Israeli Defense Minister HAMMERS obama

[Hossfly]

Sucker punched like the Arabs in '56?

"The Suez Crisis, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression, Suez Canal Crisis, Suez War, or Second Arab-Israeli War[13][14] (Arabic: أزمة السويس /* العدوان الثلاثي* Azmat al-Suways / al-ʻUdwān al-Thulāthī , "Suez Crisis"/ 'the Tripartite Aggression'; French: Crise du canal de Suez; Hebrew: מבצע קדש* Mivtza' Kadesh 'Operation Kadesh,' or מלחמת סיני Milẖemet Sinai, 'Sinai War'), was a diplomatic and military confrontation in late 1956 between Egypt on one side, and Britain, France and Israel on the other, with the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Nations playing major roles in forcing Britain, France and Israel to withdraw."

Tell us how many Israeli flagged ships went through the Straits of Tiran during the two years prior to the '67 closing.

None, George. They all flew Marshall Islands flags.

Why did they do that, Hoss?

Tax purposes?

 

[georgephillip]

None, George. They all flew Marshall Islands flags.

Why did they do that, Hoss?

Tax purposes?

Carbon credits??

"From 1946 to 1958, as the site of the Pacific Proving Grounds, the U.S. tested 67 nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands,[17] including the largest nuclear test the U.S. ever conducted, Castle Bravo.[18] In 1956, the United States Atomic Energy Commission regarded the Marshall Islands as 'by far the most contaminated place in the world'".

Marshall Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[aris2chat]

Allowing the Egyptians and Syrians to amass troops on the Israeli borders in 1967 was a fact...

Nassar publicly declaring, the week before, that the Arabs were preparing to annihilate Israel, was a fact...

The Egyptian Air Force making preparations to bomb Israeli cities and military bases, was a fact...

Israeli preemptive strikes against the Arabs in order to neutralize those assets before they could inflict the harm that Nassar promised was a fact...

You decrying those preemptive strikes was a fact...

You stating that you would have waited until the Egyptian Air Force had crossed into Israeli airspace was a fact...

Me confirming that by asking you if you would do so even if it cost the lives of hundred or thousands of your own civilians and the destruction of important targets and irreplaceable war assets and troop formations - just so that you could say you had abided-by the strict letter of international law - was a fact...

Your affirmative response to that confirmation-prompt was a fact...

My resultant assessment of your common sense and manly character is a fact...

I'll let you know when I've run out of facts, boy...

Why don't we cut the foreplay and get to the main fact that Israel started that war by firing the first shot.

Egypt declared war on Israel.

 

[aris2chat]

George, are you corgetting the fact that Egypt also close the Straits of Tiran, which Israel had said beforehand would be a declaration of war?

Both sides were guilty of threatening war, but Israel had proved in 1956 its willingness to invade Arab territory. As far as the Straits of Tiran are concerned, there's a lot of controversy about the degree of existential threat that imposed on the Jewish state:

"The assertion that the announcement of Straits of Tiran Blockade paved the way for war is disputed by Major General Indar Jit Rikhye, military adviser to the United Nations Secretary General, who called the accusation of a blockade 'questionable,' pointing out that an Israeli-flagged ship had not passed through the straits in two years, and that 'The U.A.R. [Egyptian] navy had searched a couple of ships after the establishment of the blockade and thereafter relaxed its implementation.'"

Origins of the Six-Day War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Israel did what it needed to so Egypt would understand not to wage war on Israel. If that meant going all the way to outskirts of Cairo to or Damascus to make the point then they will and did.
Israel will take what ever action it needs to protect it's people.

 

[georgephillip]

Allowing the Egyptians and Syrians to amass troops on the Israeli borders in 1967 was a fact...

Nassar publicly declaring, the week before, that the Arabs were preparing to annihilate Israel, was a fact...

The Egyptian Air Force making preparations to bomb Israeli cities and military bases, was a fact...

Israeli preemptive strikes against the Arabs in order to neutralize those assets before they could inflict the harm that Nassar promised was a fact...

You decrying those preemptive strikes was a fact...

You stating that you would have waited until the Egyptian Air Force had crossed into Israeli airspace was a fact...

Me confirming that by asking you if you would do so even if it cost the lives of hundred or thousands of your own civilians and the destruction of important targets and irreplaceable war assets and troop formations - just so that you could say you had abided-by the strict letter of international law - was a fact...

Your affirmative response to that confirmation-prompt was a fact...

My resultant assessment of your common sense and manly character is a fact...

I'll let you know when I've run out of facts, boy...

Why don't we cut the foreplay and get to the main fact that Israel started that war by firing the first shot.

Egypt declared war on Israel.

"Did Israel plan a war?[edit]

"For[edit]

"The USSR had come to similar conclusions: '... it is clear that the Soviet assessment from mid-May 1967 that Israel was about to strike at Syria was correct and well founded, and was not merely based on the public threats issued by Eshkol, Rabin and Yariv.'.[168]

"Against[edit]

"Some of Israel's political leaders, however, hoped for a diplomatic solution.[95]

"Did Egypt plan a war?[edit]

"For[edit]

"According to Shlaim & Louis, in the end of May 1967, Nasser claimed in a public speech to have been aware of the [[Straits of Tiran]] closure implications: 'Taking over Sharm El Sheikh meant confrontation with Israel. It also means that we ready to enter a general war with Israel. It was not a separate operation'.[169]

"Against[edit]

"Yitzhak Rabin, who served as the Chief of the General Staff for Israel during the war stated: 'I do not believe that Nasser wanted war. The two divisions he sent into Sinai on May 14 would not have been enough to unleash an offensive against Israel. He knew it and we knew it.'

"Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban wrote in his autobiography that he found 'Nasser's assurance that he did not plan an armed attack' convincing, adding that 'Nasser did not want war; he wanted victory without war'.[170][171] As Abba Eban put it, Nasser wanted victory without a war[172]

"Some analysts suggest that Nasser took actions aimed at reaping political gains, which he knew carried a high risk of precipitating military hostilities. On this view, Nasser's willingness to take such risks was based on his fundamental underestimation of Israel's capacity for independent and effective military action.[173]"

Origins of the Six-Day War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[aris2chat]

Why don't we cut the foreplay and get to the main fact that Israel started that war by firing the first shot.

Egypt declared war on Israel.

"Did Israel plan a war?[edit]

"For[edit]

"The USSR had come to similar conclusions: '... it is clear that the Soviet assessment from mid-May 1967 that Israel was about to strike at Syria was correct and well founded, and was not merely based on the public threats issued by Eshkol, Rabin and Yariv.'.[168]

"Against[edit]

"Some of Israel's political leaders, however, hoped for a diplomatic solution.[95]

"Did Egypt plan a war?[edit]

"For[edit]

"According to Shlaim & Louis, in the end of May 1967, Nasser claimed in a public speech to have been aware of the [[Straits of Tiran]] closure implications: 'Taking over Sharm El Sheikh meant confrontation with Israel. It also means that we ready to enter a general war with Israel. It was not a separate operation'.[169]

"Against[edit]

"Yitzhak Rabin, who served as the Chief of the General Staff for Israel during the war stated: 'I do not believe that Nasser wanted war. The two divisions he sent into Sinai on May 14 would not have been enough to unleash an offensive against Israel. He knew it and we knew it.'

"Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban wrote in his autobiography that he found 'Nasser's assurance that he did not plan an armed attack' convincing, adding that 'Nasser did not want war; he wanted victory without war'.[170][171] As Abba Eban put it, Nasser wanted victory without a war[172]

"Some analysts suggest that Nasser took actions aimed at reaping political gains, which he knew carried a high risk of precipitating military hostilities. On this view, Nasser's willingness to take such risks was based on his fundamental underestimation of Israel's capacity for independent and effective military action.[173]"

Origins of the Six-Day War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Egypt had orders for Operation Ra'ad to attack Israel back in May, Battle Order #6/67 to commence dawn 26/5/1967. The signal wavelength was 133.3

Top Secret cover page of the orders Imam al ben Abi Taleb Brigade
(you can get anyone that reads arabic to translate)

 

[SAYIT]

Why don't we cut the foreplay and get to the main fact that Israel started that war by firing the first shot.

O.K. Then what?

Try honesty, Menachem

"Menachem Begin also stated that 'The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches did not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him.'"

Origins of the Six-Day War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In the weeks leading up to the Six Day War:

President Abdul Rahman Arif of Iraq said that "the existence of Israel is an error which must be recitified. This is an opportunity to wipe out the ignominy which has been with us since 1948".[92] The Iraqi Prime Minister predicted that "there will be practically no Jewish survivors".

In May 1967, Hafez al-Assad, then Syria's Defense Minister declared: "Our forces are now entirely ready not only to repulse the aggression, but to initiate the act of liberation itself, and to explode the Zionist presence in the Arab homeland. The Syrian Army, with its finger on the trigger, is united... I, as a military man, believe that the time has come to enter into a battle of annihilation."[93]


Origins of the Six-Day War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[georgephillip]

O.K. Then what?

Try honesty, Menachem

"Menachem Begin also stated that 'The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches did not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him.'"

Origins of the Six-Day War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In the weeks leading up to the Six Day War:

President Abdul Rahman Arif of Iraq said that "the existence of Israel is an error which must be recitified. This is an opportunity to wipe out the ignominy which has been with us since 1948".[92] The Iraqi Prime Minister predicted that "there will be practically no Jewish survivors".

In May 1967, Hafez al-Assad, then Syria's Defense Minister declared: "Our forces are now entirely ready not only to repulse the aggression, but to initiate the act of liberation itself, and to explode the Zionist presence in the Arab homeland. The Syrian Army, with its finger on the trigger, is united... I, as a military man, believe that the time has come to enter into a battle of annihilation."[93]


Origins of the Six-Day War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Who shot first in '67?
The same people who invaded Arab land in '56.
The same people who inflicted a Jewish state by force of arms on twice as many non-Jews in '48.

 

[Roudy]

Try honesty, Menachem

"Menachem Begin also stated that 'The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches did not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him.'"

Origins of the Six-Day War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Maybe the Arabs shouldn't have blocked the straight of Tiran, mobilized their armies at Israel's borders, and spewed rhetoric about pushing the Jews into the sea?

Those were all acts of war and direct threats to the survival of Israel. You don't have to fire first to start a war. Just as USSR brought its nuclear ICBM's into Cuba was an act of war and would have given the US the right to invade and / or attack had Russia not backed off.

Or did you think Israel was going to sit there and get sucker punched by the Arabs? Keep dreaming.

Sucker punched like the Arabs in '56?

"The Suez Crisis, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression, Suez Canal Crisis, Suez War, or Second Arab-Israeli War[13][14] (Arabic: أزمة السويس /* العدوان الثلاثي* Azmat al-Suways / al-ʻUdwān al-Thulāthī , "Suez Crisis"/ 'the Tripartite Aggression'; French: Crise du canal de Suez; Hebrew: מבצע קדש* Mivtza' Kadesh 'Operation Kadesh,' or מלחמת סיני Milẖemet Sinai, 'Sinai War'), was a diplomatic and military confrontation in late 1956 between Egypt on one side, and Britain, France and Israel on the other, with the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Nations playing major roles in forcing Britain, France and Israel to withdraw."

Tell us how many Israeli flagged ships went through the Straits of Tiran during the two years prior to the '67 closing.

Yes, Arabs have no morals or ethics, the animals attacked Israel on the Holiest day of the Jewish calendar, a day when all Jews worldwide are suppose to fast and pray. This is the respect they have for other religions. After all didn't their prophet Mohammad attack and rob caravans and kill and rape travelers during the month of Ramadan? What else can we expect from those who are supposed to emulate "the prophet and final messenger"? Of course we all know what happened after the attack, ARABS AGAIN GOT THEIR BUTTS KICKED! Ha ha ha. Pathetic.

Yom Kippur War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Yom Kippur War, or October War (Hebrew: מלחמת יום הכיפורים* Milẖemet Yom HaKipurim or מלחמת יום כיפור Milẖemet Yom Kipur; Arabic: حرب أكتوبر* ḥarb ʾUktōbar, or حرب تشرين ḥarb Tišrīn), also known as the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, was a war fought by the coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria against Israel from October 6 to 25, 1973.

The war began when the Arab coalition launched a joint surprise attack on Israeli positions in the Israeli-occupied territories on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism, which occurred that year during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Egyptian and Syrian forces crossed ceasefire lines to enter the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights respectively, which had been captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War.

 

[Roudy]

Try honesty, Menachem

"Menachem Begin also stated that 'The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches did not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him.'"

Origins of the Six-Day War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In the weeks leading up to the Six Day War:

President Abdul Rahman Arif of Iraq said that "the existence of Israel is an error which must be recitified. This is an opportunity to wipe out the ignominy which has been with us since 1948".[92] The Iraqi Prime Minister predicted that "there will be practically no Jewish survivors".

In May 1967, Hafez al-Assad, then Syria's Defense Minister declared: "Our forces are now entirely ready not only to repulse the aggression, but to initiate the act of liberation itself, and to explode the Zionist presence in the Arab homeland. The Syrian Army, with its finger on the trigger, is united... I, as a military man, believe that the time has come to enter into a battle of annihilation."[93]


Origins of the Six-Day War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Who shot first in '67?
The same people who invaded Arab land in '56.
The same people who inflicted a Jewish state by force of arms on twice as many non-Jews in '48.

Arabs by massing their armies at Israel's borders and closing the straight of Tiran shot first. No nation would sit there and wait. Especially with the rhetoric coming out of the Arab nations. You seem unable to understand the basic concept of clear and imminent danger.

 

[georgephillip]

Maybe the Arabs shouldn't have blocked the straight of Tiran, mobilized their armies at Israel's borders, and spewed rhetoric about pushing the Jews into the sea?

Those were all acts of war and direct threats to the survival of Israel. You don't have to fire first to start a war. Just as USSR brought its nuclear ICBM's into Cuba was an act of war and would have given the US the right to invade and / or attack had Russia not backed off.

Or did you think Israel was going to sit there and get sucker punched by the Arabs? Keep dreaming.

Sucker punched like the Arabs in '56?

"The Suez Crisis, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression, Suez Canal Crisis, Suez War, or Second Arab-Israeli War[13][14] (Arabic: أزمة السويس /* العدوان الثلاثي* Azmat al-Suways / al-ʻUdwān al-Thulāthī , "Suez Crisis"/ 'the Tripartite Aggression'; French: Crise du canal de Suez; Hebrew: מבצע קדש* Mivtza' Kadesh 'Operation Kadesh,' or מלחמת סיני Milẖemet Sinai, 'Sinai War'), was a diplomatic and military confrontation in late 1956 between Egypt on one side, and Britain, France and Israel on the other, with the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Nations playing major roles in forcing Britain, France and Israel to withdraw."

Tell us how many Israeli flagged ships went through the Straits of Tiran during the two years prior to the '67 closing.

Yes, Arabs have no morals or ethics, the animals attacked Israel on the Holiest day of the Jewish calendar, a day when all Jews worldwide are suppose to fast and pray. This is the respect they have for other religions. After all didn't their prophet Mohammad attack and rob caravans and kill and rape travelers during the month of Ramadan? What else can we expect from those who are supposed to emulate "the prophet and final messenger"? Of course we all know what happened after the attack, ARABS AGAIN GOT THEIR BUTTS KICKED! Ha ha ha. Pathetic.

Yom Kippur War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Yom Kippur War, or October War (Hebrew: מלחמת יום הכיפורים* Milẖemet Yom HaKipurim or מלחמת יום כיפור Milẖemet Yom Kipur; Arabic: حرب أكتوبر* ḥarb ʾUktōbar, or حرب تشرين ḥarb Tišrīn), also known as the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, was a war fought by the coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria against Israel from October 6 to 25, 1973.

The war began when the Arab coalition launched a joint surprise attack on Israeli positions in the Israeli-occupied territories on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism, which occurred that year during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Egyptian and Syrian forces crossed ceasefire lines to enter the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights respectively, which had been captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War.

Jews rejected Sadat's offer of a non-belligerency in exchange for Israeli withdrawal from the Occupied Territories, proving some people never miss a chance to miss a chance at security over expansion.

 

[Roudy]

Sucker punched like the Arabs in '56?

"The Suez Crisis, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression, Suez Canal Crisis, Suez War, or Second Arab-Israeli War[13][14] (Arabic: أزمة السويس /* العدوان الثلاثي* Azmat al-Suways / al-ʻUdwān al-Thulāthī , "Suez Crisis"/ 'the Tripartite Aggression'; French: Crise du canal de Suez; Hebrew: מבצע קדש* Mivtza' Kadesh 'Operation Kadesh,' or מלחמת סיני Milẖemet Sinai, 'Sinai War'), was a diplomatic and military confrontation in late 1956 between Egypt on one side, and Britain, France and Israel on the other, with the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Nations playing major roles in forcing Britain, France and Israel to withdraw."

Tell us how many Israeli flagged ships went through the Straits of Tiran during the two years prior to the '67 closing.

Yes, Arabs have no morals or ethics, the animals attacked Israel on the Holiest day of the Jewish calendar, a day when all Jews worldwide are suppose to fast and pray. This is the respect they have for other religions. After all didn't their prophet Mohammad attack and rob caravans and kill and rape travelers during the month of Ramadan? What else can we expect from those who are supposed to emulate "the prophet and final messenger"? Of course we all know what happened after the attack, ARABS AGAIN GOT THEIR BUTTS KICKED! Ha ha ha. Pathetic.

Yom Kippur War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Yom Kippur War, or October War (Hebrew: מלחמת יום הכיפורים* Milẖemet Yom HaKipurim or מלחמת יום כיפור Milẖemet Yom Kipur; Arabic: حرب أكتوبر* ḥarb ʾUktōbar, or حرب تشرين ḥarb Tišrīn), also known as the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, was a war fought by the coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria against Israel from October 6 to 25, 1973.

The war began when the Arab coalition launched a joint surprise attack on Israeli positions in the Israeli-occupied territories on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism, which occurred that year during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Egyptian and Syrian forces crossed ceasefire lines to enter the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights respectively, which had been captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War.

Jews rejected Sadat's offer of a non-belligerency in exchange for Israeli withdrawal from the Occupied Territories, proving some people never miss a chance to miss a chance at security over expansion.

Ha ha. Good joke. According to Arabs, all of Israel was occupied. That's why they attacked Israel in 1948 from it's inception.

Newsflash to Georgie Porgy, the Arab aggressions against Israel were never to create this mythical Palestine you keep harping about. It was simply to destroy to Jewish state and divide the spoils between themselves.

The Arabs themselves scoffed at the concept of a Palestine, mostly because a "Palestinian" meant the person was a JEW.

True story.

 

[Kondor3]

False dilemma

Well, that's ONE opinion.

Others hold differently, George, as a matter of conviction, rather than partisanship.

Which conviction are you referring to, K3?

'Preemptive Strike vs. Annihilation.

 

[SAYIT]

Try honesty, Menachem

"Menachem Begin also stated that 'The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches did not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him.'"

Origins of the Six-Day War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In the weeks leading up to the Six Day War:

President Abdul Rahman Arif of Iraq said that "the existence of Israel is an error which must be recitified. This is an opportunity to wipe out the ignominy which has been with us since 1948".[92] The Iraqi Prime Minister predicted that "there will be practically no Jewish survivors".

In May 1967, Hafez al-Assad, then Syria's Defense Minister declared: "Our forces are now entirely ready not only to repulse the aggression, but to initiate the act of liberation itself, and to explode the Zionist presence in the Arab homeland. The Syrian Army, with its finger on the trigger, is united... I, as a military man, believe that the time has come to enter into a battle of annihilation."[93]


Origins of the Six-Day War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Who shot first in '67?
The same people who invaded Arab land in '56.
The same people who inflicted a Jewish state by force of arms on twice as many non-Jews in '48.

If you were hearing those Arab statements, coupled with the already mentioned numerous Arab acts of war, would you have sat on your hands? Could you? Could you tell other Israelis and your family "don't worry ... this is no big deal." (If you say yes, you are a liar or a fool.)

 

[toastman]

Try honesty, Menachem

"Menachem Begin also stated that 'The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches did not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him.'"

Origins of the Six-Day War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In the weeks leading up to the Six Day War:

President Abdul Rahman Arif of Iraq said that "the existence of Israel is an error which must be recitified. This is an opportunity to wipe out the ignominy which has been with us since 1948".[92] The Iraqi Prime Minister predicted that "there will be practically no Jewish survivors".

In May 1967, Hafez al-Assad, then Syria's Defense Minister declared: "Our forces are now entirely ready not only to repulse the aggression, but to initiate the act of liberation itself, and to explode the Zionist presence in the Arab homeland. The Syrian Army, with its finger on the trigger, is united... I, as a military man, believe that the time has come to enter into a battle of annihilation."[93]


Origins of the Six-Day War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Who shot first in '67?
The same people who invaded Arab land in '56.
The same people who inflicted a Jewish state by force of arms on twice as many non-Jews in '48.

Egypt statrted the war. All the facts have been presented to you but you choose to ignore them.
As for 1948, Israel legally declared independence after cessation of the Mandate. I don't know where you get your 'inflicted their Jewish state by force of Arms on 1.5 million Arabs' Palestinian lie.

I have a question for you. When will you stop whining over Israels existence????

 

[toastman]

Thank God Israel took initiative and destroyed the Egyptian air force in 1967!
And how pathetic that the other Arab states, who were not only wayyy bigger than Israel, but ATTACKED ISRAEL FROM ALL SIDES, could 't beat one little country. Then AGAIN in 1973. Hahahaha

LONG LIVE ISRAEL!!!

 

[SAYIT]

Thank God Israel took initiative and destroyed the Egyptian air force in 1967!
And how pathetic that the other Arab states, who were not only wayyy bigger than Israel, but ATTACKED ISRAEL FROM ALL SIDES, could 't beat one little country. Then AGAIN in 1973. Hahahaha

LONG LIVE ISRAEL!!!

What they did to Israel on Yom Kipper, 1973 validated Israel's actions of June, 1967.
Given the opportunity the Arabs would have attacked 6 years earlier and 1973 proved it beyond a shadow of a doubt.

 

[georgephillip]

Well, that's ONE opinion.

Others hold differently, George, as a matter of conviction, rather than partisanship.

Which conviction are you referring to, K3?

'Preemptive Strike vs. Annihilation.

Annihilation was not an option in '67, as even prominent IDF aggressors fully admitted:

"Major General Mattityahu Peled, the Chief of Logistics for the Armed Forces during the war, said the survival argument was 'a bluff which was born and developed only after the war ... When we spoke of the war in the General Staff, we talked of the political ramifications if we didn't go to war — what would happen to Israel in the next 25 years. Never of survival today.'[162]

"Peled also stated that 'To pretend that the Egyptian forces massed on our frontiers were in a position to threaten the existence of Israel constitutes an insult not only to the intelligence of anyone capable of analyzing this sort of situation, but above all an insult to Zahal (Israeli military).'"

Origins of the Six-Day War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[SAYIT]

Which conviction are you referring to, K3?

'Preemptive Strike vs. Annihilation.

Annihilation was not an option in '67, as even prominent IDF aggressors fully admitted:

"Major General Mattityahu Peled, the Chief of Logistics for the Armed Forces during the war, said the survival argument was 'a bluff which was born and developed only after the war ... When we spoke of the war in the General Staff, we talked of the political ramifications if we didn't go to war — what would happen to Israel in the next 25 years. Never of survival today.'[162]

"Peled also stated that 'To pretend that the Egyptian forces massed on our frontiers were in a position to threaten the existence of Israel constitutes an insult not only to the intelligence of anyone capable of analyzing this sort of situation, but above all an insult to Zahal (Israeli military).'"

Origins of the Six-Day War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hindsight is 20/20. According to the Arabs annihilation was not only the goal, but imminent:
In the weeks leading up to the Six Day War:

President Abdul Rahman Arif of Iraq said that "the existence of Israel is an error which must be rectified. This is an opportunity to wipe out the ignominy which has been with us since 1948".[92] The Iraqi Prime Minister predicted that "there will be practically no Jewish survivors".

In May 1967, Hafez al-Assad, then Syria's Defense Minister declared: "Our forces are now entirely ready not only to repulse the aggression, but to initiate the act of liberation itself, and to explode the Zionist presence in the Arab homeland. The Syrian Army, with its finger on the trigger, is united... I, as a military man, believe that the time has come to enter into a battle of annihilation."[93]

 

[SAYIT]

There is little doubt that Israel was prepared for war in 1967. They had little choice.
But had they not taken out the Arab's air power in a brilliantly successful preemptive strike the war would have had a vastly different outcome.