TagsTagsAt Words and War, rare photos of Israeli Air Force Readiness Bulletins from May 1967: Preparing for War Circa 1967. On June 8, 1967, exactly 40 years ago, I entered Old Jerusalem. Like the other soldiers around me, I had a sense of the monumental significance of the unfolding events. 2000 ...
On the anniversary of the Six Day War, Arab nations and organizations like the Arab League are whining at a fever pitch about how horrible everything is now, and how much better it would be if they’d been allowed to wipe out the Jews: Arabs blame problems on 1967 war ...
Reading TIME magazine’s account of the Six Day War, written in June 1967 shortly after it finished, is an amazing experience. The absence of cynicism and bias in this piece is a very marked contrast to the TIME magazine of today, and is a stark illustration of how deeply this ...
Charles Krauthammer has a great column today on the upcoming anniversary of the Six Day War: Prelude to the Six Days. There has hardly been a Middle East peace plan in the past 40 years — including the current Saudi version — that does not demand a return to the status ...