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The June War was not just a war we lost, but rather a comprehensive collapse that followed the rise of Nasserism and its ambitious nationalist discourse. Therefore, the setback was a pivotal event that ended the Arab Renaissance project with a knockout blow and returned the Arabs to their bitter reality. Since then, much literature has been written in an attempt to analyze the reasons for the defeat and understand what happened during it. Perhaps the poem of the great poet Amal Dunqul (Crying in the Hands of Zarqa Al-Yamama) is one of the most famous of these poems because it was inspired by the Arab heritage and employed it in simple language to project the past onto the present and to say that everything that happened was because our leaders did not have a long-term vision for what would happen. The poem begins with the supplication of Zarqa Al-Yamama, a story from the legends of Arab heritage about a woman who had keen eyesight. Her people built her a high tower from which she could watch for any upcoming invasion and warn her people before it happened. However, the invaders used a trick and dressed themselves in tree branches as camouflage. No one from Zarqa’s tribe believed her story that she saw walking trees. Rather, they mocked her and made fun of her, only to be surprised by the invaders who annihilated the tribe and gouged out Zarqa Al-Yamama’s eyes. The other reason for the defeat is that the Arab soldier does not have the elements of victory because he is enslaved and oppressed. He is like Antarah Ibn Shaddadi, who remained a slave to his people and his father denied his paternity. But on the day of war, his people called on him to defend his homeland! So he said (A slave does not know how to charge and retreat, but rather milk and milk). His father said to him that day (Charge and you are free), meaning fight and you will have your freedom. But how can a humble servant defend a homeland that has never given him anything but humiliation and deprivation? That is why defeat was an inevitable result. Poem (Crying in the Hands of Zarqa Al-Yamamah) in my voice on the Modern Arabic Poetry Channel