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- [1976 - 1996] (Creation)
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Background Research-Programme 1'File containing photocopies of articles and sections from published works, and typescript notes relating events covered in Programme 1 of the documentary The Fifty Years War, Israel and the Arabs, for the years 1948-1956, including US recognition of the State of Israel; Israel's War of Independence; Palestinian refugees; attack on village of Deir Yassin; assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte, United Nations mediator (Sep 1948); the 'Lavon Affair', operations of Jewish underground movement in Egypt, (1950-1954); 'Gaza raid', Israeli attack of military outposts in Gaza, (Feb 1955); secret talks between Egyptian Abdul Rahman Sadeq and Israeli Ziamah Divon (1941); road to Suez War (1956). Language: English and Hebrew