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Edited by Richard B. Parker Foreword by Harold H. Sauders Former Ambassador Richard B. Parker gathered representatives from the Israeli, Arab, Russian, and U.S. military, government, and academe, many of whom were participants in the 1967 crisis, to reexamine the steps and missteps that led to the conflict. Developed from a State Department conference marking the 25th anniversary of the war, this analysis and discussion provide the most authoritative account we have of the genesis of the Arab-Israeli war. Contents: Origins of the
Crisis: L. Carl Brown The United Nations Response: I. William
Zartman The Israeli Response: Bernard Reich The Other Arab
Responses: E. Ernest Dawn The View from Washington: Donald C.
Bergus Conspiracy Theories: Richard B. Parker Conclusions:
Richard B. Parker
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"The Six-Day War draws on the insights of high-ranking 1967 policy makers to provide an invaluable examination of how domestic policy processes, motivations, and pressures contributed to this watershed event in the history of Middle Eastern politics."--Middle East Journal "Brings the subject alive in the same multifaceted way that the real-life crisis was lived. . . . It probably will not be possible again to assemble this many individuals who were in policy-making positions during the 1967 war. The interaction among them is invaluable. . . . Only a book of this kind . . . could convey that sense of partial knowledge, sharply conflicting perspectives, irrational actions, divided governments, even the closest friends not understanding each other."-- From the Foreward by Harold H. Saunders (National Security Council staff member at the White House during the Six-Day War), Kettering Foundation |
