348. How 1967 Changed The Middle East Forever (Part 3)

Well, hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnand. And me, William Durymple. And over the last two episodes, we have been discussing the 1967 Arab-Israeli war between Israel and its neighbors, Egypt, Syria, and Jordan. During the Six-Day War, Israeli forces captured the Golan from Syria, the Sinai Desert from Egypt, and East Jerusalem and the West Bank from Jordan.

The Arab states lost this war despite having larger armies, and today we are discussing the terrible aftermath for the defeated Arabs. And this is obviously something which is hugely current for us at the moment. This is in many ways the beginning of the imperial Israel that we see today. Israel this year has bombed six of its neighbors. There are currently a million Lebanese displaced in Lebanon.

And you can trace many of these current catastrophes and uh this current conflict to the events of the 1960s and the 1970s and the early 1980s. And we have a wonderful guest, Anita, don't we? We well we do and I'm thrilled to be able to announce him again, friend of the show, Eugene Reagan is with us, fellow of St. Antony's College, author of The Arabs.

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