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Tim Luckhurst, Principal of South College, Durham University

UK newspaper coverage of the 1967 six-day Arab-Israeli war foresaw decades of conflict in Middle East

How The Guardian covered the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. The Guardian

Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, describes his country’s war against Hamas as Israel’s “second war of independence”. The first was fought in 1948, but the war that gave Israel control of Gaza took place 19 years later.

The six-day war between Israel and its Arab neighbours in 1967 was fought amid intense superpower tension and vivid international fears that it might spread.

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