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To: SunkenCiv

Golda Meir was having a nervous breakdown because she knew what was coming.


51 posted on 12/15/2019 12:11:02 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Eleutheria5
Her water carriers claim she didn't know it was imminent, at all. In a late interview she said she was scared of making a preemptive strike, but it was because of the possibility of not being effective at it, thus escalating a conflict which could have proved unsustainable. After the fact, Kissinger claimed Israel had been warned against any repeat of 1967, that the US wouldn't send one screw if it happened, but he also said it would be good if Israel were "bloodied".

52 posted on 12/15/2019 12:29:00 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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