“But we must carry on with what we began here sixty years ago, and in doing so save perhaps a remnant.”

Of course, when Israelis send soldiers into Gaza or the West Bank to deal with violent radicals, innocent Palestinians are killed, property gets destroyed, and the cycle of violence and revenge continues, which is exactly what these radicals are after.

ISRAELIS EVERYWHERE HAD PASSIONATE reactions to what was unfolding. To religious Israelis, the mere fact that the Jewish state had averted disaster—and in such a dramatic and decisive fashion—was a sign of nothing less than God’s hand active in human history. Some believed that the war was the herald of the age of the Messiah. It seemed to them tha

The campaign of terror began in earnest in the mid-1960s. In

As Israelis would soon learn, decisions they made about the territories captured—and the people who lived there—would create challenges to the Jewish state that were no less existential than the threats that the Six-Day War had sought to end.

BETTER EQUIPPED because of the weapons they had clandestinely imported during the first truce and single-minded in their determination to survive, Israeli forces gradually consolidated their gains throughout the country. The United Nations then pushed for a second truce, which would take effect beginning on July 19—bringing to an end ten days of in