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jazzact13 -> RE: Israel in the News (5/31/2007 4:17:54 PM)
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The Days Before the Six Days
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With the approach of the 40th anniversary of a short but momentous war that changed the face of the Middle East, brace yourself for a barrage of propaganda and revisionism. Prepare for reports and commentary focusing on the themes of upheaval, dispossession, refugees and, naturally, four decades of brutal Israeli occupation.
Less common will be accounts of what led up to the Mideast war of June 1967, when Israel for six days fought the combined militaries of Egypt, Syria and Jordan, supported by personnel from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Algeria and Kuwait.
By the time the gunfire subsided, Israel had seized the Golan Heights from Syria; the "West Bank" from Jordan; and the Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula from Egypt .
The result of the war, of course, is what the United Nations calls the Occupied Territories. The conventional wisdom parroted by pundits and politicians is that if only that pesky little Jewish state would hand back the land it captured in 1967, the Arab-Islamic world would accept Israel. The fringe goes further, envisaging the emergence of a "new Middle East" of love and brotherhood.
And pigs might fly.
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