Word: six-day
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Jewish settlers, and to thousands of other Israelis, the land is Judea and Samaria, a part of the Eretz Yisrael into which Abraham led God's chosen people. Disputes about the future of the West Bank, which was occupied by Israel eleven years ago this month during the Six-Day War, cloud the prospects for a Middle East peace settlement. More than that, those arguments focus on the cruelest of conflicts: two families fighting over the same home...
Nothing infuriates the West Bankers more than the Jewish settlements. The early ones were established by Israel's Labor government after the Six-Day War along the Jordan Valley-a first-line of defense composed of quasi-military outposts. Since then, Israel has invested $2 billion in settling all the occupied territories (which include the Sinai, the Golan Heights and the Gaza Strip). The 51 communities throughout the West Bank have alone received $1 billion...
...late. Begin called the Senate's decision "a negative turn for the security of Israel." He added: "An attempt is being made to impose peace terms on us." Former Premier Yitzhak Rabin called the plane deal "the greatest setback for Israel in the U.S. since the Six-Day War," when the U.S. refused to put pressure on Egypt to end its blockade of Israel's water route...
...Israelis but also on the part of other Arabs. Although Arab governments support Palestinian organizations-Saudi Arabia alone contributed $26 million last year-their motives are at least as much anti-Israeli as pro-Palestinian. Indeed, the P.L.O. cause was probably strongest in the Arab world after the disastrous Six-Day War in 1967, when Arab armies had been roundly defeated and the underground Palestinians emerged as the most heroic and effective anti-Israel group around. But the Arab dislike of Palestinians arises largely from the fact that under the British, who ruled Palestine through a League of Nations mandate...
...view but to spare Egypt the consequences of an internal conflict between the rulers of the land that was becoming increasingly intensified. It was this that made the July Revolution, for all its achievements, steer Egypt on a disastrous course culminating in the 1967 defeat [in the Six-Day War with Israel] which very nearly blotted out all our earlier achievements...