(CNN) Tim Lister - On the website of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is a map with a message. It displays how regional borders looked before the Six-Day War in 1967. It notes that the distance from what was in 1967 the armistice line with Jordan to the Israeli city of Netanya on the Mediterranean was 9 miles; to Beersheba, 10 miles; and to Tel Aviv, 11 miles. The point is a simple one: Israel was virtually impossible to defend; any aggressor would try to cut it in half. That's just what the Arab armies tried to achieve in 1967.
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