Saying "War", Thinking "Victory"—The Mythmaking Surrounding Israel's 1967 Victory

The article offers a retrospective on some long-term cultural implications of the military victory achieved in the Six Day War. It argues that the mechanisms of cultural production operating in Israel have transformed the event into a myth: an idealized naïve story, which describes reality without asking too many questions. It examines the cultural construction of the victory, the making of a myth, its reasons, aims, and results through cultural products: texts, films, and material-cultural products; canonical literature and popular culture; mainstream culture and protest culture. It sheds light on Israel's socio-political environment after 1967 from a new perspective and contributes to our understanding of the complex cultural processes entailing mythmaking in modern Israel.