June 12, 2002

Michael B. Oren, author of Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East will be speaking at the Gerald Schwatrz/Heather Reisman Centre for Jewish Learning at Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto, Ontario on Monday, June 17. He will be signing his book after the lecture and questions. Presumably the books are from an Indigo bookstore. 10:13:31 PM

A BusinessWeek article discussed on Slashdot reports that US cable and DSL users may also be facing download caps or speed limits. The article mainly covers the effect this would have on Peer-to-Peer filesharing as opposed to video-on-demand or renting games over the Internet. Canadian Sympatico users say welcome! 10:08:01 PM

Time Magazine has an article on the concrete and barbed wire fence that Israel is building to separate its civilians from West Bank terrorists. Its model is the fence around Gaza across which no known suicide bombers have crossed. The article includes a map of the 75-mile long initial phase. 9:13:22 PM

Salon has an interview with Michael B. Oren, author of the new book Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East. In this book that uses many newly released documents, Oren shows how the Arab nations had planed a war but it didn’t work out for them. In contrast Israel went out of its way to avoid war such as ordering its troops not to return fire on Jordanian troops shooting at West Jerusalem. The most important part of the interview is: Salon: And you believe that at that time those Arab states wanted to eradicate Israel completely? Oren: Yes. There's no question about that. The question is whether they were going to act on it or not. This tells you all you need to know about the justification for the Six Day War. 12:24:06 AM