Who defeated you? After 1967, when Arab regimes were insisting that they were defeated by the US and not by Israel, Yasin Al-Hafidh (Yasin Al-Hafidh. What an important Arab thinker, no matter whether you agree with him or not. I have been rereading him as of late--I have been rereading my 1967 defeat literature. How important, nay essential, it is for those who study the Arab world to learn Arabic well (and the other languages of the Middle East for Middle East specialists). I mean, you would not know anything about Al-Hafidh if you only read English and French books on the Arab world. Maybe a sentence here and there--Batatu mentions him in his book on Iraq. The collected works of Al-Hafidh are now available from the Center of Arab Unity Studies in one volume. But I must say that I find some of his references to the West and to the East to be reflecting Orientalist assumptions and dogmas--he talks about Western women being "free", etc) said that no, it was Israel that defeated us (see Al-Hazimah Wa Al-Aydiulujah Al-Mahzumah, p. 135). Similarly, Israelis today want to believe that Iran and Syria defeated them on the grounds of South Lebanon. No, they were Hizbullah fighters.