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From: hijab@cad.UUCP (Raif Hijab)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: The "Patria" incident
Message-ID: <99@cad.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Mar-86 15:50:39 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 13 15:50:39 1986
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Summary: Who are the fanatics?

In article <3350@sun.uucp>, cramer@sun.uucp (Sam Cramer) writes:
> I imagine that we'll soon see lots of amusing answers from the anti-Israel 
> fanatics so active in net.politics - probably backed up with bogus quotations 
> from obscure far-left or pro-PLO sources; "Ink Links", indeed!]
> 

It would be more productive for you to actually rebut the arguments
and quotes of the "anti-Israel fanatics" with more "respectable"
documentation of your own disproving their arguments. I contend that
you have no such documentation, so you opt for slander of these
contributors to the net, their quoted references, and even their
publishers! I for one believe that I can support my arguments,
perhaps not to your satisfaction, but to the satisfaction of a large
number of subscribers to net.politics.

> 
> (recall that this war was one in which Israel's enemies made no secret of their
> desire to exterminate the State of Israel and it's inhabitants), 
> 
> Sam Cramer	uucp:	{cbosgd,decwrl,hplabs,seismo,ucbvax}!sun!cramer
> 		arpanet: cramer@sun.arpa

A careful reading of the history of events leading to the 1967 Six Day
War (one not restricted to the Israeli interpretation) would clearly
show that Israel had planned the war years in advance, that it was
clearly not a defensive war, and that Israel was engaged in provocation
to start a war.

The immediate action precipitating the crisis was the
threat by Israel's prime minister Levi Eshkol to invade Damascus and
topple the Syrian government. Israel had demanded that Syria stop
Palestinian guerillas from infiltrating across its border. Guerilla
attacks had increased following Israel's raid on the village of Al Samu'
in the West Bank in 1966. In that raid, Isarael leveled the village
and indiscriminately killed a large number of its residents (including
women, children and elderly persons).

Nasser felt compelled to come Syria's aid, and declared that an attack
on Syria would be considered an attack on Egypt. This ideally set the
stage for Israel's 'preemptive strike' in the dawn hours of June 5, 1967,
when they destroyed 90% of the Egyptian air force on the ground.
The claim that Israel was engaged in a 'war of defense' can only be
believed by those who consider news releases of the Israeli War Ministry
to be the ultimate reference.

Raif Hijab		ucbvax!cad!hijab
			hijab@cad.berkeley.edu