Which was a Secular Movement in its most sublime form under Gamal Abdul Nasser of egypt. That war was debunked in 1967. It opened the door to the entry of a new ideology into the middle east. That was an islamic ideology. That has had profound ramifications for everybody both in the middle east and in the United States as well. The sixday war also ended the period when the arabisraeli conflict was a state to state conflict, a conflict between israel and jordan israel and syria and israel and the conflict a new conflict emerged, a conflict that was principally one between israel and the palestinians. Before 67, you really didnt hear about the palestinians. And its not by accident that a year after the war ended, in 1968, the plo under Yasser Arafat emerges as this powerful force in the arab world. And weve been living with that, as well. The 67 war was also also inaugurated the strategic relationship between the United States and israel. People forget that israel fought the 67 war not w
Come out. So that, for us, was the process of creating the 9 11 commission. So you can imagine that when we finally did create it and it was signed into law by president bush the day before thanksgiving in 2002. For us, that was the beginning again. And this time, we had to meet the commissioners. Who are these people . There were a few bumps in the road along the way and when we got introduced to governor cain and congressman hamilton, we knew that we were in good hands and of course with we met the rest. We have richard and fred fielding. Jamie, jim thompson, unfortunately bob kerry and jjo lehman couldnt be us today. We knew we had great team of people and i had to say at the beginning of the 9 11 commission i couldnt imagine i would be standing here today and be so honored to introduce the remarkable americans. The individuals that not only came together 12 years ago to start their investigation into 9 11, and ten years ago to stand behind the unanimous report. Theyre still here to
Next some booktv encore booknotes. Michael oren. On booknotes in august 2002 to talk about his book six days of war june 1967 and the making of the modern middle east. The book chronicles the events in the sixday arabisraeli war which resulted in redraw borders changes in leadership and a new balance of power. This is a little us than an hour. Cspan michael b. Oren, author of six days of war june 1967 and the making of the modern middle east, why do we want to go back and look at that sixday war in 67 . Guest well, the sixday war was in many ways the pivotal, seminal event for the creation of the modern middle east, the middle east that we are witnessing today, the middle east that is the source of so much tension and controversy and bloodshed. The obvious reason we want to go back is to find out how the west bank, gaza and jerusalem principally, but also the Golan Heights, came into the possession of the state of israel. And that happened in june, 1967 but the war was also a pivotal e
For the members the journey started in 93 but for others sooner. I have a thing for dates so january 30th, 1992, i was returning home from boston to d. C. We had been fighting or i should say fighting i should say nicely advocating on behalf of other family members with lawmakers about issues related to the Victim Compensation fund. I was reading an article in the newspaper on the flight home. The article said president bush wanted to only have investigation into the intelligence failures that surrounded 9 11 and not anything else. I thought i was just an average, ordinary citizen who suddenly got caught up in a terrible tragedy like like so many others on september 11th. I couldnt imagine why the government wouldnt want to investigate to see it never happened again. We fought the 9 11 family members for many, many months. We have a lot of stories about that fight. Remember our rally in june, we didnt know d. C. Very well. Having a rally in june didnt send offend warning bells that it
Sort of returned back to how we used to do things, going through the private phone carriers where that data exists. And i think that will give a little more ease to peoples privacy, you know, concerns out there. So i think those reforms are good. I mean, i think nsa will tell you it may impact them a little bit. Overall, with respect to mr. Snowden, i cant tell you how much damage he has done to the National Security of the United States. There is a classified document in the capitol that ive read, and it hits us on almost every level that im not allowed to go into, but causing billions of dollars of damage to us, compromising our National Security, particularly with respect to russia and china. And so hes not a hero in my book, hes a traitor, and i think the nsa has done great work over the years protecting americans. Its one reason we havent had a major attack since 9 11. And finally on oversight, i did introduce a bill with adam schiff. The Intelligence Committee is one area where t