Six Day War: Best of the Web

Prelude to the Six Days, Charles Krauthammer (from the Washington Post)
Israel has a right to be cautious about demands for territorial concessions
http://www.shalemcenter.org.il/events/?did=62&aid=7caca0af7049b82d1d12516f0b545bed

Six-Day War, 40 years on: Israeli victories brought de facto peace, Ralph Peters
"The victory enabled Israel to survive. But now revisionist historians are re-inventing the Six-Day War as the source of Israel's problems."… "Let's remember the facts…"
http://www.nypost.com/seven/06052007/postopinion/opedcolumnists/six_day_war__
40_years_on_opedcolumnists_ralph_peters.htm?page=0

Jerusalem Post

Steve Linde: Q&A with Michael Oren: 'Arab armies planned to destroy Israel',
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1180960609020&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter

On the Seventh Day, Yehuda Avner. Historical recollections
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1180960614908&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

36th Anniversary Supplement:

- Hands-on historical, military and cultural recollections by key figures
- Jerusalem Post 30th Anniversary Supplement,
- Headlines from 1967, historical perspectives
http://info.jpost.com/C003/Supplements/SixDayWar36/introduction.html

Natan Sharansky
No more the Jews of Silence: the USSR, Soviet Jewry, and the Six Day War
1967 Triggers Collapse of Soviet Empire
The Same Hatred - But More Respect
Modern Day Exodus: Return to Tradition

Haaretz
Six Day War and the beginning of the Soviet Jewry Aliyah struggle
תחילת המאבק של יהודי ברית המועצות למען עלייה
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/862970.html

De'ot: Political Debate

כך כורסם הניצחון הגדול, משה (בוגי) יעלון
דווקא הניצחון המזהיר בששת הימים פתח את "קרב הנסיגה וההשהיה", שאנו מנהלים היום על הסיפור הציוני
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3406652,00.html

Time to change course, Moshe Yaalon
Two-state solution irrelevant; new thinking needed to resolve conflict
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3406504,00.html

Together for Peace: The June 5th Initiative
Civil society initiative to foster "non-stop negotiations for peace", a two-state solution, for peace, security, and prosperity for both the Palestinian and the Jewish peoples.
http://www.june5.org/?page_id=3

Bibliography

Randolph S Churchill, Winston S Churchill (Jr), The Six Day War
http://www.amazon.com/Six-Day-War-Randolph-S-Churchill/dp/0395075327

Chaim Herzog, The Arab-Israeli Wars: War and Peace in the Middle East
http://www.amazon.com/Arab-Israeli-Wars-Peace-Middle-East/dp/1400079632/ref=pd_
sim_b_4/104-5010400-8612751

Michael B Oren
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Media & Filmography

Radio

Radio broadcast & transcript of "The Temple Mount is in our Hands"
http://www.isracast.com/Articles/Article.aspx?ID=374

BBC Radio recordings, from and about The Six Day War [Key Figures]
http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?tab=av&q=talk+talk&recipe=all&start=2&scope=all&link=next

Film

Follow Me, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Youtube [11 parts]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5q-hLakJKQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEvPPjXDeR4

Six Day War (1967) Hebrew documentary [2 parts]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhQpVluJqdE

The Six Day War – Thorough summary of preludes to war, Abba Eban interview, stages of the war
[5 parts]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8qBMm5Aeq8

Six Day War (1967), by Israeli Weapons: Israel's isolation, military background, the war, with contemporary interviews [45 minutes]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy5L3GPy7JQ

The Six Day War: The Implications, Then and Now, Michael Oren / Jewish Agency for Israel
http://www.jacontact.org/dev1/vlinkmichaeloren.phtml

40th Anniversary Of The Six Day War
Historical footage, interviews, and Israel's options today - opinions [8 mins]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l_Nx0v4qqM

Israel - 1967 - The Six-Day War [partial newsreel]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hIll-q8hUc

CNN:
40 years after the Six-Day War between Jordan & Israel
Historical footage and contemporary recollections, perspectives
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-u9y5jBgew

The Six-Day War from both sides,
perspectives from a Palestinian & Jew born in 1967
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gurd_EouMwU

Shalem Center www.shalemcenter.org.il :
Michael Oren, Natan Sharansky, Moshe Ya'alon: Events and Lectures

- Michael Oren
40 Years of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern World
http://www.shalemcenter.org.il/events/?did=62&aid=d8e8c5707de9e34afc123b601f69b1bc

- Video Highlights
6 Days of War: The Context of Conflict
May 1967: The Torture of Anticipation
Forty Years of War: '67's Aftermath

- Natan Sharansky
No more the Jews of Silence: the USSR, Soviet Jewry, and the Six Day War
1967 Triggers Collapse of Soviet Empire
The Same Hatred - But More Respect
Modern Day Exodus: Return to Tradition

Sunday 21 March, 2010

יום ראשון ו' ניסן תש"ע