http://www.metafilter.com/tags/sixdaywar Posts tagged with 'sixdaywar' at MetaFilter. Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:05:19 -0800 Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:05:19 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/61800/Forty%2Dyears%2Don <a href="http://economist.com/world/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9222979">Forty years on.</a> After a <a href="http://economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9218073">quick</a> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/17/AR2007051701976.html">buildup</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_day_war">Six Day War</a> started 40 years ago today and <a href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/070601/11war.htm?s_cid=rss:11war.htm">reshaped the Middle East</a>. <a href="http://economist.com/world/africa/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9177894">At the time,</a> Israel's quick win looked like a triumph, but after 40 years the war is <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2007/05/28/070528crbo_books_remnick/">still being fought</a> and it <a href="http://www.peacenow.org/40years/index.asp">looks</a> like it may have been a <a href="http://economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9225670">pyrrhic victory</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.61800 Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:05:19 -0800 day egypt iraq israel jordan saudiarabia six sixdaywar syria war kirkaracha http://www.metafilter.com/30859/CIA%2DUSS%2D%3FLiberty%3F%2DHit%2DWas%2DUnintentional <a href="http://www.thejewishpress.com/news_article.asp?article=3264">CIA: U.S.S ‘Liberty’ Hit Was Unintentional</a> New documents released by the State Department relating to the period of the 1967 Six Day War include CIA memos that say Israel did not know it was striking an American vessel when it attacked the U.S.S Liberty off the coast of the Gaza Strip on June 8, 1967, killing 34 American sailors and injuring 172. The memos say the attack was carried out “by mistake, representing gross negligence.” tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.30859 Wed, 21 Jan 2004 03:58:08 -0800 brokenlink cia israel sixdaywar ussliberty Postroad