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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The aim of the Fayad plan is to coerce Israel into abandoning all the lands it took control over during the Six Day War, by implicitly threatening to deploy international forces throughout "Palestine" that will be charged with "protecting" the new Palestinian state from the IDF.
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Giving up the Golan Heights, an incredibly important buffer zone, in addition to surrendering most of the West Bank to the Palestinians (not to mention the already ceded Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula), would put Israel in the same vulnerable position it was in before the Six Day War of 1967.
If you add the Palestinian revolt of 1936-39 and the war between Palestinian villagers and Jewish settlers (1947-48) to Israel's War of Independence (1948-49), the Suez War (1956), the Six Day War (1967), the Yom Kippur-Ramadan War (1973), the Lebanon War (1982) and the Palestinian intifadah (1987-93, approximately), the world has seen one major Arab-Israeli war roughly every eight years.
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The Six-Day War was conflated with the six days of creation.
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.
The rise of Islamofacism in Gaza : Israel 's ill-advised withdrawal from the territory along the Mediterranean that it captured in the Six-Day war proves the old adage that if you think things can't get worse, just wait.
In the 20 years between partition and the six-day war in 1967, the Palestinians, Egyptians and Jordanians made no effort to build a Palestinian state in Gaza or the West Bank.
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The mighty military machine that awed the world in the Six-Day War of 1967 has ominously morphed into something resembling the hollow French army of 1940.
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.
In May-June 1967, on the eve of the Six-Day War, frenzied crowds in Cairo and Damascus and elsewhere called for the final battle to destroy Israel.
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