Our Fathom Highlight this week is Gabriel Glickman making the case that Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s vendetta against America was pivotal in motivating his disastrous drift towards a humiliating defeat in the Six-Day War. Glickman advises that current American and Israeli officials take note of this episode as a lesson in how history can play out when the US tries and fails to turn a formidable foe into a friend.

Our voice of the week is Dr David Hirsh, Professor Alan Johnson, Dr Dave Rich and Rick Nye speaking on Israel, the global Left and global public opinion after the 1967 Six-Day War at the BICOM-Fathom-RUSI conference Israel and the Middle East: 50 Years since the Six-Day War, in London on 17 March 2017.

Our image of the week is the three former Israeli paratroopers who were photographed standing in front of the Western Wall in an iconic image from the Six-Day War, posing for a picture on 21 May during a stamp issuance in Jerusalem Old City.

1967 | How Nasser’s vendetta against America led to the Six-Day War

by Gabriel Glickman