Response to Amnon Sella

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. E.g., reviews by Sir Lawrence Freedman in Foreign Affairs 86, no. 5 (September–October 2007) (http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20070901fabook86524/isabella-ginor-gideon-remez/foxbats-over-dimona-the-soviets-nuclear-gamble-in-the-six-day-war.html), and by Mark N. Katz in Middle East Journal 62, no. 1 (Winter 2008): 178–79. 2. Bernard Lewis and Michael Mandelbaum, writing (together with Washington Post columnist Jim Hoagland) in the jury report of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy's first annual Book Prize, in which Foxbats was awarded the Silver Medal. See http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC11.php?CID = 495. 3. The Journal of Israeli History 27, no. 1 (March 2007): 104–7. 4. E.g., Yaacov Ro'i, in idem and Boris Morozov, eds., The Soviet Union and the June 1967 Six Day War (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, and Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008), xxii ff. 5. “The Cruiser Molotov” (in Russian), http://flot.sevastopol.info and http://www.rustrana.ru.print.php?nid = 31865. 6. Pinhas Ginosar, ed., Moshe Sneh: Ktavim (Moshe Sneh: Writings), vol. 4, 1954–1965 (Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 2005), 36–39. 7. Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez, “The Six-Day War as a Soviet Initiative: New Evidence and Methodological Issues,” MERIA (Middle East Review of International Affairs) 12, no. 3 (September 2008) (http://www.meriajournal.com/en/asp/journal/2008/september/remez/index.asp#_edn50). 8. The biography that Vybornov provided for the 1999 “Gathering of Eagles” is now accessible at http://www.au.af.mil/au/goe/eagle_bios/1999/vybornov_1999.asp. 9. In October 2006, the Force's chief spokesman, Col. Aleksandr Drobyshevsky, posted an article on the Defense Ministry website, listing among the achievements of Soviet test pilots “two unique reconnaissance sorties over Israel” in 1967, in what he retrospectively called a MiG-25RB (http://www.mil.ru/info/1069/details/index.shtml?id = 17514). This and other new material is presented in “The Six-Day War as a Soviet Initiative.”

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