Six Days

The roots of the interminable Arab-Israeli conflict can be traced all the way to the 19th century, but in many ways the current situation is a direct result of what Israel calls the Six Day War (the Arabs call it the June 1967 War, and an-Naksah, "The Setback"). For one very tense week in June of 1967, Israel stood alone against the armies of Egypt, Jordan and Syria; when the dust settled, the Jewish state occupied Jordan's West Bank, Syria's Golan Heights, Egypt's Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula, and all of Jerusalem. The hostilities inflamed by many of these altered boundaries continues to fuel much of the crisis in today's Middle East, and this interesti...