Aftermath and Analysis - Isabella Ginor

The Soviet warning to Egypt about supposed Israeli troop concentrations on the Syrian border in May 1967 has long been considered a blunder that precipitated a war which the USSR neither desired nor expected. New evidence from Soviet and other Warsaw Pact documents, as well as memoirs of contemporary actors, contradicts this accepted theory. …this warning was deliberate disinformation, part of a plan approved at the highest level of Soviet leadership to elicit Egyptian action that would provoke an Israeli strike. Soviet military intervention against the “aggressor” was intended to follow and was prepared well in advance.

– abstracted from THE COLD WAR’S LONGEST COVER-UP: HOW AND WHY THE USSR INSTIGATED THE 1967 WAR – Isabella Ginor – Middle East Review of International Affairs, Vol. 7, No. 3 (September 2003)

Simon Plosker

With over two decades of experience in various non-governmental organizations in the UK and Israel, Simon Plosker returned to HonestReporting in October 2022 as Editorial Director having previously been part of the organization’s management team from 2005 to 2020.

Prior to his first spell at HonestReporting, Simon worked in Israel for NGO Monitor, BICOM, and served for a short period in the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit. He was Managing Editor of the Geneva-based NGO United Nations Watch for two years before moving back to the frontline defending Israel from media bias.

Simon has a BSoc.Sc in International Studies and Political Science from the University of Birmingham and an MSc in History of International Relations from the London School of Economics. He immigrated to Israel in 2001 from London.

Aftermath and Analysis – Isabella Ginor

Simon Plosker

Discover More

Tucker Carlson Is At It Again

NPR Promised Israeli Voices on October 7. It Delivered Only One.

The Terror Ties Behind the Ramallah Raids

Get clear, reliable Israel news and tools to fight media bias.