeatedly sabotaged. The deadlock was finally broken by the Intifada - a Palestinian uprising in the occupied territories.

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1992-98
19th April 1998

Episode 6

A series of cloak and-dagger manoeuvres sealed a historic first peace agreement between the Palestinians and Israel in September 1993.