During the Six-Day War he served in a unit that hand-delivered messages between headquarters and Jerusalem.

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He had been an ardent teenage Zionist, working as an interpreter during the six-day war of 1967.

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It is fast-paced and well-sourced but runs right from before the six-day war of 1967 to the present, and so has often to oversimplify.

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After the Six-Day war in June, the then secretary of state, Dean Rusk, persuaded the administration to upgrade relations with the colonels' regime as it had been so helpful to America's efforts to support Israel.

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Secular, worldly, self-questioning and ironic, Israel's most contentious writer may have written his most important novel yet, a searing account of a marriage, two sons and a doomed love affair from the six-day war in 1967 to an army operation in the occupied territories in 2003.

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Nasser led the 1952 overthrow of the Egyptian monarchy, touted and implemented socialist reforms, supported pan-Arab nationalism, and led a losing fight against Israel in the Six Day War.

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