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...Israel. Assimilated or tradition-bound, religious or secular, Jews found common cause in their response to the 1967 challenge from the Arab world: Israel must be destroyed. The effect was electric. Recalls Jewish Historian Max Vorspan of the University of Judaism in Los Angeles: "The Six-Day War tapped Jewish feelings among peopie who didn't know they had any." It also tapped a flood of Jewish cash. Financial support for Israel, always strong, crested to a new high: the 750 Jewish families of Charleston, S.C., alone raised a remarkable $250,000 ?nearly $100 per person. Young people?...
UNTIL last week, virtually no progress had been made toward peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors since the end of the Six-Day War in June 1967. Then, in what King Hussein described as a "historical pronouncement," Jordan's plucky ruler outlined a bold, ambitious plan that could conceivably normalize relations between his country and Israel-with potentially far-reaching consequences for the entire Middle East...
Officially the Soviet Union and Israel have had no diplomatic contact since the Six-Day War in 1967. But unofficially, starting last November, at least six meetings have been held in Switzerland, Israel and Italy between representatives of the two countries. The purpose of the meetings, begun at the request of the Russians, is to seek grounds on which formal relations can be resumed...
...cold war he catered to their sense of sinister conspiracy, then by a more or less relevant act or report relieved the anxiety he had helped create. He predicted the Hungarian revolt, for in stance, and the Israeli-Arab Six-Day War. But these events occurred any way. Sentiment dictates that Gehlen be treated as the last of the Scarlet Pimpernels. He was, in fact, more like the last of the Prussians - a nostalgia the world could hardly afford even in his own time. ·Melvin Maddocks
...Six-Day War of 1967 created competition for Response. As Israel stayed longer and longer in conquered Arab territories, it came under fire from Arab organizations in the U.S., from black militants and the New Left, including some Jewish-born radicals. In Montreal, a paper set itself up as the other stand and took issue with the most virulent critics. The editors said they would condemn Israel's policies when they were "oppressive" but would never "work for her destruction...