For educational purposes<br /><br />The story of the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, the echoes of which are still heard today in the Middle East. <br /><br />In May of that year, Egypt, under President Nasser, blocked the Tiran Straits to Israeli shipping and began to gather huge numbers of troops in the Sinai Peninsula. <br /><br />At the same time King Hussein's Jordan allowed Iraqi troops across her border. <br /><br />Israel was swift to respond to this turn of events and there was a devastating pre-emptive air strike against the Egyptian airforce. <br /><br />Jordanian and Syrian attacks were halted and repelled, after only six short days Israel had captured East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, the West Bank and Sinai itself.
