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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. 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 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
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involved in the Six Day War.
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