The Six-Day War

While my first entry was from an American perspective, this one is from a Middle-Eastern point-of-view. The subject is a timeline of the Six-Day War of June 1967. It can be found on the Zion-Israel Information Center's Web site, at www.zionism-israel.com/his/six_day_war_timeline.htm.

The chronology is in three sections:

• the Prologue
• the War
• the Aftermath

The Prologue is a list of events between June 18, 1953, and June 2, 1967.

The section, on the war itself, is a four-column table. Events are listed by day in the first column. The next three columns list times and events on the Egyptian, Jordanian, and Syrian Fronts.

The Aftermath section is similar to the Prologue. It lists some of the more important events from June 19, 1967, to September 5, 1972.

Some of the entries have links to other documents, including some maps. Someone else's perspective(s) were interesting reading. Even though I lived thousands of miles from the events described, the Six-Day War is important to me on two "counts" (for lack of a better word):

• It started on June 5, 1967, my 17th birthday;
• Exactly one year later, then-U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy would lose his life because of his support for Israel.