The communist call to stop the war and withdraw armies appeared in الاتحاد AL-ITTIḤĀD.

The Arabic newspaper الاتحاد AL-ITTIḤĀD placed a communist appeal across the top of its 6 June 1967 front page. In the midst of the war, it connected an end to fighting with the withdrawal of armies. The wording is visible in the original issue preserved by the National Library of Israel.¹

ᴏʀɪɢɪɴᴀʟ:

الحزب الشيوعي الاسرائيلي يدعو الى وقف الحرب وسحب الجيوش

ᴛʀᴀɴꜱʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴ:

The Israeli Communist Party calls for stopping the war and withdrawing armies.²

The party name in the banner needs historical context. After the communist split of 1965, الاتحاد AL-ITTIḤĀD belonged to Rakah, the New Communist List led by Tawfik Toubi and Meir Vilner. The Hebrew newspaper Kol HaAm remained with Maki, led by Moshe Sneh and Shmuel Mikunis. The National Library of Israel's institutional history describes Kol HaAm as supporting the war once it began, judging it a legitimate act of defense, while later criticizing occupation and settlement policy. This retrospective account identifies a contrasting communist position; it is not a transcription of a Kol HaAm article from 6 June.³

The Arabic banner makes withdrawal part of the immediate answer to the crisis. The UN Security Council's resolution adopted that day called for a cessation of military activity without including an equivalent withdrawal demand. The newspaper's banner and the Council's adopted text therefore offered different immediate programs.⁴

For מדינת ישראל MEDINAT YISRAʾEL, a demand to withdraw also raised the question of what would protect its citizens when armies returned to their previous positions. The banner does not answer that question. Nor does its wording establish that every Arab reader supported the appeal, or that all opponents of continuing the fighting shared the same view of Jewish sovereignty. A political newspaper gives access to an organized voice; it is not a poll of its readership.