Six-Day War

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Noun1.Six-Day War - tension between Arabs and Israeli erupted into a brief war in June 1967Six-Day War - tension between Arabs and Israeli erupted into a brief war in June 1967; Israel emerged as a major power in the Middle East
Middle East, Mideast, Near East - the area around the eastern Mediterranean; from Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran; the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam; had continuous economic and political turmoil in the 20th century; "the Middle East is the cradle of Western civilization"
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The Golan was lost in the disastrous Arab-Israeli War of 1967, along with the Sinai Peninsula, Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
The village of Massade, part of Syria's Quneitra District, has been under Israeli occupation since the Arab-Israeli War of 1967.
In the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, Israel drove Jordan back from East Jerusalem and occupied the whole city.
Egypt supports the 2002 Arab Initiative that offers Israel diplomatic relations with the Arab world in return for withdrawing from all the territory Israel seized in the Arab-Israeli war of 1967.
The Israel Land Authority sought bids to build more than 300 units in a belt of territory around Jerusalem that Israel annexed after the Arab-Israeli war of 1967. Palestinians and many in the international community view the housing that Israel has built there as illegal settlements.
Al Zu'ayyin's experience in Algeria came to shape a bulk of his future vision, especially during the Arab-Israeli War of 1967 when he claimed that Israel, like France in Algeria, could be forced to yield by force.