The Six Day War Remembered A reflection on the "what-might-have-beens. " June 7, 2016 Joseph Puder This May, Israel celebrated its 68th year of independent statehood. On June 5th, Israel commemorated the 49th anniversary of the Six Day War, in which it liberated the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old city, including the Western Wall. The Etzion Bloc, Jewish property seized by Jordan’s Arab Legion and held for 19 years was also liberated. The proverbial Israeli “David” of the pre-1967 years has been transformed by the international press and western academia into the post-1967 “Goliath.” In the process, Israel...