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Six days in June

Forty years on, Israelis and Palestinians explain how their lives have been affected by the 1967 Arab-Israeli war
  • Captured Egyptian soldiers pass an Israeli troop convoy in the Sinai desert on 8 June 1967.

    The six-day war: why Israel is still divided over its legacy 50 years on

    Some celebrate the 1967 conflict as a liberation, others believe it launched a disastrous occupation
  • Ami Ayalon

    Israel sunk in 'incremental tyranny', say former Shin Bet chiefs

    Ami Ayalon and Carmi Gillon speak out ahead of 50th anniversary of occupation of Palestinian territories
  • The key to a Middle East settlement

    Ghayth Armanazi

    Ghayth Armanazi: In seeking a resolution to the region's crisis, Syria is critical, but Israel can only win its support by returning the Golan Heights.

  • And on the seventh day ...

    Jo-Ann Mort

    Jo-Ann Mort: After the six-day war, the settlers in the occupied territories liked to think of themselves as the new kibbutzniks. Not by a long shot.

  • 1967: All or nothing?

    Seth Freedman

    Seth Freedman: Kadima came to power in Israel promising to continue withdrawals but it seems to be doing the opposite.

  • 1967: Losing but surviving

    Najwa al-Imam

    Najwa al-Imam: Two-thirds of our house, in which I've lived my whole life, has been forcibly taken over by Israeli settlers.

  • 1967: Abandoned and rejected

    Ahmad Shaheen
  • 1967: Those 'strange, hallucinating people'

    Josh Freedman Berthoud
  • 1967: A shared, if distant, goal

    Nick Stadlen

    Nick Stadlen: Interviewing Shimon Peres a few days after Hannan Ashrawi and Ghassan Khatib, I was struck by how similar they are. And they all want peace.

  • 1967: Israel's miracle

    Josh Freedman Berthoud

    Victory meant different things to secular and religious Jews.

  • 1967: Where to now?

    Faiza Wannas

    Faiza Wannas: For refugees in Lebanon, each anniversary recalls displacement, destroyed homes, and shattered lives.

  • 1967: A fragmented existence

    Abdel Razzaq Takriti
  • 1967: The Jewish Mecca

    Seth Freedman
  • 1967: The price of victory

    Martin Woollacott
  • 1967: Day that changed the Middle East

    Georgina Henry
  • Wisdom from the past

    Benjamin Pogrund

    Benjamin Pogrund: A voice from Robben Island prison 40 years ago urged Israel to be generous towards the vanquished Arabs. We should have listened.

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