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Israel: A war anniversary and stepped-up negotiations haven’t changed the Israeli-Palestinian equation | Paul David Glader

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JERUSALEM—Patriotic Israelis this year are celebrating the 40th anniversary of their defense against Egypt, Syria, and Jordan that expanded their national boundaries—an engagement they call the "Six Day War." Many foreign reporters and aid groups in the region prefer to call it the "Middle East War of 1967" and are more skeptical of Israeli interests that want to occupy and possibly even expand the territories they seized in 1967 in East Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Golan Heights.

The anniversary comes with renewed tension as the death count in the occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank continues to mount and as the politics of occupation become more difficult for Israeli leaders to navigate and a lightning rod for criticism in the West.

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