The lie that won't die: collusion, 1967.(textbook bias regarding the Six-Day War)

Middle East Quarterly, January, 2004 by Podeh, Elie

The United States' role: Israel was not [fighting] on its own in the [1967] war. Hundreds of volunteers, pilots, and military officers with American scientific spying equipment of the most advanced type photographed the Egyptian posts for it [Israel], jammed the Egyptian defense equipment, and transmitted to it the orders of the Egyptian command.

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The above quote is not a propaganda item; it is taken from an Egyptian high school history textbook published in 1999. (1) This fictitious depiction repeats older textbooks and is reproduced in new textbooks for lower grades. (2) For more than thirty years, a fabricated narrative of the 1967 war has been transmitted by the Egyptian education system as a fact.

This narrative first...

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