Linda’s Reviews > Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East > Status Update
Linda
is on page 80 of 460
“Syria’s sponsorship of Palestinian guerrilla attacks became so pronounced that American officials abandoned their long-standing opposition to Israeli retaliations. ‘An attack from a state is an attack by a state.’”
— Jan 31, 2026 01:58PM
Like flag
Linda’s Previous Updates
Linda
is on page 76 of 460
Syria’s personal reason to escalate tension with Israel: internal division. “Often the gray boredom of radically socialist Damascus was broken by explosions and the crackle of gunfire... Ranking officers and even government ministers were routinely arrested, and death sentences handed down for a range of political crimes, from ‘spreading confessional bigotry’ to ‘hindering the socialist order’.”
— Jan 31, 2026 01:47PM
