Volume 11, Number 2 · August 1, 1968
The Israel-Arab Deadlock
By Amos Elon
Israel and World Politics
by Theodore Draper
Viking, 278 pp., $2.25 (paper)
The Road to Jerusalem
by Walter Laqueur
Macmillan, 350 pp., $6.95
Now that most of the fighting is over, and only sporadic raids and counterraids continue across the River Jordan, the origins of the third Arab-Israeli War are likely to be again obscured by events, as were those of the first (1948) and the second (1956). New blunders blot out old. Arab intransigence continues; the Israelis may yet discover that a great victory, as Nietzsche wrote, may be 'for human nature…more difficult to bear than a defeat.' The forces that caused the last war remain. They may soon be responsible for bringing about still another one.
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