The 50 Years War: Israel and the Arabs

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00:05:57 We wept, we hugged, we kissed.

00:12:01 I was kneeling down like this.

00:18:44 I was on the receiving end of Azam Pasha's impressions

00:24:14 which unlike the western powers

00:30:52 He was shocked, believe me

00:37:34 by striking Arab countries harboring infiltrators.

00:43:57 "that will destroy the Defense Ministry and army command.

00:51:10 He said Israeli troops were massing against Syria

00:58:17 I told them: "Until now I was not sure what was going to happen

01:03:26 But the Soviets warned the Egyptians

01:09:02 "Why are you afraid?"

01:15:16 As the Israeli bombers approached their targets

01:21:42 through the Americans to King Hussein

01:28:13 he phoned the Israeli ambassador to the UN instead.

01:33:59 and he wouldn't have that at all.

01:41:05 he Kingdom of Jordan would take the blow.

01:47:55 coming down at us, hitting the asphalt

01:54:10 Particularly with our Soviet friends at the time.

01:59:37 I got the authorization

02:05:21 We became now fighters, freedom fighters.

02:12:08 His Christian hosts sped him towards the battlefront.

02:18:01 Ariel Sharon had moved Israel's troops

400:00:00 Israel's role in the massacre.