user ling nut has got his sandbox rewrite coming together we've been working together on it and swapping ideas and suggestions and i'm pretty happy with what he's got my principle and perhaps only remaining concern right now is the concluding sentence in the lede the unresolved political status of the palestinian territories and their inhabitants plus the concurrent refugee problem are central issues of the ongoing israeli palestinian conflict i don't think unresolved political status is a good phrase because while true from a certain point of view this could be interpreted by unfamiliar readers as meaning the territories are disputed which is not the case i've proposed a few alternatives another lasting consequence of the war that has had enormous repercussions and which helped establish the six day war as a watershed event in the middle east was the israeli occupation of palestinian territory which continues to this day another consequence that established the six day war as a watershed event in the middle east is the israeli occupation of the palestinian territories the israeli occupation of the palestinian territories and its repercussions for the israeli palestinian conflict is another consequence that established the six day war as a watershed event in the middle east would like other editors' input on this my main concern here is that to note consequences of the war in the lede but not mention the occupation would be a huge error of omission since one could very easily argue this is the single most consequential result of the war with incalculable repercussions and not only for just the middle east