Once more that brief and pesky history lesson that somehow always slips your "mind":
Prior to the 6 Day War (1967) the Palestinians suffered no Israeli incursions, no Israeli presence and no Israeli security measures in either Gaza or the WB (including Jerusalem). In fact, in any of the 20 years preceding that war the Arabs could have forged their Palestinian State - if that had been on their list of important things to do - without Israel's cooperation. All they had to do was do it and the world would have embraced it. After 20 years of having their knife to Israel's throat the Arabs instigated another war which resulted in a new dynamic ... partial Israeli control over the WB and Gaza and total control of Jerusalem. Now the Palestinians will need Israel's cooperation to determine - among other issues - where their borders will be drawn. That is the price to be paid for their mistakes.
You're a fuckin' liar!
From the
men who started the '67 war...
“I do not believe that Nasser wanted war. The two divisions which he sent into Sinai on 14 May would not have been enough to unleash an offensive against Israel. He knew it and we knew it.”
- Israeli Chief of Staff Rabin said in Le Monde on 28 February 1968
“The entire story of the danger of extermination was invented in every detail and exaggerated to justify the annexation of new Arab territory.”
- Mordecai Bentov, a member of the wartime national government in the Israeli newspaper Al-Hamishmar on 14 April 1971
“We were not threatened with genocide on the eve of the Six Day War, and we had never thought of such a possibility.”
- General Haim Bar-Lev, Rabin’s predecessor as chief of staff [in] the Israeli newspaper Ma’ariv on 4 April 1972
“There was never any danger of annihilation. This hypothesis has never been considered in any serious meeting.”
- General Ezer Weizmann, Chief of Operations during the war and a nephew of Chaim Weizmann
“The thesis according to which the danger of genocide hung over us in June 1967, and according to which Israel was fighting for her very physical survival, was nothing but a bluff which was born and bred after the war.”
- General Matetiyahu Peled, Chief of Logistical Command during the war and one of 12 members of Israel’s General Staff, In the spring of 1972
“Israel was never in real danger and there was no evidence that Egypt had any intention of attacking Israel. Israeli intelligence knew that Egypt was not prepared for war.”
- General Matetiyahu Peled
“There was no danger of annihilation. Neither Israeli headquarters nor the Pentagon – as the memoirs of President Johnson proved – believed in this danger.”
- General Chaim Herzog (a former Director of Military Intelligence, future Israeli Ambassador to the UN and President of his state
Like I said, you're a fuckin' liar!
Woo you conveniently ignored the point of my thread ... that for 20 years prior to their 6 Day Humiliation the Arabs controlled the WB, Gaza and all of Jerusalem yet
in none of those years did they find statehood to be important enough to establish it. There would have been no Israeli "occupation" had they done so.
As for the claims about that war:
Prior to the start of the war, attacks conducted against Israel by fledgling Palestinian guerrilla groups based in Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan had increased, leading to costly Israeli reprisals. In November 1966 an Israeli strike on the village of Al-Samūʿ in the Jordanian West Bank left 18 dead and 54 wounded, and, during an air battle with Syria in April 1967, the Israeli Air Force shot down six Syrian
MiG fighter jets. In addition, Soviet intelligence reports in May indicated that Israel was planning a campaign against Syria, and, although inaccurate, the information further heightened tensions between Israel and its Arab neighbours.
Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser had previously come under sharp criticism for his failure to aid Syria and Jordan against Israel; he had also been accused of hiding behind the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) stationed at Egypt’s border with Israel in the Sinai. Now, however, he moved to unambiguously demonstrate support for Syria: on May 14, 1967, Nasser mobilized Egyptian forces in the Sinai; on May 18 he formally requested the removal of the UNEF stationed there; and on May 22 he closed the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping, thus instituting an effective blockade of the port city of
Elat in southern Israel. On May 30, King Ḥussein of Jordan arrived in Cairo to sign a mutual defense pact with Egypt, placing Jordanian forces under Egyptian command; shortly thereafter, Iraq too joined the alliance.
As always, you're just a ******* ornery idiot.
Six-Day War Middle East 1967 Britannica.com