While the Arabs tried to talk their way out of military disaster, the Israelis faced up to problems that mounted in the wake of their swiftest military triumph since Joshua brought down the walls of Jericho. Theirs was the pride of triumph, but theirs, too, were the enormous obligations involved in any conquest of people and property.
Property was the least of the problems. Indeed, sooner or later, Israel's newly bloated borders may undergo drastic shrinkage by negotiation. There is no great urge, for example, to stay in the empty wastes of the Sinai Desert. And rather than maintain a...
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