June 1967 setback and persistence

Written by: Prisoner Yasser Abu Bakr

The war of 1967 AD, known as the “June setback” for the Arab nation, or what is called the “Six Day War” for the Israelis, is a war, attack, and severe military clashes that took place between the occupying power and each of: Egypt, Syria, and Jordan. In the period between the fifth of June and the tenth of it in the year 1967 AD; As a result, Israel occupied the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights.
The sweeping Israeli aggression or this offensive war by the occupation resulted in the issuance of Security Council Resolution No. 242, the convening of the Arab Three No’s Summit in Khartoum, the displacement of most of the residents of the Suez Canal cities in Egypt, as well as the displacement of most of the residents of Quneitra Governorate in Syria, and the displacement of tens of thousands of people The Palestinian people from the West Bank, erasing entire villages, and opening the door to settlement/colonialism in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Politically, the painful setback awakened and shook the Arab conscience, and alerted the national feeling to the danger that now threatens the entire Arab and Islamic nation. This was reflected in the Arab movement, which took practical directions for what was called removing the effects of the setback, supporting positions of steadfastness, supporting the Palestinian revolution up and down, and relying on the efforts of the Arab nation, until the victory of the entire nation was achieved in the glorious October/Ramadan war of 1973 AD.
In the other fact that clearly shows that the setback in 1967 AD was one of the most important reasons for the establishment of the revolution and the heroic Palestinian resistance led by the Palestinian Liberation Movement - Fatah, with whom President Gamal Abdel Nasser met at the end of 1967 after he was prevented from meeting. In this historic meeting, Nasser called for setting fires in the region. Yasser Arafat said to him, “Rather, I will ignite a revolution.” This is what happened when the immortal leader Yasser Arafat and his heroic companions entered Palestine and ignited the Palestinian revolution and resistance, which became the true savior of the Arab nation from a state of despair, despair, and brokenness.
On the other hand, as the Palestinian Information Center states: The form, method, and goal of the Zionist aggression revealed to the whole world the Israeli and Western allegations that were begging for international sympathy, and obtaining its support, by claiming that Israel is weak in front of the Arabs who threaten it; What won the Arabs international sympathy helped them later isolate Israel globally, and had a major role in changing the strategic bases of the two sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

But militarily: the Arab forces suffered very heavy losses in the June aggression by forces and means, but that, on the other hand, and as a result of the bitterness of the setback, prompted the people of the Arab nation, its governments, and its armed forces to work tirelessly in order to rebuild combat capacity and readiness, just as the Palestinian revolution, with its operations that exceeded thousands, paved the way For the victory of the Ramadan war.
We remember the June 1967 war to know that the path is long, and that the issue of the refugees and the displaced is one, and with their return hope is fulfilled. There is no separation between the refugees from 1948 and 1967 AD. Both of them must return to their country, Palestine. On the anniversary of the Nakba, despite the bitterness, the revolution was the real savior and the great lever of the nation, which is what We need the same today, and with different circumstances, as we see the dispersion of the entire Arab nation between axes and groups, between impatience and whims, and economic and authoritarian interests, and between fascination with the West and submission to the Israeli, which makes hope pinned to the forelocks of the horses of the entire nation and the Arab peoples, whose time has come for them to wake up from their long slumber while they follow The West is blindly humiliated.
As for our internal level, the time has come for the Palestinian Arab to wake up and understand that his steadfastness on his land and his unity is his ultimate weapon, and that his joint struggle program is his lifeline. Neither Eastern nor Western, but Arab and independent Palestinian hands that mobilize the nation so that Palestine can raise its flag on the mosques, churches and walls of Jerusalem, as the immortal martyr Yasser Arafat, may God have mercy on him, used to repeat with all the prophets, saints and martyrs.