The 6 Days War began 59 years ago today

I and friends of mine had the idea that the Arabs started it but Israel did, with American approval.

The Israeli General Staff had been thinking since 1948 that Israel needed more land. Had Kennedy been US President my guess is he'd probably have vetoed it. He was the last Israel-sceptical American leader.

I saw a cartoon published in an Israeli newspaper in the aftermath of the war. An Israeli tank with two soldiers visible in the turret crosses a desert that is empty except for an old woman in Arab dress on the horizon shaking her fist in anger. One Israeli soldier says to the other: "See even here, antisemitism"