When Will the Six-Day War End? Media Mention of Hussein Ibish In The Atlantic - June 7, 2012 - 12:00am This week marks the 45th anniversary of the Six-Day War. It was a war of necessity for Israel -- Egypt and Syria, in particular, had manifested themselves as existential threats to the then-19-year-old Jewish state (Jordan less so) -- and it was a war whose first phase ended in unambiguous victory. » Read more