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The Six Day War Paperback – 9 April 2014
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- Print length294 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication date9 April 2014
- Dimensions13.97 x 1.88 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-101782924361
- ISBN-13978-1782924364
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- Publisher : CB Creative Books (9 April 2014)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 294 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1782924361
- ISBN-13 : 978-1782924364
- Dimensions : 13.97 x 1.88 x 21.59 cm
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Though the terse war reporting of Winston Churchill ("The" Churchill's grandson - later to be a right wing Tory MP) from Israel seems factual as far as it goes, the objectivity is suspect (in the first chapter, the regular tit-for-tat attacks by both sides in the uneasy 10 year standoff after the Suez crisis are characterised as Israeli "punitive actions" versus Arab/Egyptian "terrorism"). I think both "younger" Churchills were of the "plague on both your houses" type - though their major criticism of the Arab side was their low opinion of Egypt's President Nasser; him giving short shrift to Britain's threadbare colonial ambitions when they tried to reassert them after WW2.
Inevitably, many of the long-gone characters and issues (notably America taking its eye off the ball as the domestic and military crisis of Vietnam had started to loom) seem archaic and almost quaint. The Labour Government of Harold Wilson comes under fire for being too pro-Israel, the assertion that the then Foreign Secretary, George Brown, could not do his job properly (a book of its own methinks) because his wife was a Jew being particularly jarring.
The account of the six-day war is still compelling - the massive build-up of Arab pressure through mobilisation of troops and blockades - what were 50000 Iraqi troops placed on the frontier, 13 miles from Tel-Aviv, doing other than preparing to invade? - the preemptive Israeli air strikes destroying the Egyptian Air Force on the ground - the immediate high speed armoured assault, and the comprehensive victory in days - the much vaunted Soviet MIGs and other arms proving vastly inferior to Israel's western armaments, particularly the French Mirage fighters - seemed so exhilarating to me (a 15 year old schoolboy) at the time, now much more equivocal in the light of what happened subsequently up until the present day.
Most interesting perhaps is an appendix giving some analysis of the BBC's coverage of the war (originally intended to be a comparison with ITN, this was scuppered as Randolph Churchill wasn't in the habit of watching the news on ITV!). My memory (of watching the news nightly as the action unrolled) must have been false as there was actually little TV filming available other than some Israeli Army propaganda footage. The immediacy of the conflict was transmitted by reporting of a host of reporters from those halcyon days of Panorama etc - even Michael Parkinson was there in Tel Aviv - but the peerless Michael Elkins, who scooped the news of the Israeli victory whilst the rest of the media were uncritically reporting the Egyptian propaganda that hundreds of planes had been shot down, stands out as the Voice of Jerusalem over twenty years for the BBC. All in all, a fascinating read - not least because the conniptions about whose fault the Palestinian/Israeli crisis is - are rendered irrelevant by the avalanche of on the one hand/on the other hand considerations any examination prompts.
The first chapter describes the background.
This book describes how Soviet agitation and fabricated intelligence helped to egg the Arabs on to surround Israel, make violent threats and mobilize massive troop movements on Israel's borders. The Arab powers, Egypt, Syria and Iraq had practically declared war on Israel before Nasser closed the Straights of Tiran, leading to Israel eventual reaction.
On May 26 1967 Nasser addressing the leaders of the Pan Arab Federation of Trade Unions said that the coming war would be ' it will be total and it's objective will be to destroy Israel".
PLO leader Ahmed Shukeiry said it was likely that the PLO would fire the first shot. If the Arabs conquered Israel the remaining Jews would be helped to 'return to their countries of origin' 'But my estimation is that none will survive'
This book details the massive advantage the Arab powers had in weaponry prior to the war which dwrafed Israel's capabilities making Israel's lightening victory such a miracle.
The main section of the book details the fighting both on the Sinai front and in Jerusalem and the West Bank i.e Judea and Samaria.
After the war the Churchill's quote Abba Eban when he pointed out that this was the first war in history in which 'on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for complete surrender (of the enemy)'
Ben-Gurion pointed out that Israel regretted the war becuase of the loss of human life despite the advantages she gained from the war, and also pointed out the importance of Hebron as the rightful inheritance of Israel, as while Jerusalem became Jewish three thousand years ago under King David, Hebron became Jewish four thousand years ago under Abraham.
Observer correspondent Colin Legum pointed out that '...few armies of occupation have behaved as well or with more friendliness that Israel's. This testament comes from ever Arab mayor I have talked to on the West Bank'.
An interesting section on the BBC's comprehensive coverage of the conflict which puts to shame today's gross propaganda against Israel by the BBC today.
The BBC has certainly deteriorated from the once worthy new organization it once was, to a far-left propaganda station

