The Miracle Of The 1967 War

 

In the spring of 1967, Israel found itself poised for war against four of its Arab neighbors. According to all the military analysts, it was to be a lopsided match. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) consisted of 275,000 troops, compared to the 456,000 soldiers of the combined Iraqi, Syrian, Jordanian and Egyptian armies. The united Arab forces also had a decided edge with regards to weaponry and military equipment: they boasted more than double the amount of tanks, and close to four times the amount of combat aircraft.

 

The three-week period preceding the Six-Day War was one of dread, shock and fright for the residents of the Holy Land.With close to two and a half million Jews living in the tiny country, it had the highest concentration of Jews since pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe.

Israel captured Jerusalem in 1967

 

So pessimistic was the outlook that the nation’s cemeteries and national parks were marked to become gravesites for the many who would surely perish in the course of the war. However, despite all the prognostications, by the time the war ended, the territory under Israeli control had tripled in size, plus the Jews captured Jerusalem - their most prized and significant trophy. Here you see the iconic image of the soldiers gazing for the first time in their lives, the wailing wall, part of the 2nd temple which was razed to the ground by the Romans in AD 70.

 

The Jewish nation was miraculously victorious in the face of unbelievable odds. History books speak of the “Hundred Years’ War,” the “Thirty Years’ War,” and many other long-fought battles. Here, in a matter of six short days, a nation managed to utterly rout not one, but all four powerful enemies! The Arabs boasted that they would destroy Israel. However, in six days Israel overran the combined forces of Syria, Jordan, Egypt and took the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem, the West Bank (Samaria and Judea), and the Sinai—one of the greatest military feats in history.

 

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