Authors: Jeremy Bowen
âThe daughters of Colonel': interview with Mordechai Bar, Jerusalem, 25 November 2002.
âIsraeli pilots were going to dive-bomb': PRO/AIR 77/581, March 1968: altitude and operational details in PRO/FCO 17/576, 29 June 1967.
âEverybody started to talk': interview with Hod.
âWe were sure that our Egyptian fighters': quote from Murtagi in El-Gamasy, p. 53.
âAt General Salah Muhsin's': interview with Salim.
âIt was the day of the final': interview with Kamel Sulaiman Shaheen, Deiral Balah, 30 November 2002.
âHis job was to keep an eye': interview with General Ibrahim El Dakhakny, Cairo, 19 December 2002.
âChief of Staff Rabin phoned': from IDF Southern Command publication, quoted in
Mission Survival,
p. 175.
âFurther south': Barker,
Six-Day War,
pp. 79â80; Pollack, p. 64.
âOrr gave his men a last briefing': Orr, âBamahane',
http://info.jpost.com
.
âsimple messages': IDF press release, 6 June 1967, quoted in
Mission Survival,
p. 177.
âIn his final briefing Tal': Bar On, p. 38.
âKing Hussein was at home with his family': Snow, p. 139.
âIhsan Shurdom lay': interview with Shurdom.
âThey asked us to give them': Hussein,
My âWar' With Israel,
pp. 60â1.
âWhen the King and the others': ibid., p. 66.
âbefore the war the Royal Jordanian Air Force': IDF 1983/1210/147.
âon Beni Sweif': interview with Bodinger.
âAt Inshas base': interview with Ronen.
âMurtagi's command post': interview with Murtagi.
âAmong the weaknesses': PRO/AIR 77/581, March 1968.
âEgypt's entire air defence': interview with Hadidi: he presided over the first court martial of the heads of the air force and the air defence system after the war.
âIn Tel Aviv': Weizman, p. 216.
âIsrael's air force commander': interview with Hod.
âMohamed Heikal told his readers': Heikal in
al-Ahram,
13 October 1967, quoted in
MER,
p. 214.
âBut it was yet another bonus': Barker, p. 62.
âAt Egypt's base at Bir Tamada': interview with Ali Mohammed, Cairo, 14 December 2002.
âVice President Shafei': interview with Hussein al Shafei, Cairo, 15 December 2002.
âMahmoud Riad, the foreign minister of Egypt': Riad, p. 23.
âTrevor Armbrister': Trevor Armbrister, âLetter from Cairo',
Saturday Evening Post,
29 July 1967, quoted in Chace, pp. 111â12.
âWinston Burdett': Burdett, p. 317.
âNo one at the Soviet Embassy': Sergei Tarasenko, âBlitzkrieg in Sinai',
Novoe Vremya,
No. 21, 1997, pp. 32â3.
âOn the streets': Armbrister in Chace, pp. 111â12.
âAt first, Cairo Radio': both quotes from Cairo Radio in War File, p. 71.
âI lay down': Draz, pp. 49â54.
âTal's division': Van Creveld, p. 184; Barker, pp. 80â1; Dupuy, pp. 249â52.
âOrr, following on up the road': Orr, âBamahane'.
âRamadan Mohammed Iraqi': interview with Ramadan Mohammad Iraqi, Cairo, 17 December 2002.
âUNEF troops': UN S/7930, 5 June 1967,
http://domino.un.org
âMajor El Dakhakny': interview with El Dakhakny.
âFayek Abdul Mezied': interview with Fayek Abdul Mezied, Qalqilya, 29 November 2002.
âThe bloodiest battle': Morris, pp. 413â18; Van Creveld, p. 141.
âOn 5 June': Mutawi, p. 135.
âAs well as the Jordanian army': interview with Tawfik Mahmud Afaneh, Qalqilya, 29 November 2002.
âMemdour Nufel had always wanted': interview with Memdour Nufel, Ramallah, 25 November 2002.
âVarious estimates': Sayigh, p. 139.
âDayan did a very clever thing': interview with Meir Amit, Herzliya, 26 November 2002.
âThis morning Egypt': Tel Aviv Cable 3924 to State, 5 June 1967, NSF, Box 23.
âHussein told Bull': Hussein, pp. 64â5.
âBullets narrowly missed': PRO/FCO 17/489: Pullar (Jerusalem) to FCO, 5 June 1967.
âIn a “distinctly chilly” way': PRO/FCO 17/492: Pullar (Jerusalem) to FCO, 5 June 1967.
âJohn Tleel, a Palestinian dentist': Tleel, p. 156; interview with Tleel, Jerusalem, 8 May 2002.
âAnwar Nusseibeh heard the news': Nusseibeh quote from Moskin, p. 104.
âOne crackpot scheme': Schliefer, p. 168.
â260 Enfield rifles, 20 Sten': ibid., p. 174.
âIn Amman the Jordanian minister': interview with Leila Sharaf, 8 June 2002.
âIn Tel Aviv at midday': Memo for LBJ from McPherson, 11 June 1967, NSC, Box 18.
âAt the end of June': report of Hod news conference,
Maariv,
30 June 1967, quoted in
Mission Survival,
p. 162.
âBy 0430 Walt Rostow': interview with Rostow.
âThe CIA recalled that': President's Daily Brief, 5 June 1967, NSC, Box 19.
âJohnson, still in his bedroom': Memo for the record: Walt Rostow's Recollections of 5 June 1967, Box 18; also Memo from George Christian, 7 June 1967, NSC, Box 19.
âBundy was made executive secretary': Memo for the record by Harold Saunders, 16 Mayâ13 June, 20 December 1968, NSF.
âA group of foreign correspondents': Armbrister in Chace, pp. 111â12.
âUS diplomats reported': Cairo Cable 8504 to State, NSC, 5 June 67, Box 23.
âOutside, the sky': Hewat (ed.),
War File,
pp. 66â7.
âAt 1110 Bakr': Armbrister in Chace, pp. 111â12.
âEric Rouleau': E. Rouleau, J. F. Held, S. Lacouture,
Israel et les Arabes: le 3me Combat,
quoted in
MER,
p. 217.
âThe speaker of the Egyptian': Sadat, p. 174.
âThe Jordanians gave up waiting': Mutawi, p. 127: Hussein, p. 65.
âIn Damascus in the morning': PRO/FCO 17/489: Evans (Damascus) to FCO, 5 June 1967.
âAt 5 a.m. Gideon Rafael': USUN Cable 5623 to State, 5 June 1967, NSC, Box 23.
âWithin minutes': interview with General Salahadeen Hadidi, Cairo, 12 December 2002.
âAnwar El Sadat': Sadat, p. 175.
âAround 11 o'clock': Boghdady's account from Abu Zikri, pp. 295â304.
âThe forces in the Sinai': Dupuy, p. 265.
âThe next phone call came from Nasser': El-Gamasy, p. 57.
âMohamed Hassanein Heikal': Mohamed Hassanein Heikal,
The Cairo Documents,
p. 247.
âVice-President Shafei': interview with Hussein al Shafei.
âA reporter from the Israeli army': Yosef Bar Yosef, IDF Magazine.
âSomehow, six Tupolev': Riad, pp. 24â5.
âIn Libya, the US': Cable from Benghazi to State, 5 June 1967, NSC, Box 23.
âTwo hours later': ibid.
âIn Yemen': Cable 750 to State, 5 June 1967, NSC, Box 23.
âIn Basra, in southern Iraq': Baghdad Cable 2089 to State, 5 June 1967, NSC, Box 23.
âAharon Yariv': IDF 1076/192/1974: Rabin and his staff meet.
âSaad el Shazli': interview with General Saad el Shazli, 16 December 2002.
âIhsan Shurdom': interview with Ihsan Shurdom, Amman, 5 June 1967.
âBelow them, on the runway': interview with Jordanian air force engineer, name withheld on request.
âThe squadron commander': Hussein, p. 72.
âIsrael bombed our airbases': ibid., p. 71.
âA year later': Dept of State from American Embassy, Amman, 3 June 1968; Memo of interview, 30 May 1968.
âIt was called Operation Tariq': Muttawi, p. 125.
âAccording to Ziad Rifai': Hussein, p. 70.
âPressing hard': Weizman, p. 205.
âThroughout the morning': IDF 1076/192/1974: discussion of war in Jerusalem.
âIn charge was Aaron Kamera': interview with Aaron Kamera, 5 May 2002.
âA group of men': Kibbutz Nachshon bulletin courtesy Moshe Yotvat.
âIsrael's 55th Paratroop Brigade': interviews with Jacov Hetz (Chaimowitz), Yokneam, 26 November 2002, and Arie Weiner, Jerusalem, 9 May 2002.
âOld municipal buses': interview with Hanan Porat, Kfar Etzion, 3 December 2002.
âHe shouted': Roth, p. 212.
âGeneral Rabin at GHQ': Narkiss, p. 117.
âThe Israelis had a plan': account of Government House battle interview with Asher Dar (Drizen), Tel Aviv, 19 April 2002; Hammel, p. 297; Pollack, p. 300.
âAn Israeli corporal': Rabinovich, pp. 116â17; Narkiss, p. 127.
âFor the second time': Bull, p. 115.
âAbu Agheila was': Dupuy, pp. 257â8.
âGeneral Narkiss's mobile': Narkiss, p. 123.
âThey put the line': Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson, Memo: âThe Hot Line Exchanges', 4 November 1968, NSC, Box 19.
âAt 0730': note from President's Appointment File, 5 June 1967, NSF, Box 67.
âThe runway was unusable': interview with Jordanian aircraft engineer; name withheld at his request.
âAfter the capture of Government House': interview with Asher Dar (Drizen)
âTeddy Kollek ⦠picked up Ruth Dayan': Kollek, pp. 190â3.
âWe will dine in Tel Aviv': Schliefer, p. 174.
âColonel Uri Ben Ari': interviews with Uri Ben Ari, Tel Aviv, 18 April 2002 and Hagai Mann, Jerusalem, 24 November 2002; Dupuy pp. 281, 295; Muttawi, p. 130; Pollack, pp. 303â4.
âAn Israeli tank commander': IDF 1076/192/1974: discussion of war in Jerusalem.
âAt about five': Kahalani, pp. 54â5.
âMajor Ehud Elad': Teveth, pp. 190â201.
âAt the State Department in Foggy Bottom': Memo from Joe Califano to LBJ; Press statement by Dean Rusk; Memo from Larry Levinson and Beu Wattenberg to LBJ; Memo from Walt Rostow to LBJ: all documents in NSC, Box 18.
âThe Soviet delegation': Shevchenko, p. 133.
âAs he was kissing': Eban,
Personal Witness,
p. 413.
âMillions of television': Shevchenko, p. 121.
âWhen at last instructions': ibid., p. 134.
âMoscow also took military': Isabella Ginor, âThe Russians Were Coming: The Soviet Military Threat in the 1967 Six-Day War',
Middle East Review of International Affairs,
Vol. 4 No. 4, December 2000.
âAmbassador Goldberg': Memo to Arthur Goldberg, chronology of Soviet delay on Security Council meetings, 26 June 1967, State Dept Historical project: both in NSC, Box 20; also Gideon Rafael,
Destination Peace,
pp. 153â8.
âBut in a private meeting': Shevchenko, p. 134.
âPresident Johnson summoned his new “Special Committee”: McGeorge Bundy on the hotline meetings and the Middle East, 7 November 1968, NSC, Box 19; Rostow, Memo for the Record, 17 November 1967, NSC, Box 18.
âWhen, in late afternoon': Memo for the Record, âWho fired the first shot', 19 December 1968; CIA analysis, 5 June 1967; Rostow, Memo for the Record, 17 November 1968: all NSF, Box 18.
âThe State Department's own legal advice': Memo from Leonard C. Meeker, legal adviser to Secretary of State Rusk, 5 June 1967, NSC, Box 18.
âAbu Deeb, the
moukhtar
': Hikmat Deeb Ali's story based on oral history in
Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians,
pp. 55â9.
âBy six, Brig. Gen. Avraham Yoffe's': Churchill, p. 112; Barker, p. 87.
âOri Orr': Orr, IDF Magazine.
âThe commander of Israel's southern front': Elon, pp. 11â12.
âRabin called Gavish': interview with Gavish.
âThe Egyptians do not like': quote in Churchill, p. 118.
âAriel Sharon rubbed his hands': Dayan, p. 48; account of Abu Agheila fighting from Van Creveld, pp. 186â7; Barker,
Arab-Israeli Wars,
p. 70; Pollack, pp. 67â70; Dupuy, pp. 258â63.
âOne of their doctors': Dayan, p. 56.
âBy eight in the morning':
War File,
pp. 74â8.
âAt Central Command': interview with General Hadidi.
âThe US Embassy': Cairo Cable 8539 to State, 5 June 1967, NSC, Box 23.
âAnwar El Sadat': Sadat, p. 176.
âThe editors in the newsroom': Elkins quote from Moskin, p. 69.
âless than fifteen hours': Elkins, dispatch quoted in
War File,
p. 70.
âThe Jordanian command': Schliefer, pp. 175â6.
âTel Aviv disappeared': Cameron, p. 337.
âSince mid-afternoon': Memos from Rostow to LBJ, 5 June 1967, NSC, Box 18.
Day Two
âThe Israeli paratroops': Fighting at Ammunition Hill based on interviews with Hagai Mann, Doron Mor, Jacov Hetz (Chaimowitz), Arie Weiner and Shimon Cahaner, Jerusalem, 9 May 2002; also Pollack, p. 305; Moskin, pp. 258â9; Muttawi, pp. 133â4.
âBut General Narkiss wanted': Narkiss, pp. 156â7.
âAt least sixty men were wounded': Diary of Central Command, 6 June 1967, quoted in
Mission Survival,
p. 225.
âWaiting in a jeep': interview with Yoel Herzl, Netanya, 6 May 2002.
âthis was fighting of a sort': Gur, quoted in Churchill, p. 134.
âA mile away in the Old City': Schliefer, p. 179.
âTank fire could have finished': Moskin, p. 272.
âYou'd approach a house': interview with Yoseph Schwartz, Jerusalem, 9 May 1967.
âthe noise was deafening': Rose, pp. 263â4.
âBefore the Israeli troops': Schliefer, p. 183.
âMoshe Yotvat': interview with Moshe Yotvat, Tel Aviv, 7 May 2002.
âAmong them was Yossi Ally': Kibbutz Nachshon bulletin, 6 June 1968.
âHikmat Deeb Ali': Hikmat Deeb Ali's story based on oral history in Lynd (ed.)
Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians,
pp. 55â9.
âIn Beit Nuba': Dodds and Barakat, p. 39; also PRO FCO 17/217: âJordan's 1967 Refugees': a research report by the American University of Beirut, 31 October 1967.