what was controversial about the Six Day War in Israel?
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Israel had watched for some time as the troops massed on it's border.  The papers screamed abuse (something like now) and threats of total war.  \n\nThe Israelis, not willing to wait idly by (controversially) launched a pre-emptive air strike against enemy airfields and aircraft.  In the first day they had air superiority.  5 days later, they had 2 divisions of good used Soviet Armor to supplement their Army, and the war was over.
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I hate war.USA should not "busy" to other countries.Israel also make "revenge" Holocaust to Palestine.Israel must wiped off from map.Now Israel and USA  "under" alot of enemies\n\nIran\nIraq\nAfghanistan\nBolivia\nCuba\nNorth Korea\nVenezuela
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The conflict started when Palestinians (who were not called that then, because they had no nation EVEN THEN) were just tribal people.  After the Holocaust, the United Nations gave the unwanted land to the Israeli's for their own Nation.  On the FIRST DAY it was attacked by 7 nations and Israel won the war.  Since then, the other nations (except Jordan who has "backed off" until it is now neutral) have had it in for Israel, claiming they took over Palestine (when in fact, there never was a Palestine.)  They are just anti-Israel and are carrying on the fight to kill Israeli's and nothing else.  Its just pure school boy, immature hatred for someone thats different.  Israeli's are just "tired" of getting on busses and having their loved ones die instead of come home.
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Because when Israel was created by the British pull out somewhere after ww2. The land prior to that was known as Palestine the land was annexed and given to the Jews and renamed Israel.. The Palestinians still consider it their land  so they created the PLO to try and take it back .\n\n      I am a neutral person and I know depending on who you ask the other side is responsible. I believe there is a great deal of fault on both sides of the conflict.\n\n     I did a UN tour in Israel and am in no way an expert but I am  neutral .I can say that neither side is Innocent..\n \n     I sent you a site to at least show the chain of events leading up to today.It covers this century.. I hope it helps. The real conflict has been going on since biblical times\n\nhttp://www.masada2000.org/historical.html
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More and more people are outraged at Israels' complete disregard of international law and the Geneva convention.In 2002 in the road map Israel was required by the quartet to cease settlement building and other expansion policies.In 2004 the international court of justice ruled that the separation wall being built on Palestinian land is illegal and must be dismantled and compensations paid to Palestinians whose land has been stolen in the process.The Palestinians are being starved by Israelis.The blockade of food and medical aid is both inhuman and illegal.the Palestinian economy is being destroyed as they are prevented from exporting their goods.Their orchards and fields are destroyed.Does the fact that i am outraged by these racist policies make me anti-semite?
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It is complicated, but here goes.......\n\nBack after WWII, displaced Jews needed a place, and a lot had gone to that area.  To make a long story short, Isreal was divided for the Jews and the Palestineans.  The Jews got the lion's share because other countries felt sorry for them about the Holocaust.  Later, Israel attacked and took more land to create a buffer zone between them (the Gaza Strip).  The leaders signed a treaty in the 1970s on the White House Lawn, but the two peoples of the two lands have not been cooperative in ending the violence.  Israel would be in trouble if not allied with the U.S., and Muslims side with the Palestineans.  The problems never seem to resolve, and show no signs of resolution any time soon.
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Personally, I believe Israel has the right to exist but at the same time Palestine's rights are being violated by not existing. If you read Samuel Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations", he'll say yes, this war is a clash between Western civilization and Islamic civilization. Much of this conflict, according to him, was brushed under the carpet during the Soviet era both the Islamic World and the West were fighting communism. Do I agree with him? Not really, but he does bring up some strong points.\n\nThe West (particularly the US) interfered to a great extent in the Islamic World in the post- WW2 era and supported some very corrupt regimes such as the Shah's government in Iran. Many of the governments of this time were Arab Nationalist, but people got tired of these governments with their abuse and corruption and turned to Islamist governments. In some instances, the US encouraged the Islamists because some of the Arab Nationalists were too anti-American for their tastes. Israel is the most blatant example of Western interferance because the US uses it as its foothold in the Middle East, to the resentment of the rest of the Arab World especially since they were so thoroughly defeated during the Six Days War in 1967 because throughout most of Middle Eastern history Jews and Christians have lived in Islamic states without a lot of abuse. So, really, the West cannot be considered innocent of the current situation in the Middle East and though, of course, much of it is a reflection of events occurring there, a large part of it is a reaction against the West and Western ideology.
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Axis Powers - Germany, Italy, Japan\n\nWorld War II was the last major conflict to involve the vast majority of mankind (62 million died in the war).\n\nThe Torah is the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, also known as the Books of Moses.\n\nSynagogue is a Jewish house of worship, similar to the Christian churches or the Moslem mosques.
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Additional Info, after reading so many misunderstandings on both sides, I feel that the following information can be useful:\n\nThe Western media is often accused of being pro-Israeli. However, having studied this subject thoroughly for several years now, my conclusion is that quite to the contrary the media in the West, is ignorant of the history, of Middle-East, and have largely bought into the Arab propaganda. Here are but one example:\n•After creation of Israel, approximately 700-800 thousand Jews refugees from Arab counties came to Israel, about equal number to that of the Arab refugees from Israel. We mostly hear of Israeli population as descendants of European Jews, the fact is that there are more descendants of the Jews from Arab and Muslim countries.\n\nConclusion: In my opinion historical study of this region, takes away all legitimacy of “Palestinian Nation”. The need for such nation is about as great as for “Free Nebraska”.\nAs a passionate student of history I would like to share this with you: A Jewish state has existed in the region called Canaan, or Palestine for much longer than any Arab state. There was a state of Israel and/or Judea From ca. 1800 BCE to ca 100 CE with some breaks in between. Then Jewish people were banned by from Jerusalem, and many, perhaps most taken as slaves to other countries. Through next 1700 centuries Jews maintained connection with their “Promised Land” while it was ruled by Romans, Bisantiains, Persians, Arabs, Turks and English. \nIn 1860s, before the advent of Zionism, Jerusalem was a small provincial town in Ottoman Empire with the estimated population of only 14,000 people of all nationalities and religions and Jews as the largest group. (While the Arabs were a majority in the country side).\nHistorically there has never been a country called Palestine. Look at the referees and find that “Palestine” is a “trick” or a device invented by the Arabs opposing the existence of Israel. \nThere were Philistine (known as “sea people”) living in the area of Gaza, but they were not Arabs, not even Semitic, related to Greeks.\n\nThe population of what now is called Palestine is estimated to have been a steady 300 to 400 thousand people during the two centuries prior to Zionist immigration.\n\nThe Zionist immigration, brought not only Jews, but much greater number of Arabs to Palestine as the Zionist money was creating income opportunities, in otherwise extremely impoverished area.\nMost ancestors of today’s Palestinians were in surrounding Arab countries before 1900.\nI hope this info is useful. Please study and find out for yourself.\n\nThe violent hostilities between Arabs and Jews started due to the incitement by the Mufti of Jerusalem, Al Husaini, a teacher and uncle of Arafat, and a close friend and collaborator of Hitler.
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You might try searching various picture websites about the Six Day War.
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Sure -- there are two basic threads:\n\n1. religious -- simmering from the Jews' rejection of Mohammed as a new prophet in 638 CE. This mirrors the Christian hatred of Jews as we rejected Jesus (and, some would say, killed him).  This accounts for violence against Jews which dates back all the way to 638. The fact that jews and Christians are marginalized as dhimmi in Muslim countries is a local consequence of this.\n\n2. political -- with the young Turks revolt in 1908, regional Arabs started to move in a ntionalist direction. This follows the Zionist movement which began in the 1860's -- Jews who had been living in the region continuously coupled with European and other Jews convened to work towards a political entity.  Immigration contiues with immigrants buying land at high prices and being welcomed by many Arabs.  Violence against local Jews began as a political statement -- and offshoot of simmering religious feelings. The 1917 white paper indicating a future Jewish homeland led to an attempt at a peace treaty with local Arabs in 1919 which was rejected by them and which led to more violence. Violence continues against Jews (the most notorious attack being the 1929 Hebron massacre, but it by no means not the only). When the state is declared by partition and the UN vote in 1947/48, Arab nations around the area immediately attack. In the war many Arabs were encouraged to leave their land to make way for the surely victorious Arab military, some ran, and some, yes, some were driven out by the Israeli military.\n\nAt the same time, an equivalent amount of Jews were expelled by Arab countries (there are over 20 of them...). Israel absorbed the Jews, Arab states rejected the Arabs so refugee camps were set up.  More wars and attacks followed -- and even when Jordan and Egypt controlled the West Bank and Gaa, no "Palestinean State" was declared; only violence against Israel was the constant.\n\nThere's more, but this is a start.
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we just forgot all about it... there was no conflict 100 years ago.. it is all about the lost rights of Palastinian ppl in havin thier own land and the lost right of all muslims to get thier Aksa Mousqe in Jersualem back.. and the west is protecting Israel with all means.. in order to not give the muslims thier rights... i condem any terrorist attack on any country... but we should ask our selves why these ppl are doing so.. i think it is thier dispair in getting our rights... it is not the well to kill.. or that islam tell us to kill.. we have to be objective and not shallow when we think about it.. the medie story telling is so so so misleading about the truth of the whole coflict.. if we can solve the Plastanian Islreali conflect then i thnk no confict will find place.... but the problem that they want to force ppl to accept what is on the real site... regarding the rights of muslims.. then the conflict happen..... you can tolerate in your personal right.. but you can not in your reliogous rights... and if you ask muslims to do so... then why dont Jews do it..
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Israel is the single root cause of all of the instability in the ME.\nTheir refusal to comply with UN resolutions and withdraw from Palestinian, Lebanese and Syrian land they have occupied (stolen) since 40 years has created the issue we have today.\nThe problem is the USA supports and vetoes any UN resolution blindly with regards to Israel.\nYet the USA wishes to apply any UN resolutions against the Arabs by military force.\nUntil the USA and Israel act in an honourable way their will never be peace.
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I wouldn't call it a war for no reason - there were some very unpleasant episodes of 'ethnic cleansing' there, not a million miles removed from the crimes of the holocaust. Also various sections of the community actually requested UN help in their desperation (unlike Iraq where the US/UK/Aus etc just stormed in uninvited).\n\nBut it is terrible to have people you care about miles from home. I hope everyone involved in peacekeeping duties returns home safely soon.
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At the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a dispute over land and borders. \nIt started in 1948 when Israel was created,by a UN resolution,in Palestine,which at that time was under a British mandate.The Arab countries around didn't accept the decision and the next day they attacked the new created state.Israel won this war.In 1967 Israel attacked Syria,Egypt and Jordan in a pre-emptive war.They occupied and annexed to Israel Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank of the Jordan River (including East Jerusalem), and the Golan Heights.Millions of Palestinians ended up living in UN's refugees camp in Lebanon \nThere are 3 UN resolution that ask Israel to end the occupation on the Palestinians territories and the other territories that they occupied in 1967 ,but the Israelis refuse to do it...\nSince then Palestinians are living under Israeli occupation and they are refused even the elementary rights any human should have... And there are millions of Palestinians living in UN's refugees camps...Israel refuses to let those people come back to their lands...
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I disagree with MrUSARocket man.\n\nWhat R U talking about man?\n\nThere wasn't an Israel B4 1948 so how can it B Jewish land?\n\nIt was Arab land & Israel has in it's short existance wiped out many an anicent Arab towns 4ever, never 2 B heard of Again.\nThe Brits, in the PITT accord, gave it away @ the end of the Second WW.  \nIf U took the time 2 educate Yourself, go find a old atlas from say the 1970's it clearly shows U that Israel was no where near Jerusalam.\nThat was gained fighting wars, wars the Arabs didn't want & handed over more land 2 the expanding Israel.  \nBecause they had no choice.\nFunny that, huh?
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With out a doubt. I don't think people realize how serious this situation is.\n\n\nNew Yorker, you need to study up on world military history. The six-day war of 1967 to be exact. The Israelis are not wimps, they are some of the hardest fighters in the world!!!