FINAL WARNING: The Shining Star
the whole Arab world. Why do we mobilize? Because we feel that the
land of Palestine is part of our land, and we are ready to sacrifice
ourselves for it.”Nasser ordered the UN to remove their troops, which they did; and he
closed the crucial port of Eliat, on the Gulf of Aquaba, and blockaded
the Tiran Straits. He then taunted Israel’s Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin
by saying: “Let him come, I’m waiting.” The armies of Egypt, Jordan,
Syria, and Lebanon surrounded Israel on all sides. Joining them were
Iraq, Algeria, Kuwait, Sudan, and other Arab nations, which
represented 25 times more manpower than Israel could field. On the
evening of June 4, 1967, Nasser moved his Russian-made tanks and
artillery into position. He knew that with America caught up in the
Vietnam War, there would be no help for Israel.As daylight broke on June 5th, Israeli jets flew low from the north and
began bombing the Egyptian Air Force. Israeli ships traded fire with
Egypt’s naval power, and Israeli tanks rolled into the Sinai. As the
events unfolded, Russia warned the major countries of the world to
back-off, so the world sat back and waited, expecting a swift Arab
victory. The victory never came. By the second day, Arab leaders
watched their military being ground to bits. After six days, the Arab
alliance was in retreat as Israeli soldiers captured the Sinai peninsula
up to the Suez Canal, the Golan Heights including Mount Hermon
(which would then become the “eyes and ears of Israel,” the entire
West Bank of the River Jordan, and reclaimed the city of Jerusalem.
Schlomo Goren, Ashkenazic (of Eastern European origin) Chief Rabbi
of Israel, carried the Scrolls of the Law, and sounded the ram’s horn of
repentance. In Hebrew, ‘shofar’ (ram’s horn) is the word that ‘jubilee’ is
derived from. In Leviticus 25:8-9, a ‘jubilee’ is represented as 49 years.
There was a 49 year difference between 1917, when Gen. Allenby
entered Jerusalem, and 1967, when the Jews took complete control.
Gen. Moshe Dayan said: “We have returned to our holiest of holy
places, never to be parted from it again ... No power on earth will
remove us from this spot again.”Seeing that their plan was failing, Russia called for a ceasefire. In
those six short days, the Arabs lost three billion dollars of military
equipment, and the Israelis captured $700 million in new Soviet
military hardware. Over 15,000 Arab lives were lost, but only 776