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Originally posted by ArchAngel
1967: The Arabs attack again, resulting in the Six Day Smackdown. The West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Golan Heights of Southern Syria, and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula are all taken by Israel after the invaders are dealt a crushing defeat.
This simply is not true.
The 1967 war began when Israel invaded in a sneak attack. Flying low over the Med in a dawn raid the Israelies bombed the arab airforces as they sat on the ground.
President Nasser, who had called King Hussein an "imperialist lackey" just days earlier, declared: "Our basic objective will be the destruction of Israel. The Arab people want to fight."
Army Commander-in-Chief General Sharif Zaid Ben Shaker warned in a press conference that "If Jordan does not join the war a civil war will erupt in Jordan".
You're ever so slightly near what happened, but by no means right.
How can you say that the side which is giving the ultimatums and refusing peace deals, not to mention which initiated hostile action by threatening Israel's water supply, is not the aggressor???
May 18th, 1967: Egypt kicks UN Separating Forces out of the Sinai
Originally posted by ArchAngel
And its a good thing they did because soon after Israel invaded in a sneak attack.
Q: How many Arab tanks actually touched Israeli land in the 1967 war?
How many Arabs bombs fell on Israeli cities?
Who was the VICTIM?
Originally posted by ArchAngel
May 18th, 1967: Egypt kicks UN Separating Forces out of the Sinai
Egypt requsted that the UN force leave the area, and the UN complied.
It's not a sneak attack when you hit somebody who is getting ready to hit you.
Originally posted by LeftBehind
So the Israeli's are the bad guys because they performed a "sneak attack" on nations whose publicly stated goals were the elimination of Israel?
Wouldn't you be aggresive if all of your neighbors could only be satisfied with your complete annihilation?
I guess that D-day was bad too as it was an aggressive attack on a nation that had not attacked the US.
Originally posted by deltaboy
remember the 1973 Yon Kippur War. the Egyptian and Syrian alliance with nations backing them up decided to do a preemptive strike and almost wiped out Israel. maybe the Israelis regret not doin another preemptive strike again before the Egyptians and the Syrians attacked them.
The British tactic behind all this is the tactic of 'divide and conquer': by dividing people in opposing forces, sooner or later war will errupt, so as that the British can come as the negotiators and apply their terms.
Originally posted by ArchAngel
Originally posted by deltaboy
remember the 1973 Yon Kippur War. the Egyptian and Syrian alliance with nations backing them up decided to do a preemptive strike and almost wiped out Israel. maybe the Israelis regret not doin another preemptive strike again before the Egyptians and the Syrians attacked them.
www.worldhistoryplus.com...
You will understand the true nature of the war by simply looking at a Map.
In 1967 When Israel invaded in a sneak attack they did not withdraw behind the pre-war borders.
SIX YEARS had passed without a solution, and millions of Arabs were now under hostile occupation[Insert WWII Analogy here].
The Arab nations united together in a sneak attack to liberate the land and THE PEOPLE.
They did not attack Israel the nation, they attacked the illegal occupiers.
The problem with your assertions are that they are historically innacurate.
Originally posted by ArchAngel
The problem with your assertions are that they are historically innacurate.
I was speaking about the motives for the 1973 war which you seem to have missed in your reply.
There are far too many inaccuracies in your post for me to address without going way off topic so maybe it would be better to save it for another thread, and change from spinning what happened to the real question.
Where is Israel?
Where is the border?
Do the Palestinians deserve Equal Rights, Independence, Expulsion, or the more of the same?
As for where is Israel and where are the borders? The borders should be the current walled off Gaza Strip, and the West Bank inside the secuirity barrier, those are secure borders which prevent suicide attacks on Israel.