I am quoting from memory from Oren's Six Days of War, a sober and well-reviewed historian, which gives higher numbers. Even your account mentions something about "7 Egyptian divisions". Okay, which is it, 7 or only 2? While quoting figures, have you got any for the Israelis? Were those greater or smaller, hm?
As for logistics, well Egyptian logistics weren't exactly their strong suit throughout, that's one reason they lost so badly and so fast.
Nasser thought he had enough. He also thought he had a functional ally in Syria, which didn't turn out to be true either. As for Nasser's ordering an attack on May 27th but calling it off, check Oren, he lists his sources, chiefly the now open Soviet documents.
Note that the 1967 conflict was fought entirely on arab muslim land, and not at all on the six point something per cent of Palestine legitimately acquired by zionists pre-1948 ..... this was also true of the 1956 conflict, the 1973 conflict, and almost entirely the case in the 1948 war
So you take the irridendist position, along with Hamas, that Israel doesn't exist inside any borders? Neither the UN partition nor its own declaration of independence (followed by its victories in 48, 56, 67, 70, and 73) have any force to make Israel a country? The Israelis should be killed or driven out of the Middle East?
Just want to be clear here. |
