Six Days

by Jeremy Bowen

  ‘great gusts of theological emotion’: Eban, p. 470.

  ‘The true frontier’: quoted in Schiff, p. 85.

  ‘By 1967 the job of settling’: Gazit, p. 151.

  ‘inevitable time bombs’: ibid., p. 153.

  ‘encouraging note of dissent’: MER, pp. 376–7.

  ‘On Israeli state radio’: PRO/PREM 13/1622: SoSFA to Paris, 19 June 1967.

  ‘If our dreams come true’: Wall Street Journal, 14 July 1967.

  ‘no matter what they say’: Washington Post, 22 October 1967.

  ‘fast becoming a reality’: The Times, 10 November 1967.

  ‘Successive Israeli governments’: Crimes of War, pp. 37–8.

  ‘broad and imaginative’: NSC, 7 June 1967, Box 18.

  ‘In his speech on 19 June’: NSC, 19 June 1967.

  ‘The hopes for any enduring settlement’: PRO/PREM 13/1621: SoSFA to Tel Aviv, 13 June 1967.

  ‘extent of the movement’: PRO/FCO 17/214, Hadow (Tel Aviv) to FCO, 26 June 1967; UNRWA figures in FCO 17/217: Crawford (Amman) to Moberly (Eastern Dept), 26 June 1967.

  ‘In Bethlehem’: interview with Samir Elias Khouri, Bethlehem, 22 November 2002.

  ‘every facility to leave’: PRO/FCO 17/214, 3 August 1967.

  ‘Israelis in favour of’: ISA 6303/3 Prime Minister’s Office: Occupied Territories July–December 1967.

  ‘colossal propaganda campaign’: PRO/FCO 17/214: Moberly minute of talk with Mr Anug, Israeli Minister in London.

  ‘assisted emigration’: PRO/FCO 17/214: draft telegram to Washington, 24 June 1967.

  ‘diplomat’s “houseboy”’: PRO/FCO 17/212: Pullar (Jerusalem) to FCO, 19 June 1967.

  ‘the process worked’: Washington Post, 23 June 1967; Haifa Khalidi also witnessed the scene at Damascus Gate: interview, Old City, 23 November 2002.

  ‘UNRWA’: PRO/FCO 17/217: Crawford (Amman) to Moberly (Eastern Dept), 26 June 1967.

  ‘of their own free will’: ISA G6303/5 Prime Minister’s Office, 22 October 1967.

  ‘peasant farmers’: Dodd and Barakat, p. 43; PRO/FCO 17/217, 31 October 1967.

  ‘Nils-Goran Gussing’: CIA Directorate of Intelligence Special Report, Arab Territories under Israeli Occupation, 6 October 1967, NSF, Box 160.

  ‘young men in Gaza had no choice’: PRO/FCO 17/214, 24 June 1967.

  ‘Israel would like to retain Gaza’: CIA, Main Issues in a Middle East Settlement, 13 July 1967, NSF, Box 104.

  ‘500 new refugees were crossing’: PRO/FCO: Crawford (Jerusalem) to Moberly (Eastern Dept), 16 October 1967.

  ‘The news that Jews’: PRO/FCO 17/216: Crawford (Amman) to Moberly (Eastern Dept), 2 October 1967.

  ‘By September 1967’: PRO/FCO 17/212: Lewen (Jerusalem) to Moberly (Eastern Dept), 12 September 1967.

  ‘to permit continuation’: ISA G6303/5 Prime Minister’s Office, 30 August 1967.

  ‘the British foreign secretary’: PRO/CAB 129, Vol. 133, Part 1 C(67)150, 13 September 1967.

  ‘half-hearted’: PRO/FCO 17/215, 1 September 1967 and 19 September 1967.

  ‘argument about petty details’: PRO/FCO 17/216: Hadow (Tel Aviv) to FCO, 26 September 1967; also 28 September 1967; FCO 17/214: Tel Aviv to FCO, 25 July 1967.

  ‘increasing evidence’: PRO/FCO: Crawford (Jerusalem) to Moberly (Eastern Dept), 11 December 1967.

  ‘did not want to find itself’: PRO/PREM 13/1623, 30 August 1967.

  ‘if I were in their place’: Eban, p. 464.

  ‘A typical night’: IDF 100/438/1969: telegram 0900, 8 July 1967.

  ‘more serious incidents’: PRO/FCO 17/468, Israel: Annual Review for 1967, 22 January 1968.

  ‘June 1965’: PRO/FCO 17/576: McIntyre (Tel Aviv) to MoD, 21 February 1967.

  ‘until the outbreak of war’: MER, pp. 175–8.

  ‘end of the war and February 1968’: Moshe Dayan’s figures quoted in PRO/FCO 17/577, DA/5/2/68: Rogers (Tel Aviv) to MoD, 16 February 1968.

  ‘In some refugee camps’: PRO/FCO 17/212: Lewen (Jerusalem) to Moberly (Eastern Dept), 16 November 1967.

  ‘spokesman for Brigadier-General Narkiss’: Sunday Times, 19 November 1967.

  ‘On 20 November’: PRO/FCO 17/475: Amman to FCO, 20 November 1967.

  ‘Israel finally sent’: Pollack, pp. 330–5.

  ‘all too easy to run a truck’: PRO/FCO 17B: Hadow (Tel Aviv) to Moore (Eastern Dept), 28 March 1968.

  ‘A year after the 1967 war’: interview with Winston Churchill.

  Legacy

  ‘When two rabbis from Vienna’: Shlaim, p. 3.

  ‘Six weeks after the end of the war’: PRO/PREM 13/1623: Hadow (Tel Aviv) to FCO, 1 August 1967.

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