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Fathom 16 | Editorial

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On its 50th anniversary, this special issue of Fathom maps the causes, courses and consequences of a watershed event in Middle East History: the Six-Day War of June 1967. Michael Walzer, one of America’s foremost political thinkers, wrote his seminal book Just and Unjust Wars in 1977. He recalls that the book was born a decade earlier when, as an anti-Vietnam war activist, he found himself defending Israel’s pre-emptive strike against Egypt. ‘I had to explain the politics of distinction’...
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1967 | Remembering the Six-Day War
by Michael Walzer

One of America’s foremost political thinkers, Michael Walzer wrote his seminal book Just and Unjust Wars in 1977. The book was born a decade earlier...
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1967 | As long as the Arab world views Israel as a temporary aberration to be conquered, Israel will stand fast
by Einat Wilf

To bring a permanent end to the Israeli military occupation of much of the territory acquired during the 1967 Six-Day War, the Muslims, Arabs, and...
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1967 | The Six-Day War and Israeli society: an interview with Yossi Klein Halevi
by Yossi Klein Halevi

Yossi Klein Halevi is the author of the acclaimed book Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation....
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1967 | Nasser’s Antisemitic War Against Israel
by Matthias Kuntzel

Matthias Kuntzel is the author of the award-winning book Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11. In this essay in intellectual history...
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1967 | The Global Left and the Six-Day War
by Jeffrey Herf

Jeffrey Herf is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of History at the University of Maryland, College Park, US. He published Undeclared Wars with Israel:...
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1967 | Natan Alterman or Amos Oz? The Six-Day War and Israeli Literature
by Liam Hoare

Israeli writers were split by the Six-Day War. On one side was the poet Natan Alterman, whose Movement for the Complete Land of Israel tried...
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1967 | The Six-Day War was a watershed in Middle Eastern history
by Asher Susser

The Arab defeat in 1967 shattered the image of pan-Arabism as a vehicle of Arab modernisation. The Islamists could now argue that Western style secular...
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Book Review | The Master Plan: ISIS, al-Qaeda, and the Jihadi Strategy for Final Victory
by Kyle Orton

Brian Fishman's The Master Plan provides a comprehensive history of the Islamic State’s (IS) strategic evolution, covering the personalities and events that shaped one of...
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Book Review | The Resistible Rise of Benjamin Netanyahu
by Colin Shindler

Admiration and respect are not words usually attached to the persona of Benjamin Netanyahu by either friend or foe. Rather, it is his prowess as...
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