The 1967 War - which led to the Defeat of Syria, Jordan and Egypt by Israel - felt like an unprecedented and unimaginable disaster for the Arab world at the time.
Exposing the political and cultural faults that led to the defeat, he argued th.
Syrian philosopher Sadik Al-Azm was one of the few to challenge such a view in his seminal Self-Criticism After the Defeat .
For many, the easiest solution was to shift the blame and to ignore some of the glaring defects of Arab society.
The 1967 War - which led to the Defeat of Syria, Jordan and Egypt by Israel - felt like an unprecedented and unimaginable disaster for the Arab world at the time