Six Days: The 1967 Six Day War
Conflicted: A History Podcast
00:00
The Sinai Peninsula
The sinai peninsula is a desert filled with craggy rock formations and impassable sand dunes. Topographically, it's not an environment you can just drive a tank or a jeep through easily. And egyptian forces have dug in with networks of trenches constructed in the soviet style. The i d f roll over these fortifications with tanks and nimble jeeps. Israeli infantrymen leap into the trenches with compact, little oozy submachine guns and slaughter these egyptian soldiers. But it's not a flawless victory. Israel general ozy narkis said, the arab forces are like soap bubbles. One pin will burst them. I d
Transcript
Play full episode
