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== Prelude == | == Prelude == | ||
| − | In the previous Israel was forced to deal with several threats from Arab leaders. Already in 1965 Egyptian dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser announced: “We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand, we shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood”. On May 22, 1967 Syrian leader Nureddin al-Attasi told his troops “We want a full scale, popular war of liberation to destroy the Zionist enemy”. In the same month Nasser forced the UN Emergency Force to leave the Sinai Peninsula, where they were stationed since 1957.<ref>https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263102/six-day-war-remembered-joseph-puder</ref> | + | In the previous Israel was forced to deal with several threats from Arab leaders. Already in 1965 Egyptian dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser announced: “We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand, we shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood”. On May 22, 1967 Syrian leader Nureddin al-Attasi told his troops “We want a full scale, popular war of liberation to destroy the Zionist enemy”. In the same month Nasser forced the UN Emergency Force to leave the Sinai Peninsula, where they were stationed since 1957.<ref>https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263102/six-day-war-remembered-joseph-puder</ref> |
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| + | [[Ahmad Shukeiri]] expressed his genocidal aims, including predicting that no one will survive.<ref>Iyunim biTkumat Israel, 11, 2001, pp. 141-132 [Merkaz le-moreshet Ben-Guryon]. | ||
| + | Moshe Shemesh - Did Shuqayri call for 'throwing the Jews into the sea'?... The fact that in that statement he explicitly spoke of the extermination of Jews strengthened the credibility of the claim. That he called for throwing the Jews into the sea ...[https://in.bgu.ac.il/bgi/iyunim/11/5.pdf]</blockquote</ref> | ||
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| + | Shukeiri incited the Arabs into a frenzy [[Jihad]]. He ''fired up his followers with injunctions for a "sacred war," like the Koran's: "Kill them wherever you find them. Drive them out of the places from which they drove you."''<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/382480217/ The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California, December 31, 1967, p. 28]:<blockquote> | ||
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| + | Shukairy Steps Down It Might Be Said that Terror is his middle name. | ||
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| + | "We will wipe Israel off the face of the map and no Jew will survive," warned Ahmed Shukairy last June. As head of the clandestine [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] for the past four years, Shukairy has been responsible for the murders of dozens of Israeli men, women and children in bloody midnight raids across the borders of Jordan and Syria. | ||
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| + | A Jowly heavy-lidded Haifa lawyer, he fired up his followers with injunctions for a "sacred war," like the Koran's: "Kill them wherever you find them. Drive them out of the places from which they drove you." Israel and the Jews have by no means been Shukairy's only targets. - He hates the United States nearly as much and isn't terribly fond of Jordan either. With characteristic temperance he once said that anyone "who ever dares to speak in public of Arab friendship-with the United States in any Arab village or town would be torn to pieces." He once described Jordan's moderate king as the "tyrant of Amman, Hussein; who betrayed Allah, the "Prophet"...</blockquote></ref> | ||
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| + | Author:<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=tczy5YtB4PEC&pg=PA174 Steven Heydemann, Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East: 'War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East.' University of California Press, 2000, p. 174] Israel and the 1967 War. Joel S. Migdal. | ||
| + | ''From Doom To Boom.''</ref> | ||
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| + | ... The dark warnings of Arab leaders about what would happen to Israel if their forces were to triumph had been all too explicit. Only a week before the outbreak of fighting, [[Egypt]]'s president, [[Gamal Abdul Nasser]], had threatened that "this will be a total war. Our basic aim is the destruction of Israel." And the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, [[Ahnad Shukeiri|Ahmed Shukairy]], had added to the sense of looming tragedy, "Those native-born Israelis who survive can remain in Palestine. But I estimate that none of them will survive."</blockquote> | ||
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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> | ||
| + | <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> | ||
== The War == | == The War == | ||
Revision as of 22:00, June 13, 2021
| Six-Day War | ||
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Part of | Arab-Israeli conflict | |
| Date | June 5, 1967-June 10, 1967 | |
| Location | Middle East | |
| Combatants | ||
 Israel
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Egypt Syria Jordan Lebanon Iraq Pakistan | |
| Commanders | ||
| Levi Eshkol Yitzhak Rabin |
Gamal Abdel Nasser Abdel Hakim Amer Abdul Munim Riad Hussein Zaid ibn Shaker Asad Ghanma Salah Jadid | |
| Strength | ||
| 264,000 | 547,000 | |
| Casualties | ||
| 776 killed | Egypt: 15,000 killed Jordan: 696 killed Syria: 2,500 killed | |
The June 1967 Six-Day War resulted when the Egyptian ruler Gamal Abdel Nasser closed off the Gulf of Aqaba, which was the only access Israel had to the Red Sea. Israel responded with massive preemptive air strikes against several Arab nations, including Egypt, killing many Arabs and destroying their military capabilities. Israel conquered Jerusalem, the West Bank, the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights. In a political move to retain his popularity, Egyptian President Abdel Nasser announced his resignation, but later agreed to continue to lead Egypt.
Prelude
In the previous Israel was forced to deal with several threats from Arab leaders. Already in 1965 Egyptian dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser announced: “We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand, we shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood”. On May 22, 1967 Syrian leader Nureddin al-Attasi told his troops “We want a full scale, popular war of liberation to destroy the Zionist enemy”. In the same month Nasser forced the UN Emergency Force to leave the Sinai Peninsula, where they were stationed since 1957.[1]
Ahmad Shukeiri expressed his genocidal aims, including predicting that no one will survive.[2]
Shukeiri incited the Arabs into a frenzy Jihad. He fired up his followers with injunctions for a "sacred war," like the Koran's: "Kill them wherever you find them. Drive them out of the places from which they drove you."[3]
Author:[4]
... The dark warnings of Arab leaders about what would happen to Israel if their forces were to triumph had been all too explicit. Only a week before the outbreak of fighting, Egypt's president, Gamal Abdul Nasser, had threatened that "this will be a total war. Our basic aim is the destruction of Israel." And the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Ahmed Shukairy, had added to the sense of looming tragedy, "Those native-born Israelis who survive can remain in Palestine. But I estimate that none of them will survive."
Historian:[5]
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.
The War
Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol cited principles of self-defense for his approval of air-strikes on Egypt and battles with Jordanian and Syrian forces. Eshkol told a British newspaper, "The threat of destruction that hung over Israel since its establishment and which was about to be implemented has been removed. For the first time in 19 years, Jews are again free to pray at the Wailing Wall and at other shrines sacred to Judaism in Jerusalem and Hebron."[6]
This war reportedly displaced 500,000 Palestinians, and Israel offered the Palestinians in Jerusalem the opportunity to become Israeli citizens, but most declined, of the 120,000 who tried to sign up to return to Israel (after fleeing) only 14,000 were allowed back in.
To explain their humiliating defeat, Nasser and King Hussein of Jordan together concocted a lie that US and British forces aided Israel by joining in the war. Once they issued this claim to the Arab world, it caused immense hostility against the West. Their lie is one of the main reasons the US and British are hated by Arabs today.[7]
Since this war Egypt and Jordan are the only Arab nations to enter into peace agreements with Israel.
Further reading
- Oren, Michael B. Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East (2003) excerpt and text search
- Tucker, Spencer C., ed. The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict A Political, Social, and Military History (4 vol. 2008)
References
- ↑ https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263102/six-day-war-remembered-joseph-puder
- ↑ Iyunim biTkumat Israel, 11, 2001, pp. 141-132 [Merkaz le-moreshet Ben-Guryon]. Moshe Shemesh - Did Shuqayri call for 'throwing the Jews into the sea'?... The fact that in that statement he explicitly spoke of the extermination of Jews strengthened the credibility of the claim. That he called for throwing the Jews into the sea ...[1]</blockquote
- ↑ The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California, December 31, 1967, p. 28:
Shukairy Steps Down It Might Be Said that Terror is his middle name.
"We will wipe Israel off the face of the map and no Jew will survive," warned Ahmed Shukairy last June. As head of the clandestine Palestine Liberation Organization for the past four years, Shukairy has been responsible for the murders of dozens of Israeli men, women and children in bloody midnight raids across the borders of Jordan and Syria.
A Jowly heavy-lidded Haifa lawyer, he fired up his followers with injunctions for a "sacred war," like the Koran's: "Kill them wherever you find them. Drive them out of the places from which they drove you." Israel and the Jews have by no means been Shukairy's only targets. - He hates the United States nearly as much and isn't terribly fond of Jordan either. With characteristic temperance he once said that anyone "who ever dares to speak in public of Arab friendship-with the United States in any Arab village or town would be torn to pieces." He once described Jordan's moderate king as the "tyrant of Amman, Hussein; who betrayed Allah, the "Prophet"...
- ↑ Steven Heydemann, Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East: 'War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East.' University of California Press, 2000, p. 174 Israel and the 1967 War. Joel S. Migdal. From Doom To Boom.
- ↑ Meyer Levin: 'The Story of Israel,' (Putnam), 1966 (1967), pp. 221-222.
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/10/newsid_3047000/3047177.stm
- ↑ http://www.fsmitha.com/review/r-oren.html