{"id":21693,"date":"2017-07-25T08:07:37","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T07:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=21693"},"modified":"2017-07-26T09:01:52","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T08:01:52","slug":"fifty-years-since-the-six-day-arab-israeli-war-of-1967","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=21693","title":{"rendered":"Fifty years since the Six Day Arab-Israeli War of 1967"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At this time of year, my professional commitments are light, so I sign up for a number of short courses at the City Lit further education college in central London. My first such course of this summer was delivered by Dr Noman Hanif &#8211; UK born of parents from Kashmir &#8211; and it was\u00a0titled <em>&#8220;The impact of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war on contemporary politics&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In fact, we discussed the war very little and contemporary politics hardly at all because Dr Hanif became stuck in trying to explain the historical background to the conflict. We actually started with a reference to the expulsion of the Jews by the Roman Emperor Hadrian in AD 135 and, by the time we reached 1967, we were two and a half hours into a three hour course.<\/p>\n<p>Our lecturer posed the question: what is this war about? His answer was &#8220;The attempt to secularise a religiously rooted conflict&#8221;. In fact, he spent so much time arguing that essentially this is not a dispute capable of territorial solution and emphasising the fundamental religious position of Jews and Arabs respectively that, at the very end of the course, I asked: &#8220;Are you arguing that the Arab-Israeli problem is fundamentally insoluble?&#8221; He answered: &#8220;Yes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>If you want a short background to the Arab-Israeli conflict, you can read my book review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/history2.html#ME3\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to know specifically about the Six Day War of 1967, the BBC has a useful account <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-39960461\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this time of year, my professional commitments are light, so I sign up for a number of short courses at the City Lit further education college in central London. My first such course of this summer was delivered by Dr Noman Hanif &#8211; UK born of parents from Kashmir &#8211; and it was\u00a0titled &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21693"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21705,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21693\/revisions\/21705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}