CSPAN2 Book TV Encore Booknotes December 8, 2012
Ways the pivotal event for the creation of the modern middle east, the middle east that is the source of so much tension and controversy and bloodshed. The obvious reason we want to go back is to find out how the west bank, gaza, jerusalem, principally but also the Golan Heights came into possession of israel. That happened in june 1967. The war was a pivotal event for many profound reasons. For example, the sixday war really spelt a death nell for the movement of arab nationalism which was a Secular Movement in its most sublime form under Gamal Abdul Nasser of egypt. That war was debunked in ...
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