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"If Israel Lost the War" is an alternative book from 1969 by Richard Chazoff, Robert Little and Edward Klein, describing an alternative scenario, where Israel lost during the Six-Day War. Translated by M. Rume and Shi. Jonathan. The book is edited like a documentary, with maps and a kind of quotes from newspapers. The book became a multi-seller and was used to trigger the preventive attack.

The book appeared in the same year in Hebrew translation by publishing a library. In an edition published by the Ministry of Defense, he was accompanied by a long introduction of military historian explaining the importance of the book to the IDF and how aware it should always be. The newspaper, published episodes of the book before fully translated it.

At the same time, the book caused Mark Geffen, the chief editor of Bitown from the Palmach, to read to boycott the book. Ori Abnery also attacked him in "This World" and also in the American magazine Laif.

Some commentators have been influenced by the article of Ephraim Kishon, “How have we lost the world’s sympathy,” depicting an alternative history, in which Britain and France did not embark on a Chinese war, thus strengthening the Egyptians, who conquered in 1957 Israel. The article concluded that it was good to apologize to the world for a successful attack, than to accept his sympathy due to occupation. The article was published in the world immediately after the Six-Day War, in a booklet with full-time cartoons, with the title "Sorry We Won".

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The book depicts the Six-Day War, but in reverse mode, where the Arab armies are beating the up air blow, and within six days Israel is defeated in the war. The book says that if Israel is defeated in the war, there will be no one in the world who is forced to help it.

The book opens with a preview imposed by the Egyptian Air Force on the Israeli Air Force, while destroying its aircraft on the ground (which became an actual focus.) Immediately after that, all the Arab states in the Iraq War bombed and conquered the entire State of Israel within six days.

The Americans, who are stuck in the Vietnam War, are not surrounded by a finger to save the State of Israel, despite the American Jewish protests. The rest of the world, except for a few medical aid aircraft sent from Holland, and forced to land in Cyprus, with no landing routes.

Since the Palestinian Cyrhan Sirhan returns to Jordan to celebrate the victory, Robert Kennedy's murder, and he wins Richard Nixon in the 1968 presidential election.

The book describes the possible Arab government on the occupied State of Israel, which includes acts of torture and massacre in captivity, mass rapes of Israeli women, abuse of Israeli citizens and public and cruel assassinations of Israeli leaders (especially Moshe Dayan). The book also describes the appointment of Nazi war criminals to conduct the secret police of the occupiers. The horrors of the Arab occupation in the country described in the book are approaching the rank to which only the Holocaust came.

Israel’s territory is divided between Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. The Palestinians, who were promised to return to their territory, are forced to remain in their refugee camps. Israel is divided between the occupying Arab forces and has no place in this division. The book ends two years after the war, when Joel Alon attends a secret meeting in Syria’s occupied Tiberias, regarding plans for small Jewish warfare attacks.

See also
The waiting period
Israel in the Six Day War
Alternative history

External links

About the book, on the National Library website

Eli Ashid, Alternative Israel States, on an Israeli Agoda for Science Fiction and Fantasy

Houshi Rock, Muhammad Hassan Heideel, the mythical editor of the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahrm, at the mideast.

marginal comments

Books of 1969
The Six Day War in Culture
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