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6 Days of War: Day 1
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The name you give it shapes your perception of the June 1967 War between Israel and its niegibors Egypt, Syria and Jordan. It’s known by Americans and Israelis as the “Six Day War,” emphasizing its lightening speed and decisive victory for Israel. Arabs call it “An-Naksah (the Setback).”
Few conflicts of such limited duration produced such profound and lasting effects as the Six Day War, which began 40 years ago today. After four decades, the geo-political, ideological, and existential issues created by that war still haunt the Middle East.
There are still many historical disputes about various factual details or the motivations of the participants. But there is no debate that the war changed the Middle East, the relationship between Israel and the U.S., and the role of the Palestinian national movement.
There are now 450,000 Israelis settlers living on land seized during the war. Two of Israel's combantants (Egypt and Jordan) now have uneasy peace treaty's with it.
Michael Oren is a Senior Fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem. He’s written extensively over the years about the history of the Middle East, and in 2002, his book: Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East was a bestseller.
He explained to Jerome how the 1967 war grew out of previous conflicts between the young nation of Israel and its neighbors…
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