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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In this four-part miniseries, we visited some of the country's most iconic walls, journeying from the Bronze Age to the modern Start-Up Nation, from the soccer pitch to the battlefields of the Six-Day War, from the holy to the political.
president in late March recognized Israeli sovereignty over the part of the strategic plateau it seized from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day war. Israel later annexed the area in a move never recognized by the international community.
1967: The Six-Day War between Israel and Egypt began.
The incident took place as Israelis marked Jerusalem Day, which commemorates the country's capture of the city's mainly Palestinian eastern sector in the 1967 Six-Day War.
Israel had occupied Sinai during the Six-Day War in 1967.
Salma endures hardships stemming from the Six-Day War of 1967 in Palestine before rebuilding their lives in Kuwait, until the family is scattered again when Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime invades.
I was born in the Second World War, grew up listening to the Korean War, then onto the Vietnam War, and now we are witnessing years of war in the Middle East, and let's not forget Suez, Northern Ireland, the Six-day War, the Falklands, Kenya, Burma, Sri Lanka and the list just goes on and on.
I was born in the Second World War, grew up listening to the Korean War, then on to the Vietnam War, and now we are witnessing years of war in the Middle East, and let's not forget Suez, Northern Ireland, the Six-Day War, the Falklands, Kenya, Burma, Sri Lanka and the list just goes on and on.
The war took place mostly in Sinai and the Golan occupied by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War.
1967 - Israel and Syria agreed to a ceasefire that ended the Six-Day War.
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.
Israel captured and then occupied East Jerusalem or Arab Jerusalem in 1967 during the Six-Day War. The UN and the international community have not recognised the annexation of East Jerusalem.