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PBS is committing
two nights and five
hours to an engrossing
six-part documentary,
"The 50 Years War:
Israel and the Arabs,"
which was first aired in
Britain last March. The
program airs on
WTVS-Channel 56 9-
11:30 p.m. Sunday and
Monday, Jan. 24-25.
For any filmmaker,
it would be a daunting
task to take on the
entire history of the
Israeli/Arab conflict,
from the 1947 parti-
tion of Palestine into
Jewish and Arab states
up to the present day.
It is no wonder that
it took the producers
of the award-winning
"Yugoslavia: Death of a
Nation" two years to
complete "The 50
Years War. "No other
documentary has
"The 50 Years War: Israel and the Arabs," a two-part
interviewed so many
PBS television special, chronicles one of history's most bit-
of the major protago-
ter and enduring struggles. Here, Israeli Head of Central
Command Uzi Narkiss, le; fi- Defense Minister Moshe
nists," says executive
Da an, center; and Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin, right,
producer Zvi Dor-
enter the Old City after winning the battle for Jerusalem
Ner. "And never
during the Six-Day War.
before have they
talked so candidly."
Many of the facts
views with many of the leading states-
and events presented in "The 50 Years
men, generals, terrorists and other par-
War" will already be familiar to most
ticipants in the major events of the
viewers. What makes the series so
past 50 years. They include a first
engrossing, however, is its full sweep of a
interview with Shams Badran, Egypt's
large historical arc that, when seen in its
war minister during the Six-Day War,
totality, plays like a drama of large pro-
who was thought to have died in
portions with dozens of subplots.
prison — until the producers of "The
We watch history unfold first in
50 Years War" located him and inter-
still photographs and in 16-mm black
viewed him in Europe, where he now
and white silent film with voice-overs,
works as an agricultural feed salesman.
then in sepia-toned color film with
The almost 100 participants who
sync sound, and then, finally, in mod-
talk on camera are a veritable who's
ern-day video straight from the
who of the entire conflict. They include
evening news and CNN.
U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton, George
The producers spared no expense in
Bush and Jimmy Carter; U.S. National
travel, filming on location in Israel,
Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski;
the Palestinian autonomous areas,
Israel Ambassador to the U.S. Moshe
Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, the
Arens; Clark Clifford, the late counsel
United States and in Russia. The
to President Truman; Israeli Ambas-
series features contemporary inter-
sador to the U.S. and Israel Foreign