Rotem: The forgotten crisis on the road to the 1967 war

Journal of Contemporary History

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 547-566

  Bar Joseph, Uri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

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EID: 11544281558     PISSN: 00220094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002200949603100306     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Yitzhak Rabin, The Rabin Memoirs (Boston 1979), 57
2. Ezer Weizman, On Eagles Wings (Macmillan 1976), 199;
3. Eitan Haber, Today a War will Break Out (Tel Aviv 1987), 147 (Hebrew)
4. William B. Quandt, Decade of Decisions: American Policy Toward the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1956-1967 (Los Angeles 1977), 39
5. E.g., John W. Amos, Arab-Israeli Military/Political Relations: Arab Perceptions and the Politics of Escalation (New York 1979), 55
6. Michael Brecher with Benjamin Geist, Decisions in Crisis: Israel, 1967 and 1973 (Berkeley 1980), 46;
7. Trevor N. Dupuy, Elusive Victory: The Arab-Israeli Wars, 1947-1974 (New York 1978), 230;
8. Ben D. Mor, 'Nasser's Decisionmaking in the 1967 Middle East Crisis: A Rational-choice Explanation', Journal of Peace Research, 28, 4 (November 1991), 359-75, 362
9. Al Wasat, 25 May 1992, 17
10. Haim Laskov, "The Armored Corps Become the IDF's Decisive Force' in Jacob Erez and Ilan Kfir (eds), Military and Security (Part A) (Tel Aviv 1982), 143-9, 147-8 (Hebrew)
11. Ariel Levite, Offence and Defence in Israeli Military Doctrine (Tel Aviv 1988), 47 (Hebrew);
12. Avner Yaniv, Deterrence Without the Bomb: The Politics of Israeli Strategy (Massachusetts 1987), 84-5
13. Micha Bar, Red Lines in Israel's Deterrence Strategy (Tel Aviv 1990), 79 (Hebrew);
14. Eli Zeira, The October War: Myth Against Reality (Tel Aviv 1994), 26 (Hebrew)
15. An interview with Colonel (ret.) Eliezer Rimon (Zuckerman), 22 February 1993. In 1960 Rimon served as the DMI expert on UAR military deployment
16. From Abraham Kidron, Head of the Research Department, to the Foreign Office's Acting Manager, 4 January 1960, Israel's State Archives, Foreign Office files (hereforth ISA, FO) 911.1
17. An interview with Colonel (ret.) Tomi Marom (Marushi), 8 January 1993. In 1960 Marom served in the DMI as an analyst of Egyptian military affairs
18. Mahmoud Riad, The Struggle for Peace in the Middle East (New York 1983), 11
19. Ha'aretz, 1 February 1960
20. Ben-Gurion Diary (henceforth BGD), The IDF Archives, Giva'ataim, Israel, 29 January 1960
21. Ma'ariv, 1 February 1960; BGD, 1 February 1960. According to Major-General Carl Van Horn, the commander of the UN peace-keeping force in the region, military attachés who visited the fighting area reported that the Israeli operation was, indeed, far from a complete success. See Carl Van Horn, Soldiering for Peace (New York 1967), 134-5
22. BGD, 1 February 1960
23. BGD, 2 February 1960; Summary of the 'Rotem' Operation, 14 March 1960
24. Hatzav (the DMI's agency in charge of collection from open sources), Dayan Center, Tel Aviv University, 4, 5, 8, 10 February 1960; Ma'ariv, 4 February 1960
25. BGD, 2, 3, 4, 6 February 1960
26. Ma'ariv, 14, 15 February 1960
27. Hatzav, 28, 29 February 1960
28. From the American Department, the Foreign Office, Jerusalem, to the Israeli Mission in Washington, 24 February 1960, ISA, FO 2340/13A; from the Israeli Mission in Washington, to the Foreign Office, Jerusalem, 25 February 1960, ISA, FO 2314/9; from the Israeli Consulate in Addis Ababa, to the Foreign Office, Jerusalem, 28 April 1960, ISA, FO 3763/1
29. Hatzav, 28 February, 1 March 1960; Director of Military Intelligence at the General Commanding Staff Meeting, 9 March 1960
30. Charles F. Herman, 'International Crisis as a Situational Variable' in James N. Rosenau (ed.), International Politics and Foreign Policy (New York 1969), 411, 414
31. Rabin, op. cit., 56; Weizman, op. cit., 200
32. An interview with Major-General (ret.) Abraham (Abrasha) Tamir, 8 December 1993. In 1960 Tamir was the Chief of Operations Department of the General-Staff Branch
33. BGD, 24, 27, 28, 29 February 1960
34. From the Foreign Office, Jerusalem, to various Israeli embassies, 24 February 1960, ISA FO 2245/1
35. From the American Department, the Foreign Office, Jerusalem to the Israeli Embassy in Washington, 24 February 1960; from the Israeli Embassy, Washington, to the Foreign Office, Jerusalem, 25 February 1960, ISA FO 2314/9
36. From the Foreign Office, Jerusalem, to the Israeli Delegation, New York, 24 February 1960, ISA FO 2340/1-7
37. From the Israeli Delegation, New York, to the Foreign Office, Jerusalem, 25 February 1960, ISA FO 2339/20-25
38. From the Foreign Minister, the Foreign Office, Jerusalem, to the Israeli Delegation, New York, 25 February 1960, ISA FO 2340/1-7
39. BGD, 27 February 1960
40. From the Israeli Delegation, New York, to the Foreign Office, Jerusalem, 26 February 1960; 29 February 1960, ISA FO 2339/20-25
41. BGD, 25, 28 February 1960
42. Hatzav, 29 February 1960
43. Hatzav, 10 March 1960
44. For a thorough description and analysis of the intelligence aspects of this episode, see Uri Bar-Joseph, 'Israel Caught Unprepared: Egypt's Sinai Surprise of 1960, International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, 8, 2 (Summer 1995), 203-19