NOSTRADAMUS [III.22]
Six days the attack made before the city, Battle will be given strong and
harsh: Three will surrender it, and to them pardon, The rest to fire & to
bloody slicing and cutting.
In French : Six iours l'assaut deuant cité donné, Liuree sera forte & aspre bataille
Trois la rendront & à eux pardonné, Le reste à feu & à sang tranche taille.
The Six-Day War of June 5–10, 1967 was a war between Israel and the
neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. The Arab states of Iraq,
Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria also contributed troops
and arms. At the war's end, Israel had gained control of the Sinai Peninsula,
the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights.
The results of the war affect the geopolitics of the region to this day.
Following numerous border clashes between Israel and its Arab neighbours,
particularly Syria, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser expelled the
United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) from the Sinai Peninsula in May 1967.
The peacekeeping force had been stationed there since 1957, following a
British-French-Israeli invasion of Egypt which was launched during the Suez
Crisis. Egypt amassed 1,000 tanks and nearly 100,000 soldiers on the Israeli
border and closed the Straits of Tiran to all ships flying Israeli flags or
carrying strategic materials, receiving strong support from other Arab nations.
Israel responded with a similar mobilization that included the call up of 70,000
reservists to augment the regular IDF forces.