How Did Israel Navigate Through the Six-Day War, the War of Attrition, the Yom Kippur War, and Early Attempts to Resolve the Palestinian Issue to a Fragile, Imperfect Peace?

Clifford Sobin, in a captivating literary style that covers the broad sweep of eleven pivotal years, reveals in the Pivotal Years: Israel and the Arab World 1966-1977, the frightening, frustrating and inspiring events that began with the threat of Israel's annihilation and culminated with an Egyptian President visiting Jerusalem on a mission of peace. Writing incisively, Sobin seamlessly weaves narrative and historical events in a narrative that reads like a suspenseful thriller, but that also definitively connects the dots during the most pivotal period in Israel's history.

Over the course of one hundred linked chapters that read like a novel, you will become intimately familiar with:

• The Six Day War -- What led to it, how it was fought, and the aftermath.

• Jordan's attempts to play on both sides of the political fence.

• The PLO's rise.

• The Yom Kippur War -- How the Arabs achieved a surprise, Israel's near defeat, and Israel's tarnished victory.

• The failures and bias of the United Nations.

• The beginning of the Settlers' movement.

• How an imperfect peace was achieved.

You also will become intimately acquainted with the motives and actions of the leading personalities of the time that shaped the region, including:

• Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin

• Prime Minister Golda Meir

• Moshe Dayan

• Henry Kissinger

• Chief of Staff David "Dadu" Elazar

• Ariel Sharon

• Yasser Arafat,

• President Anwar Sadat,

• President Hafiz al-Asad

• King Hussein.

Here, you will discover how Israel survived wars, terrorism, diplomatic isolation, and internal disruption while holding to her principles that true peace with the Arab world required normalized relations and direct negotiations, not international guarantees that would only temporarily bring an absence of war.

To write this enthralling, unique, historic work, Clifford Sobin brought to bear the full weight of his talents as a communicator learned over thirty years as a trial attorney, as an author of a definitive legal treatise, and an engaging lecturer on topics ranging from law to the Holocaust. But equally important, in this book that entertains as well as educates, Sobin harnessed his passion for the region with his capacity for thorough research, knowledge gained from frequent trips to Israel, and his devotion to accurately explaining the past as it was so that all of us may better formulate opinions about current challenges and events.

If you have an interest in Israel, if stories of courage overcoming overwhelming odds and determination in the face of despair fascinate you, order your copy today!

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