The first book to deal primarily with Ben-Gurion's strategic-political perceptions and his images of Israel, the Arab world, and their mutual realtions[...]
The outbreak of the Six Day War was primarily the outcome of the tense relations between Israel and Syria in the period preceding the war. Aware of Israel's overall military superiority, the radical Syrian regime believed that the only way to defeat the "Zionist entity" was by guerilla warfare, term[...]