Many years ago the HaShomer Jewish guards formed to protect their settlements from Bedouin thieves were ordered not to kill but to chase them away. He came to steal not to murder you so do not kill him were the orders.
How do you know if they were there to kill you?
Sanhedrin 72a-b: If Someone Comes to Kill You Judaism does not subscribe to the idea that one should "turn the other cheek" when attacked. In fact, one important rule taught by the
Talmud is ha-ba le-horgekha, hashkem le-horgo - if someone comes planning to kill you, you should hurry to kill him first.
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the HaShomer policy was only kill a thief in the night if you must. In 1967 we struck first. Read King Huesseins book My War With Israel. He tells of the planned attack on Israel from the Arab perspective. So we were justified in attacking. Also in 1981 to prevent Saddam Huessein from building nuclear bomb.
Did you know about the time Israel saved Jordan's bacon.....no offense intended......when Syria was about to atttack?
"Israeli–Palestinian Conflict: Was it true that in 1970 Syria tried to invade Jordan, and was only prevented from doing that by Israel?
Yes.
During the civil war between PLO led Palestinians and the Hashemite kingdom, under the late King Hussein (which included the bloody events of black September and lead to the PLOs migration to South Lebanon), Syria, under pretense of assisting the Palestinians, launched a land invasion into the North of Jordan.
King Hussein, whose forces were spread too thin, secretly contacted the White House in request of aid.
Nixon wouldn't hear of it, the U.S was stuck knee deep in the Vietnam War,
and a conflict in another country they couldn't point at on the map was the last thing the American public would hear of.
Henry Kissinger, then Secretary of State, came up with a surprising concept: reach out to
Israel for assistance.
In a low profile channel, Prime Minister
Golda Meir, and Defense Minister
Moshe Dayan were approached with the request.
(The liaison was Israeli ambassador to the U.S at the time,
Yitzhak Rabin, this was later a pinnacle point in the personal friendship that grew between him and King Hussein)
Kissinger made it clear that Hussein is in dire need, what little forces Jordan could spare were no match for the Syrian armored divisions, and they were taking significant losses on the ground and in the air, not affecting Syrian progress deep into Jordan substantially enough.
He also explained why the U.S could not act directly.
Dayan and Meir agreed almost instantly requesting confirmation that Hussein would agree to accept such help.
Kissinger reached out, a reluctant but desperate Hussein agreed, requesting only that the Israelis act in a way that would be somehow kept under the radar.
Within less than a day, the IAF commander, sent a wing of 4 Israeli F-4E Phantom jets on an insanely dangerous mission:
To fly low over the charging Syrian land divisions, throughout the entire northern Jordan front, making sure that the Syrians can positively ID the planes as Israeli Phantoms. The mission was carried out with the wing making sure to deliver several supersonic booms along its route.
Answer (1 of 5): Why does this have to be shocking? Indeed, Israel and Jordan have always had a cooperative relationship, and having the Hashemites remain in power makes for a more predictable geopolitical environment for Israel. The last thing Israel needs is for instability to spread into Jo...
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