Ten Days To War [DVD]

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And that's what we want to hear; THE TRUTH. Oh how different our view of Claire Short could have been. Ripley, Tim (2001). Conflict in the Balkans, 1991–2000. Osprey Publishing, p. 5. ISBN 1-84176-290-3 King Hussein had given control of his army to Egypt on 1 June, on which date Egyptian General Riad arrived in Amman to take control of the Jordanian military. [a]

All this is very dangerous on it's own for a News production, but coupled with the image created by its association with Newsnight, there is a great risk that what is simply OPINION may be interpreted as FACT. Ronan Bennett . . . keeps his well-known lefty sympathies out of the frame. He allows instead the sheer historic weight of events".

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It is us, the viewing public who are placing them on trial. In fact, how some of the lesser players are perceived and treated by others in their day-to-day lives may well depend on their honesty in these interviews. Seeing supposed 'events' happening before our eyes, even if identified as a dramatisation, is beguiling. It can lead to the belief that one has experienced something in fact, when all that has been seen is someone else's interpretation. This is justified in a different arena, but not in a programme which is supposedly a serious news programme.

During the late afternoon of 5 June, the Israelis launched an offensive to encircle Jerusalem, which lasted into the following day. During the night, they were supported by intense tank, artillery and mortar fire to soften up Jordanian positions. Searchlights placed atop the Labor Federation building, then the tallest in Israeli Jerusalem, exposed and blinded the Jordanians. The Jerusalem Brigade moved south of Jerusalem, while the mechanized Harel Brigade and 55th Paratroopers Brigade under Mordechai Gur encircled it from the north. [124]MiG-21, MiG-19, MiG-17, Su-7B, Tu-16, Il-28, Il-18, Il-14, An-12, Hawker Hunter used by Jordan and Iraq a b Bartolj, Jaka (29 July 2015). "For more than half a century, the Ljubljana Airport has served as Slovenia's window to the world". RTV SLO. There was extensive displacement of populations in the occupied territories: of about one million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, 280,000 to 325,000 were displaced from their homes. [36] Most of them settled in Jordan, [195] where they contributed to the growing unrest. [ citation needed] The other 700,000 [196] remained. In the Golan Heights, over 100,000 fled. [37] Israel allowed only the inhabitants of East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights to receive full Israeli citizenship, applying its law, administration and jurisdiction to these territories in 1967 and 1981, respectively. The vast majority of the populations in both territories declined to take citizenship. See also Israeli–Palestinian conflict and Golan Heights. It has also been claimed that the Soviet Union, in support of its Arab allies, used its naval strength in the Mediterranean to act as a major restraint on the US Navy. [182] [183] It's believed by some that the CIA are not above punishing foreign statesmen and women who it deems are working against American interests. In the 1950's the Canadian Ambassador, (Lester Norman), is widely believed to have been murdered by them, although officially he committed suicide - He fell from a multi-story building in Cairo; Yes I should think that's the preferred method of suicide the average Canadian politician would choose.