Israel attacked in 1947, 1956, 1967, and again in 1982. Syria and Egypt attacked in 1973.
Israel seeks to have it both ways, always. They expropriate palestinian resources and hold back palestinian development at every turn.
Israel could seal their own borders if they wish, but that's not what they want. they want to seal the palestinians' borders as well, claim the territory as their own for their jewish state but not the people in it. Those people are pushed into smaller and smaller enclaves, the mideast equivalent of S African Bantustans. That's Gaza, and increasingly the West Bank as well.
As Netanyahu demonstrates, they have no intention of withdrawing to their own borders at all, or of even defining a border in terms that anybody else could recognize. Certainly not so long as the Israeli tail continues to wag the American dog, bet on that.
1947 -- War for Israeli independence, 1947-1949
AP/GPO
Israeli soldiers on patrol during the 1948-49 war of independence.
On Nov. 29, 1947, the United Nations decides to partition Palestine into an Arab state and a Jewish state. Mounting violence leads to the first Arab-Israeli war in early 1948,
when the British withdraw from the region. Jewish forces hold their ground and declare Israeli statehood on May 14, 1948. Neighboring Arab nations, including Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt and then-Transjordan, lend support to the Palestinians. The Egyptians are the last to seek an end to hostilities; an armistice is reached in January 1949.
Looks to me like israel was attacked......
1956 -- Suez crisis
Israeli leadership grows increasingly weary of cross-border attacks from the Egyptian-controlled Gaza Strip
as well as Egypt's attempts to block Israeli shipping in the Suez Canal and Gulf of Aqaba. Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's denial of Israel's right to exist and attempts to thwart Western peace initiatives convince the West that Nasser is not an ally. The United States withdraws aid to Egypt for the Aswan Dam Project, infuriating Nasser. He nationalizes the Suez Canal on July 26, 1956. Britain, which owns nearly half of the Suez Canal Company, seeks to prevent the nationalization by joining with France and Israel to gain control of the waterway.
A plan is devised in which Israel attacks the Sinai Peninsula on Oct. 29, allowing Britain and France to condemn the fighting and demand that both sides withdraw from the region. When Nasser refuses, Britain and France attack. The Soviet Union threatens to use nuclear power in the region to repel the West. The United States demands a cease-fire, which takes effect in November 1956. A U.N. force occupies the area in March 1957 and reopens the canal on April 24, 1957. The crisis solidifies the framework of the Cold War in the Middle East.
Looks to me as if both sides were to blame with outside instigation!!
Six-Day War, June 5-10, 1967
The U.N. force is able to prevent major Arab invasions of Israel until the summer of 1967, when Egyptian forces gather in Sinai and Nasser orders the international troops to leave. Egypt also blocks Israeli ships in the Gulf of Aqaba. In the United States, President Johnson tries but fails to secure peace and reopen the gulf.
Israel plans pre-emptive strikes June 5 against Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq nations that had mobilized for war while moving troops into the Sinai Peninsula and the canal region. Jordan launches an offensive in Jerusalem on June 5. Israeli defenses retaliate and capture all of East Jerusalem and the West Bank within three days. Israel then focuses on the Syrian offensive, pushing Syria's troops from the Golan Heights by June 10, when a U.N. cease-fire takes effect. The victory provides Israel with a buffer zone the Sinai, Gaza, East Jerusalem, West Bank and Golan between it and its Arab neighbors.
again The arabs asked for it and got what thery asked for--a ass whoopin!!
Yom Kippur War, Oct. 6-24, 1973
Arab nations warn Israel that they will not accept Israeli occupation of lands lost in 1967. After Egypt's Nasser was succeeded by Anwar Sadat, Sadat prepares his country for war, including a contract with the Soviets for more sophisticated weaponry. Sadat, allied with President Hafez Assad of Syria, attacks Israel on Oct. 6, 1973 on Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement. Israel fights back and gains back most of the ground lost in the initial attack. Fighting continues for 18 days, when the war ends again under U.N. auspices. Later agreements give Egypt control of some land along the Suez Canal and Syria some control around the Golan Heights.
look to me like the Arabs are sore losers.....
So Common Courtesy can have it both ways.......in fact he can have it anyways he likes!!
The facts don`t lie!! Each and every time there was a war it was Israel looking out fore israel`s interests!!!
Actually NO@!! Israel could not seal their own borders. Just like we cannot seal our own borders. Totally impossible!
Yet if they could that still would not stop groups that are anti - israel from lobbing bombs and such at israeli citys!
Israel could seal their own borders if they wish, but that's not what they want. they want to seal the palestinians' borders as well, claim the territory as their own for their jewish state but not the people in it. Those people are pushed into smaller and smaller enclaves, the mideast equivalent of S African Bantustans. That's Gaza, and increasingly the West Bank as well.
-- You are so full of it...totally full of manure!!
Please provide links to your idiotic diatribe/opinion.....
Yet you chose to use hint at aparthied, but you have no proof of what you are babbling about!!
All Israel want`s is to be totally left alone.
Yet others don`t want to leave israel alone.
You take away all the weapons ..etc from all the Arab countries -- 50 years from now there will still be Arab countires that are growing and thriving!
You take away all the weapons Israel has and leave only the Arab countries with weapons -- 50 years from now or even sooner there will be no state of Israel...figure that one out!!
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