The Six- Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East
by Guy Laron.
Yale University Press, 368 pp., $28.00
The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine
by Nathan Thrall. Metropolitan, 323 pp., $28.00
In Search of Modern Palestinian Nationhood
by Matti Steinberg. Tel Aviv University/Moshe Dayan Center, 503 pp., ?100.00 (paper)
Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation
edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman. HarperPerennial, 434 pp., $16.99 (paper)
A Half Century of Occupation: Israel, Palestine, and the World’s Most Intractable Conflict
by Gershon Shafir. University of California Press, 283 pp., $26.95
This June, Israel is marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Six- Day War. Some Israelis, including most members of the present government, are celebrating the country’s swift victory over Egypt, Jordan,…