two wars of DOOOOMMMMM; the first one.

(totally sorry to whoever I promised I'd blog for; this doesn't count! ...or it can, maybe. )

Six-Day War (1967)

background - -
guerrilla attacks made by Palestinians on Israel - Israel, angered, threatens war on Syria.
Soviet intelligence (which later proved to be false) reported that Israel was so incensed it had started amassing troops on Syrian borders. This caused Syria to be scared, and go asking Egypt for assistance, who of course, agreed. Nasser ordered troops into the Sinai while closing the straits-which-I-keep-on-forgetting against Israeli ships.
.'. Israel is surrounded, its ships are stuck and it is fearing an imminent attack.
So it launches a PRE-EMPTIVE strike on June 5 1967.

the actual war - -
June 5; the pre-emptive attack is comprised of 180 Israeli fighter jets i.e. the IAF (Israeli Air Force) attacking the Egyptian air force. Due to an unfortunate sequence of events which include an airport defense lockdown and a changed code, Egypt had no forewarning of this attack. Also, the rather cunning Israeli ships had taken a detour from its usual paths and instead came via the Red Sea + Mediterranean. The awesome IAF destroyed most of the Egyptian Air Force in a few hours, HENCE ILLUSTRATING THE IMPORTANCE OF GOOD AIR FORCE within the Six Day War.
...I seriously doubt they're going to ask us about how the war went and I'm getting bored.

IN SUMMARY

June5-6; Gaza Strip/Sinai Desert - severely injured Egypt.
June 5-7; they also attacked Jordan at this time, Jordan Air Force died by June 6. See, more importance of IAF. Nice to note that Jordanian King didn't actually want to fight; he felt coerced into it by the prospect of his Palestinian subjects. Oh and this is the period in which West Bank got taken.
June 9-10; Golan Heights - Syria, put up a bit of a fight and had offered a ceasefire. Israel ignored this and attacked anyway. This time IAF wasn't as helpful because of the rather strong fortifications Syria had built but yeah, it's still good.
Then next day, Israel advanced to ceasefire line. Yay.

CONCLUSION OF THIS WAR

-Israel; decisive victory, conquered the Gaza Strip, Sinai Peninsula, West Bank and Golan Heights in SIX DAYS ohhhhh. Thus Israel became known as a regional military power. This war dramatically changed political landscape, map of region, yeah.

-Much humiliation amongst Arab nations. After this terrible defeat, they released the Khartoum Resolution which stated the three No's against Israel.

IMPACTS THE WAR HAD ON OVERALL CONFLICT

-More global interest and the proposal of the UN Security Council Resolution 242; proposed that Israel return the land to the Arab states and that the Arab states respect Israel's right to exist.
...and then they said no due to ambiguous terming over land boundaries and omission about anything on refugees. As well as, WHY would Israel want to give back land it just won? Worth a try, impacted future of the conflict as this was a relatively famous peace proposal which was actually considered, and it got re-discussed in the David Camp Accords. Which was much later.

-exacerbated terrorism as a military strategy; after the sad sad defeat of the Arabs in this war, they decided a new tactic - playing dirty! i.e. terrorism. The PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organisation ) which was originally formed by Arab states and situated in Egypt/Jordan, expanded its boundaries with the conquering of their land. They changed the whole NATURE of the conflict by launching random attacks on Israeli civilians, as well as in the Munich Olympics (1972??), they attacked the Israeli athletes there. ouchh.

-Produced a kinda stale-mate-y thing; although Israel had established itself as powerful etc, it wasn't powerful enough to conquer the entire Arab world (we think.)
Also, with the conquering of the extra land, although this meant that Israel was able to expand its boundaries to create a sort of "buffer zone", most of the land harboured millions of resentful Palestinians which weren't very friendly to the Israeli cause. This affected the conflict in that it furthered a big issue - Palestinian refugees!

AND THIS KIDDIES, is why no one should learn about two wars in one night. + this is only half of it!
That was tiring. Whose idea was it to blog educational things?