Arab–Israeli conflict participate in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and later backed Egypt and Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War and in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. In June 1981, Israel attacked and destroyed newly built Iraqi nuclear facilities in Operation Opera. During the Gulf War in 1991, Iraq fired 39 Scud missiles into Israel, in the hopes of uniting the Arab world against the coalition which sought to liberate Kuwait. At the behest of the United States, Israel did not respond to this attack in order to prevent a greater outbreak of war. In 1970, following an extended civil war, King Hussein
Jack (given name) of the word is linked to the name being used as a by-name for a man. Jack (given name) Jack is a male given name. In recent decades, Jack has become one of the most common names for boys in many English-speaking countries. While Jack is now a proper name in its own right, in English; it was traditionally used as a diminutive form of John. It can also be used as a diminutive for: Jacob, Jason, Jonathan, Johann, Johannes, Joachim and sometimes for James, from its French form Jacques. It is also used as a female given name (often