Middle East
HEN the first few of the BBC documentaries on the Middle East were broadcast here they were so new that they were still topical in every respect. Now they are nearly over, and events have far out-run them. But the background picture they give is_ still valid, and thoroughly frightening. The fervour of nationalist passions was aroused, at the time the programmes were made, mostly by Israel; and in this conflict, as in the several others, each side is sufficiently in the right for it to behave with a clear conscience as if it were wholly in the right-a most dangerous state to be in. I was not well informed about this area-which is the reason I have found these broadcasts so interesting-and I can’t say whether the picture is accurate or not. I can only say that it seems to be. The British point of view is stated, but not too obtrusively: people in the different countries do most of the talking themselves. No way out is shown; it almost seems
one of those historical situations which work themselves out inexorably while men look helplessly on. But at least no ‘one now has any excuse to be unaware of the complexities involved.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 891, 31 August 1956, Page 21
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205Middle East New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 891, 31 August 1956, Page 21
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