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Six-Day War



The Six Day War took place June 5 - June 10 in 1967. The start of this war was started by Israel and initiated by General Moshe Dayan. When he initiated the war he believed that three Arab counties where coordinating an attack on Israel. These three countries consisted of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.

On June 5, 1967 Israel broke out and started attacking all 3 countries, this whole day was contributed to attacking airbases and airports. The first attacks on airbases was in Egypt, these attacks was known as Operation Focus.

Operation Focus was an attack bases on an Egyptian air force flaw. This flaw was major and important for the Israelis. The flaw was that when not deployed, the aircrafts of the Egyptians were not flown for long periods at a time. This made it easy for the Israelis to make Operation Focus possible and destroy most of the aircrafts.

The days of June 6 and June 7 were days where Israel completly showed their dominance over all 3 Arab countries. In these two days not much happened in the Syrian front, other than Syria trying to bomb and hold Israel from advancing into their land. For the 2 other countries, Egypt and Jordan, were not doing very well in terms of winning. Jordan in the two days lost a lot of crucial cities, some cities that were conquered consist of Jericho, the old Jerusalem, and Mar Elias Monastery. As for Egypt, they had a lot of cities conquered just like Jordan. The fourth day of the war June 8, 1967 was the day that the U.S. got involved on accident with the U.S.S. Liberty. Israel spotted a ship, around 6 in the morning, of the coast of the Gaza Strip. This ship was sent information saying they need to retreat to at least 100 miles away from the coast, but the ship did not recieve any of this information. This ship was not attacked at this time, instead they put a marker on a map to see where the ship is and will be later. 11 AM the naval duty officer goes off shift and removes the marker when he goes off shift. After a while some of the Israelis are starting to get curious about this ship, they finally sent planes out over the ship to identify the ship. The ship was not identified at the time. They went back to base to fill on napalm came back to the ship and started attacking the ship until one of the pilots saw some Latin lettering on the ship, realizing it was not an Arab ship they called off the attacks immediately. Not much happened on this day between Israel and other countries other than them destroying Jordan River bridges and continuing their artillery battle with Syria.

Now 5 days into the war on June 9th, 1967, Israel starts focusing on Syria. The start attacking Syria in the morning and continue through out the day, at the end of the day they captured 5 different key points in Syria including the bunkers of Tal Fahr. On this day Nasser, from Egypt, has a public speeching blameing the United States for Israels victory saying that we supplied them. Later in the speech he announced resignation, but following the speech anti-aircrafts fire which made him retract his resignation.

The last day of the Six Day War was contributed to attacking Syria. Once this day was over they just faded off and stopped attacking all three Arab counties.

This war was very successful for the Israelis, they conqured alot of land and put their mark on the three counties, showing they were superior.

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