Attacked the convoy of the office the third as it made its way to bethlehems manger square in the occupied west bank behind all this recent news reports alleging the patriarch has been involved in property sales to foreign tax havens and those properties may end up in the hands of israeli businesses. Protesters believe the allegations and say it will make it harder for palestinians to establish their own state but the live now to mount a clear and simple we want the patriarch to resign we want to reform the patriarchate and assign a Legal Committee to evaluate the situation representatives of the Greek Orthodox church of jerusalem deny the allegations and nor the snow. We did not as they claim to sell our lands to the Israeli Occupation those are old deals the patriarch wants to rectify and clarify because all those old deals are detrimental to the rights of the patriarch eight and its congregation while this is not the first time the church has been accused of selling some of the numerous properties it owns in jerusalem the outrage now is far greater than it had been before. In manger square despite the marching bands and music a truly festive atmosphere was hard to achieve. The arrival of the patriarch wasnt just protested local officials also gave him a Cold Shoulder when they refused to welcome him to the square another issue overshadowing celebrations this year is the decision by u. S. President donald trump to recognize jerusalem as israels capital in the month since that decision was made there been numerous protests in the occupied west bank and its really contributed to a growing sense of hopelessness amongst Palestinian Christians forty year old george was sad says hes never witnessed such a song or mood at christmas as a lot of the ha ha ha if things remain as is opie pool seek to leave whod stay here if you see it being so and the city is sad have you ever seen. Bethlehem like this thousands would usually be here at christmas muslims it would show up even before christians Palestinian Christians in the west bank are worried their relatively small number will continue to do windell and according to a recent study by the Data University college twenty eight percent of Palestinian Christians said theyd leave this region if given the chance highlighting yet again the growing feeling of despair at a time of year when there is usually at the very least a small semblance of hope mohammed. Bethlehem the occupied west bank well jordan says the arab league will Seek International recognition of a palestinian state after trunks decision in jerusalem some members of the league matter in the jordanian capital amman jordan has seen a wave of protests against the u. S. And israel following trends decision to move the American Embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem and the american president says hes open to dialogue with the north Korean Leader kim jong un and says hes hopeful next weeks meeting between north and south will go beyond the north participation in the Winter Olympics i would love to see them take it beyond the olympics we have a very Good Relationship with south korea i would love to see it go far beyond the other things absolutely just time were getting right now to talk your lips its a start its a victory if i werent involved they wouldnt be talking about an Interest Rate theyd be doing you know to a few words it would be much more serious at least fourteen people have been killed in a strong Second Artillery attacks in rebel held suburbs near damascus theres been a spike in violence in eastern guta in recent weeks about four hundred thousand people remain trapped under a government siege and theyre running out of food and medicine. Thousands of progovernment demonstrators have been rallying in iran they waved iranian flags in gendered slogans against the u. S. Israel and britain irans government accuses western nations of mentoring the unrest which has seen twenty two People Killed those were the headlines of the vote with more news in thirty minutes next on aljazeera its the war in june do stay with us. Fifteenth of may one thousand nine hundred sixty seven. A parade and military might to celebrate nineteen years since the founding of the state of israel. That this public display of power took place under a dog shadow. The previous day egyptian president. Had ordered his forces to take up positions along the buddhist but israel. Local mosque in monroe a mobile or. And that. By you for the goggle by youth so i get down on one of the levee. Three weeks later on the fifth of june one thousand nine hundred sixty seven. Israel launched an all out war against its arab neighbors. Off to only six days of fighting. Its achieved total victory. Defeating the armies of egypt jordan and syria. The cockney will come its just that they i mean. Shave a blaze of. Light but some like them some are. Me the dust if ya only of the way off the looking at. Noon to israel. Nice as the six day war. Israels territorial gains would change the map of the middle east. To this day Israeli Occupation of these lands is the main but to peace in this turbulent region. Is huge scotto its fifth season early on we had conquered it completely intoxicated everybody was intoxicated no one could even think splayed. But the story of this school is much longer than the six days of fighting. Its roots lay years earlier. Two decades before the fifth of june one thousand nine hundred sixty seven. Televisa the food of may one thousand nine hundred forty eight. The day that zionists leader David Bengurion declared the establishment of the state of israel. A sought. And mulatto say imo. I like. That to begin and ask. How. To talk about even when. On the day after the declaration five arab armies and to palestine. The lebanese attacks from the north the syrians iraqis and jordanians from the east but the most serious threat came from the south. The gyptian Army Advanced to the village of youve been out vicious twenty two kilometers from tel aviv. Weve had a very thin line of soldiers who were defending what was practically the last line of defense of tel aviv. But the pressure on the israelis was relieved when a un brokered truce came into effect. The zionists through the movement purchased arms on the european black markets. The arab armies of course enjoyed mainstream supplies from a states the french supplied the lebanese and the syrians the british supplied the egyptians the jordanians and the iraqis with a constant stream of arms. In one nine hundred forty two the United Nations imposed an embargo on arms shipments to the middle east and the british and the french abided by this in bargo. When the truce ran out the israelis now better armed set out to expel the arab armies from palestine. Up the meal thing and made us carry of cobra kind of the for civilian governments leah kind of tripping on pot farm community. Mostly a kind of they have got to have. Been is going to have a lot of the. Bulk. By the end of october as israeli troops advanced. And egyptian brigade was inserted. Called a palestinian village called and fallujah. Among the officers trapped in this pocket was a young major demand. With their armies locked in a stalemate egyptian and israeli delegations met on the island of rhodes. Under the sponsorship of the un. After a month of bargaining they reached an armistice agreement. Well first of all they had to put an end to the fighting believe that egypt will to get out of there as much as israel wanted and the negotiation was mostly both evacuating the flu to pocket. The agent had no territorial demands from israel so it was relatively easy to reach a cease fire. By the summer of one thousand nine hundred forty nine lebanon jordan and syria had also signed armistice agreements with israel. The jewish state now extended over almost the whole of palestine. Arab territory it was reduced to just a few small enclaves east in jerusalem and the west bank were placed under jordanian control. The gaza strip was to be administered by egypt. In the midst of defeat a man not done not said conceived a plan that would change the future of egypt. A movement that would be known as the free offices. A few cathedrals about the harbor were different that outbreak. Of a black hole a level of copper. In the desert a lot of kind of i got a side that while i may have the us out of the clear but fear. That led to see a mostly. Washer going down a lot of a. Bed of the same lot of way. That he that i will offer him at the outset are. Three years after the end of the war the free offices struck. In july nine hundred fifty two they launched a coup detat. Egypts king photo who was dethroned and sent into exile. Lieutenant colonel come on up to. The mastermind behind what was now cooled the july revolution quickly rose to be the countrys defacto leader. In israel this news aroused deep rooted fears in kibbutz state who can bring time into home of israels founding Prime Minister david banker. When gorean all the time feared that one day a new kemal ataturk would rise in the arab world and would unite the car of world against israel. And that fear of that prevention was enhanced with a message to power ninety fifth. And february one thousand nine hundred fifty five bengurion returned to political life. This time as defense minister. Just a week after bangor ian took up the post one hundred fifty israeli paratroop as led by major ariel sharon. Was sent to attack an Egyptian Army base near the city of gaza. Forty egyptian soldiers were killed. And many more injured. When bigger came back decided immediately to show that israel is not going to give in. This time a from the egyptian border the provocations and the attacks by inch of traders who are on the rise in. A tub the mass of a year or public the need for a way in mass of some your himself from seem was the mob. In medina or was. What. And. Are. Claiming they were egyptian territorial waters not sort of close the terrans straight at the entrance to the gulf of aqaba to ships sailing to and from the Israeli Border to the land. To strengthen his army not some sort more weapons from the west at this time to no avail. So in a surprise move he turned east. Russias new foreign minister mr shippey laugh lost no time in taking a personal part in middle east affairs and he was soon engaged in talks with president nasser. Egypt signed this huge arms deal with czechoslovakia which was actually the soviet union. To slovakia was supposed to supply egypt with two hundred aircraft. Conks. Thousand. It was something fabulous. In november one thousand nine hundred fifty five bangor in began a second term as israels Prime Minister. At the top of his agenda was how to respond to the growing strength of egypt now armed to the teeth. Eight months later the opportunity came. When nasa announced the nationalisation of the suez canal. A decision that outraged the british and french the owners of the International Canal company. It is a matter of life under george will. Our quarrel is not with it still nationally out of work. It is with colonel not. That he is not a man who can be trusted. Under green. Britain and france were convinced that military intervention would be needed to recapture the canal. And bring down the upstart. But to pretext was needed. For us. Nor was it a threat again. To assert our eally gaiman was our i thought home with very up. The whole other assess him on how your club will mean a lot of fighting and what that i mean by the how to suffer the shrub and yellow leg anybody contextless. Theyre going to talk about he. Well most of us are thoughtful. Very are. Enormous and. According to this tripartite secret agreement on the twenty ninth of october one nine hundred fifty six. Israeli forces crossed the border into egypt. Even though the israelis was still some distance from the canal britain and france called for both sides to withdraw. When nasr rejected the ultimatum british and french troops began landing and put signs at the mediterranean end of the canal. Night a statement not consulted in any way about any phase of these actions nor were we informed of them in advance. It is our hope and intent this matter will be brought before the United NationsGeneral Assembly there with no veto operate in the opinion of the world can be brought to bear in our quest for a just in to this tormenting. By the end of december. Under heavy international pressure. The british and french were forced into a humiliating withdrawal from put sallied. Louvel attention now shifted to israel still occupying the whole of the sinai and the gaza strip. Allow an apostle but wont go to zero a little incitements he. Cannot up yes he in the east. Fringe knesset. Than in sap. Was up out of. In march one thousand nine hundred fifty seven bengurion finally ordered the israeli army to withdraw to the prewar borders. However he had secured two major gains. The stationing of un troops along the borders with egypt and gaza put an end to the Palestinian Fedayeen xrayed inside israeli territories. And israel was guaranteed free passage of has shipping through the tiran strait. The sinai complained gave israel actually about ten years off and signed peace in the egyptian border between one hundred fifty seven and let the sixty seven there was a total call. But the fragile peace on the buddhas mosque continuing hostility between cairo and tell of eve. In israel as a vitamin the commander of the air force was devising a new strategy. Operation focus. I mean among some of the. If need be to its war a concept. Seems the most moving in we wont see what the mission. But two things threatened to derail that plan. The first was egypts highly versatile serviette made defenses. This network would soon face its first major test. Not at the hands of fights mins after force but through the bizarre actions of an israeli peace activist. It would not involve the commercial pilot and the gimmick for elections of nine hundred sixty five he bought a little airplane painted into wife and put the name peace and said if im elected to the knesset i would fly to egypt. He was not elected to various world number of people voted for him but i did time he became very serious of this so one day without any announcement he took off with his claim. Ab matanzas planted import salary to egypt in february one thousand nine hundred sixty six. When is that what that is. Furthermore the tan asked to meet president. To deliver a petition calling for peace. Egyptians treated him very nicely did not let him into egypt but the victim fill his tank with gather lynn and sent him back. In a tense flight had revealed the weakness of egypts ad defenses. But israel still had a major concern. To make twenty one. A High Performance supersonic soviet fighter. It formed the backbone of the arab air forces. But it too would soon give up its secrets. In august one nine hundred sixty six an iraqi pilot landed in israel with his make. He had been offered a million u. S. Dollars to defect. But it would turn out to be worth every cent. That he shapiro our chief test pilot of the air force checked the airplane and when you all its this event the gist of the make one to one which was the airplane of the war in the enemy hands. It was not known before what the israelis had learned about the meat was put to the test in actual combat. In april nine hundred sixty seven the border skirmishes with syria escalated into a full scale aerial battle. Which shut down seven aircraft. It was such a victorian the israeli air force. In the weeks following this battle. Reports possibly originating with soviet intelligence began to come in that israel was massing its on me on the syrian border. An apparent escalation that spurred nasr into action. On the food thousandth of may one thousand nine hundred sixty seven. Hugo did it gyptian troops into sinai. Must better live as he had how to while a selfie at a low blow. In mimeo tell a teen and foscari. I am lucky she. Even when who bombed. Out a house. That was all outdoor story. But also saw an opportunity to try to roll back the gains israel had secured following the one nine hundred fifty six war. On the sixteenth of may egypt asked the un to withdrew its peacekeeping troops from sinai. A week later and the theatrical setting of a meeting with his fighter pilots. Announced the closing of the tour on straight to israeli shipping. News of nassers actions boot people out onto the streets all across the arab world. Tell me about a billion dollar slaves a little some of them. Well a man in the wall of the finance. Well that could have certainly but in the showing of the bust of appeal called leader. Of some. Israels new war cabinet under levy and took the decision to open hostilities on the fifth of june one thousand nine hundred sixty seven. The air force was given the green light to operation focus. The aerial attack it had been rehearsing for years. The israelis had drawn the dice which would determine the future of their state. And live it sounds like an agreement between criminal bosses if anyone ever comes to ask the question is for throw their hands up in the air and say i dont know i was just nominee director were doing investigation in syria. Ukraine could you pay bribes youve been corrupt are corrupt the just the Presidency Council zero investigations the only guards at this time. Your child is their homes their whole romanys roll top stories protests against the Greek Orthodox patriarch of jerusalem have overshadowed orthodox christmas celebrations in bethlehem the allege sale of church land to israelis has sparked tense scenes demonstrators so they could make it harder for palestinians to establish their own state. And jordan says the arab league will Seek International recognition of a palestinian state after trumps decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel some members of the levy met in the jordanian capital amman jordan seen a wave of protests against the u. S. And israel f