ABSTRACT
On Friday, 2 June 1967 at 09:25 the expanded Ministerial Committee on Security met with the General Staff forum in the Pit war room. The government decision five days earlier to agree to a respite for international action under US leadership was still in force. The second meeting of the week between the military and civilian echelons (following the General Staff meeting with Eshkol on 28 May) also developed into an incisive clash between the two sides. What the generals had to say instantly dispelled the celebratory mood of the ministers, who only the evening before had raised their glasses to the establishment of a government of national unity.
