The Jordanian army knew it was coming. Twice in ten days Israeli troops had smashed across the border in reprisal raids for scattered Jordan border incursions. Then, on a Sunday afternoon, a Jordanian machine gun had opened fire on a party of Israeli archaeologists near the border, killing four and wounding 17. The Israeli government had stiffly rejected the official Jordan explanation that a soldier had gone suddenly berserk and fired, and that afternoon the Israeli radio had announced an emergency meeting between Army Chief Moshe Dayan and Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion.
From high in the Judean hills that evening,...
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