30 may 2007
Palestinians cross the Allenby Bridge into Jordan following the start of the 1967 war.
How did the 1967 war begin?
The war began on the morning of June 5 with devastating Israeli air strikes on the Egyptian airforce, most of which was destroyed on the ground. Arab nations then came to Egypt's defense. Israel's first-day success brought air superiority which enabled it to decimate numerically superior ground forces.
Which countries were involved in the fighting?
Israel, Egypt, Syria, and Jordan. Other Arab countries, including Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Algeria, contributed arms and small contingents of troops to the fighting.
What was the outcome?
Israel quickly defeated the Arab armies, and seized the Syrian Golan Heights, the West Bank (including East Jerusalem), the Gaza Strip, and the Sinai Peninsula. Israel's rapid victory stunned the international public. But Israeli and U.S. intelligence had both predicted an easy Israeli victory, even in a battle waged on multiple fronts.
How did Israel justify its attack?
Israeli UN envoy Abba Eban initially claimed to the United Nations Security Council that Egyptian troops had attacked first and that Israel's air strikes were retaliatory. Within a month, however, Israel admitted that it had launched the first strike. It asserted that it had faced an impending attack by Egypt, evidenced by Egypt's bellicose rhetoric, removal of UN peacekeeping troops from the Sinai Peninsula, closure of the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping, and concentration of troops along Israel's borders.
The Soviet Union introduced a resolution to the UN Security Council naming Israel the aggressor in the war. This resolution was blocked by the U.S. and Great Britain. Thereafter, the U.N. failed to rule definitively on the legality of Israel's actions, although it called for Israel's withdrawal from territories it seized in the fighting.
Is Israel's version of the facts universally accepted?
Israel's claim of an impending Egyptian attack has been widely accepted in the West. The Israeli public had been led to believe that it faced a threat of imminent attack, and perhaps even annihilation. However, the veracity of Israel's claim is increasingly questioned.
A number of senior Israeli military and political figures have subsequently admitted that Israel was not faced with a genuine threat of attack, and instead, deliberately chose war. Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli army chief of staff during the war, later stated: "I do not believe that Nasser wanted war. The two divisions he sent into Sinai on May 14 would not have been enough to unleash an offensive against Israel. He knew it and we knew it." (i) General Mattityahu Peled, a member of Israel's general staff in 1967, opined that "the thesis according to which the danger of genocide weighed on us in June 1967, and that Israel struggled for its physical existence is only a bluff born and developed after the war." (ii) Menachem Begin, not yet prime minister but a member of the Israeli cabinet, allowed that: "The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him." (iii)
If Israel's claimed reasons for the attack were false, what were its true objectives?
One objective may have been territorial expansion. Some Israeli politicians and military leaders, such as former Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Minister of Defense Moshe Dayan lamented the failure to seize East Jerusalem and the West Bank in the 1948 war. Before the war, Jordan's King Hussein told the American ambassador: "They want the West Bank. They've been waiting for a chance to get it, and they're going to take advantage of us and they're going to attack." (iv)
Second, Israeli politicians were genuinely fearful of Gamal Abdul Nasser, the charismatic leader of Arab nationalism. They may have seen the war as an opportunity to embarrass him and deflate the movement he embodied.
Third, Israeli leaders may have seen military confrontation with the Arab states as inevitable, and chose to engage in battle at a time and under terms of their choosing. Menachem Begin, for example, characterized Israel's war aim as to "take the initiative and attack the enemy, drive him back, and thus assure the security of Israel and the future of the nation." (v)
What was the chain of events leading up to the war?
The progression toward war was sparked by Israel's attack on the West Bank village of Samu' in November 1966. Israeli forces, purportedly "retaliating" against raids by Palestinian guerrillas, killed 18 civilians and Jordanian soldiers, and razed nearly the entire village. After the attack, King Hussein bitterly criticized President Gamal Abdul Nasser of Egypt for "hiding behind" the UN Emergency Force (UNEF), stationed in the Sinai Peninsula after Israel's 1956 attack on Egypt, and failing to act in line with his Arab nationalist rhetoric. The criticism, echoed by the Arab press, drove Nasser into a more militant posture toward Israel.
Tensions were also building between Israel and Syria, largely due to Israel's repeated attempts to farm in the Demilitarized Zone that had separated Israeli and Syrian troops since the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948-49. In April 1967, one such incident escalated into an aerial battle during which Israel shot down six Syrian fighter jets, including two over Damascus.
The Soviet Union, at the time closely allied with Syria, then shared intelligence reports with Nasser that suggested an impending Israeli attack on Syria. The reports of major Israeli troop movements along the Syrian border were inflated, but not entirely inaccurate. In early May the Israeli Cabinet had authorized an attack on Syria, although the scope of it remained a matter of internal debate. Soviet exaggerations may have been designed to stir Egypt into a more aggressive stance in support of Syria, thereby deterring the feared Israeli strike.
Nasser responded by requesting the removal of the UN Emergency Forces from the Sinai Peninsula, replacing them with Egyptian troops, and declaring the Straits of Tiran (leading from the Gulf of Aqaba into the Red Sea) closed to Israeli shipping.
Why was the UN Emergency Force (UNEF) only on the Egyptian side of the border and not on the Israeli side as well?
The UNEF was established to maintain calm along the border between Egypt and Israel following the Israeli-British-French invasion of Egypt in 1956. Israel declined the stationing of UN troops on its soil, while Egypt accepted them. Egypt held the right to request their withdrawal at any point.
UN Secretary General U Thant, backed by the United States and Canada, responded to Egypt's lawful request by suggesting that UNEF be repositioned on the Israeli side of the border. This proposal to head off the growing threat of war was rejected by Israel. Israel also rejected U Thant's proposal to reinvigorate the Egyptian-Israeli Mixed Armistice Commission, an idea backed by Nasser. Additionally, the Egyptian president backed U Thant's proposal of a two-week moratorium on belligerent actions in the Straits and the appointment of a special UN representative to mediate between the two parties. Israel rejected both ideas.
Where were Egypt's troops on the day preceding the war?
Egyptian documents indicate that its troops were in a defensive posture in the Sinai and along the Suez Canal. Additionally, vital troops for any offensive remained in Yemen. Two Egyptian commando battalions joined Jordanian forces in the West Bank on June 3.
What role, if any, did the United States play in the diplomatic efforts to avert armed conflict?
In the weeks preceding the war, the United States repeatedly warned Israel not to take unilateral action, and insisted on a diplomatic resolution to the developing conflict. The United States was urgently working diplomatic channels alongside UN Secretary General U Thant, attempting to avert war. The Egyptian vice-president was scheduled to meet with U.S. officials in Washington in early June. Two days before his visit, however, Israel struck. U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk said the United States was "shocked and angry as hell." (vi)
What were the consequences of the 1967 war for Palestinians?
Palestinians suddenly faced the military occupation and settlement of their land. With the occupation came a dual system of law: one for Israeli settlers and one for Palestinians.
The overwhelming military defeat of the Arab states also led Palestinians to conclude that their liberation would not be effectuated by the Arab states, but would have to be of their own making. This determination led to Palestinian resistance and significant outreach to the international community for political and economic support.
Eventually, Israel's occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip became the primary focus of the Palestinian national movement, and other issues - such as the status of the Palestinian refugees from 1948, and the position of Palestinian citizens of Israel as an oppressed minority - were largely occluded.
What is the legal status of the land Israel seized in 1967?
Israel withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula pursuant to the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty concluded in 1979. Under international law, the other territories Israel seized in 1967 remain "occupied", and Israel is their "belligerent occupier." (vii)
Israeli officials have often referred to the Arab territories it holds as "administered," or "disputed," arguing that unsettled claims of sovereignty to the West Bank and Gaza Strip free Israel of its obligations as an occupier under international law. That position has failed to find support in the UN Security Council, the UN General Assembly, the International Court of Justice, the International Committee of the Red Cross or the Israeli High Court.
Israel evacuated its colonies from the Gaza Strip in 2005. Nonetheless, the Gaza Strip also remains occupied as Israel continues to maintain effective control over the region. Palestinians continue to require Israeli consent to (1) travel to and from the Gaza Strip from the West Bank; (2) take their goods to foreign and Palestinian markets and (3) obtain goods from Palestinian, Israeli and foreign markets. Israel also continues to maintain military control over Palestinian territorial waters and Palestinian airspace, while reserving for itself freedom of military operations in the Gaza Strip.
What were the long-term implications of the war for peace and stability in the region, and for the status of international law?
International humanitarian law requires that belligerent occupiers protect the health, welfare and homes of the occupied civilian population. It also prohibits deportation of those living under occupation and the transfer of the occupier's own civilian population into the occupied territory. Israel has, for forty years, violated international law through its demolition of Palestinian homes, its deportation of thousands of Palestinians, its killing of Palestinians and its construction of Israeli-only colonies and roads. Though the UN Security Council, the UN General Assembly and the International Court of Justice have repeatedly criticized Israel's violations of international law, no effective action has been taken to halt the violations.
The UN Security Council issued its opinion on Israel's actions in the following terms:
The repeated violation by Israel, the occupying Power, of international law and its failure to comply with relevant Security Council and General Assembly resolutions and agreements reached between the parties undermine the Middle East peace process and constitute a threat to international security (ES/10/2 22 April 1997).International law draws its strength from universal application and enforcement according to uniform standards. The failure of the international community to enforce international law with respect to Israel's occupation of Arab territories has weakened the United Nations and undermined international legality.
Footnotes:
i Le Monde, February 29, 1968, p. 4.
ii Le Monde, June 3, 1972, p. 4.
iii "Excerpts from Begin Speech at National Defense College," The New York Times, August 11, 1982, p. A6.
iv Michael Oren, Six Days of War, 2003, p. 35.
v "Excerpts from Begin Speech at National Defense College," The New York Times, August 11,1982, p. A6.
vi Dean Rusk, As I Saw It, 1990, p. 386-387.
vii Under international law (Article 42 of the Regulations Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land annexed to the Fourth Hague Convention of 18 October 1907), territory is considered occupied if it is actually placed under the authority of the hostile army. A "belligerent occupier" is one that has occupied territories outside its own borders during war, whether aggressive or defensive.
How did the 1967 war begin?
The war began on the morning of June 5 with devastating Israeli air strikes on the Egyptian airforce, most of which was destroyed on the ground. Arab nations then came to Egypt's defense. Israel's first-day success brought air superiority which enabled it to decimate numerically superior ground forces.
Which countries were involved in the fighting?
Israel, Egypt, Syria, and Jordan. Other Arab countries, including Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Algeria, contributed arms and small contingents of troops to the fighting.
What was the outcome?
Israel quickly defeated the Arab armies, and seized the Syrian Golan Heights, the West Bank (including East Jerusalem), the Gaza Strip, and the Sinai Peninsula. Israel's rapid victory stunned the international public. But Israeli and U.S. intelligence had both predicted an easy Israeli victory, even in a battle waged on multiple fronts.
How did Israel justify its attack?
Israeli UN envoy Abba Eban initially claimed to the United Nations Security Council that Egyptian troops had attacked first and that Israel's air strikes were retaliatory. Within a month, however, Israel admitted that it had launched the first strike. It asserted that it had faced an impending attack by Egypt, evidenced by Egypt's bellicose rhetoric, removal of UN peacekeeping troops from the Sinai Peninsula, closure of the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping, and concentration of troops along Israel's borders.
The Soviet Union introduced a resolution to the UN Security Council naming Israel the aggressor in the war. This resolution was blocked by the U.S. and Great Britain. Thereafter, the U.N. failed to rule definitively on the legality of Israel's actions, although it called for Israel's withdrawal from territories it seized in the fighting.
Is Israel's version of the facts universally accepted?
Israel's claim of an impending Egyptian attack has been widely accepted in the West. The Israeli public had been led to believe that it faced a threat of imminent attack, and perhaps even annihilation. However, the veracity of Israel's claim is increasingly questioned.
A number of senior Israeli military and political figures have subsequently admitted that Israel was not faced with a genuine threat of attack, and instead, deliberately chose war. Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli army chief of staff during the war, later stated: "I do not believe that Nasser wanted war. The two divisions he sent into Sinai on May 14 would not have been enough to unleash an offensive against Israel. He knew it and we knew it." (i) General Mattityahu Peled, a member of Israel's general staff in 1967, opined that "the thesis according to which the danger of genocide weighed on us in June 1967, and that Israel struggled for its physical existence is only a bluff born and developed after the war." (ii) Menachem Begin, not yet prime minister but a member of the Israeli cabinet, allowed that: "The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him." (iii)
If Israel's claimed reasons for the attack were false, what were its true objectives?
One objective may have been territorial expansion. Some Israeli politicians and military leaders, such as former Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Minister of Defense Moshe Dayan lamented the failure to seize East Jerusalem and the West Bank in the 1948 war. Before the war, Jordan's King Hussein told the American ambassador: "They want the West Bank. They've been waiting for a chance to get it, and they're going to take advantage of us and they're going to attack." (iv)
Second, Israeli politicians were genuinely fearful of Gamal Abdul Nasser, the charismatic leader of Arab nationalism. They may have seen the war as an opportunity to embarrass him and deflate the movement he embodied.
Third, Israeli leaders may have seen military confrontation with the Arab states as inevitable, and chose to engage in battle at a time and under terms of their choosing. Menachem Begin, for example, characterized Israel's war aim as to "take the initiative and attack the enemy, drive him back, and thus assure the security of Israel and the future of the nation." (v)
What was the chain of events leading up to the war?
The progression toward war was sparked by Israel's attack on the West Bank village of Samu' in November 1966. Israeli forces, purportedly "retaliating" against raids by Palestinian guerrillas, killed 18 civilians and Jordanian soldiers, and razed nearly the entire village. After the attack, King Hussein bitterly criticized President Gamal Abdul Nasser of Egypt for "hiding behind" the UN Emergency Force (UNEF), stationed in the Sinai Peninsula after Israel's 1956 attack on Egypt, and failing to act in line with his Arab nationalist rhetoric. The criticism, echoed by the Arab press, drove Nasser into a more militant posture toward Israel.
Tensions were also building between Israel and Syria, largely due to Israel's repeated attempts to farm in the Demilitarized Zone that had separated Israeli and Syrian troops since the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948-49. In April 1967, one such incident escalated into an aerial battle during which Israel shot down six Syrian fighter jets, including two over Damascus.
The Soviet Union, at the time closely allied with Syria, then shared intelligence reports with Nasser that suggested an impending Israeli attack on Syria. The reports of major Israeli troop movements along the Syrian border were inflated, but not entirely inaccurate. In early May the Israeli Cabinet had authorized an attack on Syria, although the scope of it remained a matter of internal debate. Soviet exaggerations may have been designed to stir Egypt into a more aggressive stance in support of Syria, thereby deterring the feared Israeli strike.
Nasser responded by requesting the removal of the UN Emergency Forces from the Sinai Peninsula, replacing them with Egyptian troops, and declaring the Straits of Tiran (leading from the Gulf of Aqaba into the Red Sea) closed to Israeli shipping.
Why was the UN Emergency Force (UNEF) only on the Egyptian side of the border and not on the Israeli side as well?
The UNEF was established to maintain calm along the border between Egypt and Israel following the Israeli-British-French invasion of Egypt in 1956. Israel declined the stationing of UN troops on its soil, while Egypt accepted them. Egypt held the right to request their withdrawal at any point.
UN Secretary General U Thant, backed by the United States and Canada, responded to Egypt's lawful request by suggesting that UNEF be repositioned on the Israeli side of the border. This proposal to head off the growing threat of war was rejected by Israel. Israel also rejected U Thant's proposal to reinvigorate the Egyptian-Israeli Mixed Armistice Commission, an idea backed by Nasser. Additionally, the Egyptian president backed U Thant's proposal of a two-week moratorium on belligerent actions in the Straits and the appointment of a special UN representative to mediate between the two parties. Israel rejected both ideas.
Where were Egypt's troops on the day preceding the war?
Egyptian documents indicate that its troops were in a defensive posture in the Sinai and along the Suez Canal. Additionally, vital troops for any offensive remained in Yemen. Two Egyptian commando battalions joined Jordanian forces in the West Bank on June 3.
What role, if any, did the United States play in the diplomatic efforts to avert armed conflict?
In the weeks preceding the war, the United States repeatedly warned Israel not to take unilateral action, and insisted on a diplomatic resolution to the developing conflict. The United States was urgently working diplomatic channels alongside UN Secretary General U Thant, attempting to avert war. The Egyptian vice-president was scheduled to meet with U.S. officials in Washington in early June. Two days before his visit, however, Israel struck. U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk said the United States was "shocked and angry as hell." (vi)
What were the consequences of the 1967 war for Palestinians?
Palestinians suddenly faced the military occupation and settlement of their land. With the occupation came a dual system of law: one for Israeli settlers and one for Palestinians.
The overwhelming military defeat of the Arab states also led Palestinians to conclude that their liberation would not be effectuated by the Arab states, but would have to be of their own making. This determination led to Palestinian resistance and significant outreach to the international community for political and economic support.
Eventually, Israel's occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip became the primary focus of the Palestinian national movement, and other issues - such as the status of the Palestinian refugees from 1948, and the position of Palestinian citizens of Israel as an oppressed minority - were largely occluded.
What is the legal status of the land Israel seized in 1967?
Israel withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula pursuant to the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty concluded in 1979. Under international law, the other territories Israel seized in 1967 remain "occupied", and Israel is their "belligerent occupier." (vii)
Israeli officials have often referred to the Arab territories it holds as "administered," or "disputed," arguing that unsettled claims of sovereignty to the West Bank and Gaza Strip free Israel of its obligations as an occupier under international law. That position has failed to find support in the UN Security Council, the UN General Assembly, the International Court of Justice, the International Committee of the Red Cross or the Israeli High Court.
Israel evacuated its colonies from the Gaza Strip in 2005. Nonetheless, the Gaza Strip also remains occupied as Israel continues to maintain effective control over the region. Palestinians continue to require Israeli consent to (1) travel to and from the Gaza Strip from the West Bank; (2) take their goods to foreign and Palestinian markets and (3) obtain goods from Palestinian, Israeli and foreign markets. Israel also continues to maintain military control over Palestinian territorial waters and Palestinian airspace, while reserving for itself freedom of military operations in the Gaza Strip.
What were the long-term implications of the war for peace and stability in the region, and for the status of international law?
International humanitarian law requires that belligerent occupiers protect the health, welfare and homes of the occupied civilian population. It also prohibits deportation of those living under occupation and the transfer of the occupier's own civilian population into the occupied territory. Israel has, for forty years, violated international law through its demolition of Palestinian homes, its deportation of thousands of Palestinians, its killing of Palestinians and its construction of Israeli-only colonies and roads. Though the UN Security Council, the UN General Assembly and the International Court of Justice have repeatedly criticized Israel's violations of international law, no effective action has been taken to halt the violations.
The UN Security Council issued its opinion on Israel's actions in the following terms:
The repeated violation by Israel, the occupying Power, of international law and its failure to comply with relevant Security Council and General Assembly resolutions and agreements reached between the parties undermine the Middle East peace process and constitute a threat to international security (ES/10/2 22 April 1997).International law draws its strength from universal application and enforcement according to uniform standards. The failure of the international community to enforce international law with respect to Israel's occupation of Arab territories has weakened the United Nations and undermined international legality.
Footnotes:
i Le Monde, February 29, 1968, p. 4.
ii Le Monde, June 3, 1972, p. 4.
iii "Excerpts from Begin Speech at National Defense College," The New York Times, August 11, 1982, p. A6.
iv Michael Oren, Six Days of War, 2003, p. 35.
v "Excerpts from Begin Speech at National Defense College," The New York Times, August 11,1982, p. A6.
vi Dean Rusk, As I Saw It, 1990, p. 386-387.
vii Under international law (Article 42 of the Regulations Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land annexed to the Fourth Hague Convention of 18 October 1907), territory is considered occupied if it is actually placed under the authority of the hostile army. A "belligerent occupier" is one that has occupied territories outside its own borders during war, whether aggressive or defensive.
16 apr 2007
The GREATEST HOAX IN HISTORY was put over on the American people and the world, on JUNE 5, 1967
THE WHITE BOMB - LSD 25 GAS - JUNE 5, 1967 There is now an accumulating mass of evidence to suggest that the"SIX DAY WAR" was nothing but a 60 Minute BLITZ !
This is a report of the so-called “Six Day War” of an illegally conceived and unlawfully created “State of Israel”, against the Christians and Moslems of the United Arab Republic. In reality, it was a 60-minute blitz carried out by utilizing the military might of the United States, and carried on by traitors to this nation in high governmental positions, Zionists who are loyal only to the “State of Israel”, and who bleed the Christian American taxpayers to support a nation of Pharisees who persecute other Christians.
The Birth of a Pariah State The very birth of this illegitimate 'State of Israel' depended on lies. It was founded on a lie, and its existence has been perpetuated by nothing else but one treacherous lie after another.
First, these people who call themselves “Jews” are remnants of those tribes who elected to remain in Babylon after the tribes were released from Babylonian captivity, with a mixture of Asian Mongoloid-Turco-Finn ancestry, and who live by their own evil Babylonian Talmud. Literally, they are all Satan worshippers, humans through whom Satan can accomplish his work on earth.
Second, Palestine was never their homeland. Their homeland is the Khazar Kingdom hidden in the Ural Mountains of Russia. After their seizure of the Holy Land following World War II, they forced the Christian and Moslem Palestinians, whose ancestors had been its inhabitants for seventeen centuries, out of their own homes, confiscated and destroyed their property, and eradicated most Christian shrines. Since practically all news media is now owned by Khazars, their vicious cruelty to the rightful inhabitants has been carefully concealed from the American people.
Third, the Zionists base their claim to the Holy Land on another lie, a lie promulgated down through the centuries and insidiously sold to the Christians, that they are all “God’s Chosen People”
The Israelites of the Old Testament were the Chosen People, having been chosen to be an example to other tribes.
A Declaration of War Few Americans have ever heard of the Balfour Declaration .
This infamous agreement was promulgated in 1916, when Great Britain and Germany were at war. Germany had won the war in autumn, but in a connivance between Lord Balfour of the British War Cabinet and the World Zionist Organization, Palestine was promised to the Zionists in return for railroading the United States into war as England’s ally to defeat Germany.
"Not only did the Satanists desire a defeat of Christian Germany, but also the control of the Holy Land involved much more ", a President of the World Jewish Congress, Nahum Goldmann, had once expounded before a Canadian conference in 1947 -
“The Jews might have had Uganda, Madagascar, or many other places for the establishment of a Jewish fatherland, but they wanted absolutely nothing except Palestine; not because the Dead Sea waters by evaporation can produce five trillion dollars worth of minerals and powdered metals, not because the sub-soil of Palestine contains 20 times more petroleum than all the combined reserves of the two Americas, but because Palestine is at the Crossroads of Europe, Asia and Africa, because Palestine constitutes THE VERITABLE CENTER OF WORLD POLITICAL POWER, A STRATEGIC MILITARY CENTER FOR WORLD CONTROL"
THE WHITE BOMB - LSD 25 GAS - JUNE 5, 1967 There is now an accumulating mass of evidence to suggest that the"SIX DAY WAR" was nothing but a 60 Minute BLITZ !
This is a report of the so-called “Six Day War” of an illegally conceived and unlawfully created “State of Israel”, against the Christians and Moslems of the United Arab Republic. In reality, it was a 60-minute blitz carried out by utilizing the military might of the United States, and carried on by traitors to this nation in high governmental positions, Zionists who are loyal only to the “State of Israel”, and who bleed the Christian American taxpayers to support a nation of Pharisees who persecute other Christians.
The Birth of a Pariah State The very birth of this illegitimate 'State of Israel' depended on lies. It was founded on a lie, and its existence has been perpetuated by nothing else but one treacherous lie after another.
First, these people who call themselves “Jews” are remnants of those tribes who elected to remain in Babylon after the tribes were released from Babylonian captivity, with a mixture of Asian Mongoloid-Turco-Finn ancestry, and who live by their own evil Babylonian Talmud. Literally, they are all Satan worshippers, humans through whom Satan can accomplish his work on earth.
Second, Palestine was never their homeland. Their homeland is the Khazar Kingdom hidden in the Ural Mountains of Russia. After their seizure of the Holy Land following World War II, they forced the Christian and Moslem Palestinians, whose ancestors had been its inhabitants for seventeen centuries, out of their own homes, confiscated and destroyed their property, and eradicated most Christian shrines. Since practically all news media is now owned by Khazars, their vicious cruelty to the rightful inhabitants has been carefully concealed from the American people.
Third, the Zionists base their claim to the Holy Land on another lie, a lie promulgated down through the centuries and insidiously sold to the Christians, that they are all “God’s Chosen People”
The Israelites of the Old Testament were the Chosen People, having been chosen to be an example to other tribes.
A Declaration of War Few Americans have ever heard of the Balfour Declaration .
This infamous agreement was promulgated in 1916, when Great Britain and Germany were at war. Germany had won the war in autumn, but in a connivance between Lord Balfour of the British War Cabinet and the World Zionist Organization, Palestine was promised to the Zionists in return for railroading the United States into war as England’s ally to defeat Germany.
"Not only did the Satanists desire a defeat of Christian Germany, but also the control of the Holy Land involved much more ", a President of the World Jewish Congress, Nahum Goldmann, had once expounded before a Canadian conference in 1947 -
“The Jews might have had Uganda, Madagascar, or many other places for the establishment of a Jewish fatherland, but they wanted absolutely nothing except Palestine; not because the Dead Sea waters by evaporation can produce five trillion dollars worth of minerals and powdered metals, not because the sub-soil of Palestine contains 20 times more petroleum than all the combined reserves of the two Americas, but because Palestine is at the Crossroads of Europe, Asia and Africa, because Palestine constitutes THE VERITABLE CENTER OF WORLD POLITICAL POWER, A STRATEGIC MILITARY CENTER FOR WORLD CONTROL"
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A Trap is Laid The bold Zionist lie about the “SIX DAY WAR” illustrates the extent to which our monstrous 'State of Israel' relies on U.S. support for EVERYTHING, ( except manpower ).
It is now known that instead of a "SIX DAY WAR”, as publicized, it was really a 60-MINUTE BLITZ, planned, promoted, and perpetrated by TRAITORS in the U.S., who used our military strength to accommodate all of President Johnson’s Zionist friends. |
The Johnson administration practiced the greatest deception on the Arab states to insure the success of this blitz. In the week immediately preceding it, President Johnson himself lulled the Arab states into a false sense of security when, with much great publicity, he extended an invitation to President Nasser to send the Vice-President of the United Arab Republic to Washington as his personal guest. President Nasser accepted and shortly started his Vice-President on his way to Washington.
The Great Deception In the same week, President Johnson had instructed his Vice President Humphrey to proceed to Cairo immediately, as his ambassador of good will to President Nasser. Vice-President Humphrey was about to leave for Cairo when the 60-minute blitz was sprung on the U.A.R. To more completely throw the Arab states off guard, President Johnson had prevailed upon them to submit the explosive issue of the right of passage through the Suez Canal and the Strait of Tiran to the International Court of Justice for an opinion and it was agreed that neither side was to take military action of any description pending that opinion.
While preparations were in progress in Washington to receive the Vice President of the United Arab Republic, while Vice President Humphrey was preparing to board a plane for Cairo, and while peace prevailed along the Suez Canal and the Strait of Tiran, a U.S. military U2 , high flying photographic espionage plane was secretly flying over the Suez Canal Sinai area, photographing every military airfield and military installation. These photographs were being made for the so-called State of Israel. Prior to the “60-minute blitz” the armed forces of the “State of Israel” had in their possession these photographs pinpointing every military airfield and military installation in this area of the U.A.R.
The U.S.S. Liberty At this point the U.S.-C.I.A. spy-ship, the U.S.S. Liberty, was introduced into the conspiracy. Like her sister ship, the U.S.S. Pueblo and all of the other 200 C.I.A. spy ships, the Liberty was equipped with the world’s only electronic device which, from a great distance, could render all radar inoperative. Before daybreak on the morning of June 5, 1967, this device was activated, and with the U.A.R.’s radar defense system knocked out, the “State of Israel” was free to attack. 200 jet planes descended on the Suez Canal Sinai area. These planes were equipped with tanks designed to spray L.S.D. 25 gas over the area.
If indeed the mission of U.S.S. Liberty had also included jamming of U.A.R. communications, in addition to surveillance... this covert action would have been essential to initiating and expediting a sneak attack. So if U.S.S. Liberty had already fulfilled that part of the bargain, WHAT then, could ever possibly account for the subsequent murderous attack by Israel ? WHY was our listening ship savagely scuttled on the 4th day of this so called "Six Day War"? Did Israel commit a war crime to hide another?
Surprise Attack
The Great Deception In the same week, President Johnson had instructed his Vice President Humphrey to proceed to Cairo immediately, as his ambassador of good will to President Nasser. Vice-President Humphrey was about to leave for Cairo when the 60-minute blitz was sprung on the U.A.R. To more completely throw the Arab states off guard, President Johnson had prevailed upon them to submit the explosive issue of the right of passage through the Suez Canal and the Strait of Tiran to the International Court of Justice for an opinion and it was agreed that neither side was to take military action of any description pending that opinion.
While preparations were in progress in Washington to receive the Vice President of the United Arab Republic, while Vice President Humphrey was preparing to board a plane for Cairo, and while peace prevailed along the Suez Canal and the Strait of Tiran, a U.S. military U2 , high flying photographic espionage plane was secretly flying over the Suez Canal Sinai area, photographing every military airfield and military installation. These photographs were being made for the so-called State of Israel. Prior to the “60-minute blitz” the armed forces of the “State of Israel” had in their possession these photographs pinpointing every military airfield and military installation in this area of the U.A.R.
The U.S.S. Liberty At this point the U.S.-C.I.A. spy-ship, the U.S.S. Liberty, was introduced into the conspiracy. Like her sister ship, the U.S.S. Pueblo and all of the other 200 C.I.A. spy ships, the Liberty was equipped with the world’s only electronic device which, from a great distance, could render all radar inoperative. Before daybreak on the morning of June 5, 1967, this device was activated, and with the U.A.R.’s radar defense system knocked out, the “State of Israel” was free to attack. 200 jet planes descended on the Suez Canal Sinai area. These planes were equipped with tanks designed to spray L.S.D. 25 gas over the area.
If indeed the mission of U.S.S. Liberty had also included jamming of U.A.R. communications, in addition to surveillance... this covert action would have been essential to initiating and expediting a sneak attack. So if U.S.S. Liberty had already fulfilled that part of the bargain, WHAT then, could ever possibly account for the subsequent murderous attack by Israel ? WHY was our listening ship savagely scuttled on the 4th day of this so called "Six Day War"? Did Israel commit a war crime to hide another?
Surprise Attack
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Pilots and crewmembers wore gas masks, purchased from Germany a short time before, and the gas was sprayed over the entire area in the same way agricultural fertilizers are dispersed.
The United States Chemical Warfare division and its military use had been demonstrated by U.S. experts to “Israel". |
Because L.S.D. 25 is invisible, odorless and tasteless it can be inhaled without the victim’s knowledge. In ten to fifteen minutes after the gas enters the lungs, the victim becomes incapable of thinking or acting and is unaware of what has happened to him. He remains under the effect of the gas for twelve to fifteen hours, and its action can be prevented only by a special gas mask.
These 200 planes saturated the area with L.S.D.- 25 gas in a sufficient quantity to assure that all personnel within the Suez Canal Sinai area would be rendered incapable of thinking or acting. All persons lay around as though dead.
A 60-Minute Blitz Then allowing ten to fifteen minutes for the L.S.D. 25 gas to completely paralyze their victims, the “Israelis” now moved in with 200 bombers. These bombers were loaded with the most destructive type of bombs, including a secret bomb developed by the United States for the destruction of airfield runways.
With no sign of resistance from their insensible victims, these bombers swept over the Suez Canal Sinai area several times, destroying every U.A.R. plane grounded on the airfields, then pulverizing sophisticated weapons in the military installations. The so-called “State of Israel” rushed into the area in hundreds of tanks, with troops wearing gas masks to protect them from the remainder of the L.S.D. 25 gas that was still in the air.
Finishing Them Off Reports of what had taken place began to reach the interior of the U.A.R.. Planes and tanks and troops were rushed into the Suez Canal Sinai area to join forces with the gas victims who were now slowly regaining their senses. Prior to that time the “Israeli” tanks and troops had reached the Suez Canal, where they had dug in to remain. The canal was then rendered useless with sunken ships, the primary objective of their “60 minute blitz.”
With their planes destroyed on the ground, all their runways demolished and their weapons pulverized by the bombing, it was hopeless for the U.A.R.’s armed forces to attempt to reconquer the Suez Canal Sinai area. Fighting continued on a limited scale for most of the week. The United Nations arranged a cease-fire.
Egyptian Airforce Decimated
DESTROYED EGYPTIAN PLANES - JUNE 5, 1967 Israel made aviation history when its airforce struck early on the morning of June 5th. Israel's preemptive strike eliminated the Egytian airforce . Soon after, it struck the Jordanian, Syrian and Iraqi air forces. In the first hours of the war Israel achieved total air superiority. A total of 393 Arab planes were destroyed on the ground. Israel's air to air superiority was assured by the training of its pilots and performance of its French built Mirage aircraft.
DESTROYED EGYPTIAN AIRFIELD - JUNE 5, 1967 It was 8:45 in the morning of the 5th of June 1967. The Israeli air attack started and in less than 3 hours, Egypt lost more than 227 military airplanes on the ground. The Egyptian reaction was tough, but in fact it came too late, and due to its high losses the EAF couldn’t change much of the course of the war. In six days of fighting, the Egyptian air force flew a lot of sorties, in both air to air, and air to ground missions, scoring more than 25 aerial victories, destroying a lot of Israeli ground targets. By the end of the war, the EAF succeeded by help of air defense in downing about 72 IAF fighters.
The Coverup
These 200 planes saturated the area with L.S.D.- 25 gas in a sufficient quantity to assure that all personnel within the Suez Canal Sinai area would be rendered incapable of thinking or acting. All persons lay around as though dead.
A 60-Minute Blitz Then allowing ten to fifteen minutes for the L.S.D. 25 gas to completely paralyze their victims, the “Israelis” now moved in with 200 bombers. These bombers were loaded with the most destructive type of bombs, including a secret bomb developed by the United States for the destruction of airfield runways.
With no sign of resistance from their insensible victims, these bombers swept over the Suez Canal Sinai area several times, destroying every U.A.R. plane grounded on the airfields, then pulverizing sophisticated weapons in the military installations. The so-called “State of Israel” rushed into the area in hundreds of tanks, with troops wearing gas masks to protect them from the remainder of the L.S.D. 25 gas that was still in the air.
Finishing Them Off Reports of what had taken place began to reach the interior of the U.A.R.. Planes and tanks and troops were rushed into the Suez Canal Sinai area to join forces with the gas victims who were now slowly regaining their senses. Prior to that time the “Israeli” tanks and troops had reached the Suez Canal, where they had dug in to remain. The canal was then rendered useless with sunken ships, the primary objective of their “60 minute blitz.”
With their planes destroyed on the ground, all their runways demolished and their weapons pulverized by the bombing, it was hopeless for the U.A.R.’s armed forces to attempt to reconquer the Suez Canal Sinai area. Fighting continued on a limited scale for most of the week. The United Nations arranged a cease-fire.
Egyptian Airforce Decimated
DESTROYED EGYPTIAN PLANES - JUNE 5, 1967 Israel made aviation history when its airforce struck early on the morning of June 5th. Israel's preemptive strike eliminated the Egytian airforce . Soon after, it struck the Jordanian, Syrian and Iraqi air forces. In the first hours of the war Israel achieved total air superiority. A total of 393 Arab planes were destroyed on the ground. Israel's air to air superiority was assured by the training of its pilots and performance of its French built Mirage aircraft.
DESTROYED EGYPTIAN AIRFIELD - JUNE 5, 1967 It was 8:45 in the morning of the 5th of June 1967. The Israeli air attack started and in less than 3 hours, Egypt lost more than 227 military airplanes on the ground. The Egyptian reaction was tough, but in fact it came too late, and due to its high losses the EAF couldn’t change much of the course of the war. In six days of fighting, the Egyptian air force flew a lot of sorties, in both air to air, and air to ground missions, scoring more than 25 aerial victories, destroying a lot of Israeli ground targets. By the end of the war, the EAF succeeded by help of air defense in downing about 72 IAF fighters.
The Coverup
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In the first hours of the day of the “60 minute blitz”, a tense mood of uncertainty had gripped the White House.
In weeks preceding the blitz, General Earl Wheeler, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in person assured President Johnson that if the United Arab Republic were blitzed, they would easily be defeated in 3 or 4 days . |
Ambassador Goldberg was finally convinced after C.I.A. Chief Richard Helms assured President Johnson that General Earl Wheeler’s estimated time was an understatement of how soon the U.A.R could be defeated. Much could be gauged, however, since prior to this time General Rothschild, one time head of the U.S. Chemical Warfare Division, had reported to Congress the success of experiments using L.S.D. 25 gas on U.S. soldiers, yet until the blitz had actually commenced, President Johnson rose before dawn each morning for the late intelligence reports and had called in his crisis command for long rounds of conferences.( take CIA report cum grano salis )
It is easy to understand why those involved in the conspiracy preferred to have a “60 MINUTE BLITZ” advertised to the world as a “6 DAY WAR.” It was not wise to let the world know the truth about the part the UNITED STATES played in this TREACHERY , and it was wiser to make it appear that the brave little so-called “State of ISRAEL” had struggled for SIX DAYS before they had single-handedly defeated the giant U.A.R., with Jordan and Syria thrown in for good measure.
The “State of Israel” is well aware that its continued existence depends on railroading the United States into a war with Russia. This will be a third time this nation will be suckered into a war as a direct conspiracy of Zionist lies. If that is permitted to occur, the U.S is destined to emerge from that war as a defeated nation.
Few people in the world are aware that Zionism is the creator of Communism. This is the tool to be used for the eradication of Christendom, which the Zionists have tagged as “Capitalism” or “Imperialism” to further confuse the issue. Thus has the world been split into two hostile camps, for one to annihilate the other.
That they are past masters of inciting wars, no one who is aware of their nefarious schemes can deny. Moshe Dayan, ex-gangster and self styled "General", who was "Minister of Defence" of an armed uprising resulting in the occupation of Palestine and other Arab territory, was rushed to the United States to tell a television audience how “peace could be preserved in the Middle East"
On December 8, 1968, on the ABC network, he was asked how he believed that peace could be preserved in that area, in view of offers of Soviet assistance to the Arab victims of Zionist aggression. Without hesitation, “General” Dayan replied -“All you will come in.” ( meaning US - the U.S. )
...That brief statement leaves nothing to the imagination.
“General” Dayan told his story in the fewest possible words.
A Rothschild Connection Brigadier General J. H. Rothschild, commanding general of the U.S. Army Chemical Corps Research and Development Command, in a book that he wrote following his retirement, "Tomorrow's Weapons" -(1964), noted - "It is easy to foresee that a military commander under the effects of LSD-25 would lose his ability to make logical, rational decisions and issue coherent orders. Group cooperation would fall apart.... Think of the effect of using this type of material covertly on a higher headquarters of a military unit, or overtly on a large organization. Some military leaders feel that we should not consider using these materials because we do not know exactly what will happen and no clear cut results can be predicted. But imagine where science would be today if the reaction to trying anything new had been - 'let's not try it 'til we know exactly what the results will be'
( from Consumer Reports Magazine - 1972 )
The Nakhleh Memorandum The foregoing quotation from our mercurial 'General Rothschild' becomes considerably more significant in light of what follows - from a "Memorandum to the President" by ISSAH NAKHLEH
[excerpt] - In 1967, Egypt was not prepared for war. President Gamal Abdel Nasser moved his forces as a propaganda ploy to pressure President Lyndon B. Johnson to renew the economic aid agreement with Egypt. The Zionists pressured President Johnson to refuse to renew economic aid to Egypt in order to arouse Gamal Abdel Nasser. The Zionists were predicting the steps which Abdel Nasser would take as a bluff and were now preparing to launch their attack to crush Egypt's military power, before the Egyptians perfected their training on the use of Soviet weapons. At the same time, the Zionists were executing their plan of expansion, to occupy the West Bank, Gaza and other parts of the Arab world, in accordance with the Zionist colonial program. Israel was planning its attack while Abdel Nasser was being lulled into slumber by American and Soviet intelligence agencies, each one for its own motives.
The proof that Egypt was not prepared or preparing for war is the fact that, in the evening of June 4, 1967, a party was held for the airforce graduates in Anshas (former Farouk palace and gardens), where practically every important officer in the Egyptian airforce and all its commanders were present in that party until the early hours of the morning of June 5, when the Israelis attacked at 4 a.m.. According to unimpeachable evidence, now in our possession, Egyptian agents of Israeli intelligence were able to put LSD in the drinks and coffee served to the most important officers and top command of the Egyptian airforce. When Israeli airplanes struck at 4 a.m. on the morning of June 5, most of the Egyptian airforce
officers were asleep...and incapacitated by LSD.
We also have unimpeachable evidence that the Israeli airplanes dropped LSD-25, a nerve gas, on Egyptian forces in Sinai, and on Egyptian military airports, and were able to incapacitate the Egyptian armed forces. These facts prove that the Israeli armed forces won the 1967 war by deception, conspiracy, and using the LSD-25 nerve gas. This does not necessarily make the Israeli army "the best in the world."
Addenda Brian Desborough, at a "Hidden Mysteries" site, mentions this account only in passing, as if it was common knowledge -
--"Very few of the Jonestown victims died from poisoned Kool-Aid. The majority of the victims were allegedly sprayed with a sleeping gas discharged from helicopters, prior to being shot or strangled - reminiscent of the SIX DAY WAR, in which Arab troops were subjected to aerial spraying of LSD gas by Israeli aircraft, prior to being bombed" .
Please see these essential video threads:
Return of the EAF - Higher and Higher Seeking Glory
It is easy to understand why those involved in the conspiracy preferred to have a “60 MINUTE BLITZ” advertised to the world as a “6 DAY WAR.” It was not wise to let the world know the truth about the part the UNITED STATES played in this TREACHERY , and it was wiser to make it appear that the brave little so-called “State of ISRAEL” had struggled for SIX DAYS before they had single-handedly defeated the giant U.A.R., with Jordan and Syria thrown in for good measure.
The “State of Israel” is well aware that its continued existence depends on railroading the United States into a war with Russia. This will be a third time this nation will be suckered into a war as a direct conspiracy of Zionist lies. If that is permitted to occur, the U.S is destined to emerge from that war as a defeated nation.
Few people in the world are aware that Zionism is the creator of Communism. This is the tool to be used for the eradication of Christendom, which the Zionists have tagged as “Capitalism” or “Imperialism” to further confuse the issue. Thus has the world been split into two hostile camps, for one to annihilate the other.
That they are past masters of inciting wars, no one who is aware of their nefarious schemes can deny. Moshe Dayan, ex-gangster and self styled "General", who was "Minister of Defence" of an armed uprising resulting in the occupation of Palestine and other Arab territory, was rushed to the United States to tell a television audience how “peace could be preserved in the Middle East"
On December 8, 1968, on the ABC network, he was asked how he believed that peace could be preserved in that area, in view of offers of Soviet assistance to the Arab victims of Zionist aggression. Without hesitation, “General” Dayan replied -“All you will come in.” ( meaning US - the U.S. )
...That brief statement leaves nothing to the imagination.
“General” Dayan told his story in the fewest possible words.
A Rothschild Connection Brigadier General J. H. Rothschild, commanding general of the U.S. Army Chemical Corps Research and Development Command, in a book that he wrote following his retirement, "Tomorrow's Weapons" -(1964), noted - "It is easy to foresee that a military commander under the effects of LSD-25 would lose his ability to make logical, rational decisions and issue coherent orders. Group cooperation would fall apart.... Think of the effect of using this type of material covertly on a higher headquarters of a military unit, or overtly on a large organization. Some military leaders feel that we should not consider using these materials because we do not know exactly what will happen and no clear cut results can be predicted. But imagine where science would be today if the reaction to trying anything new had been - 'let's not try it 'til we know exactly what the results will be'
( from Consumer Reports Magazine - 1972 )
The Nakhleh Memorandum The foregoing quotation from our mercurial 'General Rothschild' becomes considerably more significant in light of what follows - from a "Memorandum to the President" by ISSAH NAKHLEH
[excerpt] - In 1967, Egypt was not prepared for war. President Gamal Abdel Nasser moved his forces as a propaganda ploy to pressure President Lyndon B. Johnson to renew the economic aid agreement with Egypt. The Zionists pressured President Johnson to refuse to renew economic aid to Egypt in order to arouse Gamal Abdel Nasser. The Zionists were predicting the steps which Abdel Nasser would take as a bluff and were now preparing to launch their attack to crush Egypt's military power, before the Egyptians perfected their training on the use of Soviet weapons. At the same time, the Zionists were executing their plan of expansion, to occupy the West Bank, Gaza and other parts of the Arab world, in accordance with the Zionist colonial program. Israel was planning its attack while Abdel Nasser was being lulled into slumber by American and Soviet intelligence agencies, each one for its own motives.
The proof that Egypt was not prepared or preparing for war is the fact that, in the evening of June 4, 1967, a party was held for the airforce graduates in Anshas (former Farouk palace and gardens), where practically every important officer in the Egyptian airforce and all its commanders were present in that party until the early hours of the morning of June 5, when the Israelis attacked at 4 a.m.. According to unimpeachable evidence, now in our possession, Egyptian agents of Israeli intelligence were able to put LSD in the drinks and coffee served to the most important officers and top command of the Egyptian airforce. When Israeli airplanes struck at 4 a.m. on the morning of June 5, most of the Egyptian airforce
officers were asleep...and incapacitated by LSD.
We also have unimpeachable evidence that the Israeli airplanes dropped LSD-25, a nerve gas, on Egyptian forces in Sinai, and on Egyptian military airports, and were able to incapacitate the Egyptian armed forces. These facts prove that the Israeli armed forces won the 1967 war by deception, conspiracy, and using the LSD-25 nerve gas. This does not necessarily make the Israeli army "the best in the world."
Addenda Brian Desborough, at a "Hidden Mysteries" site, mentions this account only in passing, as if it was common knowledge -
--"Very few of the Jonestown victims died from poisoned Kool-Aid. The majority of the victims were allegedly sprayed with a sleeping gas discharged from helicopters, prior to being shot or strangled - reminiscent of the SIX DAY WAR, in which Arab troops were subjected to aerial spraying of LSD gas by Israeli aircraft, prior to being bombed" .
Please see these essential video threads:
- Egypt is about to declare war on israelis
- 1967 mass murder of unarmed Egyptians
- A short summary of the "Six Day War"
Return of the EAF - Higher and Higher Seeking Glory
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17 mar 2007
Eliezer
Israeli Ynetnews reported on Friday night that a former Egyptian prisoner of war said that he witnesses Labor member of Knesset and the National Infrastructure Minister, Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, killing two captive Egyptian soldiers during the 1967 war, for drinking water without his permission.
The Gulf News Website reported on Friday that the former Egyptian soldier, Ameen Abdul-Rahman, stated that he was captured by the Israeli soldiers during the 1967 Mideast war. He stated that after the war started on June 5 1967 in central Sinai desert, he was taken prisoner in Al Husna in Sinai.
Abdul-Rahman served in the reconnaissance corps of the Egyptian army. He said that “it was very hot at that time, and the captured soldiers were very thirsty, adding that Israeli soldiers ordered the captured Egyptian officers to gather near a water tank to drink from it, but when they did, soldiers executed them using machine guns.
Israeli online daily Ynetnews, which republished the Gulf News article, said that Abdul-Rahman, who was imprisoned by Israel, accused Ben-Eliezer of killing two Egyptian prisoners of war.
Abdul-Rahman stated that Egyptian soldiers, including himself, were detained in a makeshift camp surrounded with a barbed wire fence.
He stated that after the captured soldiers could no longer handle the thirst, he collected that shoe laces from his colleagues and made a long rope which he tied to a military boot.
“I used this technique to bring water from a nearby ditch, but the soldiers noticed and took us to their commander who was Ben-Eliezer”, Abdul-Rahman said, “he spoke Arabic in an Iraqi dialect”.
“He shot an Egyptian military commander and a soldier for arguing with him over the water”, Abdul-Rahman added, “I survived, miraculously”.
The case of the slain captured soldiers was raised after Israeli TV aired a documentary that stated that a battalion under the command of Ben-Eliezer killed 250 Egyptian soldiers after they surrendered to the Israeli forces.
Following the report, several Egyptian members of parliament called on their government to cut its ties with Israel.
Ben-Eliezer was planning to visit Egypt but had to cancel his trip over fears of being arrested for war crimes after the documentary was published.
Israeli Ynetnews reported on Friday night that a former Egyptian prisoner of war said that he witnesses Labor member of Knesset and the National Infrastructure Minister, Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, killing two captive Egyptian soldiers during the 1967 war, for drinking water without his permission.
The Gulf News Website reported on Friday that the former Egyptian soldier, Ameen Abdul-Rahman, stated that he was captured by the Israeli soldiers during the 1967 Mideast war. He stated that after the war started on June 5 1967 in central Sinai desert, he was taken prisoner in Al Husna in Sinai.
Abdul-Rahman served in the reconnaissance corps of the Egyptian army. He said that “it was very hot at that time, and the captured soldiers were very thirsty, adding that Israeli soldiers ordered the captured Egyptian officers to gather near a water tank to drink from it, but when they did, soldiers executed them using machine guns.
Israeli online daily Ynetnews, which republished the Gulf News article, said that Abdul-Rahman, who was imprisoned by Israel, accused Ben-Eliezer of killing two Egyptian prisoners of war.
Abdul-Rahman stated that Egyptian soldiers, including himself, were detained in a makeshift camp surrounded with a barbed wire fence.
He stated that after the captured soldiers could no longer handle the thirst, he collected that shoe laces from his colleagues and made a long rope which he tied to a military boot.
“I used this technique to bring water from a nearby ditch, but the soldiers noticed and took us to their commander who was Ben-Eliezer”, Abdul-Rahman said, “he spoke Arabic in an Iraqi dialect”.
“He shot an Egyptian military commander and a soldier for arguing with him over the water”, Abdul-Rahman added, “I survived, miraculously”.
The case of the slain captured soldiers was raised after Israeli TV aired a documentary that stated that a battalion under the command of Ben-Eliezer killed 250 Egyptian soldiers after they surrendered to the Israeli forces.
Following the report, several Egyptian members of parliament called on their government to cut its ties with Israel.
Ben-Eliezer was planning to visit Egypt but had to cancel his trip over fears of being arrested for war crimes after the documentary was published.
12 mar 2007
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Mr Ben-Eliezer was reportedly told that he could be arrested in Egypt
Egyptian opposition politicians have expressed fresh anger over an Israeli documentary film about the treatment of Egyptian troops during the 1967 war. Part of the controversial film was shown in Egypt on Sunday. It was obtained by the foreign ministry and made available in a bid to cool down public anger, although the tactic seems to have had the reverse effect. Egypt wants Israel to investigate whether its troops killed 250 Egyptian POWs taken in fighting in Sinai. After the film aired in Israel two weeks ago, the government there strongly denied its troops had executed Egyptian POWs, saying the dead had been 250 Palestinians killed in action. Poor, scared A sequence of approximately seven minutes from the documentary called Ruach Shaked (The Spirit of Shaked), after the name of the elite Israeli army unit, was shown on Egyptian private and state-run television channels. The film showed a veteran of the Shaked commando unit that took part in the operations say: "They [the Egyptian troops] were in a poor state, scared - some of them hid in holes in the sand so we wouldn't find them. But we found them. Only some of them put up a fight." Another former unnamed Shaked member, shown from behind as he drove a car, said that the Israeli forces had faced no danger from the retreating Egyptian army and in retrospect should have disobeyed orders to engage them. The unit at the centre of the claims was led by Israel's current infrastructure minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, who was forced to cancel a trip to Egypt this month over the controversy. Egyptian members of parliament are furious over a statement made by Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmed Abul Gheit that "Egypt won't cut relations with Israel over a film". Muslim Brotherhood MP Hussein Ibrahim said Mr Abul Gheit's statement was an insult to all Egyptians. A number of MPs have signed a petition addressed to the government asking to freeze all agreements with Israel. Others have called for the establishment of a media campaign that would expose "Israeli crimes". Duty Although Egypt signed a peace agreement with Israel, known as the Camp David agreement, in 1979, many Egyptians are against the normalisation of ties with Israel. The leading state-owned daily al-Ahram stressed in its editorial on 12 March "the need for rational management of the POWs case through specialised international bodies". The paper believes that Egypt's foreign ministry is doing its duty in that context. The paper's editorial said: "We need law jurists to help the ministry in that regard, instead of casting doubts on the government's seriousness in taking revenge for our POWs." However, the independent weekly al-Usbu's editorial was critical of the foreign ministry for failing to respond to the Israeli ambassador's statement that Israel will not respond to an Egyptian request to launch an investigation into the killing of the soldiers. Al-Misri al-Yawm, an independent daily, focusing on domestic issues, reported on 12 March that "demonstrations were to take place in front of the foreign ministry to protest against the "massacre" of Egyptian soldiers. The paper said the demonstrators were demanding the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador in Cairo and the cutting of diplomatic relations with Israel. More video's |
9 mrt 2007
Eliezer
Following a documentary film about the Israeli military “Shaked” unit, which is believed to be responsible of killing 250 surrendering Egyptian soldiers during the Six Day War in June 1967, Egypt warned on Friday that the Israeli Infrastructures Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer, who was in command of the army during the war, would be arrested if he enters Egypt.
Egypt said that it holds Ben Eliezer responsible for the death of the 250 Egyptian soldiers who surrendered to the Israeli army during the war.
Egyptian Member of Parliament, Mustafa Bakri, said in a Friday interview with Kul Al Arab newspaper that Egypt “demands that these murderers and war criminals be brought to an Egyptian court”.
Bakri added that Benjamin Ben Eliezer and every Israeli soldier and officer who was involved in this slaughter of the Egyptian captive soldiers must be brought to justice.
Ben Eliezer was planning to visit Egypt but had to cancel his trip after the hour-long documentary was broadcast on the Israeli TV Channel 1 last week.
Ben-Eliezer canceled his trip to Cairo in the wake of the storm created by the hour-long film, called Ruach Shaked. It shown on Channel 1 last week as an eyewitness testimony given to him as he set about telling the tale of the unit, which patrolled the southern border from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, Israeli online daily, Jerusalem Post, reported
Meanwhile, the Egyptian parliament will hold an emergency session on Saturday to discuss the response of Shalom Cohen, the Israeli Ambassador to Egypt.
Cohen met on Wednesday with the head of the Israel department in the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, as was requested, to provide explanations on the content of the documentary film.
Also, the Israeli Radio reported that several Egyptian members of parliament submitted proposals to cut ties with Israel and to expel Cohen from the Cairo department.
Following a documentary film about the Israeli military “Shaked” unit, which is believed to be responsible of killing 250 surrendering Egyptian soldiers during the Six Day War in June 1967, Egypt warned on Friday that the Israeli Infrastructures Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer, who was in command of the army during the war, would be arrested if he enters Egypt.
Egypt said that it holds Ben Eliezer responsible for the death of the 250 Egyptian soldiers who surrendered to the Israeli army during the war.
Egyptian Member of Parliament, Mustafa Bakri, said in a Friday interview with Kul Al Arab newspaper that Egypt “demands that these murderers and war criminals be brought to an Egyptian court”.
Bakri added that Benjamin Ben Eliezer and every Israeli soldier and officer who was involved in this slaughter of the Egyptian captive soldiers must be brought to justice.
Ben Eliezer was planning to visit Egypt but had to cancel his trip after the hour-long documentary was broadcast on the Israeli TV Channel 1 last week.
Ben-Eliezer canceled his trip to Cairo in the wake of the storm created by the hour-long film, called Ruach Shaked. It shown on Channel 1 last week as an eyewitness testimony given to him as he set about telling the tale of the unit, which patrolled the southern border from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, Israeli online daily, Jerusalem Post, reported
Meanwhile, the Egyptian parliament will hold an emergency session on Saturday to discuss the response of Shalom Cohen, the Israeli Ambassador to Egypt.
Cohen met on Wednesday with the head of the Israel department in the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, as was requested, to provide explanations on the content of the documentary film.
Also, the Israeli Radio reported that several Egyptian members of parliament submitted proposals to cut ties with Israel and to expel Cohen from the Cairo department.
3 mrt 2007
Former Meretz party leader in Israel, Yossi Sarid said in an interview with the Egyptian daily, Al Ahram, that the Israeli army executed 250 unarmed Egyptian soldiers at the end of the 1967 war.
Saird described the incident as a war crime, since it involved the killing of unarmed soldiers.
Israeli TV Channel one, aired a documentary earlier this week and revealed that an elite unit of the Israeli army, commanded by Labor member of Knesset, Benjamin Ben Eliezer, executed 250 unarmed Egyptian soldiers after they surrendered to the Israeli army.
“The killing of those captive soldiers in the Six Day War was a war crime”, Saird told Al Ahram, “But war crimes in the area are numerous”.
The report received intensive media coverage in Egypt, Israeli news reported.
During the interview, Sarid said that he did not see the documentary, but added that he was aware that Israeli troops carried out war crimes against Arab soldiers during the war.
He also told Al Ahram that “it is difficult to punish those responsible for these crimes since they happened 40 years ago”, and added that “history will remember and judge those people”.
Three years ago, a diplomatic crisis strained the relations between Israel and Egypt after the Egyptian Foreign Ministry demanded Israel to pay compensations for Egypt for the murdering of those soldiers.
Responding to the report, Ben Eliezer claimed that the casualties were killed in combat and that they “were Palestinian fighters and not Egyptian soldiers”.
Saird described the incident as a war crime, since it involved the killing of unarmed soldiers.
Israeli TV Channel one, aired a documentary earlier this week and revealed that an elite unit of the Israeli army, commanded by Labor member of Knesset, Benjamin Ben Eliezer, executed 250 unarmed Egyptian soldiers after they surrendered to the Israeli army.
“The killing of those captive soldiers in the Six Day War was a war crime”, Saird told Al Ahram, “But war crimes in the area are numerous”.
The report received intensive media coverage in Egypt, Israeli news reported.
During the interview, Sarid said that he did not see the documentary, but added that he was aware that Israeli troops carried out war crimes against Arab soldiers during the war.
He also told Al Ahram that “it is difficult to punish those responsible for these crimes since they happened 40 years ago”, and added that “history will remember and judge those people”.
Three years ago, a diplomatic crisis strained the relations between Israel and Egypt after the Egyptian Foreign Ministry demanded Israel to pay compensations for Egypt for the murdering of those soldiers.
Responding to the report, Ben Eliezer claimed that the casualties were killed in combat and that they “were Palestinian fighters and not Egyptian soldiers”.
