By Jason Mark Alster M.Sc "Millenium man" (Wethersfield , CT)
This review is from: Battlefield Detectives: The Six-Day War (DVD)
When I was in the final days of sixth grade and in a Hebrew Academy in Hartford CT. I distinctively remember that everyone from Rabbi to teacher to students were afraid that Israel would be destroyed by the numerically larger Arab nations. The UN had just been ordered by Egypt to leave the Sinai and Nasser and other Arab leaders proudly proclaimed on the news in public that they were about to " wipe Israel into the sea". The sight of Arab soldiers in mass doing the Goose Step march was a reminder to the Third Reich. The sight of mass demonstrations in the Arab cities calling praise for Nasser's proclamation to destroy Israel are still in my memory. Synagogues were having special prayers to pray for Israel , and this to the Jewish generation trying to rebuild itself just 22 years after the Holocaust. Then on June 5th at 8 AM in the morning when I was getting ready to go to school I heard on the radio that Israel had just destroyed the combined Arab air force with a pre-emptive strike and was conquering the Sinai. HOW did that happen. From pure fear to shock and celebration. It really was a secret because at the time Israel for security reasons told very little of her military operations and strategy. Looking at Israel today, now an important strategic ally of the USA, it is not hard to understand that the Six Day War was one of the most game changing events in history. How Israel won this war had to be told. Battlefield detectives did a good job , because with all the propaganda around, the truth still shines in the darkness. I lived in Israel for 20 years and can tell you that most Israelis did not even know what Battlefield Detectives revealed. Leaving Home, Going Home, Returning Home: A Hebrew American's Sojourn in the Land of Israel
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