Israel is simply too small to allow for the deployment and maneuver of large warring armies, hence, as the Arabs persistently resolve to destroy Israel, Yigal Allon, as a Labor Deputy Prime Minister, declared (February 1967):
“Israel is entitled, nay, obligated and therefore capable of opening pre-emptive hostilities whenever war is imposed upon it – this being the most important and, in certain circumstances , the only means of securing its survival.”
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