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Six day war in a nutshell

Context: In 1967, a war broke out between a coalition of Arab countries and Israel. Despite being outnumbered and fighting on three fronts, Israel managed to win the war in six days.

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Lies and misinformation.
the Six Day War was a surprise attack launched by Israel.
- In 1956, Egypt blocked the Suez Canal and Straits of Tiran to ships supplying Israel.
  Israel invaded Sinai and forced re-opening of the shipping routes.
  Israel warned any future blockade of those shipping lanes will be cause for war again.
  In 1967, Israel repeats that warning once more.
  Egypt blocks the shipping lanes again.
  Egypt pulls back to defensive positions and orders the retreat of all UN troops.
  Israel attacks
  There was nothing surprising about it.
  
  Your meme says that the Arab countries (the guy with the knife) attacked Israel (the assaulted guy who has a gun). That's objectively false, all opinions aside.
- That doesn't contradict the meme. You may find Israel's victory distasteful, but that's different from misinformation.
  
  Just need to edit the main body. The coalition did not actually declare war first, they just closed the Strait of Tiran first, when it had been made clear that would be an act of war. Details matter though.
  
  You're making out that Israel was attacked, which is misinformation.

...a war broke out...
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2018/05/israel-and-the-passive-voice

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