The 50 years war [videorecording] : Israel and the Arabs / a coproduction of WGBH, Boston and Brian Lapping Associates in association with BBC and La Sept/ARTE with additional production by WGBH ; producer/directors, Dai Richards ... [et al.].
Benjamin Netanyahu, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Shamir, King Hussein, Yasir Arafat, Hafez al-Assad, Jafaar Numeiry, Bill Clinton, George Bush, Jimmy Carter, and others. Originally produced as a television program in 1998. Book supplement: The fifty years war / by Afron Bregman and Jihan El-Tahri. Filmed in Israel, the Palestinian autonomous areas, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, the U.S., and Russia.
Contents:
pt. 1. Land divided, 1947-56 -- pt. 2. The six day war, 1967 -- pt. 3. Palestinian exiles, 1970-82 -- pt. 4. Peacemaking, 1970-79 -- pt. 5. Banging heads, 1987-91 -- pt. 6. Land divided, 1992-98.
Summary:
Begins with the 1947 UN decision to partition Palestine and continues to current day (1998). The film includes interviews and news clips of heads of state and other military and intelligence leaders. Traces history of Palestinian Liberation Organization.
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