Posts Tagged: Six Day War Israel
The Six-Day War: How Israel’s Air Force Led the Path to Victory
The Six-Day War presents an exceptional case study of the Israeli Air Force (IAF)’s ethos of military planning and preparation -- something that resulted from...
Yom Kippur 1967: The Return to the Western Wall
On Yom Kippur in 1967, thousands arrived at the Western Wall for the concluding prayers and to hear the long awaited sound of the shofar. Prior...
Why History Still Matters: The 1967 Six-Day War
Mention history, and it can trigger a roll of the eyes. Add the Middle East to the equation, and folks might start running for the hills,...
Fifty Years Later: Peace Through Strength
We recently marked the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War, June 5-10, 1967, when Israel won a swift and thoroughly decisive victory over its hostile Arab neighbors. Threatened...
The Unfinished Six-Day War: An Open Letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu
Dear Prime Minister Netanyahu, When you celebrated the 50th anniversary of the victory of the Six-Day War, did you ponder what this triumph has done to the...
Libya’s Jews: A Forgotten Consequence of 1967
Fifty years ago this month, the world was transfixed by the war raging between Israel and its Arab neighbors. The war was triggered by blood-curdling threats...
The Lessons and Consequences of the Six-Day War
When you mention history, it can trigger a roll of the eyes. Add the Middle East to the equation, and folks might start running for...
Christian Broadcasting Network Celebrates Israel’s 1967 Victory in New Film
The Christian Broadcasting Network has produced a movie that celebrates Israel’s victory in Jerusalem in 1967. The film, In Our Hands, includes commentary from Michael Oren,...
Declassified CIA Report: Israeli Offensive in Six-Day War Surprised US
JNS.org - A newly declassified Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) report sheds new light on how the U.S. intelligence community viewed the outbreak of the 1967 Six-Day...
Jerusalem Day Statistics Reveal Israeli Capital’s Progress, But Room for Growth
JNS.org - May 17 marks Jerusalem Day (Yom Yerushalayim) in Israel, a national holiday commemorating the reunification of eastern and western Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day...
Alienation Inside and Outside of Israel
Every year when Israel's Independence Day comes round, I always experience delight, pride, and sadness. Delight and pride because after two thousand years of exile, of...
Why Hamas Wants War
Politicians start wars optimistic about their prospects of gaining from the combat, Geoffrey Blainey notes in his masterly study, The Causes of War; otherwise, they would avoid...
The Truth Behind Anti-Semitism
Throughout the Middle East there are many who feel that Israel doesn't have the right to exist as a nation and that the Jews there...
