Elusive peace 3

yesterday morning (tuesday 28th), 12.20-1.20am, on bbc 4 tv (repeated from 2005)

israel and the arabs – elusive peace (3rd of 3 episodes) (narrated by juliet stevenson)

“3. Sharon: The war in Iraq forces President Bush to court Arab allies. He needs to push Israel’s prime minister Ariel Sharon back toward peace – but Sharon moves the goalposts.”

including contributions from …

• binyamin ben eliezer

• alastair crooke

• mohammed abu hamid

• nabil shaath

• sheikh yassin

• sheikh rantissi

• mike herzog

• giora eiland

• flynt leverett

• marwan muasher

• colin powell

• binyamin ben eliezer

• ariel sharon

• ghassan khatib

• salam fayyad

• maie saraf

• eival gilady

• richard armitage

• mahmoud abbas

• shaul mofaz

• joseph lapid

• benjamin netanyahu

• mohammed dahlan

• ismail abu shenaz

• mohammed zaatri

• danny ayalon

Elusive peace 2

last monday evening (27th november), 11.20pm-12.20am, on bbc 4 tv (repeated from 2005)

israel and the arabs – elusive peace (2nd of 3 episodes) (narrated by juliet stevenson)

“2. Arafat: US Secretary of State Colin Powell tries to make peace between Israel and Palestine, but his efforts are derailed by his own hard-line colleagues and Yasser Arafat.”

including contributions from …

• shaul mofaz

• colin powell

• anthony zinni

• binyamin ben eliezer

• aaron david miller

• ariel sharon

• saeb erekat

• richard armitage

• mohammed abu hamid

• jibril rajoub

• giora eiland

• muama abu sheikh

• fatri khasib

• eival gilady

• danny ayalon

• abbas al sayyad

• shimon peres

• moshe tamir

• flynt leverett

• noam chayut

• yasser abed babbo

• benjamin netanyahu

• terje larsen

• prince saud al-faisal

Elusive peace 1

last monday evening (27th november), 10.20-11.20pm, on bbc 4 tv (repeated from 2005)

israel and the arabs – elusive peace (1st of 3 episodes) (narrated by juliet stevenson)

“1. Clinton: What happened behind closed doors at the Middle East Peace Summit at Camp David in 2000 – and the reasons why the talks reached an impasse.”

including contributions from …

• farouk al-shara

• madeleine albright

• interpreter bouthania shaaban

• martin indyk

• bill clinton

• robert malley

• interpreter gamal helal

• saeb erekat

• shlomo ben ami

• yasser arafat

• samuel berger

• ehud barak

• danny yatom

• gilead sher

• mohammed rashid

• mohammad dahlan

• israel hasson

• ariel sharon

• haj kamil, al aqsa guardian

• hubert vedrine

• jacques chirac

• nabil shaath

Elusive peace 0

last monday evening (27th november), 10.00-10.20pm, on bbc 4 tv 

israel and the arabs – elusive peace (narrated by juliet stevenson)

“0. Eyewitness to history: Norma Percy.

Film-maker Norma Percy looks back on her 2005 series The Elusive Peace, sharing memories of her encounters with key players like Bill Clinton, Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat.”

WH: Sharon visits al-Aqsa

this morning (wednesday 13th), 8.50-9.00am (repeated 12.50pm 6.50pm and 3.50am, and repeated from 2012), on bbc world service radio 

ariel sharon visits al-aqsa (presented by mike lanchin) (in the witness history series) 

“Rioting broke out in 2000 after the Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon made a controversial visit to the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s old city.

In 2012, Mike Lanchin spoke to an Israeli and a Palestinian who were there that day.”

including interviews with …

• cameraman khaled zighari

• diplomat zalman shoval

Nh/OS/PM: Ben Gvir on Temple Mount

this afternoon (tuesday 3rd), 2.06-2.16pm, 2.51-2.59pm, and 4.25-4.27pm, on bbc world service radio, and 5.24-5.28pm on bbc radio 4 

newshour (presented by razia iqbal) leads with, and bbc os (presented by james reynolds) and pm (presented by evan davis) include …

“Jerusalem Holy Site Visit Controversy:

There’s been condemnation of a visit to a compound in Jerusalem, by a far-right Israeli government minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir; the site is holy to both Jews and Muslims.

We look into the historical roots of the current tensions.”

including contributions from …

• activist mohammed abu al-hummus

• bbc reporter yolande knell 

• bernard wasserstein, author, divided jerusalem

(see also https://www.timesofisrael.com/jordan-accuses-ben-gvir-of-storming-al-aqsa-by-visiting-temple-mount/)

WH: Ariel Sharon at Al-Aqsa

yesterday morning (monday 17th), 3.50-4.00am (repeated 8.50am,12.50pm, and 6.50pm), on bbc world service radio 

when ariel sharon visited the al-aqsa compound (witnessed by • photographer khalid sigari and • former israeli ambassador to us zalman shoval, interviewed by mike lanchin) (in the witness history series)

“The controversial Israeli opposition leader visited the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem’s old city in 2000.

His appearance was followed by an upsurge in violence between Palestinians and Israelis.”

Witness: Sabra and Shatila

friday 15th september, 8.50-8.59am, on bbc world service radio
sabra and shatila – a massacre in lebanon (presented by louise hidalgo) (in the witness series)

“Dr Swee Ang treated the wounded in the basement of the only hospital in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon. She recalls the massacre there in September 1982.
Over the course of three days, Lebanese Christian militiamen killed and raped hundreds of the Palestinian inhabitants of Sabra and Shatila in Beirut in revenge for the assassination of their leader, Lebanese president elect, Bashir Gemayel.”

Newshour: Withdrawal from Gaza

this evening (saturday 15th), 9.49-9.54pm, on bbc world service radio (freeview channel 710 or 107)
newshour (presented by james menendez) includes …

“A decade later, how is the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza perceived in Israel?”

… interview with:
• anshel pfeffer of ha’aretz

When are we dead?

last wednesday evening (24th september), 7.32-8.00pm, on bbc world service radio (freeview channel 710 or 107)
when are we dead?: the entire programme is about israeli law and practice, including the law of the dying patient (episode 5 of 6 in the the truth about life and death series)