This excerpt is from a memoir by Muhammad Hallaj, a political scientist who was a high school student in Palestine when the Arab-Israeli conflict began in 1948.
In 1967, the Israelis completed their conquest of Palestine, seizing the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including Qalqilya. They bore down on Qalqilya with a particular vengeance. They tried to destroy the town completely, loading many of the inhabitants onto trucks and dumping them at the Jordan River, telling them to "go to King Hussein." My father was among them. After dynamiting and bulldozing a substantial part of the town, foreign embassies in Tel Aviv found out what Israel was doing in Qalqilya and had their governments intervene. International pressure forced Israel to stop destroying the town.
–from "Recollections of the Nakba through a
Teenager's Eyes"
In the first sentence, Hallaj states that the Israelites had completed their conquest of Palestine by seizing Gaza and the West Bank. Based on his word choice, how did Palestinians view the Six-Day War?
as only a partial loss
as an occupation
as a complete victory
as an equal battle