From the Six-Day War to the 12-Day War: Israel’s Military Decline

By Jeremy Salt

Despite the signs of steady strategic decline since 1967, Israel remains fixated on war as the solution to the problems it has created for itself through its lawlessness and brutality.

The ‘Six-Day’ or Ramadan War of 1967 was a watershed in Middle Eastern history. A small state went to war to create a much bigger state. The whole of Palestine was absorbed. The claim of a…