They won the war in six days. The peace? That's the real battle.
The Six Day War was a decisive victory for Israel. But many Israelis feel that something has gone wrong. On the war’s twentieth anniversary, Frontline finds a nation struggling with its image and its role as a democracy and reveals what has happened to the dream.
Direction
Bikel's unflinching access to Israeli soldiers and politicians.
Writing
Woodruff's narration cuts like a scalpel, no sugarcoating.
Director
Ofra Bikel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This aired during the First Intifada, making its warnings about occupation brutally prescient — viewers in 1987 were watching the future unfold.
Bikel, Israeli-born but BBC-trained, had rare access because she wasn't seen as foreign press — soldiers spoke freely to 'one of us' in ways they wouldn't to Americans.
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