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2012.
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| Summary/Abstract |
The purpose of this article is to outline and analyse David Ben-Gurion's security policy and alternatives to it offered by others and their role from the run up to the Six Day War of 1967 to this day. The differences are to be sought in Ben-Gurion's emphasis on deterrence, primarily nuclear deterrence, and on the American efforts to thwart this option, which contributed to his resignation in 1963; yet BG's security policy also entailed minimal territorial expansion in the West Bank as a result of renewed Arab aggression, while his successors adopted a preventive conventional war including territorial changes in the West Bank, East Jerusalem included. The ramifications of the Six Day War for the 1973 round of hostilities and for further conventional hostilities all the way to the shadow of the Iranian bomb are discussed.
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