ABSTRACT
The 'Tranquil Decade' Re-examined: Arab-Israeli Relations During the Years 1957-67
Menachem Klein
This essay takes issue with the claim that the period between the 1956 Suez War and the 1967 Six Day War was the 'tranquil decade' in regard to the Arab-Israeli military conflict. In doing so the author looks both at the relationship within the Israeli political-security elite throughout these years, and at the military and political interaction between Israel and several Arab states. Its conclusion is that the notion of the 'tranquil decade' was a conscious attempt to hide Israel's failure to achieve its long-term political objectives in the 1956 War.
