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April 30, 2006

Book Review: Six Days of War

"The Temple Mount is in our hands."

With those words, it was announced to the world the holiest Jewish site was once again in Jewish hands. We can only imagine what people of the Jewish faith felt at that moment. But there were more than emotions during in those June days of 1967 as Israel struggled to survive. There were facts, ideologies, biases and fears shaping the landscape of war. Historian Michael Oren attempts to bring his readers all that.

Six Days of War, Oren's history of the six-day war succeds well beyond the standard re-telling of the war stories. (Although he is great at that.) His presentation of the geo-political considerations of each actor, and the worldviews behind those considerations, may well be without parallel. This book should be one of the first read not only by those looking to understand the "Arab-Israeli" conflict, but by those trying to understand the worldwide Jihad as well.

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Posted by Ruy Diaz at April 30, 2006 12:02 AM

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