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Six Days

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by Jeremy Bowen


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  Sternhell, Zeev, The Founding Myths of Israel (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998)

  Stetler, Russell (ed.), Palestine (San Francisco: Ramparts Press, 1972)

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  Tawil, Raymonda Hawa, My Home, My Prison (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1979)

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  Tleel, John N., I am Jerusalem, Old City (Jerusalem: Private Publication, 2000)

  Turki, Fawaz, The Disinherited: Journal of a Palestinian Exile (New York and London: Monthly Review Press, 1972)

  Weizman, Ezer, On Eagles’ Wings (New York: Macmillan, 1976)

  Wiesel, Elie, A Beggar in Jerusalem (London: Sphere Books, 1971)

  Wright, Patrick, Tank: The Progress of a Monstrous War Machine (London: Faber & Faber, 2000)

  Zikri, Wagih Abu, The Massacre of the Innocents on 5 June (Cairo: Modern Egyptian Bookshop, 1988 [Arabic])

  Index

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  Arabic surnames prefixed by al- or el- (‘the’) are listed under the following element, eg Asad, Hafez al-. Arabic surnames beginning with Abu, and Jewish surnames beginning with Bar, Ben or Bin, (‘son of’) are listed under those elements, eg Ben-Gurion, David.

  Abdullah, King of Jordan

  Abdullah, Haj Arif

  Abu Agheila (Sinai)

  Abu Gharbiyeh, Bahjet

  Abu Nahia, Zaid Salim

  Abu Odeh, Adnan

  Abu Rass family

  Abu Shakrah, Shara

  Acheson, Dean

  Aden

  Afaneh, Tawfik Mahmud

  Aflaq, Michel

  Afula (West Bank)

  Agnon, S.Y.

  Ahmad, Abdul Rahim Ali

  Ajlouni, Maj. Firass

  al-Ahram (newspaper)

  Al Akhbar (newspaper)

  Al-Arish (Sinai)

  Alawi Muslims

  Aleppo (Syria)

  Alexandria

  Ali, Maj. Gen. Amer

  Ali, Brig. Atta

  Ali, Maj. Ibrahim

  al-Jazeera television

  Allenby, Edmund, Lord

  Allon, Yigal

  Allon Plan

  Ally, Yossi

  Amer, Field Marshal Abd al-Hakim

  before war

  suggests withdrawal of UNEF

  abortive meeting with commanders

  conduct of war

  after defeat

  death (probable murder)

  Amer, Salah

  America, USS

  American University of Beirut

  Amir, Yigal

  Amit, Meir

  Amman

  Anderson, Robert

  Aqaba, Gulf of

  Aqsa mosque

  Arab League

  Arab Socialist Union

  Arab summit, Khartoum

  Arafat, Yasser bis

  Armbrister, Trevor

  Arthur, G.C.

  Asad, Maj. Gen. Hafez al-

  Ashu, Shukri

  Atassi, President Nureddin al-

  Atlit prison camp

  Austria

  Ayoub, Mrs Fathi

  Bagori, Lt. Mohammed Shaiki el-

  Bakr, Kamal

  Bar Kochba (warrior)

  Bar Lev, Gen. Haim

  Bar On, Col. Mordechai

  Barbour, Walworth

  Ba’th party

  Battle, Lucius

  Bawarshi, Elizabeth

  BBC

  Bedouin

  Begin, Menachem

  Beirut (Lebanon)

  Beit Ha-Arava (West Bank)

  Beit Nuba (West Bank)

  Ben Ari, Col. Uri

  Ben Eliezer, Binyamin

  Ben-Gurion, David

  Ben Moshe, Maj. Eitan

  Ben Shaker, Prince Zaid

  Ben Zur (driver)

  Benghazi (Libya)

  Beni Sweif airfield (Egypt)

  Bethlehem (West Bank)

  Bin-Nun, Captain Avihu

  Bir Gifgafah (Sinai)

  Bir Lahfan (Sinai)

  Bir Tamada airfield (Egypt)

  Bishop, Eric

  B’nai B’rith organisation

  Bodinger, Herzl

  Boghdady, Abdul Latif

  Bourghiba, President, of Tunisia

  Bregman, Aaron

  Brody, David

  Bron, Gabby

  Brown, George

  Brown, Troy

  Brummett, Gary

  Bull, Gen. Odd

  Bundy, McGeorge

  Burdett, Winston

  Burns, Findley

  Cahaner, Shimon

  Cairo

  Cairo Radio

  see also Voice of the Arabs

  Cameron, James

  Camp David agreement

  Canada

  Canada Park (West Bank)

  Caradon, Lord

  CBS network

  Chaimowitz, Jacov

  Chester, Ron

  Christian, George

  Churchill, Winston (grandson)

  Chuvakhin, Sergei

  CIA

  Clifford, Clark

  Cohen, Eli

  Cohen, Yeruham

  Cooper, Chet

  Dajani, Hamadi and Amina

  Dakhakny, Maj. Ibrahim El

  Damascus

  Damascus Radio

  Dayan, Gen. Moshe

  on border clashes

  made defence minister

  early career and character

  and preparations for war

  war actions and policies

  on Har Zion

  collects ancient artefacts

  and occupied territories

  predicts terrorism

  Dayan, Ruth

  Dayan, Lt. Yael

  de Gaulle, President Charles

  Deeb, Abu

  Deeb Ali, Hikmat

  Deir al Balah (Gaza)

  Deir Yassin massacre (1948)

  Dharan (Saudi Arabia)

  Diab, Dr Ali

  Dighidi, Air Vice Marshal Abdel-Hamid El-

  Drizen, Lt. Col. Asher

  Eban, Abba

  before war

  career and character

  diplomatic visits to US/UN

  claims Egypt started war

  apologises after bombing of Liberty

  and occupied territories

  Egypt

  in Suez war (1956)

  pact with Syria

  alert for war

  blocks Straits of Tiran

  military strength

  and poison gas

  pact with Jordan

  on verge of war

  Day One

  reactions and propaganda

  command and strategy failings

  Day Two

  Day Three to Five

  Nasser’s resignation and retraction

  Day Si
x

  Sinai returned to

  aftermath of war

  1973 war with Israel

  Egyptian Gazette

  Eilat (Straits of Tiran)

  Eisenhower, President Dwight

  Eitan, Col. Raphael

  El Alamein

  Elad, Maj. Ehud

  Elazar, Gen. David

  Elkins, Michael

  Elon, Amos

  Ennes, James

  Epstein, Corp. Zerach

  Eshel, Col.

  Eshkol, Prime Minister Levi

  before war

  contacts with President Johnson

  orders mobilisation

  under pressure to start war

  makes Dayan defence minister

  haunted by prospect of war

  warns King Hussein

  lies about Egyptian aggression

  and attack on Syria

  encouraged by success

  refuses UN call to end war

  and occupied territories

  Eshkol, Miriam

  Eshkoli, Yaakov

  Evans, Rowland

  Evron, Ephraim

  Faluja pocket

  Farag, Bahjat

  Farah, Abd al-Majeed al

  Farra, Dr Muhammad al-

  Fatah (Arafat’s faction)

  Fawzi, Gen. Muhammad

  Fayed airfield (Egypt)

  Fayek, Mohamed

  fedayeen (guerrillas)

  Fedorenko, Nikolai

  France

  Gall, Sandy

  Gamasy, Gen.

  Garcia, Dan

  Gat, Rubi

  Gavish, Brig. Gen. Yeshayahu

  urges starting war

  threatened replacement by Dayan

  commands Sinai campaign

  Gaza

  present day conflict

  air raids

  land invasion

  occupation

  Gazit, Shlomo

  Gellhorn, Martha

  Geneva Convention, Fourth

  Ghanma, Maj. Asad

  Giddi (Sinai)

  Gil, Uri

  Ginor, Isabella

  Giora, Lt.

  Glick, Yitzhak

  Glubb, Sir John (Glubb Pasha)

  Golan Heights

  Goldberg, Arthur

  Goma, Sha’rawi

  Gonen, Col. Shmuel

  Goren, Rabbi Shlomo

  Great Britain

  leaves Palestine (1948)

  and Suez crisis (1956)

  propaganda war

  intelligence reports

  plan to resolve crisis

  sends arms to Israel

  Tunis embassy attacked

  protects Jews in Aden

  and ‘the big lie’

  and Saudi Arabia

  and occupied territories

  Gromyko, Andrei

  Guderian, Gen. Heinz

  Gur, Col. Mordechai

  Gussing, Nils-Goran

  Guttman, Shmarya

  Hadidi, Gen. Salahadeen

  Hadow, Michael

  Hafiz, Mohamed Abd-el

  Haganah (Jewish militia)

  Halman, James

  Hamdan, Ghuzlan Ayoub

  Harman, Avraham

  Hashemite dynasty

  Hawkins, Mary

  Hebron (West Bank)

  Heikal, Mohammed

  Helms, Richard

  Herzog, Maj. Gen. Chaim

  Herzog, Ya’acov

  Herzl, Yoel

  Hod, Brig. Gen. Mordechai

  Hofi, Gen.

  Howedi, Amin

  Human Rights Watch

  Humphrey, Vice President Hubert

  Hussein, King of Jordan

  grandfather assassinated

  and raid on Samua

  nature of rule

  modernises Amman

  and CIA

  and Nasser

  enters war

  family

  and Palestinian nationalists

  and ‘the big lie’

  seeks to limit defeat

  accepts UN ceasefire

  accepts defeat

  restores relations with Britain and USA

  after war

  Husseini, Abdul Latif

  Hutam, Salim

  Hyman, Micha

  Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia

  Imwas (West Bank)

  Independence Day parade (1967)

  Indian forces

  Inshas airfield (Egypt)

  intifada

  Iraqi, Ramadan Mohammed

  Iraqi forces

  Isma’il, Maj. Gen. Ahmad

  Israel

  violence to present day

  1948 war with Arabs

  after 1949 armistice

  border clashes with Syria (1960s)

  raid on Samua (West Bank)

  build-up to war

  military strength

  discussions with USA

  fear of a new Holocaust

  leaders

  last days before war

  first air attacks

  first land attacks

  deception plan

  defies UN ceasefire resolution

  use of napalm

  defeats Jordan

  bombs USS Liberty

  defeats Egypt

  war against Syria

  treatment of prisoners

  looting after victory

  accepts ceasefire

  ‘David becomes Goliath’

  reasons for going to war

  occupying force

  violates international law

  treatment of refugees

  see also Jerusalem

  Israel Defence Forces (IDF)

  Armoured Corps

  Israel Museum

  Israel Radio

  Iyad, Abu Ali

  Jadid, Gen. Salah

  Jazi, Brig. Gen. Rakan al-

  Jebel Libni (Sinai)

  Jenin (West Bank)

  Jericho (West Bank)

  Jerusalem

  character and history

  1948 to 1967:

  start of fighting

  battle for Government House

  battle for East Jerusalem

  battle of Ammunition Hill

  battle for Old City

  aftermath

  reactions to taking of Old City

  Dome of the Rock

  King David hotel

  Mount of Olives

  Mount Zion

  St George’s cathedral

  Wailing Wall bis

  Jirardi Defile (Sinai)

  Johnson, President Lyndon Baines

  warns of future problems

  tries to prevent war

  invites Egyptian Vice-President to talks

  and outbreak of war

  talks to Kosygin

  consults advisers and Harold Wilson

  and USSR’s threat to intervene

  accepts unconditional ceasefire

  and UN peace plan

  and refugees

  Jordan

  pact with Egypt

  prepares for war

  Air Force

  misinformation

  accepts UN ceasefire

  Radio Jordan/Radio Amman

  see also Jerusalem; West Bank

  Ju’beh, Nazmi Al-

  Jundi, Col. Abd al-Karim al-

  Kahalani, Lt. Avigdor

  Kamera, Aaron

  Kaplan, Captain Shamai

  Kapusta, Micha

  Karameh refugee camp

  Kenan, Amos

  Kfar Banyas

  Kfar Etzion/Etzion bloc (West Bank)

  Kfar Sava (Israel)

  Khalidi, Haifa

  Khalidi, Hazim

  Khalil, Brig. Abdel Moneim

  Khammash, Gen. Amer

  Khan Younis (Gaza)

  Khartoum

  Khatib, Governor Anwar al-

  Khouri, Samir Elias

  Kibbutz Gadot

  Kibbutz Nachshon

  Kirkbride, Sir Al
ec

  Kislev, Col. Shmuel

  Kollek, Mayor Teddy

  Kony, Mohammed el-

  Kook, Rabbi Abraham Isaac

  Kook, Rabbi Zvi Yehudah

  Kosygin, Alexei

  Kovner, Abba

  Krim, Mrs Arthur

  Kulthum, Umm

  Kuneitra (Golan)

  Kuwait

  Kuznetsov (Soviet minister)

  Labib, Gen. Ismail

  Latrun (West Bank)

  Lebanon

  Lev, Igal: Jordan Patrol

  Lewis, Lt. Cdr. Dave

  Lewis, Jesse

  Liberty, USS

  Libya

  Lifta (West Bank)

  Lior, Col. Israel

  Livon, Mordechai

  Lod/Lydda (Israel)

  looting

  Lourie, Arthur

  Luxor airfield

  McCloskey, Bob

  McCullin, Don

  McGonagle, Captain William

  McNamara, Robert

  McPherson, Harry

  Mafrak airbase, Jordan

  Mahrouss, Corp. Kamal

  Makhus, Dr Ibrahim

  Marie-Therese, Sister

  massacres by Israelis

  Meir, Golda

  Mendler Col. Albert

  Mezied, Fayek Abdul

  Milstein, Uri

  Mir, Ahmad al-

  Mitla (Sinai)

  Mohamed, Prince of Jordan

  Mohammed, Ali

  Mohieddin, Zakkaria

  Mokhtar, Brig. Gen. Eiz-El-Din

  Montgomery, Field Marshal

  Moorer, Admiral Thomas

  Mor, Maj. Doron

  Mossad

  Moussa, Abdel

  Movement for a Greater Israel

  Mubarak, Gen.

  Muhsin, Gen. Salah

  Muna, Princess, of Jordan

  Mursi, Ali Abdul

  Murtagi, Gen.

  Nablus (West Bank)

  Naby, Brig. Abd el-

  Nahal (Fighting Pioneer Youth)

  Najar, Hanan

  napalm

  Narkiss, Gen. Uzi

  in 1948 war

  eager for war

  and Ben Ari

  and battle of Ammunition Hill

  approves advance to Ramallah

  takes Old City

  destroys Moroccan quarter

  idolised by adjutant

  and refugees

  Nasariah, al-, tribe of

  Nasser, Gamal Abdel

  and Amer

  and PLO

  and Syria

  and King Hussein

  and UNEF

  and media

  blocks Straits of Tiran

  CIA views of

  presence and popularity

  strategies

  first reaction to war

  and ‘the big lie’

  resignation and retraction

  and aftermath of war

  death

  National Security Agency (US)

  Negev desert

  Netanya (Israel)

  Netanyahu, Binyamin

  Nir, Lt. Col. Natke

  Nolte, Ambassador

  Novak, Robert

  nuclear weapons

  Nufel, Memdour

  Nukheila (Syria)

  Nusseibeh, Anwar

  Nusseibeh, Hazem

  O’Connel, Jack

  Occupied Territories

  see also Gaza; Golan Heights; Sinai; West Bank; refugees

  Odeh, Abdel-Basset

  Ofer, Lt. Col. Zvi

  Ogarkov, Nikolai

  Omar, Lt. Omar Khalil

 

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