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.
Another Middle
East War Erupts: On Wednesday as Turkish troops launch operation
against Kurdish PKK bases, several thousand crossing into North Iraq. (World is quite and pretending that it is not
happening, but they are always screaming when Jews are trying to defend their
lives and land!) The White House said there has been "no new
activity" in northern Iraq to justify the press reports. (Debka.com, CNN.com)
Call Psychiatrists and Make Zionist Revolution. Olmert informed
Syria last month that he is willing to cede the Golan to Syrian sovereignty,
but wishes to verify that Syria will, in turn, cut its ties with Iran,
Hizbullah and Palestinian terrorist organizations. (Golan is
Jewish land! Mentally ill leadership must be removed and replaced by Jewish
government with true Zionist objectives!)
Food for Thought.
by Steven
Shamrak
I respect people who have
opinions contrary to mine. But please, use your intelligence and check the
facts. Do not be a puppet in the world global anti-Israel propaganda or your
own, perhaps deeply hidden, anti-Jewish or self-hating predisposition.
Cooperation to
Destroy Israel. Syrian President Bashar
Assad has called for "better cooperation" between Damascus and Tehran
in "the confrontation with the Zionist regime and the USA," according
to a report published on Sunday by Iran's official state news agency, IRNA. (At the same
time, political idiots are advocating Israel’s peace negotiations with Syria.)
Did you Hear about It? Basque rebels ETA, who want independence from Spain and believed
responsible for more than 800 deaths in Spain
in the last 45 years, ended their ceasefire
last week. ETA declared a ceasefire in March last year, urging Spain and France to enter into peace
negotiations. The European Union welcomed the ceasefire, but did nothing to advance case of Basque’s independence! (But
Arabs fake claims over Jewish land and the endless ‘one-day Hudnas’ are always
welcome and widely promoted by world press!)
Another Snub. Mahmoud Abbas has postponed a meeting with Israeli
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that was scheduled for Thursday, because Israel had
not responded to a variety of demands, including the release of funds to the
Palestinian Authority, and the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli
jails. (How many of Israel’s demands have the Arab
Palestinians satisfied? The answer is – None!)
Quote of the Week:
“Today, I do not see the possibility of being
able to settle the conflict without defeating the regimes and terrorist
organizations that still hold the idea of destroying Israel. You cannot defeat
them by withdrawal and by disengagement” -
former chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. (res.) Moshe Ya'alon - Only by
recognising and pursuing our own rights will Jews be able to bring peace to
Israel.
"Olmert is willing to sell the Golan to
save his seat... This is his last-gasp effort to survive." -
National Religious Party leader Zevulun Orlev.
No
International Outrage. Disregarding the caution of US Defense
Secretary Robert Gates, Turkish troops shelled a border area in northern Iraq
last week in an attack on Kurdish rebels based there. The leader of the
autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq, Massoud Barzani, said: “We reject
any interference in Iraqi affairs and we do not accept any presence of Turkish
forces on Iraqi lands.” (Just imagine what the
international reaction would be, if Israel attacked hostile terrorists based in
Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt!)
Mad
Dogs Must be Put Down. Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
launched a new verbal attack on Israel, saying a "countdown" has
begun that will end with Lebanese and Palestinian terrorists destroying the
Jewish state. (We must not wait for this ‘mad dog’
become nuclear-capable.)
Hypocritical
AI. Amnesty International marked the 40th anniversary of
the Six-Day Way by vilifying Israel’s treatment of Arabs in Judea and Samaria,
specifically related to the security fence that Israel is building, in spite
that the number of attempted and successful suicide bombings has dropped
dramatically. (I am not supporter of the wall, as a
pretext of the possible border, but it saves Jewish lives for now. There are
hundreds of security walls around the world: Korea, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, USA
etc... But the one that saves Jews deprives the anti-Semites in AI of sleep!)
Restraining
Does Not Work. Up to 10 Israeli soldiers sustain various degrees of
injury from PA mortar attack on Gaza’s Erez crossing a week ago. They were
launched minutes after Israeli PM Ehud Olmert told the weekly cabinet meeting
that Israeli operations in Gaza had reduced Hamas missile strikes. (Delusional
leadership leads the country to tragedy!)
After the Six-Day War.
by Rachel Neuwirth
President
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered the Joint Chiefs of Staff, under General Earle
Wheeler, to do a study following the Six Day War on what territory was needed
by Israel to survive as a nation, without America needing to come to her
rescue.
The following
was concluded in a secret report dated June 29, 1967: Israel was advised not to
abandon her furthest borders and whatever high ground she held. According to
the report that accompanied the map, the Joint Chiefs said:
"Returning
Israel to pre-1967 boundaries would drastically increase its vulnerability.
Israel would be threatened by West Bank artillery and tactical SAMs - a sword
constantly over its head and the need to maintain readiness with prohibitive
mobilization costs. For stable future Arab-Israeli agreements, Israel must feel
it can wait out a crisis rather than strike pre-emptively. Israel should
retain... the Gaza Strip, mountains and plateaus of the West Bank, the tip of
the Sinai, Sharm El-Sheikh, the Golan Heights east of Quneitra and all of
Jerusalem."
The
report was kept secret, which denied Israel an essential bargaining point in
future negotiations. It eventually came to light when revealed in the Wall
Street Journal on March 9, 1983, but it remains ignored. US official policy
to this day remains committed to a full Israeli pullback on all fronts except
for minor adjustments. Since June 2002, President George Bush supports the
creation of a "Palestinian Arab state" inside Judea and Samaria (West
Bank), which was never previously US policy. What was unworkable in 1967 is
even more unworkable and dangerous today.