Division Quote by Yitzhak Rabin

The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with…

— Menachem Begin

“outbreak of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war was not a result of some global strategy, but of a set of specific, regional calculations and miscalculations;…

— Fred Halliday

“Despite its disapproval of Nasser's action and the pro-Soviet direction in which he was leading Egypt, the [Eisenhower] administration saw Nasser's foreign policy as…

— John Spanier

“Not one of our political spokespeople—the same is true of the Arabs since Abdel Nasser’s time—ever speaks with self-respect and dignity of what we…

— Edward W. Said

“THE BEGIN YEARS HAD not been easy ones for Israel, but they had been important. Israel had made peace with its once most potent…

— Daniel Gordis

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

— Anthony Eden

As one Israeli said, "It's a big mistake for Israel to say it 'won' the war, when there was no war. There were no…

— Norman Finkelstein

We in Israel certainly have a great interest in seeing peace, stability, and security restored to Egypt. We want nothing more than peace for…

— Michael Oren

“Nasser was dead. Israel’s military superiority had effectively neutralized any Syrian threat. Pan-Arabism was a thing of the past. Yet once again, Israel found…

— Daniel Gordis

“But not all Gaza residents were committed to the war. A reporter asked one of the Arabs what he most wanted. He was a…

— Robert J. Donovan

Israel wants to make it clear to the government of Egypt that it has no aggressive intentions whatsoever against any Arab state at all

— Levi Eshkol

Preemptive war is what Israel did in '67 with Arab armies on its borders.

— Molly Ivins