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Six-Day War: American Hawk
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The Six-Day War happened 40 years ago. But Israeli media see parallels between the nervousness that pervaded the country then and the uncertainty that grips it now. While American media have covered the aftermath of the war, Israeli media focus on tension and panic pervading Israel before the war.
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The seeds of the Six Day War were sown in the aftermath of the Suez Crisis in 1956. After American demands that British, French and Israeli forces cease operations aimed at seizing the Suez Canal. Israeli forces withdrew to the 1948 borders and a United Nations force was placed between the opposing armies.
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High school and lower grade textbooks in Egypt claim that American and British troops fought on behalf of Israel during the Six-Day War. The following example comes from ‘Abdallah Ahmad Hamid al-Qusi, Al-Wisam fi at-Ta'rikh (Cairo: Al-Mu'asasa al-‘Arabiya al-Haditha, 1999), p. 284.
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