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Historian:<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=HxC7AAAAIAAJ&q=Shukeiri+hitler Meyer Levin: 'The Story of Israel,' (Putnam), 1966 (1967), pp. 221-222].</ref>
Historian:<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=HxC7AAAAIAAJ&q=Shukeiri+hitler Meyer Levin: 'The Story of Israel,' (Putnam), 1966 (1967), pp. 221-222].</ref>
<blockquote>Again, Arab leaders began to vie with each other on promising genocide for the Jews of the Holy Land. It was to be a war of extermination in which not a man, woman, or child should be spared, announced Ahmed Shukeiri, the bloodthirsty organizer of commando units in the Arab refugee camps. Nasser promised to place Shukeiri's men in the front ranks when he invaded.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Again, Arab leaders began to vie with each other on promising genocide for the Jews of the Holy Land. It was to be a war of extermination in which not a man, woman, or child should be spared, announced Ahmed Shukeiri, the bloodthirsty organizer of commando units in the Arab refugee camps. Nasser promised to place Shukeiri's men in the front ranks when he invaded.</blockquote>
Summarizing in ''The Chicago Tribune'':
<ref>"[https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1987-06-07-8702120006-story.html 20 Years after six day war triumph, Israel still grappling with]." Jonathan Broder, Chicago Tribune. June 7, 1987.</ref><blockquote>
For three weeks before the fighting erupted, the tiny Jewish state was caught in the stranglehold of an Egyptian naval blockade that cut off Israel's vital Red Sea port of Elat. Encouraged by Western apathy and indecision, Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser then ousted United Nations buffer troops from the Gaza Strip and moved his forces up to the 1949 armistice line with Israel.
Sensing Israel`s vulnerability, the Arab world rallied to Nasser`s side. Jordan, Syria and Iraq signed mutual defense pacts with Egypt and began moving troops and tanks toward Israel`s eastern and northern borders. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Morocco and Tunisia announced that their soldiers and facilities stood at Egypt's disposal.
By the end of May, daylong broadcasts throughout the Middle East exhorted Arabs to join the jihad (holy war) against Israel. On May 25, Nasser declared publicly, ''The problem now before the Arab countries is not whether the port of Elat should be blockaded--but how to totally exterminate the state of Israel for all time.''
Palestinian leader Ahmed Shukeiry, asked about the fate of the Jews in Israel after the war, replied, ''I estimate none of them will survive.''</blockquote>
== The War ==
== The War ==