Los Angeles Times: Remaking the world in six days

Los Angeles Times: Remaking the world in six days:
Remaking the world in six days
Though it failed to bring peace, Israel's 1967 military triumph saved the country and changed the global landscape.
By Michael Oren

BY ALL contemporary accounts, it was one of the most stunning military victories in history. In six intense days of fighting that began on June 5, 1967, Israeli forces saved their country from an imminent existential threat, defeated three major Arab armies and almost quadrupled the territory under their country's control.

Israeli flags flew on the banks of the Suez Canal, over the Golan Heights and above the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the holiest site in Judaism. The victory was so great that Israelis naturally assumed that this would be their last war and that the spoils of their triumph could be traded for a permanent peace.

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