"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message ...
"Gernot Hassenpflug" wrote in message
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(Quant) writes:


1. I think that the facts I brought show clearly an Arab aggression on
1967.
2. I think that they show clearly that Israel couldn't prevent the
war. The other choice of Israel, which was a "no choice", was to be
annihilated. How come you interpret a no choice war as an aggression?

Well, the Japanese had no choice either in 1941, they were in much the
same position as Israel, and yet people seem to still think Japan
waged an aggressive war.... Gee!


Bull

Japan had lots of choices that would have avoided war in 1941,
they werent prepared to quit invading other countries but
that was a matter of choice. There were no armies ranged
along their borders threatening invasion and genocide,
rather they had invaded Manchuria, China and
French IndoChina killing millions of civilians in the process.

They then decided to attack the US and British to pave the way
for their invasions of Malaya and the Dutch East Indies.

If the Israelis attack the USN in Bahrain preparatory to an
invasion of Saudi Arabia that will be analagous to Pearl Harbor,
the 6 day war was not.

Menachem Begin, Ben-Gurion, and Rabin, along with at least one other
prominent Israeli cabinet minister at the time, apparently disagree
with you if you are claiming that Israel had no choice in 67. There
was no immenent threat of direct conflict with Egypt.

"Former Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion said that he "doubt[ed] very
much whether [Egyptian President] Nasser wanted to go to war. "
Yitzhak Rabin has said, "I do not believe that Nasser wanted war." "

http://www.washington-report.org/bac...91/9104034.htm

Begin: "Our other wars were not without an alternative. In November
1956 we had a choice. The reason for going to war then was the need to
destroy the fedayeen, who did not represent a danger to the existence
of the state...In June 1967, we again had a choice. The Egyptian army
concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that Nasser was
really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We
decided to attack him."

http://www.washington-report.org/bac...94/9407073.htm

Brooks



Keith