March 15, 1998 • 49m
In 1948, the state of Israel was proclaimed. This episode recounts how the US, later Israel's greatest ally, came close to stoppin...Read more
March 22, 1998 • 48m
Tracing the pattern of dramatic and covert events leading to the Six Day War of June 1967.
March 29, 1998 • 48m
The Palestinian story, beginning with Yasser Arafat's first secret crossing of the River Jordan to launch raids on Israel and endi...Read more
April 5, 1998 • 48m
Israel was not prepared for the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War. Ex-US president Jimmy Carter recalls how, in 1978, he managed to b...Read more
April 12, 1998 • 48m
The protracted search for peace was repeatedly sabotaged. The deadlock was finally broken by the Intifada - a Palestinian uprising...Read more
April 19, 1998 • 49m
A series of cloak and-dagger manoeuvres sealed a historic first peace agreement between the Palestinians and Israel in September 1993.