6-DAY WAR BEGINS (1967)
Categories: Anniversary, Military & Politics
Location: Israel, Syria, Jordan, Palestine & Egypt
Type of Event: Daily Event
Updated: May 06, 2024
Location: Israel, Syria, Jordan, Palestine & Egypt
Type of Event: Daily Event
Updated: May 06, 2024
About the Six Day War
The 6 Day War continues to resonate as the foundational event creating the current facts on the ground in Israel. It marks the beginning of the complete military occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights, occupations that continue today, via containment, siege and direct interference with the added strategic tools of massive walls, no man’s zones, home demolitions, checkpoints, targeted strikes using missiles, tanks, bulldozers, naval and aircraft as well as the addition of a two tiered legal system, Jewish only colonies and Jewish only roads throughout the occupied land.
The 6-day war was a stunning military victory for the Israeli army. On that everyone agrees. Historians have since removed much of idealized thinking surrounding this event, the chief idea being that the state of Israel was under imminent threat of attack and needed to strike first.
In reality back channel talks were occurring between the US and Egypt over the Sinai, portions of which were conquered by Israel in 1967. Egypt would regain the Sinai between 1973 and 1981. Israel continues to control the Gaza Strip, West Bank and Golan Heights. These regions are known as the Occupied Territories.
The 6-day war was strategic operation with the goal of expanding Israel’s land holdings and control in the Middle East. The result of the 6-day war is the ongoing and expanding occupation.
There are several excellent books written in the past decade that benefit from declassified historical documents on this issue:
Ilan Pappe’s “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine”,
Benny Morris’ “The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited”,
Jimmy Carter’s “Peace not Apartheid”,
David Hirst’s “Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East”,
Rashid Khalid’s “The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood”,
Tom Segev’s “1967: Israel, the War, and the Year that Transformed the Middle East”.
The First part of Prof. Ilan Pappe’s lecture on the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine is below. The full 4-part series can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/user/ilanpappevideos The full series is 40 minutes.
The 6-day war was a stunning military victory for the Israeli army. On that everyone agrees. Historians have since removed much of idealized thinking surrounding this event, the chief idea being that the state of Israel was under imminent threat of attack and needed to strike first.
In reality back channel talks were occurring between the US and Egypt over the Sinai, portions of which were conquered by Israel in 1967. Egypt would regain the Sinai between 1973 and 1981. Israel continues to control the Gaza Strip, West Bank and Golan Heights. These regions are known as the Occupied Territories.
The 6-day war was strategic operation with the goal of expanding Israel’s land holdings and control in the Middle East. The result of the 6-day war is the ongoing and expanding occupation.
There are several excellent books written in the past decade that benefit from declassified historical documents on this issue:
Ilan Pappe’s “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine”,
Benny Morris’ “The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited”,
Jimmy Carter’s “Peace not Apartheid”,
David Hirst’s “Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East”,
Rashid Khalid’s “The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood”,
Tom Segev’s “1967: Israel, the War, and the Year that Transformed the Middle East”.
The First part of Prof. Ilan Pappe’s lecture on the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine is below. The full 4-part series can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/user/ilanpappevideos The full series is 40 minutes.
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Historical Anniversary. See European Centre for Palestine Studies, Exeter University for historical context
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