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Elusive Peace: Israel and the Arabs

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I will keep this short and sweet. PBS puts out many great documentaries and this is one of them. It is a very well-done and thoroughly researched documentary containing interviews with many key participants. I was glued to my television for the entire 3 hours. My attention span usually doesn't last past 20 minutes. GET THIS DVD!!!!!!!

This DVD provides an exceptional look into the most recent peace process in the Middle East - it also gives insight into the main players and how they go about negotiating such a difficult process. The footage of the players that don't always make the mass media coverage is very in-depth and makes you feel like your there in the midst of the negotiations. Very detailed and fast moving at the same time - one cannot come away feeling more educated and informed about the trials and tribulations of this never ending story.

a detailed overview of the political process itself. almost without any mention of anything other than the process itself, i.e. terrorist attacks or wars. well done and detailed. pretty balanced and objective (surprisingly, I expected PBS to be a bit left-wing biased and to blame Israel).

"ELUSIVE PEACE FOLLOWS THE FRAUGHT HISTORY OF THE ARAB - ISRAELI peace process from 1999 - 2005.

President Clinton, Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Ministers Sharon and Barak, their generals, ministers and advisers --- and those behind the sucide bombs and assassinations --- reveal what happened behind closed doors as the peace talks failed and the violence of the inifada exploded....."
[from the back cover of DVD case]

Elusive Peace gives solid interviews with those who were involved in the efforts for peace between the Palestinians and Israelis. There is not much background info covered in the documentary but deals mainly with recent (1990-2005)developements in the conflict. Great dvd for those who have a knowledge of the conflict. Balanced and informitave.

for anyone who wants to relive the incidents this is the dvd to get , fair commentary with very good sequence of events thought the content itself is very dry but its presented here in a very entertaining manner