Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0168; The Problem of the Plo
- Episode Number
- S0168
- Episode
- The Problem of the Plo
- Producing Organization
- Southern Educational Communications Association
- South Carolina Educational Television Network
- Contributing Organization
- Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University (Stanford, California)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/514-1c1td9ns77
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- Description
- Episode Description
- We start out with a genial discussion of the meaning and evolution of political freedom (MTM: "In the West, when we have freedom of speech, press, assembly, habeas corpus, trial by jury, et cetera, these are the result of some four, five, six hundred years of evolution and revolution ... Now, in the Arab world, in Asia, in Africa, their modern life begins by the First World War.... And in sixty years the Arabs cannot attain the democratic institutions we have evolved in the West over four or five hundred years"). The gloves come off when we turn to the question whether Yasir Arafat is or is not a terrorist. MTM: "Well, let us give the Palestinians, who are now engaged in this horrible thing of terrorism, let us give them a thousand tanks. Let us give them five hundred Phantom jets." WFB: "Well, you can afford it. Why don't you?" MTM: "Let the U.S. give them." WFB: "Well, why?" MTM: "The United States has been giving these things to Israel, and I'm suggesting if the United States gave a thousand tanks to the Palestinians, five hundred airplanes to the Palestinians, then those Palestinians would never engage in such silly stupid terroristic acts and they will send their Phantom jets to destroy Tel Aviv, and good." Currently there is only a digitized transcript available for this episode.
- Series Description
- The television series Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. was a venue for debate and discussion on political, social, and philosophical issues with experts of the day. Firing Line broadcasts from 1966 through March 1971 were produced and syndicated by WOR-TV, a commercial station in New York, but some of them were also broadcast on noncommercial television stations. Starting in April 1971, Firing Line broadcasts were produced by the Southern Educational Communications Association, an arm of South Carolina Educational Television. Hoover Institution Library & Archives' Firing Line collection guide can be found at: https://www.hoover.org/library-archives/collections/firing-line.
- Date
- 1975-01-08
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Talk Show
- Topics
- Public Affairs
- Subjects
- East and West; Arab-Israeli conflict; Palestinian Arabs; Munazzamat al-Tahrir al-Filastiniyah; Civilization, Arab
- Rights
- Copyright held by Stanford University. This copy is provided for educational and research purposes only. No publication, further reproduction, or reuse of copies, beyond fair use, may be made without the express written permission of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives on behalf of Stanford University.
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Credits
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Guest: Mehdi, Mohammad Taki
Guest: Cowan, Paul
Guest: Lazarre, Jane
Guest: Stupp, Herbert
Host: Buckley, William F., Jr.
Producing Organization: Southern Educational Communications Association
Producing Organization: South Carolina Educational Television Network
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Stanford University
Identifier: 80040.41 (Hoover Institution)
Generation: Proxy
Duration: 1:00:00
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0168; The Problem of the Plo,” 1975-01-08, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed July 10, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-1c1td9ns77.
- MLA: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0168; The Problem of the Plo.” 1975-01-08. Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. July 10, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-1c1td9ns77>.
- APA: Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0168; The Problem of the Plo. Boston, MA: Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-1c1td9ns77