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12.PRO, FCO 17/507: Israel-Political Affairs (External): Tel Aviv to the Foreign Office, July 27, 1967; FCO 17/506: Tel Aviv to the Foreign Office, Sept. 13, 1967. Dayan quotes from Mayzel, Ha-Ma‘arakha al ha-Golan, pp. 381-82, and Gazit, pta’im be-Malkodet, p. 141.
13. ISA, 4078/5, Foreign Ministry files, contacts with the United States After the Six-Day War, North America Desk to Eban, June 26, 1967. Oral history interview with David Kimche, Aug. 26, 1999. Sadia Touval, The Peace-Brokers: Mediators in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948-1979 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982) pp. 134-53. See also article by Moshe Sasson at www.reserach.haifa.ac.il/~eshkol/peace. Susser, On Both Banks of the Jordan, p. 37.
14. LBJ, National Security Council file, History of the Middle East Crisis, box 18: McPherson to the President, June 11, 1967. PRO, PREM 13 1623: Tel Aviv to Foreign Office, Oct. 16, 1967. Eshkol quotes from FRUS, XX, Arab-Israeli Dispute, 1967-1968 (Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 2001), pp. 80, 82, 83, 87. Ha’aretz, Feb. 27, 1967. Ma‘ariv, Feb. 27, 1967. Oral history interview with Miriam Eshkol, Aug. 30, 1999. Arab reactions to Eshkol’s death, including Arafat quote, from Moshe Dayan Center Library, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel (translations of Arabic press).
15. Egyptian broadcasts in BBC, Daily Report, Middle East, Africa, and Western Europe, B 2 and 137. USNA Central Foreign Policy files, 1967-1969, POL Arab-Jordan, box 1844: Beirut to the Secretary of State, June 19, 1967; Beirut to the Secretary of State, July 30, 1967; USUN, box 6: USUN to the Secretary of State, June 27, 1967; Middle East Crisis files, 1967, box 1: Amman to the Secretary of State, June 10, 1967 (Nuseibeh quote). Feisal quote in PRO, PREM 13 1622: Jedda to Foreign Office, June 26, 1967. Nasser quote from Riad, Mudhakkirat 2, pp. 80-81.
16. Farid, Nasser, pp. 4-5, 11 (Podgorny quote), 24-47 (including Brezhnev quote). Heikal, Al-Infijar, pp. 777-91 (including Nasser quote “any concession…”). Fawzi, Harb al-Thalath Sanawat, pp. 193-97 Riad, The Struggle for Peace in the Middle East, pp. 42-50; Mudhakkirat 2, pp. 84-85, 97-98 (Nasser‘s “That which was taken by war” and “double defeat” quotes), pp. 110-15. Raphael Israeli, Man of Defiance: A Political Biography of Anwar Sadat (Totowa, N.J.: Barens and Noble, 1985), p. 42. PRO, FCO 39/ 233 UAR Internal Political Situation: Canadian Embassy, Cairo, to the Foreign Office, June 22, 1967. LBJ, National Security file, Memos to the President (W. Rostow), box 19: Goodpaster Memorandum for the Record, July 12, 1967. ISA, 4078/5, Foreign Ministry files, U.S.- Borders: Lourie to Foreign Ministry, June 22, 1967.
17. Heikal, Al-Infijar, pp. 896-97 (all Nasser quotes). Fawzi, Harb al-Thalath Sanawat, pp. 199-201. Riad, Mudhakkirat 2, pp. 97-98; Riad, The Struggle for Peace in the Middle East, pp. 48-49. PRO, FCO 39/250 Middle East Crisis: UAR Attitude, July 10, 1967. LBJ National Security file, Memos to the President, box 19: Extracts from a Cable from Ambassador Burns, July 19, 1967.
18. Riad, The Struggle for Peace in the Middle East, pp. 109-31. Nasser message to Hussein in Kamm, Hussein Poteah be-Milhama, p. 301. Heikal column in BBC, Daily Report, Middle East, Africa and West Europe, no. 138, d 3. Daniel Dishon, “InterArab Relations,” in Rabinovich and Shaked, eds., From June to October, p. 159.
19. Ramadan, Tahtim al-Aliha, pp. 196-273. Heikal, Al-Infijar, pp. 922-28. Farid, Nasser, pp. 41, 75. Fawzi, Harb al-Thalath Sanawat, pp. 166-79. Riad, The Struggle for Peace in the Middle East, pp. 33-34. Imam, ‘Abd al-Nasir—Kayfa Hakama Misr, pp. 212-39. USNA, Central Policy files, 1967-1969, POL 2 UAR, box 2552: Memorandum of Conversation with Habib Bourgiba, Sept. 28, 1967; POL 2 UAR, box 2553: Amman to the Secretary of State, Oct. 3,1967. PRO, FCO 39/233, North and East African - Political Affairs: Washington to the Foreign Office; June 14, 1967; FCO 39/235, UAR - Political Affairs: Cairo to the Foreign Office, June 11, 1967. Al-Dugheidi quote in Al-Sabbagh, Mudhakkirat Qadat al-‘Askaraiyya al-Misriyya 3, pp. 9-10. Nasser quote from Mahjoub, Democracy on Trial, p. 134. Sadat quote from Finkelstone, Anwar Sadat, p.58. See also Jamal Hamad, Al-Hukuma al-Khafiyya - Fi ‘Ahd ‘Abd al-Nasir (Cairo: AlZahra lil-I‘lam al-‘Arabi, 1988).
20. Hussein, My “War” with Israel, p. 88. Dupuy, Elusive Victory, pp. 282-83. Mutawi, Jordan in the 1967 War, pp. 164-65. Kamm, Hussein Poteah be-Milbama, pp. 300-301. LBJ, National Security file, History of the Middle East Crisis, box 21: CIA Intelligence Memorandum, Arab-Israeli Situation Report, June 9, 1967. PRO, PREM 13 1622: Amman to Foreign Office; June 17, 1967; New York to Foreign Office, June 26, 1967; Foreign Office to Amman, July 6, 1967 (“Just and honorable peace”). Secret talks in London in Zak, Hussein Ose Shalom, p. 21.
21. Khartoum communiqué in PREM 13 1623: Khartoum to Foreign Office, Sept. 2, 1967; Arabic text in Khouri, Al-Watha’iq al-Filastiniyya, pp. 667-68. Sela, The Decline of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, pp. 104, 108. Kimche, The Sandstorm, pp. 265-67. Kamm, Hussein Poteah be-Milbama, pp. 298-99. Mutawi, Jordan in the 1967 War, pp. 176-77. Riad, The Struggle for Peace in the Middle East, p.51; Mudhakkirat 2, pp. 119-21. Mahjoub, Democracy on Trial, pp. 137-48.
22. LBJ, National Security file, Country file, Middle East-UAR box 161: Cairo’s Moderation Since Khartoum, Sept. 28, 1967; Memos to the President, box 20: CIA Intelligence Cable: Egypt, Feb. 16, 1968 (Nasser quote). PRO, CAB 128/42 54th Conclusions: Sept. 7, 1967; FCO/39/245 UAR - Political Affairs (External): Cairo to Foreign Office, Sept. 5, 1967; PREM 13 1623: Washington to the Foreign Office, June 22, 1967 (Yugoslavian plan); Tel Aviv to the Foreign Office, Sept. 4, 1967 (Eshkol quote). ISA, Foreign Ministry files, 3978/2, United States - Relations with the Middle East: Ben Aharon to the Foreign Ministry, Oct. 4,1967. Muhammad ‘Izza Daruze, Fi sabil Qadiyyat Filastin wal-Wahda al-‘Arabiyya wamin Wahi al-Nakba wa-liajli mu‘alijiba: rasa‘il wa-Maqalat wa-Bubuth wa-Muqabalat wa-Ta‘aqibat, Beirut 1948-1972 (Beirut:al-Maktaba al-‘Asriyya, 1972), pp. 85-87. Hussein quote from My “War” with Israel, p. 120. Gazit, Pta’im be-Malkodet, pp. 143-44.
23. PRO, FCO17/513 Israel - Political Affairs (External): Washington to the Foreign Office, Sept. 5, 1967. Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, The Road to Ramadan(London: Collins Press, 1975), pp. 52-53. Al-Shuqayri, Mudhakkirat 5, pp. 109-10. Yoram Meital, “The Khartoum Conference and Egyptian Policy After the 1967 War: A Reexamination,”The Middle East Journal 54, no. 1 (Winter 2000). Al-Khuli, Harb Yunyu, pp. 171-77, 187.
24. Heikal, The Road to Ramadan, pp. 102-13. Arab reactions to Nasser’s death, including Sadat and Hussein quotes, from Moshe Dayan Center Library, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel (translations of Arabic press). Israeli reactions in BBC, Daily Report, Middle East, Africa, and Western Europe, 3495/E/5.
25. Biographical information for Hussein, al-Assad, and Arafat can be found at, respectively, www.kinghussein.gov.jo/, www.defencejournal.com/globe/2000/aug/hafez.htm, and www.p-p-o.com/.
26. LBJ, National Security file, History of the Middle East Crisis, box 19: NSC Special Committee Meeting, June 12, 1967 (Johnson and Sisco quotes); NSC Histories, Middle East Crisis, box 17: The President in the Middle East Crisis, Dec. 19, 1968 (Rusk quote); Rostow to the President, June 20, 1967 (Eshkol and Eban quotes and “cut the pipelines”); PRO, PREM 13 1622: Washington to the Foreign Office, June 27, 1967. ISA, 4078/5, Foreign Ministry files, Contacts with the United States After the Six-Day War: Evron to Eban, June 28, 1967.
27. LBJ, National Security file, Country file, Addendum: Minutes of Meeting, LBJ and Kosygin, June 22, 1967; Europe and the USSR, box 229: President’s Meeting with Chairman Kosygin (Zbigniew Brzezinski), June 22, 1967; Memos to the President (W. Rostow), box 18: Rostow to the President, July 21, 1967; NSC Histories, Middle East Crisis, box 20: Davis to Rostow, June 16, 1967; box 21: CIA Intelligence Memorandum, June 15, 1967 (Federenko quote). PRO, PREM 13 1622: Middle East Situation, June 14, 1967 (“consequences of aggression”). CAB 128/42 50th Conclusions: July 20, 1967. PRO, FCO 17/523: Israel - Political Affairs (External); New York to the Foreign Office, July 21, 1967 (Caradon quote); FCO 17/505: Washington to the Foreign Office, July 21, 1967 (“extremist Arab circles”). Eban, Personal Witness, pp. 433-40.
Dobrynin, In Confidence, pp. 162-63. Lall, The UN and the Middle East Crisis, pp. 153-81, 218-27 (Federenko quote). Lawrence L. Whetten, The Canal War: FourPower Conflict in the Middle East (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1974), pp. 46-48.
28. LBJ, National Security file, History of the Middle East Crisis, box 18: CIA: Special Assessments on the Middle East Situation, July 7, 1967. PRO, PREM 13 1622: Johnson to Wilson, July 6, 1967; PREM 13 1623: Goldberg/Gromyko draft (n.d.); FCO 17/523: Israel - Political Affairs (External): Dobrynin Meeting with Rusk, July 9, 1967.
29. ISA, 4078/7, Foreign Ministry files, Contacts with the United States with the Entry of Egyptian Forces into Tiran: Eban Conversation with Goldberg, July 21, 1967 (Eban quote); 4088/7, General Assembly Discussions: Rafael to Eban, July 9, 1967; 3976/12, Diplomatic Relations with the United States: Tekoah to Rafael, Aug. 16, 1967 (“physical retreat”). Mahjoub, Democracy on Trial, p. 133 (Nasser quote). Lall, The UN and the Middle East Crisis, p. 212.
30. LBJ, National Security file, History of the Middle East Crisis); Memos to the President, box 20: Rostow to the President (“lean on them”), June 27, 1967; NSC Histories, box 18: McPherson to the President, June 11, 1967; Country file - Middle East, box 148: Memorandum for the President - Handling Hussein, Bundy to the President, June 27, 1967. USNA, Central Policy files, 1967-1969, POL 2 UAR, box 2553: New York to the Department of State, Nov. 1, 1967. PRO, FCO 17/505: Israel - Political Affairs (External): Johnson Oral Message to Eshkol, July 31, 1967. Mutawi, Jordan in the 1967 War, pp. 178-79. Riad, The Struggle for Peace in the Middle East, pp. 64-68.
31. PRO FCO/39/245 UAR - Political Affairs (External): Cairo to the Foreign Office, Nov. 5, 1967; CAB 128/42 68th Conclusions: Nov. 23, 1967. LBJ, National Security file, Memos to the President, box 23: Walt Rostow to the President, Oct. 5, 1967; Arthur J. Goldberg Oral History, pp. 17, 24-25. Riad quote from Mudhakkirat 2, pp. 136-37, 151-52. UN Security Council Resolution 242: The Building Block of Peacemaking. A Washington Institute Monograph (Washington, D.C.: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 1993). Oral history interview with Muhammad al-Farra, Nov. 17, 1999; with George Tomeh, Nov. 17, 1999. Lall, The UN and the Middle East Crisis, pp. 254-55. Eban, Personal Witness, pp. 456-59. Rafael, Destination Peace, pp. 186-90. Quandt, Peace Process, pp. 154-57.
32. Nasser quotes from PRO FCO/39/246 UAR - Political Affairs (External): Cairo to the Foreign Office, Nov. 24, 1967; Heikal, The Road to Ramadan, p. 54, and LBJ, National Security file, Country file, Middle East-UAR box 161: Rostow to the President, Dec. 18, 1967. Syrian quote from al-Ba‘th, Nov. 30, 1967. PLO declaration from Moshe Dayan Center Library, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel (translations of Arabic press), summary for Nov. 23, 1967.
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Table of Contents
eForeword
Acknowledgments
A Note on Sources and Spellings
Foreword
The Context: Arabs, Israelis, and the Great Powers, 1948 to 1966
The Catalysts: Samu’ to Sinai
The Crisis: Two Weeks in May
Countdown: May 31 to June 4
The War: Day One, June 5
Day Two, June 6
Day Three, June 7
Day Four, June 8
Day Five, June 9
Day Six, June 10
Aftershocks: Tallies, Postmortems, and the Old/New Middle East
Afterword
A Conversation with Michael B. Oren
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The Middle East and North Africa, 1967
UNEF Deployment in Sinai and the Gaza Strip, May 1967
The Air War, June 5, 1967
The Ground War in Sinai
The Battle for the West Bank
The Battle for Jerusalem, June 5-June 7
The Golan Campaign
Territories Captured by Israel, June 11, 1967
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