June 1967, Ahmed's House:
Captain Ahmed Al Popovi was physially, spiritually and mentally exhasusted. He barely noticed the two Israeli bodies in the shattered room. For nine days he and his dwindling unit had fought off continous Israeli attacks with desperate frenzy. After their counter attack from the second to the first floor, Ahmed's men were now in possession of the entire house again. In two weeks of combat, a strange alliance of Jordanian regulars, Palestinian para military units, and a motley crew of armed civilans including Christians, secular leftists and bright eyed Islamacists with green banners had turned East Jerusalem and other West Bank towns into Stalingrads.
Whether it was due to a miracle as the surviving Islamacists and the more devote Christians proclaimed, or due to the excellent advance preperations and the fact that the solid granite buldings made natural fortifications as Ahmed was inclined to believe, the Arabs were standing tall in East Jersusalem.
Israeli Headquarters:
The staff meeting yeield no solutions. Israeli units were triumphant in the Sinai, Gaza and the Golan Heights. The West Bank, however, was different. Israeli advances in East Jersusalem and other key West bank towns were measured in yards. In East Jerusalem, the latest Israeli effort towards the strategic Al Aqsa Mosque using satchel charges had just been stopped (again). Now the local commander was urgently requesting flamethrowers.
Sure, Israeli armour would eventually control the open areas and elite infantry being brought in would eventually reduce the fortified towns and villages, but the second action was going to take weeks or more. Meanwhile, international pressure and Israeli casualties were soaring....
What happens next:
-Do the Israelis ignore the pressure and their soaring casualties and capture East Jersusalem and other key towns?
-Do the Arabs keep control of the West bank, or a large portion of it?
-What happens in 1973 and beyond?