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To: sammy levy who wrote (1631)	5/8/2002 3:02:59 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6945

In the 1956 war Israel was "used" by the the British and the French who wanted the prevent Egypt from nationalizing the Suez Canal. It brings a tear to my eye just thinking about poor little ole Israel. The 1967 war:Israel did attack 1st but it was a preamptive attack that came after Gamal Abdoul Nasser kicked out the peace keeping force out of the area,moved troops in the Sinai Desert and blocked the passage of Sharm EL shiek which was deemed as un deniable declaration of war. Of course Nasser moved troops to the Sinai! Did you want him to just sit there and not prepare for the coming Israeli attack? As for Nasser removing UN troops, did you know that Israel removed the UN troops on their side a decade before Egypt did? According to your indictment, that means Israel was planning an aggression well before Egypt. And, this theory is borne out in fact, because we later found out that Israel had been planning the attack on Egypt for 14 years before they carried it out. According to you, this attack had nothing to do with the identical attack in 1956. It had nothing to do with Israel wanting to take land, oilfields, and the Suez Canal. LOL! You are pathetic. Tom

To: sammy levy who wrote (1631)	5/8/2002 3:24:00 PM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 6945

Time to start smoking Mr. Levy like a cheap cigar . . . Moshe Sharett reveals that the Israeli leadership was planning the territorial conquest of the Sinai and Gaza as early as the fall of 1953. In October 1955, a year before the war, Israeli PM David Ben-Gurion ordered his Chief of Staff, General Moshe Dayan, to prepare invasion plans. Ben Gurion was determined, according to Dayan, "not to miss any politically favorable opportunity to strike at Egypt" (Moshe Dayan, Diary of the Sinai Campaign, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1966, p. 37). Dayan expressed the hopes of the Israeli leadership when he said in December 1955: "One of these days a situation will be created which makes military action possible" (Kennet Love, Suez: The Twice Fought War, McGraw-Hill, 1969, p. 106). electronicintifada.net

To: sammy levy who wrote (1631)	5/8/2002 3:27:23 PM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 6945

Ben-Gurion in 1954: "[Nasser must be taught a lesson, thundered, either] to carry out his duties or to be toppled. It is definitely possible to topple him, and it is even a mitzvah [a sacred obligation] to do so. Who is he anyway, this Nasser-Shmasser." (Iron Wall, p. 124) Ben-Gurion was very pleased to know that Britain and France were anxious to topple Nasser of Egypt too, in that regards he said in October 1955: "This is a unique opportunity that two not so small powers will try to topple Nasser, and we shall not stand alone against him while he becomes stronger and conquers all the Arab countries. . . . and maybe the whole situation in the Middle East will change according to my plan." (Iron Wall, p. 174) It is not only that Ben-Gurion looked at the Bible (see below quote) to justify the usurpation and occupation of the Sinai peninsula, he also envisioned a great enterprise in exploiting Sinai natural resources, he also stated in October 1955: "I told him [French PM, Guy Mollet] about the discovery of oil in the southern and western Sinai, and that it would be good to tear this peninsula from Egypt because it did not belong to her; rather it was the English who stole it from the Turks when they believed that Egypt was in their pocket. I suggested laying down a pipeline from Sinai to Haifa to refine the oil, and Mollet [French PM] showed interest in the suggestion." (Iron Wall, p. 175) In a cable sent to the 7th brigade following the occupation of Sharm al-Sheikh in Sinai on October 29 1956, Ben-Gurion wrote: "Yotvata, or Tiran, which until fourteen hundred years ago was part of the third kingdom of Israel," and in his speech to the Israeli Knesset on November 7, 1956 he hinted that Israel planned to annex the entire Sinai peninsula as well as the Straits of Tiran (the southeastern tip of the Sinai peninsula on the Asian side) . It is not the first time, nor the last time, that an Israeli leader will use the Bible to justify war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and occupation. (Iron Wall, p. 179) ns1.palestineremembered.com