Posted on 04/06/2003 3:35:06 AM PDT by Asher
Oh, sure.
Like a dog who catches the car he's chasing, what do you think would have happened then?
Do unto others what others would do unto you.
But do it first.
A great read on the Six-Day War is Stephen Pressfield’s
“The Lion’s Gate”. Breathtaking, exciting and deeply moving.
When Jordan lost the West Bank to Israel in 1967, they just abandoned it. They never asked for it back.
The West Bank is not "occupied territory." The only nation-state with a claim to the territory was Jordan, which abandoned the claim.
The UN split the territory, west of the Dead Sea/Jordan for the Jews, east for the Arabs. The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan was the designated Arab area. If memory serves, King Hussein’s even more slippery eel father suggested the split, but then didn’t abide by it. The reason for the pre-1967 border was, the Jordanian army was tough, held on to eastern Jerusalem (not East Jerusalem as the PLO and other Arab / muzzies / media shills often have it) and then ethnically cleansed it and did the same with the “west bank”.
[snip] ...Syria used the Golan Heights, which tower 3,000 feet above the Galilee, to shell Israeli farms and villages. Syria's attacks grew more frequent in 1965 and 1966, while Nasser's rhetoric became increasingly bellicose: "We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand," he said on March 8, 1965. "We shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood."
Again, a few months later, Nasser expressed the Arabs' aspiration: "...the full restoration of the rights of the Palestinian people. In other words, we aim at the destruction of the State of Israel. The immediate aim: perfection of Arab military might. The national aim: the eradication of Israel."
While Nasser continued to make speeches threatening war, Arab terrorist attacks grew more frequent. In 1965, 35 raids were conducted against Israel. In 1966, the number increased to 41. In just the first four months of 1967, 37 attacks were launched.
Meanwhile, Syria's attacks on Israeli kibbutzim from the Golan Heights provoked a retaliatory strike on April 7, 1967, during which Israeli planes shot down six Syrian MiGs. Shortly thereafter, the Soviet Union-which had been providing military and economic aid to both Syria and Egypt-gave Damascus information alleging a massive Israeli military buildup in preparation for an attack. Despite Israeli denials, Syria decided to invoke its defense treaty with Egypt...
Nasser ordered the UN Emergency Force, stationed in the Sinai since 1956, to withdraw on May 16. Without bringing the matter to the attention of the General Assembly, as his predecessor had promised, Secretary-General U Thant complied with the demand. [/snip]
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