The Three NO(s) resolution, also known as the Khartoum Resolution of 1967, was a result of a conference with heads of state from eight Arab countries in Khartoum, Sudan on August 29 to September 1, 1967. The meeting formulated the Arab consensus that despite the fact that Israel has consistently reached out for peaceful coexistence with its neighbors, the Arabian nation would not do the same. The resolution adopted September 1, 1967 called for the continued struggle against Israel, the creation of a fund to assist the economics of Egypt and Jordan, the lifting of an Arab oil boycott against
Read More +Israeli security forces today, under orders from the detestable Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, amassed in Hebron – the world’s oldest Jewish city – where they destroyed a synagogue and forcibly evicted two Jewish families from a Jewish-owned market place located within the city’s Jewish community. Two Jewish families. In the meantime, arab squatters infest the Holy City of Hebron, but the diseased Israel government evicts two Jewish families. Never before in history has there been a nation that evicts its own citizens in order to pander to its enemies. Hebron is home to the Tomb of the Patriarchs, the second
Read More +Amid General Amnesia
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Excellent points made here. From Amid General Amnesia: It’s a curious thing: Although the map that was changed by the Six-Day War had been in existence for less than 20 years, starting with Israel’s War of Independence in 1948, and more than twice as many years have gone by since then, that map of the Middle East continues to be regarded by the world as the “right” map, while the map that replaced it is considered a temporary aberration that needs to be canceled or reversed. Similarly, the world has forgotten what the pre-1967 map was really like. Far from
Read More +The Most Justified War
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From The Most Justified War: As Ha’aretz’s correspondent in Paris before the 1967 Six-Day War, I was at the Israeli Embassy when half a million people rallied in the streets to show their solidarity with Israel. There was a sense that the Arabs were about to wipe out the Jewish state. On television, people saw Egyptian troops marching into Sinai; they heard Nasser’s warmongering speeches. Ahmed Shukeiry, the secretary of the Arab League, declared that the Jews of Israel would be sent back to the countries they came from and native Israelis would be slaughtered. What those now denouncing the
Read More +From Forty Years Later, Doing Nothing Is the Best Policy: In this week’s torrent of 40th anniversary recollections about the Six-Day War, one TV image cut straight to the chase: King Faisal of Saudi Arabia staring into a camera to say, “The essential point remains the total elimination of Israel.” The king’s statement of principles was captured in “Six Days in June,” an impressive two-hour documentary that aired Monday on PBS. For all the noise about peace in the 40 years since, the Saudi monarch’s silver bullet solution is still the basic Arab mindset. As do-gooders and militants reflect on
Read More +The Six-Day War: A Defensive War
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From The Six-Day War: A Defensive War: International law makes a clear distinction between land “occupied” during a war of aggression and land taken as a result of a defensive war. On June 5, 1967, Jordan attacked Israel. Suburbs of Tel Aviv were shelled by artillery. Israel’s largest military airfield, Ramat David, was shelled. Jordanian warplanes attacked the central Israeli towns of Netanya and Kfar Saba. Thousands of mortar shells rained down on western Jerusalem, targeting Israel’s parliament building and the prime minister’s office. Twenty Israelis died in these attacks; 1,000 were wounded; 900 buildings were damaged. Only after coming
Read More +No Pyrrhic Victory
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From No Pyrrhic Victory: It is often said today that the Six-Day War humiliated the Arabs and propelled the region into future rounds of fighting. Yet only a few days before the outbreak of the war, Iraq’s then-President Abdul Rahman Aref saw it as “our opportunity…to wipe Israel off the map,” describing the war as the Arabs’ chance “to wipe out the ignominy which has been with us since 1948.” It is said that the Palestinian movement was born from Israel’s occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. Yet the Palestine Liberation Organization was already in its third year of
Read More +How the Six-Day War Reshaped the Mideast
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From How the Six-Day War Reshaped the Mideast: The great irony of the Six-Day War of 1967 was that it began with a hoax – a piece of faulty Soviet intelligence given to the Egyptians. On May 13, the Soviet ambassador to Cairo informed the Egyptians that Israel was massing “10 to 12 brigades” on the Syrian border in preparation for a big push against the radical regime in Damascus. In response to that Soviet report, Nasser mobilized his troops on May 14 and dispatched them into the Sinai. The casus belli would come on May 22, when Nasser announced
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