The US held Israel at arms length until after its stunning victory against Soviet clients Egypt and Syria in the 1967 Six Day War.
Rabin, who led Israel's defeat of Syria during the Six Day War, had been discussing peace with Damascus since 1991, but with no tangible results.
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.
Moshe Dayan, Minister of Defense during the Six Day War, foresaw the delicacy of the situation when Israel was in the process of capturing the city from the Jordanian Legion.
When one looks at Israeli history, the two wars that changed and defined the country the most were the Six Day War of 1967 and the Yom Kippur War of 1973.
Syria, which is among the countries invited, said it would attend if discussions included the return of Golan Heights, a strategic plateau that Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Six Day War and later annexed.
But at the same time, Syria has wanted to have better relations with the United States, and it has engaged in indirect talks with Israel over their differences, especially the Syrian land seized by Israel during the Six Day War in 1967.
Obama perceives the conflict as a direct consequence of two things: prior US administrations' refusal to "put light" between the US and Israel, and Israel's unwillingness to surrender all of the territory it took during the course of the 1967 Six Day War.
During the Six-Day War he served in a unit that hand-delivered messages between headquarters and Jerusalem.
He had been an ardent teenage Zionist, working as an interpreter during the six-day war of 1967.
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.
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.
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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