River in 1966, while Jordan still controlled the West Bank. Historiography Israeli historiography Israel maintains that it had performed a coordinated withdrawal after achieving its goal of destroying the Karameh camp. However, few Israeli military personnel who participated in Karameh agree. According to Lt. Col. Arik Regev, chief of Central Command's operations branch, Moshe Brblt, a sergeant in the Israeli Armored Corps later talked about his participation in Karameh "Everything was burning around me, and whenever I tried I could not get up." Dr. Asher Porat stated "lessons of the operation became clear that it was a mistake to fight the Jordanian army." Muki Betser, a commander in the Sayeret Matkal unit of the Israel Defense Forces wrote in his book, A 2011 Haaretz article, an Israeli media outlet, described the battle as "one of the darkest chapters in Israel's military history". Jordanian and Palestinian historiography Arab historians argue that Israel had entered the Battle of Karameh overconfident of its abilities, as it took place just after Israel had defeated the Arabs in the 1967 Six-Day War. The size of the Israeli forces entering Karameh made the Jordanians assume that Israel was also planning to occupy the eastern bank of the Jordan River, including the Balqa Governorate, to create a situation similar to the Golan Heights, which Israel had captured just 10 months prior, to be used a bargaining chip. Jordanians claim that Moshe Dayan invited Israeli journalists on the previous day for lunch in western Jordan after occupying it. The Battle of Karameh was the subject of many artworks, stamps and posters. Further reading References External links King Hussein speech after the Battle of Karameh Conflicts in 1968 War of Attrition Karameh 1968 in Jordan Karameh March 1968 events in Asia