The War of Aggression
1967
Admissions from Zionist
Leaders
In the early hours of June 5, l 967, Israel launched a war of
aggression against Egypt, Jordan and Syria and occupied the West
Bank, Gaza, the Golan Heights and the Sinai Peninsula. On the
admission of many Israeli leaders, this war was the result of a
long-planned, calculated aggression. It was undertaken in order to
expand Israel's ocupation of Arab territories and not (as falsely
claimed by Israeli apologists) as a pre-emptive strike to avoid
annihilation.
The following admissions from Israeli leaders prove their
conspiracy and their crime against peace:
1. Menachem Begin, Minister without Portfolio:
"In June l967, we had a choice. 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."
(New York Times, August
21, 1982)
2. General Yitzhak Rabin, Chief of Staff, Israeli Defence
Forces:
"I do not believe that Nasser wanted war. The two
divisions which 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."
(Le
Monde, February 28, 1968)
3. General Mattitiahu Peled, Chief Quartermaster-General's
Branch, Israeli Defence Forces, General Staff:
"All those stories about the huge danger we were facing
because of our small territorial size, an argument expounded once
the war was over, had never been considered
our calculations prior to the unleashing of hostilities.
While we proceeded towards the full mobilization of our forces, no
person in his right mind could believe that all this force was
necessary to our defence against the Egyptian threat. To pretend
that the Egyptian forces concentrated on our borders were capable
of threatening Israel's existence does not only insult the
intelligence of any person capable of analyzing this kind of
situation, but is primarily an insult to the Israeli
army."
(Le
Monde, June 3, 1972)
4. General Ezer Weizman, Chief of Operations, Israeli Defence
Forces, General Staff:
"There was never a danger of extermination. This
hypothesis had never been considered in any serious
meeting."
(Ha' aretz, March
29, 1972)
5. General Yeshayahu Gavish, Commanding General Southern
Command:
"The danger of Israel's extermination was hardly present
before the Six-day war."
(Alfred M. Lilienthal, The
Zionist Connection, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1978, p.
558)
6. General Mordechai Hod, Commanding General, Israeli Air
Force:
"Sixteen years planning had gone into those initial
eighty minutes. We lived with the plan, we slept on the plan, we
ate the plan. Constantly we perfected it."
(New
York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1978, pp. 558-559)
7. General Haim Barlev, Chief of General Staff Branch, Israeli
Defence Forces:
"We were not threatened with genocide on the eve of the
six-day war, and we had never thought of such a possibility."
(Ma' ariv, April 4,
1972)
8. General Chaim Herzog, Commanding General and first Military
Govemor, Israeli Occupied West Bank:
"There was no danger of annihilation. Israeli
headquarters never believed in this danger."
(Ma'
ariv,
April 4, 1972)
9. Mordechai Bentov, Minister of Housing:
"The entire story of the danger of extermination was
invented in every detail, and exaggerated a posteriori to
justify the annexation of new Arab territory."
(Al-Hamishmar, April
14, 1971)
10. Yigal Allon, Minister of Labor and Member of Prime Minister
Eshkol's Military Advisory Committee:
"Begin and I want Jerusalem."
(Eitan Haber, Menahem Begin:
The Legend and the Man, New York: Delacorte Press, 1978, p.
271)
11. General Meir Amit, the former head of Military Intelligence
who was head of Mossad in 1967:
"There is going to be a war. Our army is now fully
mobilized. But we cannot remain in that condition for long.
Because we have a civilian army our economy is shuddering to a
stop. We don't have the manpower right now even to bring in the
crops. Sugar beets are rotting in the earth. We have to make quick
decisions... If we can get the first blow in our casualties will
be comparatively light..."
(Dennis Eisenberg, Uri Dan and
Eli Landau, The Mossad: Israel's Secret Intelligence
Service, New York: New American Library, 1978, pp.
160-161.)
