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Six Days of War

Michael Oren

Why did a war of only six days in nineteen sixty seven leave consequences that still shape the Middle East, and how did the crisis slide into it?

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Author
Michael Oren

Why read it

  • You will see how a crisis built, step by step, into a war over a matter of weeks
  • You will learn to check whether an account of a conflict leans toward one side
  • You will understand how an international crisis can catch even a great power's government off guard

Who it is for

  • Someone following Middle East news who wants the deep background
  • A diplomat or analyst studying how crises escalate
  • A student tired of partisan accounts of Arabs and Israelis

Contents

  1. A NOTE ON SOURCES AND SPELLINGS
  2. FOREWORD
  3. THE CONTEXT Arabs, Israelis, and the Great Powers, 1948 to 1966
  4. A Context Contrived
  5. The Impossible Peace
  6. Cold Wars/Hot Wars
  7. The Context Redux
  8. Out of the Icebox
  9. THE CATALYSTS Samu’ to Sinai
  10. Athanasius Contra Mundum
  11. The Syrian Sphinx
  12. Thirty Seconds over Damascus
  13. Improbable Duo
  14. Action and Reaction
  15. THE CRISIS Two Weeks in May
  16. Egypt Deliberates
  17. Eviction
  18. Israel Waits
  19. Closure
  20. Rabin Waits
  21. ‘Amer’s “Dawn”
  22. Eban Abroad
  23. En Route to Regatta
  24. Alone or Not Alone
  25. Enter Kosygin
  26. Sunset on Dawn
  27. Reprieve
  28. COUNTDOWN May 31 to June 4
  29. Eshkol’s Eclipse
  30. Every Possible Effort
  31. Dayan ex Machina
  32. Arab World Resurgent
  33. The Shortest Night
  34. THE WAR: DAY ONE, JUNE 5
  35. Israel’s air force strikes. The ground war begins. Jordan and Syria counterattack.
  36. Red Sheet over Sinai
  37. The “Whip” Cracks
  38. Diplomacy Stumbles
  39. THE WAR: DAY TWO, JUNE 6
  40. Israeli advances and Arab retreats. America on war and peace. “Big Lies” and cease-fires.
  41. The Charnel House
  42. Damascus and Jerusalem
  43. Battling for Cease-Fire
  44. Day Two: Denouement
  45. THE WAR: DAY THREE, JUNE 7
  46. The fateful battle for Jerusalem. Egypt’s “Curtain” torn. Soviet threats and American brainstorming.
  47. “The Curtain” Falls
  48. Brave New Worlds
  49. THE WAR: DAY FOUR, JUNE 8
  50. Israeli coups de grâce. A fatal accident. Nasser capitulates and the Syrians wait.
  51. The Golan Looms
  52. Anatomy of on Accident
  53. A Four-Day War?
  54. THE WAR: DAY FIVE, JUNE 9
  55. Showdown atop the Golan. Nasser attempts to resign. The UN resurgent and the Soviets riled. Israel’s constitutional crisis.
  56. Between Hammer and Pincer
  57. Curtain Call
  58. “Imperialist Pressures”
  59. THE WAR: DAY SIX, JUNE 10
  60. The Golan vanquished. Furtive maneuvers at the UN. Superpower saber-rattling. Visions of impending peace

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