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Six-Day War
[ siks-dey ]
noun
- a war fought in June, 1967, between Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, in which Israel captured large tracts of Arab territory.
Six Day War
noun
- a war fought in the Middle East in June 1967, lasting six days. In it Israel defeated Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, occupying the Gaza Strip, the Sinai, Jerusalem, the West Bank of the Jordan, and the Golan Heights
Six-Day War
- A war fought in 1967 by Israel on one side and Egypt (see also Egypt ), Syria , and Jordan on the other. Israel, victorious, took over the Golan Heights , the Jordanian portion of Jerusalem (see also Jerusalem ), the Jordanian West Bank of the Jordan River (see also Jordan River ), and a large piece of territory in northeastern Egypt, including the Sinai Peninsula , which contains Mount Sinai . Israel still occupies all of these territories except the Sinai Peninsula, which it gave back to Egypt in 1982. Israel maintains that its security would be enormously endangered if it withdrew from the other places.
Example Sentences
What is known as the Six-Day War changed boundaries in the Middle East and had major consequences for Palestinians.
Israel seized the Golan from Syria in the closing stages of the 1967 Six-Day War and unilaterally annexed it in 1981.
Embassy from Tel Aviv to the disputed holy city of Jerusalem and recognition of Israeli control of the Golan Heights, seized from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War.
The assassination took place on the anniversary of the Six-Day War between Israel and Arab nations.
In June 1967, you could have found me standing in line outside the Jewish Agency in Manhattan, hoping to register as a noncombatant in the Six-Day War.
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