How Israel "captures" lands

"The Green Line was delineated as Israeli and Jordanian officers negotiated an armistice in the months after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war; it was named for the green marker with which it was drawn. The line held until 1967, when Israel captured the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan, along with the Egyptian-held Gaza Strip and the Syrian Golan Heights."  Don't you like this language?  How Israel just simply "captured" lands from Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, and Syria.  Just captured.  It sounds as if Israel was sitting on the beach one day, and then suddenly those lands fell into its lap from the sky.