The Six-Day War, 48 years on | Opinions
It was the French philosopher Albert Camus who once wrote that you cannot create experience, you must undergo it. I recalled his words earlier this week when I read Hisham Melhem’s powerful reflections on the Naksa – setback is as good a translation as any – of 1967 and its spillover into the Middle East region.
Melhem’s piece shook my imagination enough that I, too, started thinking of my own experiences stretching back to June 1967 and to what my generation has grown up to call – numbly – “The Six-Day War”.
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