ABSTRACT
We do not attempt in this paper to give a detailed account of the Third ArabIsraeli War of June 1967. We try simply to set the conflict in its historical and political perspective, to examine its immediate origins, to account for the remarkable course which it took, and to discuss its significance for a world which shows fewer signs than ever of abandoning the use of violence as an instrument of policy. For many years to come the war and its antecedents will provide valuable data for analysts both of military and of political affairs. It is for them that this study is primarily intended, rather than for a general public for whom a number of vivid accounts have already been provided by skilled journalists and for whom more detailed histories will no doubt be produced in course of time.
