Netanyahu Visits Area Israel Recently Seized in Syria, Officials Say

Though the commitment to keeping the territory that Israel acquired in the Six-Day War would later be associated with the religious community, acquiring land and building on it had been the essence of secular Zionist activity since its beginnings at the end of the nineteenth century.

Israeli life had changed in numerous ways. If in the early years of the state military leaders spoke of their accomplishments with a sense of humility—the pervasive culture insisted that they were merely “doing their duty to serve the nation”—Israel now venerated IDF generals and treated them as heroes. Some of those generals then parlayed their ne

The United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 132, stating that Israel had violated Argentina’s sovereignty and warned that future similar actions could undermine international peace. The United States, France, Britain, and the Soviet Union all joined in condemning Israel.

But Netanyahu resisted this pressure, insisting instead on Palestinian recognition of Israel as the Jewish State, and stoked the president’s ire.

In defeating the Arab armies, Israel captured more land than that allotted to it by the U.N. partition. Much of the newly captured land had significant Jewish populations and settlements, such as in western Galilee. This land had to be captured in order to assure the safety of its Jewish civilian residents. The Egyptians and Jordanians also capture

They resounded in the administration’s respect for the “international community,” a grouping that included North Korea, Pakistan, and Sudan, and which many Israelis considered an oxymoron.