<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (roger-m @ Jan 14 2009, 03:16 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>well to say, "cowering in hospital basements,knowing Israel wont attack there" is false. it reported on the news in the uk that they do indeed attack these places with total disregard for the innocent that are there. Its acceptable collateral damage to them if they believe an "insurgent" was/is there.
secondly, to say "Israel has shown UNBELIEVABLE restraint in this whole ordeal" is beyond bizarre bearing in mind the death ratio now stands at 1000 to 3.
so do you live in a cave or are you a victim of very suppressed news ?
No, but you must. I dont know from which school of war you graduated,but the whole idea of war is to kill as many of theirs,while losing the least of yours. Do you really think that in the time frame of this conflict,that 1000 deaths is all Israel could inflict.That could be accomplished in 5 minutes,conventionally.They are going WAY out of their way to try and pick off these cowardly .......s but in the end,hiding behind women and kids will get women and kids killed. The UN school that was destroyed that got so much ink,turns out what killed the majority in the area was a secondary explosion of weapons these .......s had hidden at the school.You need to read your history about Israel,they owned that land many times in the last 3500 years only to be conquered,time and time again.If you are referring to recent history read this and tell me what you would have done,considering what had happened 20 years earlier.
n 1967, Syria, Egypt and Jordan amassed troops along the Israeli borders and Egypt closed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping. Nasser demanded that the UNEF leave Sinai, threatening escalation to a full war. Egyptian radio broadcasts talked of a coming genocide.[46].
Israel responded by calling up its civilian reserves, bringing much of the Israeli economy to a halt. The Israelis set up a national unity coalition, including for the first time Menachem Begin's party, Herut in a coalition.
During a national radio broadcast, Prime-Minister Levi Eshkol stammered, causing widespread fear in Israel. To calm public concern Moshe Dayan (Chief of Staff during the Sinai war) was appointed defense minister.
Main article: Six-Day War
On the morning before Dayan was sworn in, June 5 1967, the Israeli air force launched pre-emptive attacks destroying first the Egyptian air force and then later the same day destroying the air forces of Jordan and Syria. Israel then defeated (almost successively) Egypt, Jordan and Syria. By June 11 the Arab forces were routed and all parties had accepted the cease-fire called for by UN Security Council Resolutions 235 and 236.
Israel gained control of the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights, and the formerly Jordanian-controlled West Bank of the Jordan River, including East Jerusalem. On November 22 1967, the Security Council adopted Resolution 242, the "land for peace" formula, which called for the establishment of a just and lasting peace based on Israeli withdrawal from territories occupied in 1967 in return for the end of all states of belligerency, respect for the sovereignty of all states in the area, and the right to live in peace within secure, recognized boundaries.
The Enclosure of the Cave of the Patriarchs
For the first time since the end of the British Mandate, Jews could visit the Old City of Jerusalem and pray at the Western Wall to which they had been denied access by the Jordanians (in contravention of the 1949 Armistice agreement). In Hebron, Jews gained access to the Cave of the Patriarchs (the second most holy site in Judaism) for the first time since the 14th Century (previously Jews were only allowed to pray at the entrance).[47]. A third Jewish holy site, Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem also became accessible.
After 1967 the USA began supplying Israel with aircraft. Anti-Semitic purges led to the final migration of the last Polish Jews to Israel.
In early 1969, fighting broke out between Egypt and Israel along the Suez Canal. In retaliation for repeated Egyptian shelling of Israeli positions along the Suez Canal, Israeli planes made deep strikes into Egypt in the 1969-1970 "War of Attrition". The United States helped end these hostilities in August 1970, but subsequent U.S. efforts to negotiate an interim agreement to open the Suez Canal and achieve the disengagement of forces were unsuccessful.
In as much as the 1949 Armistice lines were no longer direct borders, and Israel now had the responsibility of administration of Golan, Gaza, West Bank, and Sinai, the opportunity to unite divided Jerusalem was taken, and formal annexation completed. In the late seventies, Israel also formally annexed the Golan. Gaza and the West Bank, overwhelmingly Palestinian, remained as administrative territories, pending a final settlement. Sinai, remained in a military occupation, although its sparse population required little administration.
In late 1969, Levi Eshkol died in office, of a heart attack, and was succeeded by Golda Meir.
