Ubuntu 11.10 makes Unity compulsory

[Nathan Bahn]

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It's late; but before I turn in, I'll share something that I received from a
friend of mine (who shall remain anonymous).

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                            1967 – An existential war or a land grab?



[4]: Collected by Stephen Lendman, see
http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/15348)

"(a) The New York Times quoted Prime Minister Menachem Begin`s (1977 - 83)
August, 1982 speech saying: `In June, 1967, we had a choice. The Egyptian
Army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that (President
Gamal Abdel) Nasser (1956 - 70) was really about to attack us. We must be
honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him.`

(b) Two-time Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (1974 - 77 and 1992 - 95) told
French newspaper Le Monde in February, 1968: `I do not believe 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.`

(c) General Mordechai Hod, Commander of the Israeli Air Force during the
Six-Day War said in 1978: `Sixteen years of 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.`

(d) General Haim Barlev, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Chief told Ma`ariv in
April 1972: `We were not threatened with genocide on the eve of the six-day
war, and we had never thought of such a possibility.`"

So: instead of "thwarting an existential danger", in 1967 the State of
Israel carried out an effective military operation to acquire some real
estate. There is nothing new about that "existential danger" propaganda.
Acquisition of real estate by conquest has been already called pleasing
names by various other conquerors and occupiers, throughout the old and new
history: such as "manifest destiny", "white man's burden", "spreading true
religion / culture / democracy", whatnot.

The reader may like to know that the 1967 real estate acquisition by the
State of Israel was anticipated some twenty years earlier by Ben-Gurion, at
the time of the partition plan (which was supposedly accepted by the Zionist
leadership). See the following quotes of Ben-Gurion, which can be found in
the book by an Israeli historian[5]:

"Just as I do not see the proposed Jewish state as a final solution to the
problems of the Jewish people, so I do not see partition as the final
solution of the Palestine question. Those who reject partition are right in
their claim that this country cannot be partitioned because it constitutes
one unit, not only from a historical point of view but also from that of
nature and economy".

"After the formation of a large army in the wake of the establishment of the
[Jewish] state, we shall abolish partition and expand to the whole of the
Palestine".
"On June 5, 1967, Israel launched its third major war of aggression but
hardly its last with another one always planned and ready to unleash on the
flimsiest pretext almost no other nation could get away with. It did it for
the usual reasons nations go to war when under no external threat to do it -
territory, resources (for Israel Golan's water was key), and a desire for
unchallengeable regional dominance.  As it always did since, Israel falsely
claimed its security was threatened by creating myths Syria was shelling
Israeli farmers; legitimate, non-threatening Egyptian military exercises
masked a preparation for war; and that "incendiary Arab rhetoric" proved it.
With plans set and a date picked, Foreign Minister Abba Eban flew to
Washington May 26 to inform Lyndon Johnson of Israel's intentions and was
assured the US backed them."
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