Denverite in the war in 1967

has changed, but the memories of 1967 have not. At least not if you served in that decisive war. The politics have colored the intervening years. Was this war, imposed on Israel, the blessing that it seemed to be at the time? What about Palestinian nationalism, not heard from before 1967? And settlements? Israel’s loss of underdog status? It is not difficult to put the politics aside if you were in the war, because the results of the war utterly defied the expectations. The Western Wall, in Jewish hands? Not even the craziest dreamer imagined this when Egypt closed the Straits of Tiran to Israel shipping in May, 1967. This strangling of Israel made war inevitable. The biblical Land of Israel (1949 armistice lines obliterated), […]