Half a century after the euphoria of the Six-Day War, some Israelis are wondering if it was a victory

Absent from the parliamentary party, however, were legislators from Israel’s pro-peace Meretz party. Not enough attention, they said, was being paid to the consequences of Israel’s unending control over millions of Palestinians who live in the lands occupied 50 years ago this week.

Tamar Zandberg, one of the party’s parliament members, complained that the celebrations ignored the fact that the West Bank has lived under military rule for 50 years.

“This casts the biggest shadow over Israel’s democracy in its history — and for its continued existence,” she said on the parliament television channel. “This reality is really abnormal — it’s distorted, and we need as quickly as possible to reach a solution to this in the form of an agreement.”