Year Fight: Arab Armies and Pyrrhic Victory

year fight: The Associated Press file photo By Dan Perry The Associated Press Mon., May 29, 2017 JERUSALEM It may well be remembered as a pyrrhic victory for Israel in six days it stunned the world by vanquishing several Arab armies, only to be saddled with a deeply corrosive 50-year fight with the Palestinians for the Holy Land, according to Toronto Star. For several weeks in 1967, the underdog Israelis genuinely feared that their young Jewish state would be wiped out, even with memories of the Nazi Holocaust in Europe still fresh. It may well be remembered as a pyrrhic victory for Israel a six-day war in which it vanquished several Arab armies, only to be saddled with a 50-year fight with the Palestinians for the Holy Land. They mobilized reserves to face Egyptian troops arrayed at the border. They barricaded the streets with sacks of sand. They appointed the eyepatch-wearing military hero Moshe Dayan as minister of defence. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.