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Source: http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/06/07/an_unfulfilled_promise/
An Unfulfilled Promise
[Boston Globe] Jerold S. Auerbach - The Six-Day War might now seem like a mixed blessing for Israel. But the conflict was a war that Israel did not want. Palestinians paid the highest price for Arab aggression, but Israel, in one of the ironies of history, emerged with a new, and still precarious, attachment to its ancient biblical homeland. For the first time in seven centuries, Jews can pray at the tombs of their patriarchs and matriarchs in Hebron. But 40 years after the Six-Day War ignited a remarkable fusion of Zionism and Judaism, Israel's destiny as a truly Jewish state, securely linked to its historic legacy, still hangs in the balance. The writer is a professor of history at Wellesley College.