The 50 Years War: Israel and the Arabs

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  • BBC Two
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  • Documentary History War

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Programme 1: 1948-56
Episode overview
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.
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Programme 2: 1967
Episode overview
Tracing the pattern of dramatic and covert events leading to the Six Day War of June 1967.
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Programme 3: 1967-1982
Episode overview
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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Programme 4: 1970-79
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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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Programme 5: 1987-1991
Episode overview
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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Programme 6: 1992-98
Episode overview
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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