ABSTRACT
The Six Day War broke out on 5 June 1967. It began with a surprise Israeli air attack against neighbouring Egypt's airfields, an attack which concluded, two hours later, in the virtual destruction of Egyptian air forces. At the end of May and beginning of June 1967, Meir Amit, then Head of the Israeli Mossad, held a series of meetings with American officials in Washington. The Suez Campaign, October-November 1956, and its aftermath led, paradoxically perhaps, to a period of relative calm in Arab-Israeli relations. On 14 May 1967, two Egyptian infantry divisions accompanied by 200 tanks began to make their way towards the Sinai Peninsula. They were the first Egyptian troops to enter the Sinai, and, over the next weeks, were to stream into the peninsula in ever growing numbers. The establishment of an international naval task force designed to remove the Egyptian blockade and reopen the Straits of Tiran.
