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The author has a lot of info but the writing style is turgid and very hard to follow.

As well as using thousands of words in an article that, properly edited, would have been no more than a few hundred.

During the Six Day War, I was in Basic Combat Training at Fort Bliss Texas. The Drill Sergeants were having a field day telling the recruits that they were going to be sent to the Middle East. Therefore, I have more than a passing interest in this subject. However, the plethora of minutia implanted gratuitously within this dissertation rendered any information of elucidation pertaining to the actual detailed activities of the subversive belligerents irrelevant.

The author's first language is Hebrew and the translation into English shows this. However, read carefully it is full of fascinating revelations both about how the Soviets provoked the 7 day War were fully ready to militarily intervene to clinch victory if their Arab proxies seemed close to succeeding in order to gain a firm foothold at the strategic crossroads of the Middle East. This article goes a long way to totally discredit Donald Neff's widely repeated thesis from 'Warriors for Jerusalem' that the Israelis manipulated inept and foolish Egyptian and Syrian responses to violent Israeli provocations over control of the headwaters of streams flowing into Lake Tiberius. According to this thesis the Israelis knew the Egyptians were just engaging in noisy bluffing actions in the Sinai to save face over not being able to keep the Israelis from beating up on the Syrians in the water war.

Neff's relentlessly anti-Israli interpretation of history since 1947 have gained a lot of traction in academic circles and his clear writing style will unfortunately be more read than this convoluted article written in poorly expressed English. However, this article is important for driving a stake through the 'Jews did it' thesis on the 7 Day War. As piece of the continuing rancor over rights and wrongs in the Israeli-Arab struggle it has contemporary value. Also it shows just how dangerous the Soviets could be.