Six Days (61 page)

Teveth, Shabtai,
The Tanks of Tammuz
(London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968)

Tleel, John N.,
I am Jerusalem, Old City
(Jerusalem: Private Publication, 2000)

Turki, Fawaz,
The Disinherited: Journal of a Palestinian Exile
(New York and London: Monthly Review Press, 1972)

Weizman, Ezer,
On Eagles' Wings
(New York: Macmillan, 1976)

Wiesel, Elie,
A Beggar in Jerusalem
(London: Sphere Books, 1971)

Wright, Patrick,
Tank: The Progress of a Monstrous War Machine
(London: Faber & Faber, 2000)

Zikri, Wagih Abu,
The Massacre of the Innocents on 5 June
(Cairo: Modern Egyptian Bookshop, 1988 [Arabic])

Index

The index that appeared in the print version of this title does not match the pages in your eBook. Please use the search function on your eReading device to search for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below.

Arabic surnames prefixed by al- or el- (‘the') are listed under the following element, eg Asad, Hafez al-. Arabic surnames beginning with Abu, and Jewish surnames beginning with Bar, Ben or Bin, (‘son of') are listed under those elements, eg Ben-Gurion, David.

Abdullah, King of Jordan

Abdullah, Haj Arif

Abu Agheila (Sinai)

Abu Gharbiyeh, Bahjet

Abu Nahia, Zaid Salim

Abu Odeh, Adnan

Abu Rass family

Abu Shakrah, Shara

Acheson, Dean

Aden

Afaneh, Tawfik Mahmud

Aflaq, Michel

Afula (West Bank)

Agnon, S.Y.

Ahmad, Abdul Rahim Ali

Ajlouni, Maj. Firass

al-Ahram
(newspaper)

Al Akhbar
(newspaper)

Al-Arish (Sinai)

Alawi Muslims

Aleppo (Syria)

Alexandria

Ali, Maj. Gen. Amer

Ali, Brig. Atta

Ali, Maj. Ibrahim

al-Jazeera television

Allenby, Edmund, Lord

Allon, Yigal

Allon Plan

Ally, Yossi

Amer, Field Marshal Abd al-Hakim

before war

suggests withdrawal of UNEF

abortive meeting with commanders

conduct of war

after defeat

death (probable murder)

Amer, Salah

America,
USS

American University of Beirut

Amir, Yigal

Amit, Meir

Amman

Anderson, Robert

Aqaba, Gulf of

Aqsa mosque

Arab League

Arab Socialist Union

Arab summit, Khartoum

Arafat, Yasser
bis

Armbrister, Trevor

Arthur, G.C.

Asad, Maj. Gen. Hafez al-

Ashu, Shukri

Atassi, President Nureddin al-

Atlit prison camp

Austria

Ayoub, Mrs Fathi

Bagori, Lt. Mohammed Shaiki el-

Bakr, Kamal

Bar Kochba (warrior)

Bar Lev, Gen. Haim

Bar On, Col. Mordechai

Barbour, Walworth

Ba'th party

Battle, Lucius

Bawarshi, Elizabeth

BBC

Bedouin

Begin, Menachem

Beirut (Lebanon)

Beit Ha-Arava (West Bank)

Beit Nuba (West Bank)

Ben Ari, Col. Uri

Ben Eliezer, Binyamin

Ben-Gurion, David

Ben Moshe, Maj. Eitan

Ben Shaker, Prince Zaid

Ben Zur (driver)

Benghazi (Libya)

Beni Sweif airfield (Egypt)

Bethlehem (West Bank)

Bin-Nun, Captain Avihu

Bir Gifgafah (Sinai)

Bir Lahfan (Sinai)

Bir Tamada airfield (Egypt)

Bishop, Eric

B'nai B'rith organisation

Bodinger, Herzl

Boghdady, Abdul Latif

Bourghiba, President, of Tunisia

Bregman, Aaron

Brody, David

Bron, Gabby

Brown, George

Brown, Troy

Brummett, Gary

Bull, Gen. Odd

Bundy, McGeorge

Burdett, Winston

Burns, Findley

Cahaner, Shimon

Cairo

Cairo Radio

see also
Voice of the Arabs

Cameron, James

Camp David agreement

Canada

Canada Park (West Bank)

Caradon, Lord

CBS network

Chaimowitz, Jacov

Chester, Ron

Christian, George

Churchill, Winston (grandson)

Chuvakhin, Sergei

CIA

Clifford, Clark

Cohen, Eli

Cohen, Yeruham

Cooper, Chet

Dajani, Hamadi and Amina

Dakhakny, Maj. Ibrahim El

Damascus

Damascus Radio

Dayan, Gen. Moshe

on border clashes

made defence minister

early career and character

and preparations for war

war actions and policies

on Har Zion

collects ancient artefacts

and occupied territories

predicts terrorism

Dayan, Ruth

Dayan, Lt. Yael

de Gaulle, President Charles

Deeb, Abu

Deeb Ali, Hikmat

Deir al Balah (Gaza)

Deir Yassin massacre (1948)

Dharan (Saudi Arabia)

Diab, Dr Ali

Dighidi, Air Vice Marshal Abdel-Hamid El-

Drizen, Lt. Col. Asher

Eban, Abba

before war

career and character

diplomatic visits to US/UN

claims Egypt started war

apologises after bombing of
Liberty

and occupied territories

Egypt

in Suez war (1956)

pact with Syria

alert for war

blocks Straits of Tiran

military strength

and poison gas

pact with Jordan

on verge of war

Day One

reactions and propaganda

command and strategy failings

Day Two

Day Three to Five

Nasser's resignation and retraction

Day Six

Sinai returned to

aftermath of war

1973 war with Israel

Egyptian Gazette

Eilat (Straits of Tiran)

Eisenhower, President Dwight

Eitan, Col. Raphael

El Alamein

Elad, Maj. Ehud

Elazar, Gen. David

Elkins, Michael

Elon, Amos

Ennes, James

Epstein, Corp. Zerach

Eshel, Col.

Eshkol, Prime Minister Levi

before war

contacts with President Johnson

orders mobilisation

under pressure to start war

makes Dayan defence minister

haunted by prospect of war

warns King Hussein

lies about Egyptian aggression

and attack on Syria

encouraged by success

refuses UN call to end war

and occupied territories

Eshkol, Miriam

Eshkoli, Yaakov

Evans, Rowland

Evron, Ephraim

Faluja pocket

Farag, Bahjat

Farah, Abd al-Majeed al

Farra, Dr Muhammad al-

Fatah (Arafat's faction)

Fawzi, Gen. Muhammad

Fayed airfield (Egypt)

Fayek, Mohamed

fedayeen
(guerrillas)

Fedorenko, Nikolai

France

Gall, Sandy

Gamasy, Gen.

Garcia, Dan

Gat, Rubi

Gavish, Brig. Gen. Yeshayahu

urges starting war

threatened replacement by Dayan

commands Sinai campaign

Gaza

present day conflict

air raids

land invasion

occupation

Gazit, Shlomo

Gellhorn, Martha

Geneva Convention, Fourth

Ghanma, Maj. Asad

Giddi (Sinai)

Gil, Uri

Ginor, Isabella

Giora, Lt.

Glick, Yitzhak

Glubb, Sir John (Glubb Pasha)

Golan Heights

Goldberg, Arthur

Goma, Sha'rawi

Gonen, Col. Shmuel

Goren, Rabbi Shlomo

Great Britain

leaves Palestine (1948)

and Suez crisis (1956)

propaganda war

intelligence reports

plan to resolve crisis

sends arms to Israel

Tunis embassy attacked

protects Jews in Aden

and ‘the big lie'

and Saudi Arabia

and occupied territories

Gromyko, Andrei

Guderian, Gen. Heinz

Gur, Col. Mordechai

Gussing, Nils-Goran

Guttman, Shmarya

Hadidi, Gen. Salahadeen

Hadow, Michael

Hafiz, Mohamed Abd-el

Haganah (Jewish militia)

Halman, James

Hamdan, Ghuzlan Ayoub

Harman, Avraham

Hashemite dynasty

Hawkins, Mary

Hebron (West Bank)

Heikal, Mohammed

Helms, Richard

Herzog, Maj. Gen. Chaim

Herzog, Ya'acov

Herzl, Yoel

Hod, Brig. Gen. Mordechai

Hofi, Gen.

Howedi, Amin

Human Rights Watch

Humphrey, Vice President Hubert

Hussein, King of Jordan

grandfather assassinated

and raid on Samua

nature of rule

modernises Amman

and CIA

and Nasser

enters war

family

and Palestinian nationalists

and ‘the big lie'

seeks to limit defeat

accepts UN ceasefire

accepts defeat

restores relations with Britain and USA

after war

Husseini, Abdul Latif

Hutam, Salim

Hyman, Micha

Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia

Imwas (West Bank)

Independence Day parade (1967)

Indian forces

Inshas airfield (Egypt)

intifada

Iraqi, Ramadan Mohammed

Iraqi forces

Isma'il, Maj. Gen. Ahmad

Israel

violence to present day

1948 war with Arabs

after 1949 armistice

border clashes with Syria (1960s)

raid on Samua (West Bank)

build-up to war

military strength

discussions with USA

fear of a new Holocaust

leaders

last days before war

first air attacks

first land attacks

deception plan

defies UN ceasefire resolution

use of napalm

defeats Jordan

bombs USS
Liberty

defeats Egypt

war against Syria

treatment of prisoners

looting after victory

accepts ceasefire

‘David becomes Goliath'

reasons for going to war

occupying force

violates international law

treatment of refugees

see also
Jerusalem

Israel Defence Forces (IDF)

Armoured Corps

Israel Museum

Israel Radio

Iyad, Abu Ali

Jadid, Gen. Salah

Jazi, Brig. Gen. Rakan al-

Jebel Libni (Sinai)

Jenin (West Bank)

Jericho (West Bank)

Jerusalem

character and history

1948 to 1967:

start of fighting

battle for Government House

battle for East Jerusalem

battle of Ammunition Hill

battle for Old City

aftermath

reactions to taking of Old City

Dome of the Rock

King David hotel

Mount of Olives

Mount Zion

St George's cathedral

Wailing Wall
bis

Jirardi Defile (Sinai)

Johnson, President Lyndon Baines

warns of future problems

tries to prevent war

invites Egyptian Vice-President to talks

and outbreak of war

talks to Kosygin

consults advisers and Harold Wilson

and USSR's threat to intervene

accepts unconditional ceasefire

and UN peace plan

and refugees

Jordan

pact with Egypt

prepares for war

Air Force

misinformation

accepts UN ceasefire

Radio Jordan/Radio Amman

see also
Jerusalem; West Bank

Ju'beh, Nazmi Al-

Jundi, Col. Abd al-Karim al-

Kahalani, Lt. Avigdor

Kamera, Aaron

Kaplan, Captain Shamai

Kapusta, Micha

Karameh refugee camp

Kenan, Amos

Kfar Banyas

Kfar Etzion/Etzion bloc (West Bank)

Kfar Sava (Israel)

Khalidi, Haifa

Khalidi, Hazim

Khalil, Brig. Abdel Moneim

Khammash, Gen. Amer

Khan Younis (Gaza)

Khartoum

Khatib, Governor Anwar al-

Khouri, Samir Elias

Kibbutz Gadot

Kibbutz Nachshon

Kirkbride, Sir Alec

Kislev, Col. Shmuel

Kollek, Mayor Teddy

Kony, Mohammed el-

Kook, Rabbi Abraham Isaac

Kook, Rabbi Zvi Yehudah

Kosygin, Alexei

Kovner, Abba

Krim, Mrs Arthur

Kulthum, Umm

Kuneitra (Golan)

Kuwait

Kuznetsov (Soviet minister)

Labib, Gen. Ismail

Latrun (West Bank)

Lebanon

Lev, Igal:
Jordan Patrol

Lewis, Lt. Cdr. Dave

Lewis, Jesse

Liberty,
USS

Libya

Lifta (West Bank)

Lior, Col. Israel

Livon, Mordechai

Lod/Lydda (Israel)

looting

Lourie, Arthur

Luxor airfield

McCloskey, Bob

McCullin, Don

McGonagle, Captain William

McNamara, Robert

McPherson, Harry

Mafrak airbase, Jordan

Mahrouss, Corp. Kamal

Makhus, Dr Ibrahim

Marie-Therese, Sister

massacres by Israelis

Meir, Golda

Mendler Col. Albert

Mezied, Fayek Abdul

Milstein, Uri

Mir, Ahmad al-

Mitla (Sinai)

Mohamed, Prince of Jordan