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"In this fine work, Guy Laron, a young historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, takes a fresh look at the war and its causes. . . . Like all the best history, Laron’s book is studded with fascinating facts and anecdotes that shed light on his theories."—Michael Sheridan, Sunday Times"With the occupation now in ripe middle age, an engaging crop of new books is reexamining its consequences —and, in the case of Guy Laron’s The Six Day War, making us look afresh at the events that led to conflict between Israel and its neighbours. Laron, a historian at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, argues that the war was no accident; rather, it was 'designed and even desired by prominent military figures in the warring countries.'"—John Reed, Financial Times"For Laron, there are no simple binaries. . . . Laron’s critical approach echoes that of Segev, while his diligent and eye-opening archival work complements that undertaken by Oren. He describes the war from a number of different perspectives, and places it in a global context . . . he paints a comprehensive and captivating picture of a complex reality."—Ari Shavit, Times Literary Supplement"A new history of the lead-up to the war by Guy Laron . . . presents the economic and geopolitical conditions that made the conflict almost inevitable for all the combatants."—Gal Beckerman, New York Times Book Review"A penetrating study of a conflict that, although brief, helped establish a Middle Eastern template that is operational today. . . . Readers with an interest in Middle Eastern geopolitics will find much of value."—Kirkus Reviews"Guy Laron’s forthcoming book on the 1967 Six-Day War—fittingly slated for publication in the year of the war’s 50th anniversary—is both impressive and disheartening. And it should be required reading for President-elect Donald Trump. . . . Readers will learn that it’s sometimes much easier for leaders to go to war than to make peace. So perhaps, despite everything else on his calendar right now, this is a book the president-elect should read. At the very least, we ordinary citizens should read it."—Jack Reimer, Jewish News Service"Guy Laron’s challenging new book, The Six-Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East, is well worth reading."—Moment“Laron has produced an excellent study. He is not afraid to challenge conventional wisdom, and has offered readers an interesting and important account of the [1967 Arab-Israeli] war on the occasion of its 50th anniversary.”—W. Andrew Terrill, Middle East Journal"Rich in new details about the prewar machinations in Syria, Egypt, and Israel . . . Laron sheds new light on Dayan's stances regarding Israel's esteem and northern fronts."—Michael Rubner, Middle East Policy Council"Guy Laron's Six Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East is a detailed and impressive account that does much to illuminate the origins of this elusive conflict."—Ray Takeyh, Survival Global Politics and Strategy"Revealing the long-held Israeli plans for expanding its borders, Laron goes significantly beyond William Roger Louis and Avi Shlaim’s important edited collection The 1967 Arab-Israeli War . . . Laron shows the extent to which Israel’s General Staff were “eager to use the next war to expand Israel’s borders” and conquer new territories such as the West Bank and Gaza."—Thomas Erlich Reifer, Journal of Palestine Studies "It is actually amazing that one scholar could produce so much detailed analysis of so many actors in this conflict: Egypt, Syria, Israel, the United States, and the Soviet Union. Dealing in depth with the domestic politics of each, including personality clashes and rivalries, all within the context of both regional and global events, Laron’s book is a remarkable accomplishment. Written clearly and logically and, most important of all, thoroughly documented, the book will be a classic regarding the background to and understanding of the Six-Day War."—Galia Golan, Israel Studies Review“It is actually amazing that one scholar could produce so much detailed analysis of so many actors in this conflict: Egypt, Syria, Israel, the United States, and the Soviet Union. . . . Laron’s book is a remarkable accomplishment. Written clearly and logically and, most important of all, thoroughly documented, the book will be a classic regarding the background to and understanding of the Six-Day War.”—Galia Golan, Israel Studies Review“A finely balanced account that puts the politics back into the study of the origins of the June 1967 War. Outstanding scholarship—this new book confirms Laron as a leading authority on the Arab-Israeli conflict.”—Eugene Rogan, author of The Arabs: A History"This timely and riveting work, drawing upon new archival materials from all the warring sides as well as US, Soviet, and Warsaw-Pact sources, provides a meticulously detailed political and military narrative along with a perceptive analysis of the origins, course, and outcome of the conflict that changed the Middle East and world politics."—Carole Fink, author of Defending the Rights of Others and Cold War: An International History"Laron uses sources no one else has and challenges all those who would understand these events as confined to its Middle Eastern context. Fifty years after the outbreak of the June 1967 war and there is finally someone with something new to say about it."—Robert Vitalis, author of White World Order, Black Power Politics"A new and exciting interpretation of the war that broke the Middle East, with the Soviet and Cold War aspects covered in full for the first time. A very valuable corrective to the existing literature."—Odd Arne Westad, Harvard University, author of The Cold War: A World History
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About the Author
Guy Laron is senior lecturer in international relations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and has been a visiting scholar at the University of Maryland, Northwestern University, and Oxford. He is the author of Origins of the Suez Crisis and lives in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press (February 21, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 030022270X
ISBN-13: 978-0300222708
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6.2 x 1.5 x 9.5 inches
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What can another book on the Six Day War (6DW) add to the extensive body of existing literature (scholarly and otherwise)? Intensive research on the geopolitics of the region leading to the world - changing event itself. That is exactly what Laron's book provides.As is well known to prospective readers of this history, the 1967 6DW was one of the seminal events of the century. Its implications and repercussions extend far beyond the region, in both time and space. The military aspects of the campaign are both clear and obvious. On the Israeli side: exhaustive preparation, comprehensive military intelligence, excellent generalship and a highly motivated Israel Defense Force (IDF); all that proved catastrophic for the Arab opposition, a group lacking individually and collectively in all these areas (see Ken Pollack's excellent PhD thesis, "Arabs at War" for much more on this subject).Another book that simply rehashes 6DW military strategy would be marginally important. Instead, Laron concentrates on the geopolitics that both made the conflict "inevitable" and essentially predetermined the outcome. He accessed previously unavailable documents from closed archives in the former USSR, synthesized them and incorporated a vast amount of detail on intra-governmental maneuvering in Israel and amongst its Arab opponents into a generally readable and usually interesting book.Laron's analysis places him squarely in the camp of "the new historians" in Israel alongside Benny Morris and others who espouse a revisionist perspective on Israel and its actions. In the author's view, the influence of Israeli military figures on government decision making was significant and decisive. By various ongoing gambits, the Arabs (especially the Syrians) were goaded and provoked into a series of skirmishes that provided the pretext for more serious IDF responses. In turn, due to internecine conflicts, tribalism, corruption and general myopia (frequently amounting to actual stupidity), the Arabs (in general) and the Syrians (in particular) blundered repeatedly. Syria was briefly incorporated into an ill-advised "union" with Nasser's Egypt and indulged in ineffectual, bellicose, grandstanding posturing on the international political stage. Maladroit fumbling by Arab governments during the Cold War lessened any potential benefits to be gained by pitting the US against its Soviet allies. Alarmingly - and echoing present politics - Israeli government ministers were sometimes self-serving, cynical and ideologically motivated. Some (especially at the time of the 6DW, Levi Eshkol and Moshe Dayan) put opportunistic interests over those of their country, as Laron very convincingly demonstrates.Various conspiratorial explanations for the 6DW have been advanced. Most are absurd to the point of being ridiculous. One that briefly achieved currency was advanced in a book called, "Foxbats Over Dimona". The authors of this now out-of-print "analysis" stated that the USSR was responsible for the conflict. Laron demolishes whatever remained of the "Foxbats" theory. In fact, he makes it transparently obvious that the USSR (at least the Kosygin faction of the leadership) was resolute in opposing Arab military action. The US, on the other hand, was more irresolute: by vacillating, equivocating and insinuating to various Israeli officials that the US may be "green lighting" an attack (or not), Israel took license to proceed in full force, first on the Egyptian front, next against the Jordanian West Bank (thanks largely to the obtuse appointment by King Hussein of an Egyptian general with overall command responsibilities for Jordanian troops) and finally against the benighted and terminally incompetent Syrians on the Golan front. The Israeli goal - per Laron - was not only territorial expansion, but also the complete destruction of the Egyptian military: they succeeded. The consequences of all this are still evident.It cannot be denied that the Arabs provided plenty of provocation and pretext. For instance, Nassar dismissed the UN force in Sinai and inserted his own army. He closed of the Straits. He (and the Syrians) engaged in ill-advised proxy wars using Fatah to conduct "asymmetrical" warfare. Israel replied in kind and disproportionately (e.g., the 1966 raid on the Jordanian West Bank village of Samu, conducted in response to a Fatah land mine attack near the border, which killed 3 Israeli soldiers). Without background context of this sort, the 6DW is more difficult to understand.Unfortunately, large sections of this book are overly detailed summaries of political maneuvering, especially in Israel. While this provides useful background for future serious scholarship, it makes for dense reading. The actual battles are brilliantly summarized and relegated to the final chapter, "Conclusions". In other words, almost the entirety of this book is devoted to politics: not "straight" military history if these two things are even separable.An important coda to this book was recently published by Middle East expert, Bruce Riedel in a Brookings Institution article entitled, "Enigma". The gist of the piece is that the failures of Israeli military intelligence in 1973 and 1982 were catastrophic and stupid with nearly fatal dimensions. Evidently, King Hussein of Jordan directly alerted Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir of an impending attack (Operation Badr), coordinated between Egypt and Syria, with the Syrians taking the lead. This crucial intelligence coup was discounted and dismissed due to the mistaken assumption that the Arabs would not fight because they would lose. An extremely highly placed Egyptian source (Nasser's brother-in-law) repeatedly tipped off Israel. All these specific warnings were ignored. Laron alludes to a "closed loop" in the intelligence agencies regarding Arab military incompetence, a construct strongly reinforced by the 6DW success. This seminal outcome of the 6DW - a glaring deficiency by any measure - was not mentioned. In short, Reidel's October, 2017 article is absolutely not to be missed.For the serious student of the Arab-Israeli conflict, this book is an important addition. For those seeking a less detailed background exposition, it doesn't serve well. Laron's book does illustrate two important truisms: first, sometimes stupidity and good luck negate each other and second, the toxic mixture of political posturing and self-serving maneuvering for career advantage imperils the collective good. In the case of the 6DW and its subsequent impact in 1973 ("Operation Badr") and the First Lebanon War, the brew could have been fatal for Israel: its repercussions are still active in the region and internationally.
Much has been written about the Six Day War and Israel's impressive military victory. This book deals with all the events that led up to the war. Those of us who lived during this time had no idea of what was going on behind the scenes. Most books dealing with the Six Day War devote only a portion to the pre-war events. This book stops when the war begins. Definitely worth reading. Much of it is an eye opener.
This is not the book for those looking for a military history of the six-day war in June 1967. They should instead refer to Michael Oren's excellent "Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East". (Tellingly, Guy Laron subtitles his book, "The Breaking of the Middle East"). Laron only covers the military campaign in 25 pages of the conclusion chapter of a 313 page book (not counting end-notes and index).Rather, this is a history of the key diplomatic, economic, and financial events in the years leading up to that war, with particular emphasis on decisions made in Egypt, Syria, Israel, the United States, and the Soviet Union.Laron brings a new perspective to the origins of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. He blames political infighting in Syria and between Syria and Egypt for political political primacy and legitimacy within Syria, for causing Syrian adventurism and provocations against Israel in May 1967. He cites the struggle between Syria's military Baathist regime and the Egyptian-backed Muslim Brotherhood as being a cause of friction between those two countries, which the Syrian government tried to exorcise by embarrassing the Egyptian government with its own claimed aggressiveness against Israel. He also points to Syrian Baathist intervention in the mid-1960s on the side of the radical Fatah organization against the more moderate PLO.He describes the relationship between David Ben Gurion and Levi Eschol as much more hostile than I've previously read.Laron portrays Yitzak Rabin and the other IDF generals as hawkish to the point of provoking a war with Syria in 1966 to 1967, which makes Rabin's nervous breakdown shortly before the beginning of the Six-Day War all the more ironic.He reveals information I've never seen before. For example, one of the reasons for the very lopsided Israeli Air Force victory over the Syrian Air Force in a dogfight in April 1967 was due to the fact that the Syrian MiGs were unarmed because of fears about their use in a coup by the Air Force led by Hafiz Assad.I disagree with his characterization of John Kennedy as someone who "felt equally comfortable selling his liberal values using tough Cold War rhetoric." Kennedy was a flat-out hardline cold warrior, and what Laron claims are liberal values would be considered neo-conservative today.He does make his fair share of minor technical issues. The Soviet Su-7 is not a heavy bomber, but a fighter bomber. The USS Liberty was an American naval ship, not the "SS Liberty" that would suggest a commercial ship. The Israeli jamming planes were "Vautour", not "Votour".All in all a valuable addition to the scholarship around the 1967 war.
A great history describing all the moving parts from all over the world that influenced the war. Highly recommended if you are interested in the history of Middle Eastern affairs.
Very good explanation of the factors leading to the war and the historical backdrop. Some maps in the E-book version would have been very helpful.
Very good book . I also read "1967" by Tom Segev, on the same subject , it gave a more complete overview of the war and its aftermath.
great
Too much detail on approach to war; not enough on the battles.
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