A "War of No Choice" | Six Day War - Part 4 of 12 | Unpacked

Описание: 4/12 | In the fourth video of this mini-series, experience the fear Israelis felt as they prepared for an inevitable war. With Israel’s army vastly outnumbered, Israelis suspended civilian life, converting schools to bomb shelters and public parks to mass graveyards.

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In the week before the start of the war, the Arab streets echoed with calls to destroy the Jewish state.

Jordan signed a military pact with Egypt and Syria. Meanwhile, Israel hoped the United States would forcibly break the Egyptian blockade of the Straits of Tiran, but the US refrained from intervening, fearing a confrontation with the Egypt-sponsoring USSR.

Israel’s army was gravely outnumbered. Poised for assault were 80,000 Egyptian troops, 60,000 Jordanian troops, and 50,000 Syrian troops, and a total of more than 850 tanks and 600 combat aircrafts.

The mood throughout Israel was tense and anxious. Schools and public transportation were suspended. Teenagers worked filling sandbags. School buildings were converted to bomb shelters. Medicine and over 14,000 hospital beds were prepared.

In addition, parks throughout the country were dug up – to ready over 10,000 graves. Israelis feared a second Holocaust.

Meanwhile, Jews and non-Jews held mass demonstrations and fundraisers in New York and London. Jewish volunteers from around the world arrived to enlist in Israel’s defense.

Prime Minister Levi Eshkol addressed the nation in a televised speech now famous for its hesitancy, and later entrusted the Ministry of Defense to Israeli war hero General Moshe Dayan.

By now, it was clear that diplomacy had failed. On the night of June 4th, Israel’s cabinet confirmed that Arab armies threatened the very existence of the State. The government authorized Prime Minister Eshkol and Defense Minister Dayan to deploy the Israeli Defense Forces for preemptive military action.

That action that would remain top secret until the morning.

Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:13 Arab calls to destroy the State of Israel
00:25 Jordanian joins Egyptian-Syrian military pact
00:34 Support from Arab countries and Soviet Union
01:07 United States refuses to support Israel
01:25 Deployment of Arab troops on Israeli borders
02:05 Israelis and Jews fear second Holocaust
02:59 Jewish volunteers arrive in Israel
03:12 Moshe Dayan takes over Ministry of Defense
03:22 Failure of diplomatic efforts
03:47 Preemptive military action
04:06 Outro

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This video was produced by Unapcked in partnership with The Jerusalem Post, the Jewish Federations of North America, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the Jewish National Fund, the Israel Action Network, the European Jewish Congress and the Center for Israel Education. For more on the dramatic events and impact of the Six Day War, visit sixdaywarproject.org.

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