the "new historians" movement isn't standard by any mean, and their work is tainted by ideology and ubris in every step.

It's easy now to say that israel had "distinct advantages". But in the context of the cold war, with a tenth of the soldier, fighting against 4 countries, completely surrounded, you'd have to be crazy to consider yourself having a clear advantage.

Jews that lived through the 1960s/70s period distinctly remember how every war had everybody wonder if israel would survive any longer.