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Showing posts with label Six Day War 1967. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Six Day War 1967. Show all posts

Saturday, July 20, 2013

So, You Want to Talk About the Six Day War of 1967?

Nadene Goldfoot                                                                 

The Palestinians are talking to Netanyahu and Kerry only on the basis of talking about the pre-1967 borders of Israel.  In other words, they want to get what Israel has after being attacked by all the Muslim countries in 1967's June 5th to June 11th Six Day War.  They lost that terrible attack and now they want to erase that fact because it cost them.  Secretary of State John Kerry had to give Mahmoud Abbas a letter saying that the meeting is centered on this.

They had lost face again and they lost the rights to Judea and Samaria which rightfully was not theirs to be had in the first place.  Jordan had illegally just taken it over and occupied it in 1948 when Israel was battling for its very life.  It had been awarded to Israel as part of the Jewish Homeland by the League of Nations which every country in the world had signed onto.  As it turned out, Israel had to be satisfied with 20% of the promised Holy land while the Arabs, who have more land than they can handle, got 80% of it.  Why?  Oil.  The land they sit on has oil that the rest of the world needs.  Therefore promises have been broken in the name of economics and greed. The 67 war allowed Gaza, Judea and Samaria and East Jerusalem to come into Israel's hands as they did not start this war.  That must have been quite a picture:  4 large Arab nations with help from other Arab states against the only Jewish state of infinitesimal size who has the audacity to win!

So far, the Arabs have lost every battle they've started with Israel, and so they also blame the USA for that because Israel has bought weapons from the USA.  However, there never has been an American soldier fighting in America's name; only Jews, and mostly have been Israelis.  Jews entered Canaan under G-d's directions.  We feel we have still had G-d help. After all, the odds were all on the Arab's side to win in 1967, and they didn't.
                                                                       
   Where the 12 Tribes of Jacob Lived in Israel on 17,500 square miles; 45% being in Trans-Jordan.
    Israelites lived here under King David and son King Solomon (I Kings 5:4)Moses had led the Israelites out of Egypt.  Moses (1391 BCE-1271 BCE)  Jerusalem fell to the Romans in 70 CE.  Jews have been suffering from anti-Semitic actions ever since.  Israel was re-established May 14, 1948.

What they should rehash is the escalation which resulted in the Six Day War which consisted of 5 stages so that they won't happen again.

President Nasser of Egypt threatened on March 8, 1965, "We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand.  We shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood."  This war was highly pre-meditated and was to be a bloodshed for the Jews of Israel.

1. Syria, Egypt and the Soviet Union spread false reports of concentrations of Israeli forces on the Syrian frontier. They ignored on the spot reports by the UN that no such concentrations existed.  They fabricated such lies to have an excuse to attack.  Their reason for attack was to destroy and take Israel's 8,000 square miles.  Syria has 71,500 square miles and Egypt has 387,048 square miles already.  The Soviet Union had 8,144,228 square miles.

2.  The false reports were used by Egypt as a pretext for concentrating the bulk of its army in Sinai- 90,000 men and 900 tanks.

3. Egypt demanded that the UN Emergency Force withdraw on May 16th and they did which concluded the barrier they had been between Egypt and Israel.  Therefore Israel can never depend on outside help.They had been there since the 1956 Arab attack.

4. Egypt closed the Straits of Tiran  on May 22, 1967 to all navigation destined to Israel and called for war.THEY DECLARED WAR AGAINST ISRAEL.

5.  The Arab States formed a war pact against Israel.  The armies of:
     EGYPT, -led the pack
     JORDAN
     IRAQ
    SYRIA  began to concentrate their forces along the frontiers with Israel.  The Jordanian army was under the command of an Egyptian officer.

Arab leaders made speeches during this period affirming publicly their intention to destroy Israel.
President Nasser said on May 26, 1967:
"The Arab people want to fight.  We have been waiting for the right day when we would be fully prepared.  Recently , we have felt strong enough to triumph with God's help if we enter into battle with Israel.  On that basis, we have decided to take the actual measures.  Taking this step makes it imperative that we be ready to embark on a TOTAL WAR with Israel.

President Aref of Iraq spoke on June 1, 1967 on Radio Baghdad and said,
"We are resolved, determined and united to achieve our clear aim of wiping Israel off the map.  This is the day to wash away the stain.  God willing, we shall meet in Tel Aviv and Haifa.

Leader of PLO-Ahmed Shukairi on June 4, 1967 on native born Israelis:
"Those who survive will remain in "Palestine," but I estimate that not many of them will survive."

Israel waited for 3 weeks from May 15th for international intervention to stop the escalation and remove the threat from its frontiers.  The Great Powers and the United Nations were incapable of effecting any change in the situation.  On June 5th, war broke out.

About 250,000 Arab troops with almost half in the Sinai, more than 2,000 tanks and 700 aircraft ringed Israel.  

In 6 days, Israel destroyed the armies that had massed along its frontiers and menaced its vital centers.  Cease-fire lines were established along the Suez Canal, the Jordan River and the Golan Heights.  The Straits of Tiran were once again open to navigation.  Jerusalem was re-unified.  Israel had conquered more than triple the size of the area it controlled from 8,000 to 26,000 square miles.  Israel won the Sinai, Golan Heights, Gaza Strip and Judea and Samaria and unified Jerusalem.  Israel lost 777 soldiers and 2,586 were wounded.  It compares to the USA's 8 years of fighting in the war in Vietnam as far as population goes.  Cease fire was invoked on June 10th as Israeli forces broke through enemy lines and were in a position to march on Cairo, Damascus and Amman, Jordan.  The Arabs called "UNCLE!"

I would give them Bupkas!  Netanyahu is giving them back some of the killer Palestinians that have been in Israeli prisons. The Arabs want 350 of which 100 had been the deadliest of killers.   They are to be released in phases.  Their charges range from rock throwers, deadly assaults, shooting attacks to bombers.

Tzipi Livni, Israel's female negotiator, said she is hopeful after years of mistrust.

Resource: http://news.yahoo.com/palestinians-67-borders-basis-talks-201845747.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War
Myths and Facts by Dr. Mitchell G. Bard and Joel Himelfarb, Near East Reports
Facts About Israel, Division of Information, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem
The Secret War Against the Jews-how western espionage betrayed the Jewish people, by John Loftus and Mark Aarons--oil
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/170080#.UeswkNKOTqE kerry, Palestinians

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Arabs' Plot to Squash Israel Since 1967

Nadene Goldfoot
In 1967, all the Arab countries surrounding Israel attacked her and lost, much to their shock.  After all, the odds were that they would win for sure.  How could this tiny Jewish state win such an attack as theirs?  To add insult to their injury, Israel won the war in 6 days! 

On May 15, 1967, Israel's Independence Day, Egyptian troops had begun moving into the Sinai and massed near the Israeli border.  By May 18th, Syrian troops were prepared for battle along the Golan Heights.  Then Nasser ordered the UN Emergency Force to withdraw on May 16th and they did.  It was Secretary-General U  Thant that obeyed Nasser without bringing the situation to the attention of the General Assembly as his predecessor had promised.  On May 22, Egypt closed the Straits of Tiran to all Israelis and to ships bound for Eilat, Israel.  He was ready for war against Israel, he thought.  He challenged Israel daily.  "Our basic objective will be the destruction of Israel." he was quoted.  In 1956 the USA gave Israel assurances that it recognized Israel's right to the Straits of Tiran's access.  In 1957, 17 maritime powers said at the UN that Israel had a right to use the Strait.  The blockade violated the Convention on the Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone, adopted by the UN on the Law of the Sea on April 27, 1958.  This closure was the casus belli in 1967.  Israel's attack was a reaction to this Egyptian first strike.  President Johnson acknowledged this after the war on June 19, 1967. 

The armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon were poised on the borders of Israel...to face the challenge, and standing behind them were the armies of Iraq, Algeria,  Kuwait, Sudan and the whole Arab nation.   President Abdur Rahman Aref of Iraq joined in the war of words:  "The existence of Israel is an error which must be rectified.  This is our opportunity to wipe out the ignominy which has been with us since 1948.  Our goal is clear:  to wipe Israel off the map."  On June 4, Iraq joined the alliance with Egypt, Jordan and Syria.  Approximately 250,000 troops (nearly half in Sinai), more than 2,000 tanks and 700 aircraft ringed Israel. 

Israel was prepared and had been on alert for 2 weeks.  The country was mobilized.  June 5th, Israel launched a preemptive strike against Egypt.  Israel asked King Hussein of Jordan not to attack saying Israel would not unless he did first, but he went ahead anyway and ordered the shelling of West Jerusalem. 

At the end of the 6 days, Israel conquered enough territory to triple the size of the area it controlled, from 8,000 to 26,000 square miles.  Israel won the Sinai, Golan Heights, Gaza Strip and West Bank (Judea and Samaria) and allowed Israel to unify Jerusalem.  It cost Israel the lives of 777 young men  with 2,586 wounded.  This was like the USA's  loss in 8 years of fighting in Vietnam by proportion. 

In August 1967, the Arab leaders met in Khartoum at their Summit Conference and produced four goals to rid themselves of Israel.
  1.  No peace with Israel.
  2.  No negotiations with Israel.
  3.  No recognition of Israel.
  4.  Insistence on rights of "Palestinian people in their own country." 

Since then they have had the goal of causing Israel to:
  1. Israeli withdrawal to the pre-1967 lines without negotitating with Israel
  2. Get Great Powers to pressure Israel.
  3. Use UN security Council resolution 242 (from 22 Nov 1967) to impose a settlement.
       a. Resolution calls for "a just and lasting peace, in which every state in the area can live in security."
       b. Calls for "the withdrawal of IDF from territories occupied in the recent conflict."
          ("withdrawal from all the territories" had been deliberately omitted from the resolution by its sponsors.  Interpreted by Arabs as though it required a complete Israeli withdrawal.)

Israel has had to insist that it makes no prior conditions, and that everything will be open for discussion in the negotiations.  It is obvious that Israel has a few positions on where the secure borders ought to be.  In fact, Israel has returned most of the Sinai to Egypt but must remain in control of Sharm el -Sheikh so as to prevent Egypt from closing the Gulf of Eilat for a 3rd time and that it also be linked territorially to Israel.  Sinai must be demilitarized.  Since February 2011 Israel has had to sign an agreement for a limited period with Egypt to allow two Egyptian battalians (hundreds of soldiers and officers) there to guard the gas pipe lines which bring gas to Israel and Jordan which have been attacked 8 times already by Beduins.

  Israel left Gaza completely, lock, stock and barrel only to see it turn into an aggressor's dream-the staging ground for attacking Israel constantly with missiles, mortars and rockets.  Where it could make peace with Egypt before the Arab Spring, it did not happen with the Arabs. 

Israel needs peace within secure borders that are defensible.  The pre-1967 lines seemed to constitute a temptation to a potential aggressor.  Israel has offered to negotiate with the Arab Governments a true peace.
 
This is why Netanyahu took time to explain to Obama why going back to 1967 lines was going against Israel's acceptance.  There has been much deviance against Israel using this type of rhetoric.  He needed to understand the past problems that it invoked.  Also, one can see that the goals of the Arab nations have not changed since 1967 or before that period.  In fact, with the Muslim Brotherhood's muscles, they have become worse.  The fatwa (religious edict) out by their leader, Qaradawi, an Egyptian Islamic theologian now living in Qatar,  is to kill all Jews.  What gives him credence is that he is one of the Islamic world's leading Sunni clerics.  In other words, he is no "small potatoes."  He has the ability to instill manic behavior in his followers. 

Resource: Myths and Facts-a concise record of the Arab-Israeli conflict by Dr. Mitchell G. Bard and Joel Himelfarb
Facts About Israel  from Division of Information, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2011/02/16/Egyptian-army-to-guard-Sinai-gas-line/UPI-86321297864236/