6,249 words
Jason Burke
The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s
New York: Knopf, 2026
As dawn broke on January 1, 1969, Israeli troops occupied the Sinai Peninsula, having won that territory in a brilliant, low casualty, and super-fast war that contrasted with the quagmire America was facing in Vietnam. Meanwhile, the Cold War was on a downward trend—communism steadily advanced in Asia and Central America. In the Middle East, the governments of most of the Arab nations were secularist and had a ruling ideology which purported to promote the common good of those having an Arab ethnicity. (more…)
