Thus, when the news broke on June 7 1967, with Colonel Gur, commander of Israel's 55th Paratroop Brigade, radioing: "The Temple Mount is ours! I repeat, the Temple Mount is ours!" - the wave of ecstatic jubilation running thru the minds of millions of Jews world wide must had been electrifying! And after all the tearful dancing & celebration, I bet suddenly - a spark, a sudden realization - would went off in each one's mind - My God! Indeed NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM!
Israel has fought many wars with her Arab neighbors in her 60 years of independence - in defense. Literally from the day immediately after her independence right up...till...TODAY! The last major ground war was less than 2 years ago with the Hezbollah (Syrian & Iranian proxy army in Lebanon). While the last major covet operation was the bombing of a SUPER-SECRET nuclear plant been built by North Korean agents deep inside Syrian territory! (Move over, James Bond!)
But of all the wars Israel fought, ONE stood TALL above all - the SIX DAYS WAR of 1967.
The map above shows Israel on the eve of the war (the blue color), and the areas conquered AFTER the war (the red color)! In 6 short days, Israel took over the whole Sinai peninsula, the West Bank (Judea & Samaria), Gaza & the Golan Heights!
The Arab world was STUNNED, and so was the whole world! How could a tiny Israel defeat an enemy 100 times her size?!
Today, the world is in DIRE need of peace in the Middle East. The world has not been short in effort of trying to bring peace to the region. Presidents & Prime Ministers of various super powers have all tried to broker peace. And with great hope, many a treaty had since been signed & confirmed over the decades in great fanfare...but they all come to naught...often ending with much shedding of blood & tears.
The Israeli, themselves been weary of the long years of wars & terrorist attacks, had been showing such desperation seeking this elusive peace that they had been willing to turn over sovereign land & towns in exchange for peace - to an enemy who has YET to demonstrate any sincerity or effort in return!
Today, Israel's enemy is demanding that she retreats back to the border prior to the Six Days War. And the world too is yielding to the terrorist attacks & demands in pressuring Israel to give up even MORE land.
And sadly, the incumbent Israel leadership seems to be contemplating exactly such a move...even to the point of giving up Jerusalem...
"For behold, in those days and at that time, When I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all the nations And bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. Then I will enter into judgment with them there On behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel, Whom they have scattered among the nations; And they have divided up My land. "They have also cast lots for My people, Traded a boy for a harlot And sold a girl for wine that they may drink. "Moreover, what are you to Me, O Tyre, Sidon and all the regions of Philistia? Are you rendering Me a recompense? But if you do recompense Me, swiftly and speedily I will return your recompense on your head. "Since you have taken My silver and My gold, brought My precious treasures to your temples, and sold the sons of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their territory, behold, I am going to arouse them from the place where you have sold them, and return your recompense on your head. "Also I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a distant nation," for the LORD has spoken.
(Joe 3:1-8)
Israel has fought many wars with her Arab neighbors in her 60 years of independence - in defense. Literally from the day immediately after her independence right up...till...TODAY! The last major ground war was less than 2 years ago with the Hezbollah (Syrian & Iranian proxy army in Lebanon). While the last major covet operation was the bombing of a SUPER-SECRET nuclear plant been built by North Korean agents deep inside Syrian territory! (Move over, James Bond!)
But of all the wars Israel fought, ONE stood TALL above all - the SIX DAYS WAR of 1967.
The map above shows Israel on the eve of the war (the blue color), and the areas conquered AFTER the war (the red color)! In 6 short days, Israel took over the whole Sinai peninsula, the West Bank (Judea & Samaria), Gaza & the Golan Heights!
The Arab world was STUNNED, and so was the whole world! How could a tiny Israel defeat an enemy 100 times her size?!
Today, the world is in DIRE need of peace in the Middle East. The world has not been short in effort of trying to bring peace to the region. Presidents & Prime Ministers of various super powers have all tried to broker peace. And with great hope, many a treaty had since been signed & confirmed over the decades in great fanfare...but they all come to naught...often ending with much shedding of blood & tears.
The Israeli, themselves been weary of the long years of wars & terrorist attacks, had been showing such desperation seeking this elusive peace that they had been willing to turn over sovereign land & towns in exchange for peace - to an enemy who has YET to demonstrate any sincerity or effort in return!
Today, Israel's enemy is demanding that she retreats back to the border prior to the Six Days War. And the world too is yielding to the terrorist attacks & demands in pressuring Israel to give up even MORE land.
And sadly, the incumbent Israel leadership seems to be contemplating exactly such a move...even to the point of giving up Jerusalem...
"For behold, in those days and at that time, When I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all the nations And bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. Then I will enter into judgment with them there On behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel, Whom they have scattered among the nations; And they have divided up My land. "They have also cast lots for My people, Traded a boy for a harlot And sold a girl for wine that they may drink. "Moreover, what are you to Me, O Tyre, Sidon and all the regions of Philistia? Are you rendering Me a recompense? But if you do recompense Me, swiftly and speedily I will return your recompense on your head. "Since you have taken My silver and My gold, brought My precious treasures to your temples, and sold the sons of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their territory, behold, I am going to arouse them from the place where you have sold them, and return your recompense on your head. "Also I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a distant nation," for the LORD has spoken.
(Joe 3:1-8)
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