It has now been nearly 60 years since the West Bank and the Gaza Strip have been under Israeli occupation. On June 5, 1967, Israel launched a “preemptive” strike against Egypt, thereby triggering another war on the Arab world that lasted six days. It ended on June 10, with Israel tripling its size and ultimately bringing all of Palestine, the Golan Heights, and the Sinai Peninsula under its control. An attack that had been planned 20 years before it began and was just one of many battles in the Zionist’s ongoing war of annihilation.
Israel, not content with the land it had already seized by force and occupied in 1948, set its strategy for expanding its borders into motion in 1967. Incentivising the expansion was the goal to gain total control over the region’s water rights, including unlimited and unrestricted access to the waters of the Jordan River and ground water reservoirs in the West Bank. Under their first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, the Zionists were also determined to eradicate Palestinian rights and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which had been founded 3 years prior and carried out many operations against Israel up until 1967. Fearing the rise of pan-Arabism, the Zionists began to implement a plan they had been developing since the 1950s: “Operation Focus”.
On the morning of June 5, 200 Israeli jets set out to launch an attack on Egypt’s air bases, leaving them almost completely destroyed. Continued heavy strikes on the air forces of Syria, Jordan, and Iraq secured Israel total control of the skies. On the ground, the Israeli Occupation Forces took over the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip, where Egyptian forces had already been ordered to withdraw. Over the course of just six days, Israel bombed and occupied the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and finally the entire Golan Heights, even though Syria had already agreed to a UN ceasefire deal, which was completely ignored by Israel until June 10—the end of the war—and only after the full implementation of the Zionist objectives.
Shortly after the complete occupation of Israel’s newly acquired territories, more and more settlers, in violation of international law, moved to the West Bank. By the end of 1967, Israel had already established a military government and an apartheid system; thousands of Palestinians were displaced, oppressed and killed—a fascist regime that remains unchanged to this day.
Known to Israelis as the “6-Day War,” the ‘Naksa’ (“setback”) was a secret and thoroughly rehearsed attack on Palestine and the Arab world, targeting a region already wounded and tormented by the Zionist ideology. This ongoing war was just another step on the imperialist path toward the Zionist dream of the “Jewish state’s” dominance and hegemony through the eradication of the Palestinians and other Arab peoples.
