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To: Thomas M. who wrote (1024)	7/24/2002 8:27:26 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Respond to of 3959

That's hilarious Thomas! A Zionist propagandist destroyed by his own petard! What Zionists fear more than anything is historical knowledge, truth and reality!

To: Thomas M. who wrote (1024)	7/25/2002 9:13:43 AM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3959

The six-day war of 1967 was an outstanding catastrophe for the Arab world. It was masterminded, if that is the right word, by Gamal Abdul Nasser, the president of Egypt from 1952 until his death in 1970. But the Soviet Union also bears its share of the responsibility for what happened. At the outset of his rule, Nasser accepted Soviet aid and arms. Erecting the Egyptian version of a Soviet police state, he militarized and beggared his country. Claiming to be a nationalist, he pursued the contrary goal of Arab unity, doing his utmost to incorporate Syria, Iraq and Jordan into an Arab empire under his control. Dispatching troops to the civil war in Yemen, he revealed what kind of man he was by ordering the use of poison gas. It was also his idea to recruit the Palestine Liberation Organization as a surrogate weapon against Israel. Before 1967, guerrilla raids from Jordan and Syria had led to clashes, though on a containable scale. Nasser had maximized inter-Arab tension, and also condemned the Middle East to be an arena in which the cold war turned hot. Nasser and the Soviets had in common a doctrine that the United States was "imperialist" and that Israel was a tool to that end. More than unreal, this was absurd. In his inner self, Nasser was probably too intelligent to believe that Israel was an American puppet without the will or means to ensure its own survival. But he allowed himself to be carried away by the hatred of Israel that is such an article of faith among Arabs. The net result was to bring about the very strengthening of the ties between America and Israel that he and the Arabs generally feared. shalem.org.il