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• At 7:45 a.m. on June 5, 1967, Israel launched the most successful preemptive air strike in military history. Within a few hours, virtually the entire Egyptian Air Force lay in smoldering wreckage. Fighting on three fronts, against the combined might of five different armies, Israel secured a stunning victory in a mere six days. How did this tiny state manage to overcome an Arab enemy that had twic
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| A&E Home Video | | Run Time:
| 50 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| June 24, 2008 | | Average Customer Rating:
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 Looking back at historyApr 13, 2012
By Jason Mark Alster M.Sc
"Millenium man"
When I was in the final days of sixth grade and in a Hebrew Academy in Hartford CT. I distinctively remember that everyone from Rabbi to teacher to students were afraid that Israel would be destroyed by the numerically larger Arab nations. The UN had just been ordered by Egypt to leave the Sinai and Nasser and other Arab leaders proudly proclaimed on the news in public that they were about to " wipe Israel into the sea". The sight of Arab soldiers in mass doing the Goose Step march was a reminder to the Third Reich. The sight of mass demonstrations in the Arab cities calling praise for Nasser's proclamation to destroy Israel are still in my memory. Synagogues were having special prayers to pray for Israel , and this to the Jewish generation trying to rebuild itself just 22 years after the Holocaust. Then on June 5th at 8 AM in the morning when I was getting ready to go to school I heard on the radio that Israel had just destroyed the combined Arab air force with a pre-emptive strike and was conquering the Sinai. HOW did that happen. From pure fear to shock and celebration. It really was a secret because at the time Israel for security reasons told very little of her military operations and strategy. Looking at Israel today, now an important strategic ally of the USA, it is not hard to understand that the Six Day War was one of the most game changing events in history. How Israel won this war had to be told. Battlefield detectives did a good job , because with all the propaganda around, the truth still shines in the darkness. I lived in Israel for 20 years and can tell you that most Israelis did not even know what Battlefield Detectives revealed. Leaving Home, Going Home, Returning Home: A Hebrew American's Sojourn in the Land of Israel
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 From tiny nation to regional superpowerNov 09, 2010
By IanLSmithCindy'sson
If you want to know how Israel transformed itself from a tiny nation on the knife-edge of survival into a regional superpower, this is a DVD you must add to your collection.
The Six Day War is one of the most well known conflicts to take place in the Middle East and for good reason. The Israeli surprise attack against its Arab neighbors in June of 1967 was the largest since Operation Barbarossa(Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union in WWII) and was far more successful. Israeli warplanes annihilated most of the Arab air forces aircraft on the ground in a series of well coordinated strikes against the Arab airbases; starting with Egypt and then moving on to Jordan and Syria, and even a long-range strike against H-3 airfield in Iraq. With their air cover gone, the Arab armies became sitting ducks for the Israeli blitzkrieg tactics that hit them. The Israelis captured the Sinai peninsula, the West Bank of the Jordan River, the Golan Heights, and the Gaza Strip; an area five times the size of their own country.
The resounding Israeli victory in the Six Day War tends to be marred by far-left propaganda that portrays it as an unprovoked act of Zionist aggression, despite the Arab brinkmanship that led up to the war and Egyptian President Nasser's hateful rhetoric, all of which is mentioned in this film. Whether the Arabs intended to invade Israel in 1967 can be opened to debate, after all, the Egyptian armed forces were bogged down in a nasty civil war in Yemen at the time(a fact not mentioned in the film). If not though, why the provocations? and if not in '67 they would have eventually. What is clear is that the Arab forces were woefully unprepared for war; the Egyptian Air Force, the largest Arab air arm and the main Israeli target, had more Soviet-built warplanes than it had qualified pilots to fly them, another fact not mentioned in the film; which seems to deal more with the nuts and bolts of Israel's victory rather than the Arabs' catastrophic blunders. The film should have also mentioned more about the contributions Defense Minister Moshe Dayan made to the Israeli victory, which were immense.
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