Now,Now ILOVE.....I am trying to LOVEU........The build up of Egyptian troops was mainly because Russia had told Egypt that Israel had intentions to invade Siani,others N to be alerted at the time were Syria and Jordan,both of whom were on Military Alert.
Nasser responded to Lyndon Johnson about the Russian information. 2bcontinued
NOW.....NOW.Nasser had been threatening a long time to wipe Israel off the Map. Nothing to do with Johnson . Egypt was concerned about Israeli Agression? LOL ! Maybe they should have stopped threatening Israel and blocking the Straits of Tiran . Stop being a Pro Palestinian KoolAde Drinker. Just being nice
As this shows it was Egypt that declared war not Israel
Egyptian Front
The first full-scale battles of the Six Day War came on the morning of June 5, 1967 after a roughly 20 day period of increasing tensions between Israel and the Arab states, principally Egypt, Syria and Jordan. But while the battles commenced in June, the start of the war actually came two weeks earlier on May 22, when Egypt blockaded Israel’s southern port of Eilat and the Gulf of Aqaba. Through the gulf came vital cargo including 80 percent of Israel’s oil imports,
and blockading such an international waterway is recognized under international law as a casus belli, or act of war. Reacting to the Egyptian move, U.S. President Johnson said in a televised address the next day:
... the closing of the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping has brought a new and grave dimension to the crisis. The United States considers the gulf to be an international waterway and feels that a blockade of Israeli shipping is illegal and potentially disastrous to the cause of peace. The right of free, innocent passage of the international waterway is a vital interest of the international community. (
New York Times, May 24, 1967)
Despite the grave provocation, Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban spent almost two weeks traveling to the capitals of Europe and to Washington in an ultimately futile effort to defuse the crisis and avoid war, but in the end Egypt and its allies had made war inevitable. This was recognized first and foremost by the Egyptians themselves. President Nasser, for example, in a speech on May 26, 1967 said:
Recently we felt we are strong enough, that if we were to enter a battle with Israel, with God’s help, we could triumph. On this basis, we decided to take actual steps …
Taking Sharm al Shaykh [i.e., blockading Israel’s port of Eilat] meant confrontation with Israel. Taking such action also meant that we were ready to enter a general war with Israel. (Speech to Arab Trade Unionists, reprinted in
The Israel-Arab Reader, 1984, p. 176; emphasis added.)
