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The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs

Series 1

1948-56

Duration: 49 minutes

on BBC Four

Available for years

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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