Falcon29
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1. Egypt preventing Israeli ships from going through their waters was illegal
False, the legality of it was actually an issue of controversy, Egypt offered to go to the International court to decide then if their waterways were recognized internationally and promised to abide by international law if that was the case. Israel rejected this and insisted it was illegal later attacking Egypt.
2. UN 242 Resolution didn't call on Israel to withdraw from territories occupied in the 1967 war
False, only Israel and the United States claimed this, the whole world recognized this was the case. Henry Kissinger made it so Israel got to propose what it wished with territories. To this day all territories remain occupied by Israel with the exception of the Sinai peninsula. In 1971 Egypt offered Israel recognition and agreed to the Sadat-Jarring UN proposal, Israel rejected this since they wanted to keep Gaza. In 1967 the UN brought resolution 242 to the Security Council to settle the terms and only the U.S vetoed it. Israel intended to occupy land and considered all those territories officially part of Israel even building settlements on them.
3. An Arab attack was imminent in 1967
False, Egypt received intelligence that Israel was preparing an offensive and deployed their forces in the Sinai. Israel without justification attacked stationary Egyptian air craft and Syrian as well. The USS Liberty was collecting intelligence on Israeli plans to occupy territories from before the war and this was why Israel killed dozens of American sailors on board the USS Liberty. Arabs had no real intention to attack Israel and the Johnson administration knew this.
In an interview published in Le Monde on 28 February 1968, Israeli Chief of Staff Rabin said this: “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.”
On 14 April 1971, a report in the Israeli newspaper Al-Hamishmar contained the following statement by Mordecai Bentov, a member of the wartime national government. “The entire story of the danger of extermination was invented in every detail and exaggerated a posteriori to justify the annexation of new Arab territory.”
It was an war of aggression, not a pre-emptive attack.
4. The UN partitioned the land
False, the British Empire gave parameters to the UN and told them to legalize it, the plan was for a Jewish homeland in Palestine from the very beginning. The British introduced the Balfour Declaration which had only one purpose, to create a Jewish State on Palestinian land. In 1918 the British consensus recorded 700,000 Arabs and 56,000 Jews as the population yet intended to give much of the Palestinian land to the minority Jewish people.
False, the legality of it was actually an issue of controversy, Egypt offered to go to the International court to decide then if their waterways were recognized internationally and promised to abide by international law if that was the case. Israel rejected this and insisted it was illegal later attacking Egypt.
2. UN 242 Resolution didn't call on Israel to withdraw from territories occupied in the 1967 war
False, only Israel and the United States claimed this, the whole world recognized this was the case. Henry Kissinger made it so Israel got to propose what it wished with territories. To this day all territories remain occupied by Israel with the exception of the Sinai peninsula. In 1971 Egypt offered Israel recognition and agreed to the Sadat-Jarring UN proposal, Israel rejected this since they wanted to keep Gaza. In 1967 the UN brought resolution 242 to the Security Council to settle the terms and only the U.S vetoed it. Israel intended to occupy land and considered all those territories officially part of Israel even building settlements on them.
3. An Arab attack was imminent in 1967
False, Egypt received intelligence that Israel was preparing an offensive and deployed their forces in the Sinai. Israel without justification attacked stationary Egyptian air craft and Syrian as well. The USS Liberty was collecting intelligence on Israeli plans to occupy territories from before the war and this was why Israel killed dozens of American sailors on board the USS Liberty. Arabs had no real intention to attack Israel and the Johnson administration knew this.
In an interview published in Le Monde on 28 February 1968, Israeli Chief of Staff Rabin said this: “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.”
On 14 April 1971, a report in the Israeli newspaper Al-Hamishmar contained the following statement by Mordecai Bentov, a member of the wartime national government. “The entire story of the danger of extermination was invented in every detail and exaggerated a posteriori to justify the annexation of new Arab territory.”
It was an war of aggression, not a pre-emptive attack.
4. The UN partitioned the land
False, the British Empire gave parameters to the UN and told them to legalize it, the plan was for a Jewish homeland in Palestine from the very beginning. The British introduced the Balfour Declaration which had only one purpose, to create a Jewish State on Palestinian land. In 1918 the British consensus recorded 700,000 Arabs and 56,000 Jews as the population yet intended to give much of the Palestinian land to the minority Jewish people.
