... and on the East Bank under unified Palestinian rule. Violation or abrogation of the Peace Treaty with Egypt. War with Syria, resultant from a pre-planned Syrian attack on the Golan Heights or from a deteriorating situation in South Lebanon, where Iranian-supported Hezbollah guerrillas have inflicted a steady trickle of casualties on Israel. Weapons of mass destruction from the "Outer Ring" - that is ... June 1985, more than six Syrian divisions are concentrated in the Golan-Damascus area. The IDF responded by constructing several defensive lines of mines and antitank obstacles in the Go...

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... similar through out the next four decades. Israel took the world by surprise when, in 1967, it conquered the Arabs again on all fronts and won Judea, Samaria, the Golan Heights, and the Gaza Strip using a preemptive strike strategy in response to aggression and shipping blockades in the Red Sea. It is these conquered territories that Israel must defend itself from ... ...

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... Organization (PLO) is established. June 5, 1967: The Six Day War begins, in which Israel destroys the Egyptian Air Force and occupies Sinai, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and Golan Heights. 1968: After the Six Day War, the PLO is reorganized under the leadership of Yasser Arafat, and the Palestinian National Charter (PNC) is drafted, calling for the liquidation of Israel ... ...

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Israel's lightning victory in the Six Day War saw the demographic and geographic face of greater Palestine change indefinitely. In addition to taking the Golan Heights from Syria and the Sinai from Egypt, Israel's forces had driven Jordan's Arab legion from the West Bank and the Egyptian Army from the Gaza Strip. However, re-percussions of ... ...

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... to resists the attack of Israel. The Israeli army managed to win, and when the war ended, Israel was from the Suez Canal to the Jordan River and the Golan Heights. Many Palestinians fled across the Jordan River to Jordan and remain to this day as inhabitants of the desert parts in Jordan. Since then Israel has encouraged immigration from Jews ... ...

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