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The outbreak of the Six Day War was primarily the outcome of the tense relations between Israel and Syria in the period preceding the war. Aware of Israel s overall military superiority, the radical Syrian regime believed that the only way to defeat the Zionist entity was by guerilla warfare, termed the people s war. The Syrian aim was to keep up continuous limited military strikes against Israel, which they determined would bring about a gradual weakening of the Jewish state s military power and political stability, eventually forcing Israel to acquiesce to Arab demands. Israel, with the...

Recounting the dialogue and related diplomatic activity that took place during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and the Ben-Gurion and Eshkol premierships, this work recalls how, in the early 1950s, Israel secretly launched a project designed to achieve a nuclear option. It discusses how France initially supported the daring project and the attempt stood to engineer a dramatic change in Israel s strategic position vis-a-vis its neighboring Arab states and the wider international community. It recalls how Israel was adamantly opposed to the United States request to allow external...

Although much has been written about David Ben-Gurion, the founder of the State of Israel, he remains a deeply controversial figure. The author's aim in writing this study is not so much to defend or criticise Ben-Gurion as to give a detailed and accurate account of his attitude towards the Arab world in the period between the 1948 War and the Suez War. Shalom recognizes at the outset the distinction between policy and statements, between the operational and declaratory levels of policy. He is concerned not only with Ben-Gurion's practical policy towards the Arabs but with his views, his...

The book uses papers released from Israeli, British and US State Department archives -- which demonstrate the thinking behind the diplomatic moves relating to the western powers' commitment to Jordan and the pro-Nasser policy of the Kennedy administration. The book examines Israeli efforts to preserve the stability of the Jordanian monarchy under king Hussein, as well as the territorial status quo between Israel and Jordan, in terms of the manoeuvrings of powerful factions in Israel to take advantage of the crisis so as to make territorial gains.