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Conflicted: A History Podcast

Six Days: The 1967 Six Day War

Conflicted: A History Podcast

Zach Cornwell

Education, History, Society & Culture

4.8610 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2019

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

How a single week in 1967 changed the Middle East, and the world, forever. This is the action-packed, heartbreaking origin story of Israel and the Six-Day War.  SOURCES: Oren, Michael B. Six Days Of War. 2002. Pressfield, Steven. The Lion’s Gate. 2014. Churchill, Randolph S. The Six Day War. 1967 Dana, Seif. “The 1967 Naksa: The Making of the New Middle East”. Al Jazeera. June 2016. Samuel, Sigal. “How the Six Day War Transformed Religion”. The Atlantic. Jun 5 2017 Land, Graham. “Was the Great Jewish Revolt Against Rome a Preventable Tragedy?” HistoryHit. July 2018 Josephus. The Works of Josephus. The Wars of the Jews, Book 7 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:19.3

Hello and welcome to Conflicted, the history podcast where we talk about the struggles that shaped us,

1:24.3

the tough questions that they pose and why we should care about any of it.

1:28.8

I'm Zach Cornwell, and this is the fifth and final episode of season one, six days. To be to be

1:45.0

to Two thousand years ago, in a fortress high above the Dead Sea in ancient Judea, time was running out.

2:12.6

967 Jewish defenders, trapped, starving, and hopeless, knew the end was close.

2:21.0

From the top of their isolated fortifications, they could hear the crews of Roman engineers

2:25.5

working day and night on the mountain below, getting closer and closer with every passing hour.

2:33.6

For three months, thousands of slaves at the sword points of Roman legionaries had been constructing a colossal ramp.

2:41.0

The Jewish defenders were situated behind tough walls protecting a towering plateau, and the only way for the Romans to reach the top was to build a massive earthen structure,

2:51.6

hundreds of feet tall, 60 feet wide, one shovelful of dirt at a time.

2:58.6

This ramp grows inexorably, slowly, a gravity-defined glacier of wood and slaves and soldiers rising higher and higher into the blue desert sky.

3:11.6

Three years earlier, the Hebrews had risen up and revolt against the draconian subjugation

3:16.1

by the Roman Empire. The rebellion had been quickly and mercilessly crushed under the heels of

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