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From: tedrick@ernie.berkeley.edu (Tom Tedrick)
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Subject: Re: The 1967 War
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Date: Fri, 21-Mar-86 13:43:04 EST
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>	"A careful reading of the history of events leading to the 1967
>	Six War (one not restricted to the Israeli interpretation) would
>	clearly show that Israel had planned the war years in
>	advance, [ ... ]

A small point: militarily sophisticated nations have contingency plans
               for various war scenarios prepared well in advance.

It would have been extremely irresponsible if the Israelis had not
been prepared in advance.

Going off at a tangent, sometimes wars get out of control once
conflict begins due to these contingency plans. Hence it is wise
not to start such conflicts without a very good reason.

This happened in WW1 for example.