• small44@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    I am sure if Israel didn’t decide to invade the West bank and Gaza in 67 they would live in peace

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      6 hours ago

      I’m not sure if you’re joking, but if you’re not, you might want to read a little about the war you’re referencing.

      Israel invaded those territories because Jordan and Egypt were using them to launch a surprise attack.

      “Live in peace” is a bit subjective in your example lol

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        5 hours ago

        I love of israelis themselves expose those lies

        The Egyptian Army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him. - Mossad Chief Meir Amit

        This entire story about the danger of extermination was invented and exaggerated after the fact to justify the annexation of new Arab territories“. - Israeli Minister Mordecai Bentov

        They attacked on a Monday, knowing that on Wednesday the Egyptian vice-president would arrive in Washington to talk about re-opening the Strait of Tiran. We might not have succeeded in getting Egypt to reopen the strait, but it was a real possibility.” - Dean Rusk, the American Secretary of State at that time

        We would send a tractor to plow some area where it wasn’t possible to do anything, in the demilitarized area, and knew in advance that the Syrians would start to shoot. If they didn’t shoot, we would tell the tractor to advance farther, until in the end the Syrians would get annoyed and shoot. And then we would use artillery and later the air force also, and that’s how it was. - Israeli general Moshe Dayan