Divided by Victory, Israelis Still Grapple With 1967 War
Israeli wrote that Michael Oren, a de
Yossi Klein Halevi said that A majority of Israelis long ago reached the conclusion
that continuing to rule over another people is not good for the long-term health of Israel as a Jewish and democratic society,
Aida said that The continuation of the occupation does not just hurt the Palestinian people,
Jordan — which had taken control of Palestinian areas west of the Jordan River, including East Jerusalem, during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war
and annexed them two years later — joined in the 1967 fight but was quickly pushed back.
The main event will be at Kfar Etzion, south of Jerusalem — the first settlement built in the heady days after
the West Bank was captured in the 1967 war, on the site of a kibbutz in which 157 Jews were massacred in 1948.
By IAN FISHERJUNE 5, 2017
PSAGOT, West Bank — The six days of the 1967 war were the most important — triumphant, even — in modern Israeli history.
"People can’t occupy their own land." Naftali Bennett, the education minister
and head of the Jewish Home Party, has designated $3 million to celebrate the anniversary and Jewish settlements in the West Bank.