Happy 40th Birthday, Jerusalem

Israel, like a cowboy in the old Wild West, did not wait for her enemy to draw—she had seen the glint in Nasser’s eye.1 It was Randolph and Winston Churchill, son and grandson of the late British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who chose the Wild West analogy to express Israel’s electrifying victory over Arab forces in June 1967. Syria, Egypt, and Jordan, confident they could at last d