This International Dateline episode includes three segments: Five Days in Gaza, Efraim Halevy Interview, and Trouble in Exile.
Five Days in Gaza
The veritable cauldron that is Palestine, Israel, and now Lebanon continues to heat up — particularly since Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called the capture of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah an "act of war" and warned that "a heavy price" will be paid for their kidnapping. For the first time since "Operation Summer Rains" began in Gaza a few weeks ago, the Israeli Army entered the central part of the strip. At the same time, Israeli jets bombed the home of the leader of Hamas' military wing, provoking Hamas to warn that their reaction to the air strike would be "strong and painful." Dateline's Thom Cookes has been on the ground with the Palestinians in Gaza.
Efraim Halevy Interview
For an Israeli point-of-view, Dateline spoke with Efriam Halevy, for 30 years an operative with Israel's intelligence agency, Mossad, and for five years, up until 2002, he was head of the agency. Mr. Halevy defends Israel's hardline approach to the Palestinian leadership, and under his Mossad reign Hamas leaders were selectively assassinated and Yasser Arafat, the former Palestinian leader, was kept under siege in his Ramallah compound. These days Mr. Halevy is head of the influential Center of Strategic and Policy Studies at the Hebrew University in Tel Aviv.
Trouble in Exile
For years now the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of almost 6 million Tibetans, has enjoyed a love affair with the West. Indeed by his own people - and also by Hollywood celebrities like Richard Gere and Steven Segal - he is regarded as a Buddha incarnate. But some younger Tibetans, it seems, are becoming increasingly frustrated by their leader's message of peace and love. They fear his non-confrontational approach ultimately brings them no closer to their own homeland. Dateline's Sophie McNeill spent time recently with some young, exiled and angry Tibetans.
About International Dateline
SBS Dateline, which began in 1984, is Australia's longest-running international current affairs program. It has a well-earned reputation for authoritative and incisive reporting. Dateline has taken the traditional way of producing TV current affairs and turned it on its head. Reporters who used to travel with a cameraperson and sound recordist now travel alone and have the responsibility of both filming and reporting their stories. The reporters became video-journalists, gaining access to people and places that the conventional camera crews cannot.
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