One fact of the Six Days' War is the land that Israel's army over-ran, took, conquered, kept. Here, from the Golan Heights, Damascus is visible. The water-sources for the Jordan river are in Israel's hands, the heights from which artillery once shelled the Israeli lowlands are in Israeli hands. The '67 War brought, for example, Damascus, Amman and Baghdad closer to Haifa....

        Obviously, the Just War Theory will be one way to try to understand this war. But before we can apply it and work it out, we need the basic outline of  -- Who? What? When? Where? How? Why? -- in terms of our current thesis: The Six Days War is the major cause/catalyst for current problems involving Muslims, Jews, Westerners and others connected, e.g., recently, South Korea.

Who?

Israel (Eshkol, Dayan)

United States (Johnson)

United Nations

Jordan (King Hussein)

Syrai (Assad)

Palestinians

Soviet Union (Kosygin)

Egypt (Nasser)

Iraq, Iran etc Arab World

Bad Intelligence

Pan-Arabism

Media Propaganda & Dis-Information

Racial Hatred

New Borders

Cold War

Dangerous Alliances

Survival

Internal Power struggles

Brinkmanship

Foreign Arms to all

Establishment of Israel as a State

Trading Land for Peace

Dramatic Air superiority

Pre-emptive strike

Zionism

U.S.-Israel Relationship

Soviet-Arab Relationship

Abraham sending Ismael

1917 British takeover Balfour Declaration

All the '60s --

1948 Statehood

1956 Suez

1973

May-June '63 & Eshkol

Moshe Dayan as Defense Minister

Egyptian Air Force on the ground

Continuing the '48 presence, '67 strengthened Israel's position as a state.

'67 war was a minor manifestation of ongoing problems/hostilities and the Israeli success gives the Arabs a 'legitimate' complaint against Israel

Linkage to the U.S. in that Israel's success in '67 exacerbated hostilites to the U.S.

'67 war as a minor detail in the larger Clash of Civilization since Abraham

'War of Redemption' -- the '67 war brought out powerful religious/psychological/cultural forces in Jews.

Israel becomes a focus for Pan-Arab hostilities toward the West

'67 war is a minor failure among many problesm of Arab identity and power

Long term hostilities trump the Palestinian problem, which IS a serious problem, but would have existed in some other fashion as the PLO prior to '67.

'67 war created a stronger tie between Israel & the U.S. in ecx, poli, ideological (Clash of civ)

'67 war proved that U.S. ties were strong and underplayed, and the war made the Palestinian problem worse.

The war unleashed Mulsim extreme radical violence and violent organizations and re-align some Arab countries as allies to those radical organizations

the war made radical Islam lose it s focus, as it re-focused on violence toward Israel

the war radicalized some Arab gov'ts and caused them to shift away from conventional to terrorist warfare

the 67 war is more a manifestation of hardening of Israel attitudes at that time and subsequently, and less of a cause in itself of problems

the ear leaves Israel in a stronger position in that the U.S. is still a strong ally and the USSR has fallen apart leaving the Arabs without that strong ally