Six-Day War

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Six-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

Six Day War, Arab-Israeli War

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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June 5 marks the 51st anniversary of the Six-Day War, also known as the June War or the 1967 War or the third of the Arab-Israeli Wars, when Israel achieved a miraculous victory against the combined forces of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq despite being outnumbered nearly three-to-one in men, planes and tanks.

Facts About The Six Day War Of 1967

Air-Cdre Alvi is one of the few PAF pilots who has the honour of shooting down an Israeli fighter jet during the Arab-Israeli wars. He shot down an Israeli Mirage fighter while flying a Syrian MiG-21 in 1974.

PAF exhibition and ban

The Palestinians who graduated from schools and colleges in Palestine found work in many other Arab countries, following the exodus after the 1948 and 1967 Arab-Israeli wars. Many worked as teachers in other Arab states.

In Palestine, life before wars was progressive

Some specific contexts discussed include Americans and NATO airpower, the Arab-Israeli wars of the 20th century, and the Israeli air force and asymmetric conflicts from 1982 to 2014.

Airpower Applied: U.S., NATO, and Israeli Combat Experience

Summary: Arab-Israeli wars, I used to tell my students, are like Old Faithful -- the geyser in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming -- that "faithfully" erupts every hour or so.

Faithfully, new Mideastern wars beckon

More than 18,000 Palestinians whose families were displaced during the 1948 and 1967 Arab-Israeli wars have been under siege at Yarmouk since July.

Syria's humanitarian crisis

They present a collection of 41 poems by five contemporary poets from Jordan and the Sinai Peninsula whose work comments on world affairs, such as the Arab-Israeli wars, the Gulf War, the American invasion of Iraq; criticizes the domestic policies of Arab states; and highlights poverty, discrimination, corrupt officialdom, and compliant local media.

Poetry and politics in contemporary Bedouin society

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U.S. Textbooks: =91Jesus was Palestinian=92

This makes the book an original study by any standard, in this case the standard emphasizing the legal perspectives in the Arab-Israeli wars. This work first called to mind two similar studies defending the State of Israel.

Quigley, John. The Case for Palestine: An International Perspective

The mine was believed to have been left over from the Arab-Israeli wars of 1968 and 1973.