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"Our goal is clear: to wipe Israel off the map." President Aref of Iraq - May 31, 1967
"This is our chance, Arabs, to deal Israel a mortal blow of annihilation." Nassar, May 27, 1967
"The Jews of Palestine will have to leave. . .Any of the old Jewish Palestine population who survive may stay, but it is my impression that none of them will survive." Ahmed Shukairy, Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, June 1, 1967.
"In view of the withdrawal of the UN, these threats, and the concentration on her borders of armies outnumbering her own by three to one, heavily armed with modern Soviet material, Israel launched a preventive war on 4 June, beginning with strikes against Egyptian air-power. It lasted six days and was wholly successful. The Eqyptian, Jordanian and Syrian forces were routed, and in Eqypt's case humiliated. Sinai and the West Bank were occupied. The Syrian Golan Heights, which made possible the bombardment of the Israeli settlements in Upper Galilee, were stormed. Above all, Old Jerusalem, including the Wailing Wall and the Holy Places, the great prize which had eluded Israel in 1948, was now brought into the new state. Thus the war corrected a painful anomaly. In its 4,000-year history, Jerusalem had been besieged, occupied, destroyed and rebuilt repeatedly, under the Canaanites, Jebusites, Jews, Babylonians, Assyrians, Persians, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Crusaders, Mamelukes, Ottomans and British. But it had never been divided, except during the years 1948 - 67."
Paul Johnson
Modern Times
"This is our chance, Arabs, to deal Israel a mortal blow of annihilation." Nassar, May 27, 1967
"The Jews of Palestine will have to leave. . .Any of the old Jewish Palestine population who survive may stay, but it is my impression that none of them will survive." Ahmed Shukairy, Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, June 1, 1967.
"In view of the withdrawal of the UN, these threats, and the concentration on her borders of armies outnumbering her own by three to one, heavily armed with modern Soviet material, Israel launched a preventive war on 4 June, beginning with strikes against Egyptian air-power. It lasted six days and was wholly successful. The Eqyptian, Jordanian and Syrian forces were routed, and in Eqypt's case humiliated. Sinai and the West Bank were occupied. The Syrian Golan Heights, which made possible the bombardment of the Israeli settlements in Upper Galilee, were stormed. Above all, Old Jerusalem, including the Wailing Wall and the Holy Places, the great prize which had eluded Israel in 1948, was now brought into the new state. Thus the war corrected a painful anomaly. In its 4,000-year history, Jerusalem had been besieged, occupied, destroyed and rebuilt repeatedly, under the Canaanites, Jebusites, Jews, Babylonians, Assyrians, Persians, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Crusaders, Mamelukes, Ottomans and British. But it had never been divided, except during the years 1948 - 67."
Paul Johnson
Modern Times
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