The Jerusalem Post has an interesting article about a new book which says the Soviets deliberately engineered the Six Day War back in 1967.
In a new book that "totally contradicts everything that has been accepted to this day" about the Six Day War, two Israeli authors claim that the conflict was deliberately engineered by the Soviet Union to create the conditions in which Israel's nuclear program could be destroyed.
Having received information about Israel's progress towards nuclear arms, the Soviets aimed to draw Israel into a confrontation in which their counterstrike would include a joint Egyptian-Soviet bombing of the reactor at Dimona. They had also geared up for a naval landing on Israel's beaches.
The whole article is a good read. As I suspected it would, the book makes the claim that the Soviet's plan fell apart when Israel surprised them by kicking the stuffing out of the entire Arab world that ganged up on them.
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