![]() Hobby. The fate of a nation hangs in the balance. Israel cannot lose even a. One defeat would mean the destruction of the tiny Jewish. Not waiting to be attacked by the Arab forces massing on its. Israel strikes first. Hundreds. of tanks sweep across the borders, punching deep into the enemy. ![]() The infantry follow behind. A bare six days later, the war was over. A thousand tanks lay strewn. Timeline (Chronology) of Zionism, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the History of Israel from earliest times to today. Sanders Changes the Rules. You have to pay obeisance to Israel if you want to become the US President. You have to swear your full compliance with. Tens of thousands of soldiers lay dead and wounded.
Origins of the Six- Day War. The origins of the Six- Day War, which was fought between June 5 and June 1. Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt (known then as the United Arab Republic, UAR), Jordan, and Syria, include both longstanding and immediate issues. At the time of the Six- Day War, the earlier foundation of Israel, the resulting Palestinian refugee issue, and Israel's participation in the invasion of Egypt during the Suez crisis of 1. Arab world. Arab nationalists, led by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, continued to be hostile to Israel's existence and made grave threats against its Jewish population. By the mid- 1. 96. Israel and its Arab neighbors had deteriorated to the extent that a number of border clashes had taken place. ![]() In April 1. 96. 7, Syria shot at an Israeli tractor ploughing in the demilitarized zone, which escalated to a prewar aerial clash. In May 1. 96. 7, following misinformation about Israeli intentions provided by the Soviet Union, Egypt expelled UN peacekeepers who had been stationed in the Sinai Peninsula since the Suez conflict. Tension escalated, with both sides' armies mobilising. Less than a month later, Israel launched a surprise strike which began the Six- Day War. The conventional view and memoirs of key Israelis indicate that Israel's actions leading into the war were prudent and the blame for the war rested on Egypt. According to political scientist Zeev Maoz, most scholarly studies attribute the crisis to a complicated process of unwanted escalation, which all sides wanted to prevent, but for which all were ultimately responsible. In early November, 1. ![]() Syria signed a mutual defense agreement with Egypt. On May 3. 0, Jordan and Egypt signed a defense pact. The following day, at Jordan's invitation, the Iraqi army began deploying troops and armored units in Jordan. On June 1, Israel formed a National Unity Government by widening its cabinet, and on June 4 the decision was made to go to war. Bilderbergers announce New World Order of the Illiminati and Single World Empire William C. Van Duyn’s Opening Remarks Bilderberg Mtg. Bilderbergers announce. The next morning, Israel launched Operation Focus, a large- scale surprise air strike that launched the Six- Day War. Territorial, water ways and water resources disputes. Territorial disputes. The peace accord at the end of the 1. DMZs) between Israel and Syria. They felt that Israel was striving to drag all of the Arab countries into a war. After the Samu raid, these apprehensions became the deciding factor in Jordan's decision to participate in the war. King Hussein was convinced Israel would try to occupy the West Bank whether Jordan went to war, or not. In 1. 96. 4, Israel began drawing water from the Jordan River for its National Water Carrier,in accordance with the Johnston Plan, reducing the flow that reached Hashemite territory to the Johnston Plan allocation. Syria, aligned with the Soviet bloc, began sponsoring guerrilla raids on Israel in the early 1. There is no room for imperialism and there is no room for Britain in our country, just as there is no room for Israel within the Arab nation. Tunisian President Habib Bourgiba suggested in a speech in Jericho in 1. Arab world should face reality and negotiate with Israel, but this was rejected by the other Arab countries. In a speech delivered to the Knesset, David Ben- Gurion said that the 1. Egypt was dead and buried, and that the armistice lines were no longer valid and could not be restored. Under no circumstances would Israel agree to the stationing of UN forces on its territory or in any area it occupied. Only six days after troop movements had begun, did Israel learn of the presence of an Egyptian force, numbering around 5. Caught off- guard, Israel scrambled to deploy its own forces, while Ben- Gurion adopted a policy of pacification to ease tensions and prevent the outbreak of hostilities. Israeli national defence policy came to see any mass deployment of Egyptian forces on its border as unacceptable, and believed new rules had been set in place. Egypt, however, viewed the crisis as a great success. Egypt believed the deployment had prevented an Israeli attack on Syria, and it was thus possible to deter Israel with the mere deployment of forces, without the danger of going to war. The crisis was to have a direct effect on both sides during the events of May 1. Six- Day War. Both Israel and Egypt applied the lessons they had learned in the earlier affair. Indeed, these were at first perceived to be a repeat of the Rotem affair, and were expected to follow the same course. Major differences however gave the new crisis its own momentum and eventually led to war. While Syria supported such operations, Egypt and Jordan refused to let PLO guerrillas operate from their territory. King Hussein, the Hashemite ruler, was in a bind: he did not want to appear as cooperating with Israel in light of the delicate relationship of his government with the majority Palestinian population in his kingdom, and his success in preventing such raids was only partial. In the summer and autumn of 1. PLO carried out several guerrilla attacks that caused death and injury to Israeli civilians and military personnel. This culminated on November 1. Israeli border patrol hit a land mine, killing three soldiers and injuring six others. Israel believed the mine had been planted by militants from Es Samu, a village in the southern West Bank, close to where the incident took place, which was a Fatah stronghold. On Friday, November 1. King Hussein of Jordan penned a letter of personal condolence to Israel which he cabled to U. S. Barbour, believing there was no urgency to delivering the letter, left it on his desk over the weekend, thus failing to deliver it in a timely fashion. The attacking force consisted of 3,0. They were divided into a reserve force, which remained on the Israeli side of the border, and two raiding parties, which crossed into the West Bank. The larger force of eight Centurion Tanks, followed by 4. Samu; while a smaller force of three tanks and 1. Kirbet El- Markas and Kirbet Jimba. According to Terrence Prittie's Eshkol: The Man and the Nation, 5. To Israel's surprise, the Jordanian military intervened. The 4. 8th Infantry Battalion of the Jordanian Army ran into the Israeli forces northwest of Samu; and two companies approaching from the northeast were intercepted by the Israelis, while a platoon of Jordanians armed with two 1. Samu. The Jordanian Air Force intervened as well and a Jordanian Hunter fighter was shot down in the action. In the ensuing battles, three Jordanian civilians and 1. The commander of the Israeli paratroop battalion, Colonel Yoav Shaham, was killed and 1. Israeli soldiers were wounded. According to him he was doing everything he could to stop guerrilla attacks from the West Bank and Jordan. Johnson, his Special Assistant Walt Rostow wrote: . This 3. 00. 0- man raid with tanks and planes was out of all proportion to the provocation and was aimed at the wrong target. They've undercut Hussein. We've spent $5. 00 million to shore him up as a stabilizing factor on Israel's longest border and vis- . Israel's attack increases the pressure on him to counterattack not only from the more radical Arab governments and from the Palestinians in Jordan but also from the Army, which is his main source of support and may now press for a chance to recoup its Sunday losses.. They've set back progress toward a long term accommodation with the Arabs.. They may have persuaded the Syrians that Israel didn't dare attack Soviet- protected Syria but could attack US- backed Jordan with impunity. While the diplomatic and political developments were not as Israel expected, following the operation Hussein worked hard to avoid any further clashes by preventing guerrilla operations from being launched from within Jordan. For two and a half years from the start of the attacks up until the Israeli invasion of Syria on April 7, 1. Fatah incursions launched from Syrian territory had resulted in three Israeli deaths, all of them soldiers. These 'unfortunate' words were interpreted as a 'plot' to bring down the Syrian government. According to Indar Jit Rikhye, Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad told him that the Soviet Union had persuaded Egypt to enter the pact with two ideas in mind: to reduce the chances of a punitive attack on Syria by Israel, and to bring the Syrians under Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's moderating influence. The provocations were sending a tractor to plow in the demilitarized areas. The Syrians would fire on these tractors and would frequently shell Israeli settlements. It was anticipated that the Syrians would react. The Israeli Air Force was placed on alert. Prime Minister Eshkol approved the plan. When the tractor returned on the morning of April 7, 1. Syrians opened fire again initially with light weapons. The Israelis responded by sending in armor- plated tractors to continue ploughing, resulting in further exchanges of fire. The resulting tit- for- tat escalated, leading to tanks, heavy mortars, machine guns, and artillery. Without advance planning nor having been submitted for prior approval to the Ministerial Committee on Security. For the first time the IAF was employed before an Israeli settlement had actually been shelled (with the exception of stray shells which fell in Tel Katzir) and Israeli planes penetrated as far as Damascus. At 1. 5: 1. 9 Syrian shells started falling on Kibbutz Gadot; over 3. The Israeli press called it a war. Moshe Dayan was reported by Ezer Weismann to have responded ? You are leading the country to war! Brigadier- General Israel Lior agreed: . Military observers said such an offensive would fall short of all- out war but would be mounted to deliver a telling blow against the Syrian government.' In the West as well as the Arab world the immediate assumption was that the unnamed source was Rabin and that he was serious. In fact, it was Brigadier- General Aharon Yariv, the head of military intelligence, and the story was overwritten. TOQ- Author. F LNames- Subject- Vol 4 No 2. Kevin Mac. Donald. Over. the last year, there has been a torrent of articles on neoconservatism raising. Are neoconservatives different from. The thesis presented here is that neoconservatism is indeed a Jewish. This paper is the final installment in a. Jewish activism and reflects many of the themes of the. The first paper in this series focused on the traits of. These traits will be apparent here as well. The. ethnocentrism of the neocons has enabled them to create highly organized. Neoconservatives have also exhibited. They. have aggressively pursued their goals, not only in purging more traditional. US foreign policy in the direction of hegemony and empire. To an. unusual extent, the history of neoconservatism presents a zigzag of positions. This is perhaps inevitable in a. United. States. The main changes neoconservatives have been forced to confront have been. Democratic Party and the fall of the Soviet. Union. Although there is a remarkable continuity in Jewish neoconservatives'. Jews. As described in. Jews with the left. But contemporary neoconservatism is not simply a term for. Indeed, in its present incarnation, many. David Frum, Jonah Goldberg, and Max. Boot, have never had affiliations with the American left. Rather. neoconservatism represents a fundamentally new version of American conservatism. By displacing traditional. United States. The deep and. American conservatives. And although the political. Leo Strauss is indeed a guru for some neoconservatives, his. Neoconservatism does not fit the pattern of the Jewish intellectual. The Culture of Critique, characterized by gurus. Neoconservatism is better. Jewish publicists and organizers flexibly deployed to recruit. Jews and non- Jews in harnessing the wealth and power of. United States in the service of Israel. As such, neoconservatism should be. Israel. lobby, which includes organizations like the America Israel Public Affairs. Committee (AIPAC). Indeed, as discussed below, prominent. Israel organizations. Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), the Washington. Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), and ZOA. Compared with their deep and emotionally intense commitment to Israel. In general, neoconservatives advocate. Jewish community) up to about 1. Some of these. policies represent clear examples of Jewish ethnic strategizing. In 2. 00. 4, virtually all American Jewish public. National Immigration Forum, the premier open. Since the neocons have developed a decisive. United States than their support for Israel. As always when discussing Jewish involvement in intellectual movements, there. Jews are involved in these movements. As. discussed below, the organized Jewish community shares the neocon commitment to. Likud Party in Israel. However, neoconservatism has never been a majority. American Jewish community, at least if being a neoconservative. Republican Party. In the 2. 00. 0 election, 8. Jews voted for Al Gore. These percentages may be misleading, since it was not widely known during the. George W. Bush had very powerful Jewish. Likud sympathies, and positive attitudes toward regime change. Arab countries in the Middle East. Republican strategists are hoping for 3. Jewish vote in 2. President Bush. Anecdotal. Jewish voters, who historically have. Democratic Party but may be heading to Bush. One must then document the fact that the Jews. Jewish identity and that they are Jewishly. In the case of neoconservatives, an important line of. Israel. As indicated. I will argue that the main motivation for Jewish neoconservatives has. Israel; however, even if that statement is true, it. Jews are neoconservatives. I therefore reject the sort. Richard Perle, who responded to charges that. Jews by noting that Jews always tend to be. Jews. oppose the neoconservatives. This is indeed the case, but leaves open the. Jews perceive their ideas as advancing. Jewish interests and whether the movement itself is influential. An important. point of the following, however, is that the organized Jewish community has. Jewish roots and Jewish agendas. Non- Jewish Participation in Neoconservatism. As with the other Jewish intellectual and political movements, non- Jews have. This of course lessens the perception that the. Jewish movement, and it makes excellent psychological sense. Margaret. Mead and Ruth Benedict were the most publicly recognized Boasian. Jewish leftists and. Jewish. dominated movements. Prominent examples were Dwight Mac. Donald (labeled by Michael. Wrezin . Farrell, and Mary Mc. Carthy. John Dewey also had close links. New York Intellectuals and was lavishly promoted by them; 1. Dewey was also allied closely with his former. Sidney Hook, another major figure on the anti- Stalinist left. Dewey was. a philosemite, stating: . Living in New York where the Jews set the standard of living. I often think that the Jews are the. Christianity. Anyway, the finest living man, so. I know, is a Jew. Non- Jews have a variety of. Jewish interests, including career. Jews, and. deeply held personal convictions. For example, as described below, Senator Henry. Jackson, whose political ambitions were intimately bound up with the. United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in a. Israel was a valuable ally in that struggle. The university most closely associated with the current crop of. University of Chicago, the academic home not only of Leo. Strauss, but also of Albert Wohlstetter, a mathematician turned foreign policy. Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz, both of whom. George W. The. University of Chicago was also home to Strauss disciple Allan Bloom, sociologist. Edward Shils, and novelist Saul Bellow among the earlier generation of. Another important academic home for the neocons has been the School of. Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Wolfowitz spent most. Clinton years as a professor at SAIS; the Director of the Strategic. Studies Program at SAIS is Eliot Cohen, who has been a signatory to a number of. Project for a New American Century. Cohen is famous for labeling the war against terrorism World War IV. This message was. Cheney and Wolfowitz as underscoring the need to prevent the. Gulf. War when Colin Powell as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff had been. Saddam Hussein. 1. Unlike other Jewish intellectual movements, the neoconservatives have been. Arabs and leftists in academic departments of Middle East studies. As a result. neoconservative activist groups, especially the WINEP and the MEF. Most notable are the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, The. Public Interest, Basic Books (book publishing), and the media empires of. Conrad Black and Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch owns the Fox News Channel and the. New York Post, and is the main source of funding for Bill Kristol. A good example illustrating these connections is Richard Perle. Perle is. listed as a Resident Fellow of the AEI, and he is on the boards of directors of. Jerusalem Post and the Hollinger Corporation, a media company. Conrad Black. Hollinger owns major media properties in the U. S. Hollinger also owns dozens of smaller. U. S., Canada, and England. All of these media outlets. Israel stance espoused by Perle. Perle has written. Hollinger newspapers as well as for the New York Times. Neocon think tanks such as the AEI have a great. Jewish activist organizations such as AIPAC, the. Israel lobbying organization in Washington, and the WINEP. Bush addressed the AEI on Iraq policy, the event was. Albert Wohlstetter Conference Center.) A major goal of the. AEI is to maintain a high profile as pundits in the mainstream media. A short. list would include AEI fellow Michael Ledeen, who is extreme even among the. Arab countries in the Middle. East, is . Michael Rubin, visiting scholar at AEI. New Republic (controlled by staunchly pro- Israel Martin. Peretz), the New York Times, and the Daily Telegraph. Reuel Marc. Gerecht, a resident fellow at the AEI and director of the Middle East Initiative. PNAC, writes for the Weekly Standard and the New York Times. His. position at the AEI was funded by Irving Moscowitz, a wealthy supporter of the. Israel and neocon activism in the US. At the AEI Wurmser wrote op- ed pieces for the. Washington Times, the Weekly Standard, and the Wall Street. Journal. The book was published by the AEI in 1. Foreward by Richard Perle. Prior to the invasion of Iraq, the New York Times was deeply involved. Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and ties to. The MEF lists Miller as an expert speaker on. Middle East issues, and she has published articles in MEF media, including the. Middle East Quarterly and the MEF Wire. The MEF also threw a. Islamic fundamentalism, God Has Ninety- Nine. Names. Miller, whose father is ethnically Jewish, has a strong Jewish. Her book One by One: Facing the Holocaust . Especially notable among these was Risen. Aides Feel. Pressure in Preparing Iraqi Reports. It didn't appear until three. While the prominent. American Jewish community. Jewish community shares their. Likud Party in Israel and, one might reasonably infer, Likud. For example, the neocon choice for the leader of Iran. Reza Pahlavi, son of the former Shah. As is the case. with Ahmed Chalabi, who was promoted by the neocons as the leader of post- Saddam. Iraq, Pahlavi has proven his commitment to Jewish causes and the wider Jewish. He has addressed the board of JINSA, given a public speech at the. Simon Wiesenthal Center. James Moran, Chris. Matthews of MSNBC, James O. Goldsborough (a columnist for the San Diego. Union- Tribune), columnist Robert Novak, and writer Ian Buruma as subscribers. D- SC) made a speech in the U. S. Senate and wrote a newspaper op- ed piece which. Iraq was motivated by . This is. reminiscent of age- old, anti- Semitic canards about a Jewish conspiracy to. The Simon. Wiesenthal Center has also charged Buchanan and Moran with anti- Semitism for. While Foxman feels no need to provide any. SWC feels it is sufficient to note that Jews have varying. This of course is a nonissue. The real issue is whether it. Bush administration are motivated by their long ties to.
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