SIX DAY WAR - DAY SIX - JUNE 10

June 10: Marathon on the Heights

The Israelis were originally reluctant to invade the Golan Heights. It would be an uphill battle against a well-entrenched and fortified enemy, protected by an army of 75,000 Syrian troops. The Syrian troops and munitions were entrenched in deep bunkers which were immune from air attack. One noted Israeli general estimated that such a battle would cost the Israelis 30,000 lives. Incredibly, though, after only seven hours of heavy fighting on June 9th, IDF commanders established strongholds in the northern and central sectors of the Golan. The next morning dawned with the Israeli forces apprehensively awaiting another day of fierce fighting. The Syrians, however, had other plans. In a sudden panic, before the Israelis even approached their positions, they pulled out of the Golan and fled in total chaos, leaving most of their weaponry behind. The moutaintops that were strategically utilized to murder Jews in the Holy Land, were now in the hands of the Israelis.

The final offensive was completed and, on that day, a ceasefire was signed.

Today’s Highlights:

Israel captures the strategic Golan Heights and Massada. A ceasefire goes into effect at 6:30 p.m.

Jewish History: Israel Captures Golan Heights
The Rebbe on the Six Day War and its Aftermath

SIX DAY WAR - DAY FIVE - JUNE 9

June 9: David and Goliath

After suffering significant casualties in the offensive to overtake the Golan Heights, Commander Musa Klein’s platoon had only twenty-five men at his disposal. But they continued upwards. When they reached Tel Fakhr, Klein ordered his men to charge the position, unaware that it was one of the most heavily fortified Syrian positions. It had bunkers, trenches and a double row of wire; an arsenal of antitank guns, machine guns and 82mm mortars. The handful of IDF soldiers were worse off than sitting ducks... Syrian Captain Ahmad Ibrahim Khalili gave his men instructions not to fire until the Israelis reached the wire. In no time at all, however, it was too late. In the Syrians' own words: “The Jews are already inside and we’ve taken heavy casualties.” Commander Klein and his men were victorious, and continued up the Heights.

Today’s Highlights:

Israel seizes the Straits of Tiran. Israel breaks through the Golan plateau.

THE SIX DAY WAR - DAY FOUR - JUNE 8

June 8: White Sheets in Hebron

Hebron, a holy city that houses the resting place of our Patriarchs and Matriarchs. A city which in its recent past had boasted a sizable Jewish population and fifty-eight synagogues. But for some time now, Jews had been banned from living in this city, and its synagogues were destroyed. The IDF entering Hebron found white sheets hanging from the windows, and an Arab population surrendering peacefully. The war in the West Bank was concluded. Israel now had full control over the entire region.

Jewish History: Hebron Liberated
More on Hebron

June 8: The “Big Lie”

Arab countries were bombarded with Egyptian and Jordanian propaganda, claiming that American and English planes were assisting Israel in pounding their bases and country's forces. This canard caused much distress to American and English embassies and citizens across the Middle East. Embassies were shut down and innocent people driven from their homes. The “Big Lie” backfired on its perpetrators. On June 8th, King Hussein contacted the English, pleading for assistance, asking them to pressure Israel to stop its incessant attacks. England ignored the request, largely because of Hussein's backing of the lie.

Today’s Highlights:

Israel takes control of the holy city of Hebron, Al Qantarah El Sharqiyya in the Sinai Desert. This places most of Sinai in Israeli hands.

Jordanian bridges are destroyed.

THE SIX DAY WAR - DAY THREE - JUNE 7

June 7: A City United

Political pressure mounts as leading nations call upon Israel to accept a ceasefire proposed by King Hussein of Jordan. At the last moment, this ceasefire was nixed by the unwillingness of King Hussein to comply with the terms of the ceasefire he himself initiated! Indeed, "the hearts of rulers and kings are in the hand of G-d." This allowed the IDF to finish the task of completely annihilating the enemy's military infrastructure, and to bring the Old City of Jerusalem under Israeli control.

The Old City had been under Jordanian control since 1948. For nineteen years, Jews had been banned from visiting its holy sites, including the Western Wall, where Jews had prayed for thousands of years. On this day, Jerusalem was reunited, and once again a united Jerusalem was the capital of the Jewish people.

Today’s Highlights:

Israel captures many cities. The most notable ones: East Jerusalem (including the Old City and the Temple Mount), Sharm El-Sheikh (taken by the Israeli Navy), Judea, Jericho, Gush Etzion, and Nablus.

More on Jerusalem

THE SIX DAY WAR - DAY TWO - JUNE 6

June 6: Mass Desertion in the Desert

IAF planes and pilots had now been involved in almost constant battle for twenty-four hours. The pilots were weary, and the aircraft low on ammunition and fuel. Inexplicably, the enemy did not take advantage of this weakness. Though in control of extensive forces in the Sinai Desert, and certainly capable of mounting a ferocious counterattack, Egyptian leaders were reduced to giving incoherent and disorganized instructions to their troops.

Israeli troops pressed on in the Sinai front. After capturing the Egyptian eastern outpost Abu-Ageila the day earlier, they now approached the heavily defended Kusseima outpost. As the Israelis drew near, they heard massive explosions. When they arrived they saw that the Egyptians, for no apparent reason, had destroyed their equipment and abandoned the base! As the day continued, it became clear that the Egyptians were hastily abandoning many of their outposts, some with all their supplies left behind.

Today’s Highlights:

Israel seizes Gaza, Kalkiliya and Ramallah.

“Ammunition Hill” in East Jerusalem, the mountainous area of north-west Jerusalem, and the fortress at Latrun, all fall into Israeli hands. Jerusalem is now encircled by Israeli forces.

THE SIX DAY WAR - DAY ONE - JUNE 5

June 5: War Begins

By 7:30 a.m., two hundred Israeli Air Force (IAF) planes were in the air heading towards Egyptian air bases. Though flying very low so as not to be detected by scores of Arab radar sites, a Jordanian radar facility detected an unusually large number of aircraft heading towards the sea. The officer on duty immediately sent a message, "Inab," the code-word for war, to Jordan military headquarters in Amman. The message was encoded and passed on to Egypt’s defense minister in Cairo. Miraculously, however, the Egyptian coding frequencies had been changed the previous day, and the Jordanians were not updated. That morning, with the element of surprise in their favor, the IAF obliterated six Egyptian airfields--two in Egypt proper and four in the Sinai Desert--destroying 204 Egyptian planes, half of their air force. Though Egypt had sufficient anti-aircraft ammunition to destroy all the attacking Israeli planes, miraculously, no order was given for these missiles to be launched. The Israelis accomplished their mission with practically no resistance.

The total air superiority achieved on the first day of the war drastically reduced the enemies' combat abilities.

Today’s Highlights:
Israeli air strikes destroy two thirds of the Syrian Air Force, more than 300 Egyptian aircraft, and most of Royal Jordanian Air Force.

IDF completes the capture of Rafah and El-Arish.

The “Government House” in Jerusalem is captured from the Jordanians.
Jewish History: Six Day War

MAY OF 68 - 40th ANNIVERSARY (6) - AFFICHES

MAY OF 68 - 40th ANNIVERSARY (5) - SLOGANS

* Vite!
Quick!

.* Etre libre en 1968, c'est participer.
To be free in 1968 means to participate.

* La barricade ferme la rue mais ouvre la voie.
The barricade blocks the street but opens the way.

* Un homme n'est pas stupide ou intelligent, il est libre ou il n'est pas.
A man is not stupid or intelligent, he is free or he is not.

* Les motions tuent l'émotion.
Motions kill emotions.

* Bannissons les applaudissements, les spectacle est partout.
Let us ban all applause, the spectacle is everywhere.

* Le bonheur est une idée neuve.
Happiness is a new idea.

* Plus je fais l'amour, plus j'ai envie de faire la révolution.Plus je fais la révolution, plus j'ai envie de faire l'amour.
The more I make love, the more I want to make revolution.The more I make revolution, the more I want to make love.

* Je jouis dans les pavés.
I find my orgasms among the paving stones.

* La perspective de jouir demain ne me consolera jamais de l'ennui d'aujord'hui.
The prospect of finding pleasure tomorrow will never compensate for today's boredom.

* Construire une révolution, c'est aussi briser toutes les chaines intérieures.
Building a revolution is also breaking all the inner chains.

* Le sacré, voilà l'ennemi.
All that is sacred - there is the enemy.

* Un flic dort en chacun de nous, il faut le tuer.
A cop sleeps inside every one of us, we must kill him.

* Ne me libère pas, je m'en charge.
Don't liberate me, I'll do it myself.

* Si vous pensez pour les autres, les autres penseront pour vous.
If you think for others, others will think for you.

* Professeurs vous êtes aussi vieux que votre culture, votre modernisme n'est que la modernisation de la police.
Professors you are as old as your culture, your modernism is only the modernisation of the police.

* La Bourgeoisie n'a pas d'autre plaisir que celui de les dégrader tous.
The Bourgeoisie has no other pleasure but to degrade all pleasures.

* Ne changeons pas d'employeurs, changeons l'emploi de la vie.
Let us not change employers, let us change how we employ life.

* L'économie est blessée, qu'elle crève.
The economy is suffering, let it die.

MAY OF 68 - 40th ANNIVERSARY (3)

MAY OF 68 - 40th ANNIVERSARY (2) - AFFICHES

MAY OF 68 - 40 th ANNIVERSARY (1) - SLOGANS

-Soyez réalistes, demandez l'impossible.
Be realistic, demand the impossible.

-On achète ton bonheur. Vole-le.
They buy your happiness. Steal it.

-Sous les pavés, la plage !
Beneath the paving stones - the beach!

-Lisez moins, vivez plus.
Read less, live more.

-L'ennui est contre-révolutionnaire.
Boredom is counterrevolutionary.

-Pas de replâtrage, la structure est pourrie.
No replastering, the structure is rotten.

-Nous ne voulons pas d'un monde où la certitude de ne pas mourir de faim s'échange contre le risque de mourir d'ennui.
We want nothing of a world in which the certainty of not dying from hunger comes in exchange for the risk of dying from boredom.

-C'est possible: on fabrique, on vend, on se paie! (slogan of the LIP factory)
It is possible: we manufacture them, we sell them, we pay ourselves!

-Ceux qui font les révolutions à moitié ne font que se creuser un tombeau.
Those who make revolutions by halves do but dig themselves a grave.

-On ne revendiquera rien, on ne demandera rien. On prendra, on occupera.
We will claim nothing, we will ask for nothing. We will take, we will occupy.

-Plebiscite : qu'on dise oui qu'on dise non il fait de nous des cons.
Plebiscite: Whether we say yes or no, it makes chumps of us.

-Depuis 1936 j'ai lutté pour les augmentations de salaire. Mon père avant moi a lutté pour les augmentations de salaire. Maintenant j'ai une télé, un frigo, une VW. Et cependant j'ai vécu toujours la vie d'un con. Ne négociez pas avec les patrons. Abolissez-les.
Since 1936 I have fought for wage increases. My father before me fought for wage increases. Now I have a TV, a fridge, a Volkswagen. Yet my whole life I've been a chump. Don't negotiate with the bosses. Abolish them.

-Le patron a besoin de toi, tu n'as pas besoin de lui.
The boss needs you, you don't need him.

-Travailleur: Tu as 25 ans mais ton syndicat est de l'autre siècle.
Worker: You are 25, but your union is from the last century.

-Veuillez laisser le Parti communiste aussi net en sortant que vous voudriez le trouver en y entrant.
Please leave the Communist Party as clean on leaving as you would like to find it on entering.

-Ni Dieu ni maître!

Neither god nor master!

-Godard : le plus con des suisses pro-chinois !
Godard: the stupidist of all the pro-Chinese Swiss!

-Soyons cruels !
Let's be cruel!

-Comment penser librement à l'ombre d'une chapelle?
How can one think freely in the shadow of a chapel?

-À bas la charogne stalinienne ! À bas les groupuscules récupérateurs !
Down with the Stalinist carcass! Down with the recuperator cells!

-Vivez sans temps morts - jouissez sans entraves.
Live without dead time - enjoy without chains.

-Il est interdit d'interdire.
It is forbidden to forbid.

-Et cependant tout le monde veut respirer et personne ne peut respirer et beaucoup disent " nous respirerons plus tard ". Et la plupart ne meurent pas car ils sont déjà morts.
Meanwhile everyone wants to breathe and nobody can breathe and many say, "We will breathe later". And most of them don't die because they are already dead.

-Dans une société qui a aboli toute aventure, la seule aventure qui reste est celle d'abolir la société.
In a society that has abolished all adventures, the only adventure left is to abolish society.

-L'émancipation de l'homme sera totale ou ne sera pas.

The liberation of humanity will be total or it will not be.

-La révolution est incroyable parce que vraie.

The revolution is unbelievable because it's real.

-Je suis venu. J'ai vu. J'ai cru.
I came. I saw. I believed. (Mimics Veni, vidi, vici.)

-Cours, camarade, le vieux monde est derrière toi!
Run, comrade, the old world is behind you!

-Il est douloureux de subir les chefs, il est encore plus bête de les choisir.
It's painful to suffer the bosses; it's even stupider to pick them.

-Un seul week-end non révolutionnaire est infiniment plus sanglant qu'un mois de révolution permanente.
A single nonrevolutionary weekend is infinitely more bloody than a month of permanent revolution.

-Le bonheur est une idée neuve.
Happiness is a new idea.

-La culture est l'inversion de la vie.
Culture is the inversion of life.

-La poésie est dans la rue.
Poetry is in the street.

-L'art est mort, ne consommez pas son cadavre.
Art is dead, don't consume its corpse.

-L'alcool tue. Prenez du L.S.D.
Alcohol kills. Take LSD.

-Debout les damnés de l'Université.
Arise, you wretched of the University. (Mimics the Internationale.)

-Même si Dieu existait il faudrait le supprimer.
Even if God existed, it would be necessary to abolish him. (Paraphrases Bakunin.)

(Reversal of Voltaire's Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer : If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.)

-SEXE: C'est bien, a dit Mao, mais pas trop souvent.
SEX: It's good, said Mao, but not too often.

-Je t'aime ! Oh ! dites-le avec des pavés !
I love you! Oh, say it with paving stones!

-Camarades, l'amour se fait aussi en Sciences-Po, pas seulement aux champs.
Comrades, love is being made at Sciences-Po (a prestigious academic institution of political science) too, not just in the fields.

-Mort aux vaches!
Death to the cows! (Cops, police.)

-Travailleurs de tous les pays, amusez-vous !
Workers of the world, have fun! (Mimics "Workers of the world, unite!")

-Pouvoir à l'Imagination.
Power to the Imagination.

Usines, Universites, Union.
Factories, Universities, Union.

-Je participe, Tu participes, Il participe, Nous participons, Vous participez, Ils profitent
I take part, You take part, He takes part, We take part, You all take part, They profit.

ERNESTO (CHE) GUEVARA - (14/04/28 - 9/10/67)

Ernesto Guevara de la Serna Lynch (May 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara, el Che, or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, political figure, physician, author, military theorist, and leader of Cuban and internationalist guerrillas. His stylized image also later morphed into a ubiquitous worldwide countercultural symbol.

As a young medical student, Guevara embarked on a journey throughout Latin America and was transformed by the endemic poverty he witnessed. His experiences and observations during these trips led him to the conclusion that the region's socio-economic inequalities were an insidious result of capitalism, neo-colonialism, and imperialism, with the only remedy being world revolution. This belief prompted his involvement in Guatemala's social revolution under President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, whose eventual CIA-assisted overthrow solidified Guevara’s radical ideology.

Later while in Mexico he joined and was promoted to commander in Fidel Castro’s 26th of July Movement, playing a pivotal role while being viewed as "Castro's brain", in the successful guerrilla campaign to overthrow the U.S.-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. After the Cuban revolution, Guevara served in many prominent governmental positions, including President of the National Bank and “supreme prosecutor” over the revolutionary tribunals and executions of suspected war criminals from the previous regime. Along with traveling around the world meeting important leaders on behalf of Cuban socialism, he was a prolific writer of an assortment of books, including a classic manual on the theory and practice of guerrilla warfare. Guevara left Cuba in 1965 to incite revolutions first in an unsuccessful attempt in Congo-Kinshasa and ultimately in Bolivia, where he was captured with help of the CIA and executed.

Both notorious for his harsh discipline and revered for his unwavering dedication to his revolutionary doctrines, Guevara remains a controversial and significant historical figure. Because of his death, invocation to armed class struggle, and romantic visage, Guevara became an inspirational icon of leftist revolutionary movements worldwide, as well as a global merchandising sensation. He has since been venerated and reviled in dozens of biographies, memoirs, books, essays, documentaries, songs, and films. Time Magazine professed him to be one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century, while an Alberto Korda photo of him has been declared "the most famous photograph in the world."