War or Peace? Syrian intentions baffle Israel
JERUSALEM — Syria’s continuing build-up of military forces in the Golan Heights concurrently with its ongoing peace overtures are baffling…
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The wars & local soldiers, 2007
107 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 6
Countdown to the Six-day War From the Ajn, May 12, 1967
ISRAELI defence analysts believe Syrian guerrillas operating from Lebanese territory are using Viet Cong-style tactics against Israeli towns and villages and that the…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Guide television Unsolved Mysteries of World War Ii Foxtel, The History Channel, Wednesday, May 9, 7pm
Enigma of the Swastika explores the ancient symbol of Tibetan and Indian religions and the Nazis’ reversal of the arms, which perverted this symbol of peace…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ANZAC Day at the Monte Residents at the three Montefiore campuses attended ANZAC Day services on April 25
Photos: Nadine Saacks Valerie Goldman (left), Margaret Goldman. Mark Myers (left) with his grandson Daniel Mendoza-Jones…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →New book: ‘Soviets planned Six-Day War’
JERUSALEM - In a new book that “totally contradicts everything that has been accepted to this day”, two Israeli authors claim that the 1967…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Countdown to the Six-day War From the Ajn, May 12,1967
AS the first reports of Egyptian troop movements in the Sinai filter in, the AJN covers Israel's celebrations to mark its 19th anniversary. The festivities…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Be’er Sheva park, statue, to honour ANZAC charge
AN Israeli memorial park has been likened to the memorials at Gallipoli and Kokoda, and will join a select handful of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Countdown to the Six-day War From the Ajn, May 26,1967
• GAMAL Abdel Nasser, Egypt’s president, announces an Egyptian army blockade against Israeli shipping to the Red Sea through the Gulf of Aqaba - and dares…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Six days of joy, forty years of anguish Israeli Down Under For the Diaspora, the Six-Day War was an unadulterated triumph, but for Israel, the troubles were just beginning
WE had an internal debate here at the AJN about the commemoration of the upcoming 40th…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Countdown to the Six-day War From the Ajn, June 2, 1967
EGYPT’S president Gamal Abdel Nasser declares his country is “ready to confront Israel” and says “the Soviet Union stands by us in this battle”. Jordan's King…
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BLOGGER Peter Kohn recalls the amazing feeling of triumph and delight in the Australian Jewish community after the 1967 Six-Day War…
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OVERSHADOWED by the raging debate over last year's Second Lebanon War, as well as the 40th anniversary of the Six-Day War, this week also marked the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →After the Iraq War is over: Cold War containment American Angle The US is considering a Cold War-type policy of “containment” - if and when it extricates itself from the disastrous war in Iraq
American forces in Iraq are in the middle of the surge announced in January bringing the total American…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Six-day War Commemorative Feature 40 years on... Israel’s six-day miracle
THE 1967 war galvanised the Australian Jewish community and other Diaspora Jewish communities like never before…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →World Israeli Generals Urge Olmert: ‘Talk peace to Syria to avert a Golan war’
JERUSALEM - Amid signs that Syria maybe preparing for war with Israel in the coming months, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reportedly is…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Does war have any winners? Bialik College vice-principal Michael Cohen was one of more than 860 Southern African Jews who volunteered to serve in Israel on the eve of the Six-Day War
THE period leading up to the war - from the closure of the Straits of Tiran by the Egyptians, and during the ensuing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Israel never sought this war Historical revisionist thinking has now embraced the Six-Day War, with some historians arguing that Israel acted needlessly and hastily in staging a pre-emptive strike against its Arab neighbours. But they’re wrong, writes noted historian Michael Open
GREAT wars in history eventually become great wars about history. Only a few years after…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Best of the blogs Six momentous days in 1967 Peter Kohn recalls the heady days of the Six-Day War in June 1967
I REMEMBER being in our shul, the Southern Liberal Congregation of Temple Beth Israel (Bentleigh Progressive Synagogue today). It was on the Shabbat…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →In Memoriam World War Ii Veteran
ARNOLD Lappert, a US Army radio technician who received the last messages from the island of Corregidor in the Phillipines before its surrender to the Japanese in May 1942, died at the age of 86…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →TV Guide Germany's War: Apocalypse Sbs, Friday, June 15,2.30pm
This episode focuses on the battle for Berlin in April 1945 that culminated in the storming of the Reichstag when the Russians invaded (in German and Russian, with English…
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