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Forty Junes ago: the Six Day War marked a terrible turn.(Viewpoint essay)

National Review

| June 11, 2007 | Pryce-Jones, David | COPYRIGHT 2007 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

THE Six Day War that broke out on June 5, 1967, just 40 years ago, appeared at the time to be another episode in the ongoing Cold War, alarming but not quite so fraught as the Cuban Missile Crisis five years previously. Out of the blue that April, the Soviet Union accused Israel of mobilizing for an invasion of Syria. There was no truth in the accusation, but Soviet officials, including embassy staff on the spot in Israel, persisted. The lie had the long-term effect of shifting the political scene internationally, leaving the Arab-Israeli conflict virtually insoluble, and dividing Muslims from non-Muslims, and Left from Right everywhere. Here is one of the taproots of the ...

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