Bittersweet legacy of the Six-Day War
Leslie Susser
June 1, 2007
Was the Six-Day War a blessing or a curse for Israel\’s place in the Middle East and its long-term survival? Forty years on, the jury is still out.
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June 1, 2007
Historiographical struggles: Archives dispel claims Israel sought Six-Day War
Michael Oren
June 1, 2007
Great wars in history eventually become great wars about history. Only a few years after the last soldier leaves the battlefield, accepted truths about the nature of a military conflict and the motivations for it invariably come under assault by revisionists and counter-revisionists, whose vehemence can rival that of the original combatants. This again becomes the case with the 40th anniversary of the Six-Day War.
Israeli Institute tracks tricks and trends in terrorism
Tom Tugend
June 1, 2007
\”Here\’s what you do,\” counseled Ganor, executive director of the International Institute for Counter Terrorism (ICT) in Herzliya. \”Take aboard some explosives, because there\’s hardly any chance of two bombs being on the same plane.\” This was about the first and last light moment at the seminar hosted here recently at the Israeli consulate, with the weighty title, \”Combating International Terrorism: Current and Future Trends and Domestic Implications.\”\n
Pew Poll finds some U.S. Muslims support suicide bombing
Brad A. Greenberg
June 1, 2007
When Pew asked respondents whether \”suicide bombing and other forms of violence against civilian targets are justified in order to defend Islam from its enemies,\” 78 percent of all U.S. Muslims flatly condemned such attacks; 9 percent declined to answer or said they didn\’t know. But 8 percent of all Muslims — and 15 percent of younger Muslims — said attacks on civilians were justified \”often\” or \”sometimes.\”\n
‘Big Death’ evokes the muse of playwrights past
Robert David Jaffee
June 1, 2007
Mickey Birnbaum recently spent a year as an Inge Fellow in Independence, Kan., boyhood home of the late playwright William Inge, best known for his 1950s plays, \”Picnic\” and \”Bus Stop.\” Birnbaum\’s \”Big Death & Little Death,\” now being staged at the Road Theater Company in North Hollywood, does evoke playwrights of the past, but it is Thornton Wilder, not Inge, whose work has influenced Birnbaum.
History surprises in new ’67 War documentary
Tom Tugend
June 1, 2007
Israelis made few such films, even in the immediate post-war months, and now a new documentary to mark the 40th anniversary of the Six-Day War conveys a sense of somber reflection, rather than patriotic elation. \”Six Days,\” an Israeli-Canadian-French co-production directed by Israeli filmmaker Ilan Ziv, is subtitled, \”June 1967: 40 Years, New Revelations.\”
Rita, Israel’s reigning diva, plays intimate evening in L.A.
Orit Arfa
June 1, 2007
Only Rita could have pulled it off. Her famous \”One\” concert was the first time any Israeli recording artist has attempted such an extravagant, multimedia performance. With its crew of 50 tumbling dancers, grandiose costumes, pyrotechnics and video art, the $5 million production looked like it came right off the Las Vegas Strip.
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