Voice Of Middle East

 Six-Day War 1967  “The spirit of Israel’s heroes accompanies us to battle . . . From Joshua Bin-Nun, King David, the Maccabees and the fighters of 1948 and 1956, we shall draw the strength and courage to strike the Egyptians who threaten our safety, our independence and our future. Fly, soar at the enemy, destroy him and scatter him throughout the desert so that Israel may live, secure in its land, for generations.”  With these words, on the morning of 5th June 1967, the Israeli Air Force Commander Motti Hod issued an order for the pre-emptive airstrikes on the Egyptian aircraft parked on an apron. The first wave of airstrikes was merely of half an hour but the single squadron had destroyed half of the Egyptian air force. This was first of the six days of war. It was the shortest war in history called ‘Six-Day War’ or ‘An-Naksa’ meaning ‘The Setback’.  The roots of violence in the region go back to the early decades of the twentieth century when the indigenous popul...

  When the Muslim World was busy raising awareness about the human rights of Palestinians and the Israeli settler colonialism and its brutalities, the colonialists made sure that the brutal show must go on.  Last Friday of every Ramadan is celebrated as the International Quds Day to raise awareness about the Israeli oppression faced by the indigenous population of Palestine. The event was initiated by the Islamic republic of Iran in 1979. Since then Several Islamic organizations and the organizations fighting for the Palestinian cause conduct seminars and conferences every year. Thousands of Palestinians gather together to pray in the compound of Al-Aqsa Mosque to show the resistance to the illegal occupation. This year also Palestinians gathered together to resist the forced settlements and further illegal annexations of West Bank region when faced the violence. But first let us look at the brutal timeline of illegal occupation this Ramadan.  Israeli Occupational Forces ...