May 1967 The Six-Day War

Dance of Death Overtakes the Arab World

One night in May 1967, a few weeks before the Six-Day War, I was watching the news with my father, a Holocaust survivor.

“Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser had just shut the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping, expelled the U.N. peacekeeping force from the Sinai and massed troops on the border. A report from Cairo appeared on the screen, showing thousands of men leaping around banners imprinted with skulls and crossbones and chanting death slogans against Israel.”

Source: Halevi, Yossi Klein., Los Angeles Times, May 15 2001.