Question about 1967 Six Day War

[CHEMICAL SOLDIER]

Just wondering if anyone here knows the overall casualty count and total forces engaged for all the countries involved in The Six Day War .

[lcjjdnh]

Well I don't know how accurate the webpage is but according to http://hometown.aol.com/RChera/aftermath.html

Israel's victory was extremely devastating to the arabs, who expected victory for themselves. The fact that the war took only 6 days shows that Hashem is with Israel. The arab forces lost almost their entire air forces, and much of their armed weaponry. 10,000 Egyptians were killed in Siniai and Gaza alone, compared to the 300 Israeli casualties on that front. In all, Egypt lost about 11,000 troops, Jordan lost about 6,000, Syria lost about 1,000, and Israel lost about 700. Israel gained all of Jerusalem, The Golan Heights, Siniai, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank.

[MrBug708]

I can see why the Arabs went to Terrorism with those kind of numbers

[tucker342]

No wonder they all hate Israel...

[CHEMICAL SOLDIER]

If I can remember correctly The ''Western World;; has repeatedly slaughtered Arab and Persian armies for about 3000 years ....going back to The Battle of Salamis to Desert Storm II.

I think its mainly because of Western Traditions and ideas of democracy and because most of the time are threatend by annihilation ....Also because Arab and Persian Countries forces were mainly untrained conscripts with no training and incompetent officers while the Western Forces have had mostly great leaders and great troop trainings .

[CHEMICAL SOLDIER]

I have read accounts of The 6 Day war and it basically stated that The Egyptians ran from the fields and that only the Syrians put any resemblance of a fight ....The stats abouve purely states the facts too .

[stkelly52]

Originally posted by CHEMICAL SOLDIER
If I can remember correctly The ''Western World;; has repeatedly slaughtered Arab and Persian armies for about 3000 years ....going back to The Battle of Salamis to Desert Storm II.

I think its mainly because of Western Traditions and ideas of democracy and because most of the time are threatend by annihilation ....Also because Arab and Persian Countries forces were mainly untrained conscripts with no training and incompetent officers while the Western Forces have had mostly great leaders and great troop trainings .

This hasn't always been the case. Around 650 AD with the emergance of Islam, the Arabs began a massive expantion that would eventualy have the Muslims overthrow the eastern capital of the Roman Empire, Constantinople. In Europe proper, (in the early 700's) after taking North Africa, the Arab raiders were able to cross into Spain. For a time they even controled part of France. It was not until the year 1492 that the last of the Islamic sultans was forced to surender.

[CraigSca]

I actually bought a book on the 6-Day War last year. Unfortunately, it's packed right now, as we are moving in the next couple days. However, there are two things (among others) that i distinctly remember from the books.

1) It spoke of Yassir Arafat's early days as a terrorist. Being born in 1969, I only remember him as the leader of the PLO and his repeated attempts to denounce terrorism. Probably naive of me, but I had no idea he didn't practice what he preached (at least as a young adult).

2) During the first hours of the war, Egyptians were being told that they were slaughtering the Israelis by their official news agency. This information was being dispersed as Egyptians, in the midst of celebratring, could see almost their entire air force being shot down by the "slaughtered" Israelis over the skies of Cairo. The people could see, first-hand, that their government was lying to them.

Was a very interesting book and gave a very detailed account. When we unpack in a few days, I'll try to find if it has the exact figures for participants and casualties.

[Tekneek]

I don't think I saw mention of the 34 US military men that were killed in the Six Day War yet. On June 8, 1967, the USS Liberty was attacked by air and sea by the Israeli military, killing those 34 and wounding 171 others. For 75 minutes Israel kept attacking the ship. They said later it was a 'mistake' and basically the US government forgave them for it.

[Abe Sargent]

I had an entire class on the Six Days War. Had to read like 8 books or something on it. I recall some book entitled "Warriors from Jerusalem" or "Warriors of Jersusalem" or "Warriors near Jerusalem."

So anyway, I would recommed Warriors {insert preposition) Jerusalem to anybody who likes to read. The book, although written about historical events and the US foreign policy, reads like a pseudo-novel and it quite a good read.


-Anxiety

[ACStrider]

Originally posted by stkelly52
This hasn't always been the case. Around 650 AD with the emergance of Islam, the Arabs began a massive expantion that would eventualy have the Muslims overthrow the eastern capital of the Roman Empire, Constantinople. In Europe proper, (in the early 700's) after taking North Africa, the Arab raiders were able to cross into Spain. For a time they even controled part of France. It was not until the year 1492 that the last of the Islamic sultans was forced to surender.

Very true. the Islamic forces were very strong indeed and threatened to sweep all of Europe. They were stopped at the battle of Tours in northern France in 732 AD by the French commander Charles Martel. It wasn't until 1492 that the Islamic forces were driven out of Western Europe at the battle of Grenada by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain. In Eastern Europe, the presence of Islam lasted much longer, particularly in the balkans region. This isn't very well known, but as late as 1683, Islamic forces were beseiging Vienna, Austria! Take a look at a map. Vienna is in central Europe.