Quote Originally Posted by piwanoi View Post
, So I will ask again ,what was the purpose of the 3 pronged attack on Israel in 1967 ? General Nasser said it was to annihilate the state of Israel ,and of course you simply refuse to watch the video as your mind is made up already ,and then you have the fucking affront to call me a bigot and if they did not acquire the West bank as a direct result of the 6 day war HTF did they acquire it ?
Ahhh yes this old canard. So what was it all actually about? Were Egypt, Jordan and Syria planning on "wiping israel off the face of the map"? Umm no.

Why did israel attack these three countries?

1 - Egypt closed the Gulf of Aqaba, Israel's only access to the Red Sea in May?
2 - israel wanted to lay down a marker to say "we are the boss now"?
3 - Creating the myth of israel under attack, thus convincing the Jews of the world
to support israel passionately, because up until this point only zionists did?
4 - a Land grab. Israel wanted more Arab land?

All four - the last two most importantly.

So did israel think the three neighbours were actually going to attack? No.
did the USA think the three neighbours were actually going to attack? No.
Were they going to attack? No.

Israeli Chief of Staff Rabin said this: “I do not believe that Nasser wanted war. The two divisions which he sent into Sinai on 14 May would not have been enough to unleash an offensive against Israel. He knew it and we knew it.”
Mordecai Bentov, one of the signatories of the Israeli declaration of independence. “The entire story of the danger of extermination was invented in every detail and exaggerated a posteriori to justify the annexation of new Arab territory.”
General Haim Bar-Lev, Rabin’s predecessor as chief of staff, “We were not threatened with genocide on the eve of the Six Days War, and we had never thought of such a possibility.”
General Ezer Weizmann, Chief of Operations during the war “There was never any danger of annihilation. This hypothesis has never been considered in any serious meeting.”
General Matetiyahu Peled, Chief of Logistical Command during the war and one of 12 members of Israel’s General Staff, “The thesis according to which the danger of genocide hung over us in June 1967, and according to which Israel was fighting for her very physical survival, was nothing but a bluff which was born and bred after the war.”
General Matetiyahu Peled “Israel was never in real danger and there was no evidence that Egypt had any intention of attacking Israel.” ... “Israeli intelligence knew that Egypt was not prepared for war.”
General Matetiyahu Peled “All those stories about the huge danger we were facing because of our small territorial size, an argument expounded once the war was over, have never been considered in our calculations. While we proceeded towards the full mobilisation of our forces, no person in his right mind could believe that all this force was necessary to our ‘defence’ against the Egyptian threat. This force was to crush once and for all the Egyptians at the military level and their Soviet masters at the political level. To pretend that the Egyptian forces concentrated on our borders were capable of threatening Israel’s existence does not only insult the intelligence of any person capable of analysing this kind of situation, but is primarily an insult to the Israeli army.”

General Chaim Herzog (former Director of Military Intelligence, future Israeli Ambassador to the UN and President of his state) said: “There was no danger of annihilation. Neither Israeli headquarters nor the Pentagon – as the memoirs of President Johnson proved – believed in this danger.”

Now not only did israel KNOW there was no danger, but they also went to LBJ and with all their intelligence they had gathered and asked them to explore if there was a danger. The US Intelligence system came back and said categorically that there was NO DANGER. Nassar was a windbag, just like every other middle east leader, and nothing more. Israel was so well armed, certainly NOT a David to the Goliath israeli propaganda makes out to believe. So much so that Robert McNamara stated if there was a war, it would be a clear and decisive victory for Israel in 7-10 days.


The other myth surround the 6 day war is that is lasted 6 days. The unprovoked attacks on its neighbours, who were not in any way revved up for a war, lasted about 24 hours, during which time all of the Egyptian air capability had been destroyed on the ground. With no troops massed, and then no air force, the war was over. Then came the israeli Land Grab, which was 50% of what the war was all about.

So, there you go PIWI. put another of your and Ent's israel lies to bed.


What's the next load of rubbish you want to bring to the table?