Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (510 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000CRSF3K |
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| Number of Pages | : | 452 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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From Publishers Weekly This is the most complete history to date of the Six Day War of 1967, in which Israel entered and began its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Oren notes that some initiatives for peace did in fact develop. The military risk to Israel was unacceptable, Oren makes clear, in the context of a U.S. The Six Day War shook that confidence, he finds, but did not alter the commitment. Further, Six Days of War is an attack on "post-Zionism": the school of politics and history that casts Israel as the author of policies that intentionally promote the destuction of Palestine as a separate entity and of Palestinians as a people, not least through the occupation that began with the 1967 War. As Prime Minister Levi Eshkol held the Israeli Defense Forces in check that May, Operation Dawn,
Logibear6Six Days of war is a well rounded account of one of the pivotal wars in the middle-east Logibear64 Oren's Six Days of war is an excellent account of the series of events from within the governments of Egypt and Israel that led to the disastrous (for the Arabs) war of 1967. Oren shows how the war began as a result of misinformation and misunderstandings by both sides. The big . said Six Days of war is a well rounded account of one of the pivotal wars in the middle-east. Oren's Six Days of war is an excellent account of the series of events from within the governments of Egypt and Israel that led to the disastrous (for the Arabs) war of 1967. Oren shows how the war began as a result of misinformation and misunderstandings by both sides. The big . Brilliant and mesmerizing Phillip Rohlin I seldom read a book twice. I never read a book twice without some time intervening. With this book, I broke both rules. The book takes you into the heart of the war and immediately provides context. The context lets you understand why it occurred. The strategic feints and preem. "Informative but rather dry statistics and political backgrounding of the" according to Royce J Stilson. Informative but rather dry statistics and political backgrounding of the Mideast players stating with Nassar; most informative was the cost to Israel in lives lost and political capital. I was surprised and saddened to learn how many of Israel's young military people had died wh
The Yom Kippur War, the war in Lebanon, the Camp David accords, the controversy over Jerusalem and Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the intifada, and the rise of Palestinian terror are all part of the outcome of those six days of intense Arab-Israeli fighting in the summer of 1967. In the Arab world, it is known as the June War, or simply as "the Setback." Never has a conflict so short, unforeseen, and largely unwanted by both sides so transformed the world. A towering work of history and an enthralling human narrative, Six Days of War is the most important book on the Middle East conflict to appear in a generation.. Oren spotlights all the participants--Arab, Israeli, Soviet, and American--that were involved in this earth-shaking clash. Wri