Ways the pivotal event for the creation of the modern middle east, 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, jerusalem, principally but also the Golan Heights came into possession of israel. That happened in june 1967. The war was a pivotal event for many profound reasons. For example, the sixday war really spelt a death nell for the movement of arab nationalism 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 egypt. This bec
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
Staff tipped. Are they paid enough. Lift off bringing space station flights back to america. The fight against i. S. I. L. Includes more than air strikes. The u. S. Combat troops may be needed on the ground. President obama made it clear, there would be no u. S. Combat troops. General dempsey and chuck hagel said theyd review future needs on a casebycase basis, hagel said expanded air strikes would help to push i. S. I. L. Out of iraq, and both pointed to a newly formed coalition as a way to engage regional arab countries in that fight. After a day of questioning, its uncertain whether congress believes the mission should move forward. Tuesdays hearing was the first chance u. S. Senator had to question the president Obama Administration on plans to fight i. S. I. L. Pentagon officials went to capitol hill, to convince congress they have a plan for a group that calls itself Islamic State of iraq and levant or i. S. I. L. 1200 military assessors are assessmenting and advising iraqi troop
Gumbo, italian wedding food. Chicken pot pie. Thats it for us. Special report is next. This is a fox news alert. Im bret baier in washington. Isis terrorists have brutally murdered a jordanian hostage. We will hear from one lawmaker shortly. Tonight we are going to show you some of the images isis has put out from a long slickly produced video. The images are brutal. They are graphic. They are upsetting. You may want to turn away. You may want to have the children leave the room right now. But the reason we are showing you this is to bring you the reality of islamic terrorism and to label it as such. We feel you need to see it so we will put up one of the images on your screen right now. This scene is the culmination of a 22minute video where he is seen in the cage and is burned alive in real time engulfed in flames until he dies. As the video continues a front loader dumps the rubble from nearby buildings on top of his charred body. The video states that the site of the brutal murder
Ehud olmert said it is proof that israel today does not want peace with the palestinians. Then a new series on gps best practices on beating covid19. This one from an unusual location, the original epicenter, wuhan, china. Finally, Malcolm Gladwell on race, racism and policing in america. First, heres my take. John boltons book tells us very little that we didnt already know about Donald Trumps Foreign Policy. He paints a picture of a president who is ignorant, unaware, for example, that britain is a Nuclear Power and that finland is not part of russia. Trump had few fixed Foreign Policy views. At times hes been inclined to invade venezuela and other times not spd at all. Bolton does say the real problem with donald trump is not his ignorance or his policies but his character. President trump has, for the most part, settled into conventional republican policies. He has cut taxes for the rich, rolled back regulations, appointed conservative judges and lavished money on the defense depar