Original Israeli Military Propaganda Booklet Israel Must Be Annihilated, A Selection of Cartoons from the Arab Press, 1967

Original Israeli military information booklet published by the Zahal Information Office in Tel Aviv in July 1967, immediately after the Six-Day War.

A 1967 Israeli military information booklet compiling anti-Israel and anti-Zionist cartoons from Arab newspapers before and around the Six-Day War. Published by the Zahal Information Office, the booklet reproduces Arab press caricatures with Hebrew, English, and French section headings and explanatory captions, presenting them as evidence of regional calls for Israel’s destruction.

The booklet is both a documentary compilation and an Israeli counter-propaganda object. Its title, Israel Must Be Annihilated, is taken from the rhetoric it seeks to expose, while the Hebrew title, Kav ha-Hashmadah shel Nasser, frames the material around Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser and the politics of Arab military confrontation. The interior sections organize the cartoons around themes such as “Intentions,” “Destruction,” “Unity Means Annihilation,” “Rolling Stones,” “The Bottleneck,” “Growing Strength,” “Ring of Encirclement,” and “Balance, Arab Style,” turning newspaper satire into a visual dossier of threat, escalation, and wartime justification.

The publication is a significant post-1967 object of Israeli state messaging, Cold War-era visual politics, and Arab-Israeli media conflict. It documents how cartoons from the Arab press were collected, translated, and recontextualized by the Israeli military information apparatus for international audiences in the immediate aftermath of the Six-Day War.

Title: קו ההשמדה של נאצר (Kav ha-Hashmadah shel Nasser, “Nasser’s Line of Annihilation”)
English Title: Israel Must Be Annihilated
French Title: Israël Doit Être Anéanti
Subtitle: A Selection of Cartoons from the Arab Press
Publisher: Zahal Information Office, Tel Aviv
Country: Israel
Editor: Ohad Zmora
Designer: Micah Ulman
Language: Hebrew, English, French, with reproduced Arabic captions
Format: Stapled softcover booklet
Dimensions: approximately 22 × 28 cm
Published: 1967
Condition: Good vintage condition, with cover wear, light foxing, age toning, handling marks, and creasing from storage and use. Interior pages remain intact and legible.
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