Six Days: The 1967 Six Day War
Conflicted: A History Podcast
The Story of the Six Day War
In 19 60 en, the leader of egypt is a man named gamal abdel naser. Naser was one of those guys just radiates a kind of indefinable charm. When he steps into a room, he's like a magnet. He has this big, flashy smile, a hollywood square jaw and a clerk gable moustache. In 19 67, no jew has seen the western wall with the naked eye in 19 years. The way nasser saw it, israel wasnit a safe haven for a historically oppressed ethnic group. It was yet another colonizer, yet another tendril of european imperialism worming its way into arab land.
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