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Witness the six days that shook the world and redrew the map of the Middle East in our episode on the Six-Day War of 1967. In this installment, we explore the rapid-fire escalation of tensions between Israel and its neighbors—Egypt, Jordan, and Syria—triggered by the closing of the Straits of Tiran and the expulsion of UN peacekeepers from the Sinai. We'll dive into the high-stakes military gamble of Operation Focus, Israel's preemptive air strike that decimated the Egyptian air force on the ground in a single morning, fundamentally shifting the balance of power before the land war even began.

We'll follow the relentless three-front campaign that saw Israel capture the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights, and, most significantly, the Old City of Jerusalem and the West Bank. Join us as we examine the profound psychological impact of this "miraculous" victory for the Jewish world, set against the backdrop of the "Three Nos" of the Khartoum Resolution and the beginning of a decades-long debate over the status of the newly occupied territories. This is the story of a conflict that lasted less than a week but created the geopolitical reality that continues to define the region more than half a century later.