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9 Reddit comments about Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East:

u/0ttervonBismarck · 5 pointsr/Conservative

> (Especially if you've read Oren's Book, "Ally", which pretty much details how Obama fought Israel in nearly every way they could. They kept the aid and helped with some emergencies in Israel when a wildfire got particularly out of control, but Obama's administration and state department has been openly Jew hating in it's actions.

Ally is a fantastic book (I've read it twice since I bought it a few months ago), and everyone should read it along with all of his others.

I'm currently reading Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present.

I also have Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East and plan on re-reading it after I finish P, F & F.

Ally, and the interviews he's done on the book (look for them on YouTube, there are many) are very illuminating about the Obama admin, his personal worldview & the Obama/Clinton/Kerry foreign policy. Some of the interviews in particular, add a lot to the book that wasn't quite expressly said. He reveals much more about his personal beliefs in his interviews than he did in the book. He tries to go to great lengths to maintain that the Obama admin was not anti-Israel, and I firmly believe, that he firmly believes that Obama wasn't anti-Semitic or anti-Israel.

However, an intelligent reader, can deduct that Oren also recognizes that the Democrats aren't good for Israel anymore. He's quite candid that the Obama admin had a deliberate policy of ending Israel's special relationship with the US. Even Hillary Clinton, who he identified as a big supporter of Israel still did nothing to advance peace in the Middle East or even have Israel's back.

Oren, a self described Scoop Jackson Democrat, knows that despite his best efforts to maintain bipartisan support for Israel, year after year, the Democrats drift further to the left, and that support for Israel among the Democrats is becoming nothing more than a talking point.

u/[deleted] · 5 pointsr/polandball

You'd also probably find the 6-Day War interesting to read about, both the military strategy and the politics surrounding it. I enjoyed this book on it: link

u/Dzukian · 4 pointsr/AskHistorians

The current Israeli ambassador to the US, Michael Oren, wrote a pretty comprehensive history of the Six-Day War, called Six Days of War. It's very readable and highly respected, so I'd very much recommend it.

u/forrey · 3 pointsr/Israel

I always recommend three books for people who want to start learning about the subject:

Righteous Victims by Benny Morris

Israel, a history by Martin Gilbert

and Six Days of War by Michael Oren

Between those three, you have a good introduction. The Morris and Gilbert are both comprehensive histories covering everything from the early Zionists to modern day. They have very different interpretations; it's not that either one is wrong, they just place emphasis on different aspects. And the Oren is the best overview of the six day war which was the most important war in terms of causes of the present day conflict.

u/daniel48 · 2 pointsr/worldnews

Well, so have you..?

And before you tell me that I "need to do some more reading bro", I've read Six Days of War.. What have you read besides a Wikipedia article?

u/ptitz · 2 pointsr/socialism

My claim is that you just made an unsubstantiated point like it was some sort of common knowledge. Maybe you should re-examine the rest of your knowledge before you go on making statements like IDF soldiers rape Palestinian women and the Israeli media covers it up. Because they have no basis in reality. What does have basis in reality is the absurdity in which activists are outraged over whether IDF actually rape anyone, or not. It's unclear what would be the more preferable scenario to them in those cases, the IDF soldiers being rapists or racists.

u/ChuckSmall · 2 pointsr/Documentaries

You certainly are a sucker for a one-sided opinion.

https://www.amazon.com/Six-Days-War-Making-Modern/dp/0345461924#reader_0345461924

Get this book. It explains the incident in great detail.

Michael Oren was Israeli ambassador to the USA, so it can not be said to be unbiased, but it is the other side of the coin.

Dammit, as a Canadian I know the USA has repeatedly been involved in "friendly fire" attacks on allies.

It happens.

u/_CyrilFiggis_ · 1 pointr/AskHistorians

I am currently reading Six Days of War. Oren writes extensively not only on the war itself, but on the factors leading to it as well (pg. 1-61 covers post WWII to May 1967, pg. 61-170 covers the direct lead-up [May 1967], pg. 170-305 covers the war itself, and the last 20 pages kind of wrap it up) .

u/PostHipsterCool · 1 pointr/worldnews

We can acknowledge, however, which side currently holds more unabashed hatred of the other side. Undeniably, Palestinians hate Israelis more than they themselves are hated in return. This has to do with a long line of anti-Semitism among the Arab populations (e.g. supporting the Nazis during WW2) and the systematic lack of education and freedom in Arab controlled lands. Fire up 'the street' against a common enemy and people forget to rebel against their own corrupt tyrants.

Source: Oren, M. B. (2003). Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East. New York: Presidio Press.