Hey I'm Noah Weisman and you're listening to unpacking Israeli history the

podcast that takes a deep dive into some of the most intense historically

fascinating and often misunderstood events and stories linked to Israeli history.

Episode 1 of the Six Day War mini-series is generously sponsored by Kim and Perry Schwachman,

Michael Steinberg, and the Marcus Family Foundation.

Before we start, and you know what I'm about to say because you've heard it before.

I love hearing from you.

And I'd love for you to shoot me a note at noam at Jewish unpacked.com.

Y'all ready for this? Okay. at Noam at Jewish Unpacked.com.

Y'alla, let's do this. We the people of Israel are to meet the United States Israel.

He would be Israel.

We, the people of Israel, are prepared and anxious to meet the representatives of our neighbors

without any preconditions.

There are people in Israel and elsewhere say it it's impossible to make peace within the Arabs in Israel or the Turkish people.

I think they are on.

Sometimes I like to amuse myself thinking about alternate titles for this

podcast Israel's story that one's taken their milk and honey

podcast sounds like a cooking show homeland actually my colleagues did that one link in the show notes unpacking is really

historiography you know what that's not the worst name for this because that's exactly what this podcast is

actually all about doesn't have the same ring as unpacking his early history

like unpacking his early historiography it's a bit much but back in my teaching and principally days, my students used to roast me because I'd start off every class by saying,

guys, today we are going to study the most important thing you're going to learn all year

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