The June 1967 War and the Palestinian Refugee Problem

Tom Segev, an Israeli historian, is the author of a number of influential books, including 1949: The First Israelis (Free Press, 1986), The Seventh Million: Israelis and the Holocaust (Hill and Wang, 1993), and One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate (Metropolitan, 2000). He also writes for Ha'Aretz newspaper. This article is excerpted from chapter 21, ““The Blunder,”” of his most recent book, 1967: Israel, the War, and the Year that Transformed the Middle East. Copyright ©© 2005 by Tom Segev; Translation Copyright ©© 2007 by Jessica Cohen. Reprinted by arrangement with Metropolitan Books, an imprint of Henry Holt and Company, LLC.