Six Day War

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The war, which started in April of 1967, may have created a new Middle-East, but it was nothing new to the people as tension between Arab and Israel’s nation started long back. As Jordan’s King Hussein said it in a UN General Assembly after the war, “Today’s war is not a new war, but part of the old war.” The conflict in 1967 was for the very similar reasons that caused the 1st Arab-Israeli war. In fact, most the combatants are the same which includes Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, and other Arab States. There are many causes of the Six Day War and some which overlapped and was kind of a continuation of the first two wars. First, the war in 1948, in which Arab rejected the right of Jews to basically rebuild their home in the Middle East. Next, the war is 1956, in which Arab was still rejecting and Egyptian blocking of shipping to Israel. Egypt blocked the Strait of Tiran to Israeli shipping and is an act of war under international law. Nasser, Egyptian President, decision to close the strait upsets the whole Arab world.
Despite all of this, one major thing that happened in which I believe the Six Day War really originates from. It is “Egypt’s decision to evacuate United Nations troops from the Sinai Peninsula and blockade Israel’s port of Eliat.” Furthermore, another major cause of the war is the way Israel diverts water from the Jordan River down to the Negev Desert. As a result, it angered Arabs and they threatened to have the water flow into Lake Galilee. “Syria had begun the work to divert water away from Israel, but the site was bombed in 1965 and 1966.” In the 1960s, terrorist activity against Israel increased and this eventually forms PLO and Al Fatah, which creates more tensions between Israel and its...

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... in the peace treaty for the Middle-East”. As years progressed, peace between Israel and PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) was in effect that resolved the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It was President Bill Clinton’s work in setting up a peace between the two at a ceremony held at the White House on September 13, 1993. Six Day War plus the battles before it and the fighting after it “reshaped the political landscape of the region and redrew the boundaries of the state of Israel.” Egypt eventually negotiates and makes peace with Israel and in 1982, the Sinai Peninsula was returned to Egypt in exchange for full diplomatic recognition of Israel. In today’s news, we always hear something about the Israel, Palestinian leaders, and its neighboring country, Egypt. It is one of those rivalries that started decades ago and will gradually come to an end or not.

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