Israel captured Ghajar, along with the Golan Heights, from Syria in the 1967 Six Day war.
But then, on the third day of the Six Day War, their long nightmare ended.
The victory of the Six Day War was the beginning of a euphoric era for Israeli society.
East Jerusalem was captured by Israel in the 1967 Six Day War, having previously been under Arab rule.
The fourth part of a five-part series on the Six Day War follows.
The Soviet Union openly sided with the Arabs in the Six Day War and cut off relations with Israel immediately following the war.
After the Six Day War, which should have led to a complete political reshuffling of the region, the US again protected Israel's neighbors.
He left the Palestinian West Bank in 1967 at the age of 11 after Israel moved into the territory during the Six Day War.
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.
So too, the wider Arab conflict with Israel predated the 1967 Six Day War and it won't end if Israel shrinks into the indefensible 1949 armistice lines.
But in the Six Day War of 1967, Israel emerged victorious and captured the Golan Heights from Syria, the West Bank from Jordan and the Gaza Strip from Egypt.
Led by Shimon Peres, the idealists have argued that the reason the Arabs refuse to accept Israel is because Israel took "their" land in the 1967 Six Day War.
In one sense it is obvious that any Palestinian state will be based on Gaza and the West Bank, the lands occupied by Israel after the Six Day War.
There are about 250 settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the report said, all started since Israel seized the lands after the Six Day War in 1967.
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.
At the end of the day, we will have to give in and surrender most of the land or all of the land we took control over in the 1967 Six Day War.
In the Six Day War of June 1967, Israel defeated the combined armies of Egypt, Syria and Jordan, capturing the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights and the Sinai Peninsula.
This "solution" involves the Palestinians controlling some or all of the lands Israel took over from Jordan and Egypt in the Six Day War, establishing a state, and all of us living happily ever after.
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.
Netanyahu has said in the past that a moratorium would not apply to East Jerusalem, which Israel claims as part of its sovereign capital since taking the territory away from Jordan during the Six Day War in 1967.
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Mr Obama hadn't even repeated, in front of the assembled media, his subtle shift of policy, in which he called on Thursday for a future Palestinian state to be based on the borders of 1967, before the Six Day War.
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.
Many Arab poets write about the violence in the Middle East - there's a famous poem "Lament for the June sun" which described the Arab defeat in the Six Day War of 1967 where the poet Al-Bayyati berates the leaders of the Arab world.
Since the initiation of the phony peace process with the PLO 18 years ago, at their best, Israel's governments have justified the Jewish state's control over territories it won control over in the 1967 Six Day War on the basis of our security needs.
From a strategic vantage point, both Sharon and then foreign minister Shimon Peres made it clear that Israel did not accept the Arab view that Israel must surrender all the lands it gained control of in the Six Day War as a precondition for peace.
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