1967: I split this 50/50. Israel started shooting first (pre-emptive war), based on non-imaginary evidence that Egypt was about to attack Israel. Israel unnecessarily expanded the war, to include Syria and Jordan. Those two nations probably would have stayed out of the war, if they hadn't been attacked first by Israel.
Go read a history book, Jacob. Israel starting shooting first, after a whole month of crisis, on June 5th with 800,000 troops on its Sinai border alone. According to Michael Oren, author of Six Days of War, Nasser had been planning to attack on May 27th, but something Kosygin told him spooked him and he called off the attack. The Syrians, egged on the Russians, had started the whole May 1967 crisis, and had troops massed as well. King Hussein ignored Levi Eshkol's private pleas to stay out of it, and (having not been informed by Nasser than the Egyptian Air Force was no more) invaded Israel several days into the war - as King Hussein himself admits in his own autobiography!
No wonder your conclusions are so ludicrous. You have never even learned basic history.
Most of what you accuse Hamas of, Israel is also doing
I must have missed the reports of Israeli bus bombings, Jacob, and the attempts to cause mega-casualties like Hamas' recent Ashdod port attack. You'd really think that Israeli attempts to cause mass civilian casualties would be successful, what with all American equipment and everything. I must have missed those reports, somehow. |
