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<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'':
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>
<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.
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.