In the spring of 1967, the tiny nation of Israel was facing certain annihilation. Over 450,000 soldiers from Iraq, Syria, Jordan and Egypt had amassed on the border to drive the Jews into the sea. Not only did the Arab forces greatly outnumber Israel, the posts
NPR The 1967 Six-Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors has had ripple effects that influence the conflicts we see in the Middle East today.
50 Years On, U.S. Presidents Still Seek Elusive Peace To A Six-Day War
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With Arab armies massed on its frontiers, Israel unleashed a lightning strike on June 5, 1967. Donald Trump is now the 10th president seeking a lasting solution to that brief war.
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ABC News Fifty years ago today, the 1967 Middle East War began between Israel and its Arab neighbors, Egypt, Jordan and Syria. The war ended 6 days later with Israel's swift victory, after which it occupied the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and th Read more ... e Golan Heights.
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The Wall Street Journal WSJ Opinion: Of all the existential threats Israel fears, chemical weapons rank high on the list. In 1967, fear of a gas attack convinced Israel it had to destroy Egypt’s air force preemptively. In the barrage of Tomahawk missiles President Trump l Read more ... aunched against Syria in April, the U.S. provided some response to the latest chemical attack, but President Trump must take follow up action, writes Asher Orkaby.
Syria’s Chemical Weapons Might Start a New Six Day War
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In 1967, fear of a gas attack convinced Israel it had to destroy Egypt’s air force pre-emptively.
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AP The only direct flights from Israel to Arab states are to Egypt and Jordan, both of which signed peace treaties with Israel.
Trump heads to Israel in possible first arrival from Saudi
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Even before President Donald Trump began his trip to Israel, he already may have made history.
The president's flight from Riyadh to Tel Aviv on Mon
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ABC News Israeli settlements are communities of Israeli citizens, often ethnically Jewish, located within the Palestinian territories of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. The territories have been occupied by Israel since the 1967 Six-Day W Read more ... ar - when Israel, feeling its security was threatened by Arab neighbors, captured these areas along with the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
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AP Images #TodayInHistory: On June 5, 1967, war erupted in the Mideast as Israel raided military aircraft parked on the ground in Egypt; Syria, Jordan and Iraq entered the conflict. #OTD #APArchivePhoto
Photo Caption: An Israeli soldier is seen with an Arab p Read more ... risoner, June 1967. #APPhoto
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The Economist Israel lavishes more than 6% of GDP on its armed forces, a much bigger share than any Western democracy. This is understandable, given that it is a tiny country surrounded by enemies. But as the main Arab military powers—Egypt, Syria and Iraq—are Read more ... either imploding or preoccupied with internal unrest, more Israelis are asking whether they really have to spend so much on tanks and bullets http://econ.st/1NgiKp8
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Avicci Chai Below is proven by Archaeology all over Israel: 1. Israel became a nation in 1312 BCE, two thousand years before the rise of Islam. 2. Arab refugees in Israel began identifying themselves as part of a Palestinian people in 1967, two decades after the Read more ... establishment of the modern State of Israel. 3. Since the Jewish conquest in 1272 BCE, the Jews have had dominion over the land for one thousand years with a continuous presence in the land for the past 3,300 years. 4. The only Arab dominion since the conquest in 635 CE lasted no more than 22 years. 5. For over 3,300 years, Jerusalem has been the Jewish capital Jerusalem has never been the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. Even when the Jordanians occupied Jerusalem, they never sought to make it their capital, and Arab leaders did not come to visit. 6. Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in Tanach, the Jewish Holy Scriptures. Jerusalem is not mentioned once in the Koran. 7. King David founded the city of Jerusalem. Mohammed never came to Jerusalem. 8. Jews pray facing Jerusalem. Muslims pray with their backs toward Jerusalem. 9. In 1948 the Arab refugees were encouraged to leave Israel by Arab leaders promising to purge the land of Jews. Sixty-eight percent left without ever seeing an Israeli soldier. 10. The Jewish refugees were forced to flee from Arab lands due to Arab brutality, persecution, and slaughter. 11. The number of Arab refugees who left Israel in 1948 is estimated to be around 630,000. The number of Jewish refugees from Arab lands is estimated to be the same. 12. Arab refugees were intentionally not absorbed or integrated into the Arab lands to which they fled, despite the vast Arab territory. Out of the 100,000,000 refugees since World War II, theirs is the only refugee group in the world that has never been absorbed or integrated into their own people's lands. Jewish refugees were completely absorbed into Israel, a country no larger than the state of New Jersey. 13. The Arabs are represented by eight separate nations, not including the Palestinians. There is only one Jewish nation. The Arab nations initiated all five wars and lost. Israel defended itself each time and won. 14. The PLO's Charter still calls for the destruction of the State of Israel. Israel has given the Palestinians most of the West Bank land, autonomy under the Palestinian Authority, and has supplied them. 15. Under Jordanian rule, Jewish holy sites were desecrated and the Jews were denied access to places of worship. Under Israeli rule, all Muslim and Christian sites have been preserved and made accessible to people of all faiths. 16. The UN Record on Israel and the Arabs: of the 175 Security Council resolutions passed before 1990, 97 were directed against Israel. 17. Of the 690 General Assembly resolutions voted on before 1990, 429 were directed against Israel. 18. The UN was silent while 58 Jerusalem Synagogues were destroyed by the Jordanians. 19. The UN was silent while the Jordanians systematically desecrated the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives. 20. The UN was silent while the Jordanians enforced an apartheid-like a policy of preventing Jews from visiting the Temple Mount and the Western Wall. David Nolan"
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Avicci Chai Myth vs fact of the day:
Myth: "After the 1967 war, Israel refused to negotiate a settlement with the Arabs"
Fact: After it's victory in the Six-Day War, Israel hoped the Arab states would enter peace negotiations. Israel signaled to the Arab state Read more ... s its willingness to relinquish virtually all the territories it acquired in exchange for peace. As Moshe Dayan put it, Jerusalem was waiting only for a telephone call from the Arab leaders to start negotiations.
But these hopes were dashed in August 1967 when Arab leaders meeting in Khartoum adopted a formula which is known today as 'the three noes': "no peace with Israel, no negotiations with Israel, no recognition of Israel."
As former Israeli President Chaim Herzog wrote: "Israel's belief that the war had come to an end and that peace would now reign along the borders was soon dispelled. Three weeks after the conclusion of hostilities, the first major incident occurred on the Suez Canal."
Myths and facts: A guide to the Arab-Israeli conflict
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The only David in the Middle East is Israel facing a Goliath in the form of a united, hostile bloc of Arab and Muslim countries calling for Israel's annihilation
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