Topic > Arab-Israeli Six-Day War - 1774

This report will examine the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War, the people, resources, consequences and facts from several reliable sources. To truly understand what happened to start this historic event. We must examine the events that lead Israel, Syria, Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinian people to conceive of war. Israel has always desired peace with all neighboring nations; yet these nations insist on destroying the Israelis without regard for their existence. The Soviet Union provided Damascus with a report claiming a massive military buildup in preparation for an attack, Israel denied the report. Syria has decided to invoke the defense treaty with Egypt. By May 18 large masses of Syrian troops were prepared for battle along the border of the Golan Heights. The United Nations withdrew its Emergency Force and remained silent as the Arab nations sought to annihilate Israel. The Israeli conflict forever changed the way all Arab nations perceived the Israeli government. This strip of land running along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea was once a small, sleepy, sparsely populated area of ​​Syria. In the uninhabited areas there were wild cats, jackals, hyenas, wolves, foxes and even leopards. The borders of Palestine were not well defined, the eastern side merged with the Jordanian plateau, the south ran parallel to the Arabian deserts, and the northern border merged with the gray mountains of Lebanon. It was a small piece of land measuring just under two hundred and fifty miles long and fifty miles wide. Different historical perspectives on the Six-Day War produced writings as soon as the military ceasefire was in place. Many different people, including Israelis, Egyptians, Jordanians and Palestinians, interpreted the war differently. History indicates that the Israeli nation began when the British issued it