The 50 Years War: Israel and the Arabs

  • Premiered: Mar 1998
  • Episodes: 6
  • Followers: 1
  • Ended
  • BBC Two
  • Sunday at 20
  • Documentary History War

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Season 1
1x1
Programme 1: 1948-56
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 15, 1998
Fifty years ago, the state of Israel was proclaimed in what had once been British-ruled Palestine. This episode recounts how the US, later Israel's greatest ally, came close to stopping the creation of the new state.
1x2
Programme 2: 1967
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 22, 1998
Tracing the pattern of dramatic and covert events leading to the Six Day War of June 1967.
1x3
Programme 3: 1967-1982
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 29, 1998
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.
1x4
Programme 4: 1970-79
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 05, 1998
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.
1x5
Programme 5: 1987-1991
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 12, 1998
The protracted search for peace was repeatedly sabotaged. The deadlock was finally broken by the Intifada - a Palestinian uprising in the occupied territories.
1x6 Show finale
Programme 6: 1992-98
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 19, 1998
A series of cloak and-dagger manoeuvres sealed a historic first peace agreement between the Palestinians and Israel in September 1993.

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