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History Guy" is a Registered
Trademark. (1967) A
brief summary of the
campaign: Following
the short Suez War of 1956 between
Israel and Egypt resolved nothing, and
only set the stage for a future war
between the Jewish nation and its Arab
neighbors. In the 1956 war, Israeli
forces fairly easily defeated the
Egypian military and occupied the Sinai
Peninsula and Gaza Strip, only to give
it back to Egyptian control in the
ceace-fire agreement. In the years
after 1956, Egypt and the other Arab
powers, Syria and Iraq, more closely
became aligned with the Soviet Union,
which supplied them with large amounts
of modern military weaponry and Soviet
advisors and trainers. Likewise, Israel
moved closer to the United States in
those years, to the point where the
Arab-
Israeli Conflict
became
a part of the larger and very dangerous
Cold
War between
the U.S. and its allies on one side,
and the Soviets and their allies and
satellites on the other side.
As the
underlying tensions between the Arab
nations and Israel remained unchanged
since the First Arab-Israeli War of
1948-1949, the outbreak of a third
major war was expected. The
introduction of the American-Soviet
competition and arms sales in the
region only accelerated the likelihood
of a Middle Eastern war evolving into a
Cold War confrontation. the immediate
cause of war in 1967 came out of
Egypt's decision to expel United
Nations (UN) troops from the Sinai
peninsula and blockade Israel's port of
Eilat. The UN forces were intended to
form a buffer between the border
separating Israel and Egypt, and their
expulsion led the Israeli government to
fear an imminent attack by
Egypt. It
should be pointed out that ever since
the start of the first war in 1948,
Israel had existed in a continued legal
state of war with all of its Arab
neighbors, including Iraq and Saudi
Arabia. The first two wars were ended
with cease-fires, but with no lasting
peace, not unlike the concusion of the
1950-1953 Korean War, in which an
armistice ended the fighting, but did
not bring a legal end to war. Thus,
when the military forces of Egypt,
Syria, and Jordan, as well as Iraq,
began to mobilize and make obvious
preparations for war, Israel felt
forced to act in
self-defence. On June
5, 1967, Israel launched a pre-emptive
ground attack on Egypt, along with
coordinated air strikes that
effectively destroyed the air forces of
Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq on the
ground. Israel
1967 and
Afterward
- From the U.S. Army Area
Handbooks. Israel
at Fifty: Our Introduction to The
Six Day War
- Why the war was so important, and
how it affects Israel
today. Six
Day War - An
Introduction
- Including pages on the Egyptian,
Jordanian, and Syrian fronts, as
well as a map. From the Israel
Defense Forces website. Six
Days in June
- Essay on the Six Day War by
William C. Varner. Who
Made Israel's Computer Models for
the 1967 War?
-- from "Computers and Society."
An interesting article on a
little-known aspect of the
war. The
Disaster of
1967--From
the Jordan government
website. Six
Day War
--From the Israel Defense Forces
website. USS
Liberty--Dedicated
to the the thirty-four men who gave
their lives in an attack by the
armed forces of Israel against a
U.S. Navy ship. Egyptian
President
Nasser Speech
by Nasser: Sept. 15,
1956--Nasser's
speech on the Suez Canal and
negotiations with Britain and
France. Sources: Phillips,
Charles, and Alan
Axelrod.Encyclopedia
of Wars.
1st ed. New York: Facts on File,
2004. Marshall,
S.L.A.Sinai
Victory: Command Decisions in
History's Shortest War: Israel's
Hundred-Hour Conquest of
Egypt.
Morrow, New York, 1958. Herzog,
Chaim.The
Arab-Israeli Wars: War and Peace in
the Middle East from the War of
Independence through
Lebanon.
Vintage Books, New York,
1982. Barker,
A.J.Arab-Israeli
Wars.
Hippocrene Books, New York,
1980. "The
History Guy" is a Registered Trademark. Contact
the webmaster
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cite this source when appropriate: Lee,
R. "The History Guy: Arab-Israeli Wars: The Six Day
War (1967) " http://www.historyguy.com/six_day_war_1967.html Pages
on Israeli and Arab Military
History The
Israeli-Hezbollah War (also known
in Israel as "The Second Lebanon
War
(2006) Casualties: Israel: 2,563
wounded, 15 taken
prisoner Egypt: 185 taken
prisoner Syria: 5,000
wounded Jordan: 2,500
wounded Iraq: 30
wounded Site
Map--revision
in progress
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This
page deals with the Six-Day War of
1967. Please use the following
information, links and sources to learn
more about the Anglo-French attack on
the Suez Canal and the Israeli seizure
of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
Encyclopedia
of the Orient: Six-Day
War
- Includes hypertext links to
background information on the
countries involved in the Six Day
War.
Gamel
Abdel-Nasser Homepage
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killed,
10,000
killed , wounded, or missing in
action
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killed,
700
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