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Saturday, May 19, 2012

6 Days in June

This may be the most important film in Middle East politics in the history of the region. Most of the rhetoric constructed against Israel speaking about "aggression" is made laughable the moment you see what they face in May and early June of 1967. This film spends enough time on the critical weeks before the war, from the time the Soviet Union (admitting in the film) tried to exploit the strife as an opportunity to showcase Soviet weapons and political support. Once the Soviets started the ball rolling, the Arab leaders whipped the citizens in to blood-lust frenzy for war, while Israel literally tried everything to avoid war.Once the first air strike delivered Israel from this threat, never again could such a threat be taken as seriously,

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