Lesson of the Six-Day
War.
by Steven Shamrak
"On June 5th, 1967, Jordan attacked Israel.
Suburbs of Tel Aviv were shelled by artillery. Israel's largest military
airfield, Ramat David, was shelled. Jordanian warplanes attacked the central
Israeli towns of Netanya and Kfar Saba. Thousands of mortar shells rained down
on western Jerusalem, targeting Israel's parliament building and the prime
minister's office.
Twenty Israelis died in these attacks; 1,000 were wounded;
900 buildings were damaged. Only after coming under fire and sustaining
casualties did the Israeli military respond against Jordanian forces in the
West Bank." (HonestReporting)
"The biggest myth going is that somehow there was not a
real and immediate Arab threat, that somehow Israel could have negotiated
itself outside the crisis of 1967, and that it wasn't facing an existential
threat, or facing any threat at all," said Michael Oren. (Jerusalem Post)
Now days, some revisionists of history are trying to turn
the glorious victory of Israel against many Arab armies in to a failure,
calling it a "Hollow Victory" or saying that we are "Paying
Price" for Israel's 1967 Victory. What price would Jews pay if Israel was
defeated in any previous war? Like former president of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser said: “We only need to win once!”
Hypocrites are attempting to make Israel's victories look
like a source of current problems with PA and most of Muslim world. This
approach, to make Jews to feel guilty, is not a new concept. Jews have always
been blamed for the faults and problems created by others and Jewish
achievements or inventions were brushed off or plagiarized. Our enemies like to
see Jews submissive and obedient!
At the same time, we ought to admit that Israel made
mistakes during and after the previous wars and there is a need to learn from
the lesson from the history:
1.
In order to achieve our
goals and reduce the number of casualties, Israel must set clear objective and
choose her own time of engagement with enemies. And, they must be followed
through. We must not wait again and again for their move, while our enemies
become stronger, restocking arms and training armies, with clear hostile
intention toward Israel.
2.
Any outside pressure must
be ignored. The only reason why Israel have been experiencing the internal Arab
terrorism for the past 40 year is because under international pressure Israel
did not allow Arabs from Judea, Samaria and Gaza to cross the border with
Jordan and Egypt, and leave Jewish land.