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The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs

Series 1

1948-56

Duration: 49 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

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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. Made in 1998.

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