Authors: Jeremy Bowen
âin command, training, equipment': PRO/FCO 17/576, ibid.
âenjoys superiority':
Jewish Chronicle,
31 March 1967, quoted in PRO/CAB 158/66, 17 April 1967.
âIsrael's major strategic': Helms and Wheeler, NSC Meeting, 24 May 1967, NSC, Box 17.
ânuclear weapons': Memo from Katzenbach to LBJ, 1 May 1967, NSC, Box 17; also Rostow to LBJ, 8 May 1967, NSF, Box 145.
âinsufficient to launch': âIsraeliâArab confrontation, May 1967', op. cit.
âThe generals were left fuming': Raviv, p. 93.
âglory of the television cameras': Rostow to LBJ, 9 June 1967, NSC, Box 18.
âSince 1948': Eban,
Personal Witness,
pp. 1â41.
âEban arrived': ibid, p. 374; CIA Cable, âImpact of the ArabâIsraeli crisis on the French political scene', 16 June 1967, NSC, Box 18.
âIn London': Eban, p. 378.
âA couple of days earlier': PRO/PREM 13/1617, 23 May 1967: note of a meeting between PM, Foreign Secretary and Defence Secretary at 10 Downing Street.
âEban did a lot of thinking': Eban, p. 381.
âbiggest crowd': Rostow account of meeting with Evron, NSC, Box 17.
âone of the severest shocks': Eban, p. 382.
âRead it': Rafael, p. 143.
âWe have no problems on the ground': Lammfrom, pp. 535â7, documents 166 and 167; telegram from Eshkol to Eban, 25 May 1967.
âa hypochondriac cable': Eban,
Personal Witness,
pp. 382â3.
âIsrael had wind': interview with Hussein al Shafei, Cairo, 15 December 2002.
âplaying a political game': CIA Cable, UAR/Jordanian discussion, 25 May 1967, NSF, Box 105; and background on Jordan/UAR defense pact and reexamination of Jordan's position as a result of it, 4 June 1967, NSF, Box 106.
âDuring the ten-minute flight': interview with Walt Rostow, Austin, 12 September 2002.
âJohnston had the nasty feeling': NSC, Chronological guide, Box 17.
âThe president would buzz': interview with Rostow.
âWaiting in Rostow's office': details of Israeli arguments in Dept of State Memo of interview between Secretary Rusk and Abba Eban, 25 May 1967, NSC, Box 17.
ânot “a serious estimate”': Memo to LBJ from Rostow, 25 May 1967, NSC, Box 17.
âUpstairs, in the Oval Office': Johnson's furniture is at the LBJ Library in Austin, Texas.
âIsrael was not showing': Morning Intelligence Mid-East Sitrep (as of 0700): Memo to LBJ from Rostow, 28 May 1967, NSC, Box 17.
âthe only difference between': Oral History, Robert McNamara, LBJ Library, AC-96-10.
âIf the Israelis attacked first': quoted in Parker,
Six-Day War,
pp. 216â17.
âSenior Soviet officials': Moscow Cable 5170, 27 May 1967, NSF, Box 105.
âThe CIA's conclusions': CIA Office of National Estimates, 26 May 1967: Memo for the Director, NSF, Box 115.
âwe are not inclined': letter to Wilson, 26 May 1967, NSC, Box 17.
âEban and his team': Rostow report of meeting with Ephraim Evron, No. 2 at Israeli Embassy, 26 May 1967, NSC, Box 17; State 202587 flash telegram, 26 May 1967, NSF, Box 105.
âSecretary of State Dean Rusk': Memorandum of interview, RuskâEban, 25 May 1967, NSC, Box 17.
âI did not get the impression': Eban,
Personal Witness,
p. 383.
âAlong about sundown': Meeting on the ArabâIsraeli Crisis, 26 May 1967, NSC, Box 17.
âjust a six foot four friend Texan': Raviv, p. 100.
âunilateral action': Winston Burdett,
Encounter With the Middle East,
p. 254.
âsome guy out here':
New York Times,
10 July 1967.
âThe Israelis were finally ushered': Memo of interview, 26 May 1967, NSC, Box 17.
âthey came loaded for bear': NSC, Chronological guide, Box 17.
âEban left immediately': Rafael, p. 145.
âEban and his team arrived': Raviv, p. 102; interview with Moshe Raviv, Herzliya, 6 May 2002.
âThey feel they can finish Nasser off': description of Barbour from Hersh, pp. 159â61; Allon's comments in White House situation room Cable to LBJ, 29 May 1967; Ambassador Barbour's comments and rumours about Eban's ousting in Walt Rostow to LBJ, 28 May 1967, both NSC, Box 17; threat to Eban, also in Rafael, p. 160; Yariv's comments to Ambassador Hadow, PRO/FCO 17/498; also
MER,
p. 197.
âreached upper decibel range': Cairo 8072, Sitrep, Box 105, 27 May 1967; State Dept Situation report, 28 May 1967, NSC, Box 17.
âPhysically he was': Sandy Gall,
Don't Worry About the Money Now,
p. 276.
âIt was a confident': Text of Nasser's news conference, 28 May 1967, NSF, Box 17.
âsleepwalker speaking in an exalted trance of fatalism': Burdett, pp. 281â2.
âAmerican diplomats': Cable, Cairo 8218 to State, 30 May 1967, NSC, Box 17.
âThey dismissed a theory': White House Situation Room to LBJ, ArabâIsrael situation report, 0430, EDT 28 May 1967, NSC, Box 17.
âAfter Nasser had finished': Ziad Rifai's account in Hussein of Jordan, pp. 38â42.
âNew light': CIA Intelligence Information Cable, 25 May 1967, Box 105; Background on Jordan/UAR defense pact, 4 June 1967, Box 106, NSF.
âtraditional Arab friends': Amman Cable 3775, 26 May 1967, NSC, Box 17.
âwould result in an Israeli occupation': Samir A. Muttawi,
Jordan in the 1967 War,
pp. 106â7; Hussein quotes, p. 103: interview with Leila Sharaf, Amman, 8 June 2002.
âJust after dawn': account of Hussein in Cairo from Hussein of Jordan,
My War With Israel,
as told to Vick Vance and Pierre Lauer.
âI knew that war was inevitable': King Hussein speaking to Avi Shlaim, 3 December 1996,
New York Review of Books,
15 July 1999.
âHe told the officers': interview with Prince Zaid Ben Shaker, Amman, 7 June 2002.
âThe official army minder': interview with Winston Churchill, London, 17 June 2002.
âThe crisis was especially frightening': letters in ISA G 6301/1051; letters to Eshkol in Prime Minister's Office file.
âWe have nothing for Israel except war': Cairo, Voice of the Arabs in Arabic, 1738 GMT, 18 May 1967, BBC SWB ME/2470/A/6.
âBlack jokes about': interview with David Rubinger, Jerusalem, 24 November 2002.
âSuddenly everyone was talking about Munich': Muki Tzur from Kibbutz Ein Gev in
The Seventh Day,
p. 19.
âDuring May, more and more men':
MER,
pp. 373â4.
âsunny, sparsely populated':
New Yorker,
17 June 1967; reprinted in Chace, pp. 101â11.
âHad there been an injury in the family?': Schliefer, p. 148.
ânothing had changed': Morning and Afternoon Intelligence Sitrep, 28 May 1967, NSC, Box 17.
ârunning around like mice': Bregman and el-Tahri, p. 77.
âWe felt as if the burden was on our shoulders': Sharon, p. 184.
âNobody offered Eshkol any refreshments': Narkiss, p. 67.
âtongue-lashing': Rabin, p. 72.
âthe IDF's power to deter': an account of meeting from Haber, pp. 195â9; also interviews with Gavish, and with General Elad Peled, Jerusalem, 25 November 2002.
âMy purely military': interview with Gavish.
âOne of them': Elon,
A Blood-Dimmed Tide,
p. 9.
âLetters criticising': ISA G 6301/1054âII, Prime Minister's Office, correspondence.
ânon-committal, uninspiring': Yael Dayan, p. 9.
âMost Israelis thought her father': Henry (ed.),
The Seventh Day,
p. 23.
âthe leadership of the nation': Peres,
David's Sling,
p. 234.
âPublic doubt and derision': Moshe Dayan, p. 266.
âHe had two hobbies': interview with Lova Eliav, Tel Aviv, 2 December 2002.
âwalked in with a heavy revolver': Moshe Dayan, p. 28.
âmunching raw onions': ibid., p. 30.
âthe fate of our generation': quoted in Naphtali Lau-Lavie,
Moshe Dayan,
p. 142.
âplaying politics': Haber, p. 157.
âhigh command of the army': PRO/Tel Aviv to FCO, Ambassador Hadow reporting interview with Gen Yariv, 31 May 1967, FCO 17/487.
âa thundering voice': Haber, pp. 199â201.
âHe told the cabinet':
MER,
p. 371.
âNobody had told Gavish': interview with Gavish.
âHe said “come quickly to Tel Aviv”': interview with Miriam Eshkol, Jerusalem, 9 May 2002.
âThe British police chief': Segev, p. 475.
âHe acted quite naturally': Haber, p. 202.
âIt wasn't just a personal insult': interview with Gavish.
âThe IDF has never': Haber, p. 215.
âEven Colonel Lior': ibid., p. 202.
âArab confidence hung in the air': Abdullah Schliefer, pp. 143â45.
âAdnan Abu Odeh': interview with Adnan Abu Odeh, Amman, 6 June 2002.
âI am impressed' Lisbon cable 1517, 2 June 1967 eyes only for President and Secretary of State from Robert Anderson NSF Box 115.
âsport clothes' ibid.
âRiad told him': Riad, p. 21.
ânot economic but purely psychological' Cairo cable 8349, 2 June 1967 NSC Box 18.
âa terrible bloodbath': Memo to President from Rostow, 2 June 1967, NSC, Box 18.
âthe capability of these forces': Memo to the Secretary of Defense from Wheeler, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 2 June 1967; NSC, Box 18.
âOn 2 June': IDF 3/46/1980: minutes of Special Meeting of the General Staff with the cabinet defence committee, 2 June 1967.
âbarbaric and inhuman': Brown, p. 35.
âHe was very impressive': interview with Meir Amit, 26 November 2002.
âthe strident Arab nationalism': PRO/FCO 17/489: Pullar (Jerusalem) to FCO, 3 June 1967.
âLate in the afternoon': Narkiss, pp. 87â92.
âIf the chief of staff': interview with Mordechai Hod, Tel Aviv, 7 May 2002.
âHe gave a terrific show': interview with Churchill.
âI propose to discontinue': PRO/FCO 17/489: Hadow (Tel Aviv) to FCO, 4 May 1967.
âAt Kibbutz Nachshon': Kibbutz Nachshon bulletin.
âRan Pekker': interview with Ran Pekker Ronen, Herzliya, 25 November 2002.
âThe air force's own intelligence': interview with Air Vice Marshal Abdel-Hamid El-Dighidi, quoted in Egyptian weekly
Al-Ahali,
29 June 1983; reprinted in
al-Ahram,
5â11 June 1997.
âIt is now increasingly clear': Memo from Rostow to LBJ, 4 June 1967, NSC, Box 18.
âThe Soviet ambassador to the UN': Shevchenko, p. 133.
âTomorrow it will start': interview with Miriam Eshkol, Jerusalem, 9 May 2002; also Bregman and El Tahri.
âWar looked inescapable': Cable Amman 4040 to State, 4 June 1967, NSC, Box 23.
Day One
âBrigadier-General Ariel Sharon': Yael Dayan, pp. 33â4.
âHod managed four hours' sleep': interview with Mordechai Hod, Tel Aviv, 7 May 2002.
âBattle order of the officer': AP,
Lightning Out of Israel,
p. 53.
âSecrecy and surprise': interview with Hod.
âRan Pekker's alarm': Weizman, p. 179; Ran Ronen, âHawk in the Sky',
Yediot Aharonot,
2002.
âThe same thing': interview with Hod.
âKing Hussein's warnings': interview with Ihsan Shurdom, Amman, 5 June 2002.
âPekker ⦠made sure coffee': Ronen, interview and âHawk in the Sky',
Yediot Aharanot,
2002.
âSimilar briefings': Avihu Bin-Nun's eyewitness account from Bamahane, IDF Magazine, reprinted in
Jerusalem Post.
âIn those days': Weizman, p. 69.
âBy 1963': interview with Herzl Bodinger, Yad Mordechai, 1 December 2002.
âThe pilots made models': PRO/AIR 77/581.
âHod and his commanders': interview with Hod.
One of the pilots': interview with Uri Gil, Einhod, 6 November 2002.
âThe next stage': interview with Bodinger.
âThe soldiers of': Orr's eyewitness account from Bamahane, IDF Magazine, reprinted in
Jerusalem Post.
âThe headquarters': interview with Major-General Salahadeen Salim, Cairo, 14 December 2002.
âdown 30 per cent': official Egyptian government figures quoted by Salim.
âThe IAF had five': IAF summary of statistics, IDF 1983/1210/147.
âdinned into them': Avihu Bin-Nun, âBamahane', IDF magazine reprinted
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âRan Pekker thought': Ronen,
Yediot Aharonot,
2002.
âHerzl Bodinger and': interview with Bodinger.
âThe suspense was incredible': Weizman, p. 211.
âIn 1966, he had claimed': Schiff, p. 198.
âThe routes the aircraft': interview with Hod.
âBin-Nun swung his Mystere': Avihu Bin-Nun, âBamahane'.
âCairo was an hour': interview with Hod.
âIn his Vautour Bodinger': interview with Bodinger.
âThe defence minister': Weizman, p. 214.
âBin-Nun and his flight': Avihu Bin-Nun, âBamahane'.
âIsrael had deliberately kept': Weizman, p. 215.
âThey had good maps': PRO/AIR 77/581.
âThanks to excellent, extremely comprehensive intelligence': Black and Morris, pp. 206â35.
âPilots had a target book': interview with Shurdom.
âGiving details of the layout': interview with Hod.
âTahsen Zaki': Tahsen's story in Draz, pp. 5â20.
âthe beating heart of Arabism': Foreign Broadcast information service daily report No. 108, 5 June 1967, NSC, Box 19.
âHe was about to get': interview with Shafei.
âHe could not break': Hod in
Paris Match,
quoted in
Hussein of Jordan,
p. 103.