The Endless Setback of 1967

On the morning of June 5, 1967, Israel attacked Egypt. This became known as the 1967 War, or the Six day War, or the Arab-Israeli War.

Zena Tehlan, in an Al Jazeera article explains some of the debated history that led up to the war. It’s not debated that Israel preemptively began the War by attacking Egypt.

Tehlans’s artticle “The Naksa: How Israel occupied the whole of Palestine in 1967” gives a provides a summary of some of the immediate and ongoing results of the endless occupation and oppression of Palestinians.

The Palestinian-created and Palestinian-led BDS (Boycott, Sanction, Divest) Movement has suggestions on actions to take to end the Naksa, and it’s precursor, the the Nakba of 1948.