The lies about the 1967 war are still more powerful than the truth
In an interview published in Le Monde on 28 February 1968, Israeli Chief of Staff Rabin said this: “I do not believe that Nasser wanted war. The two divisions which he sent into Sinai on 14 May would not have been enough to unleash an offensive against Israel. He knew it and we knew it.”
On 14 April 1971, a report in the Israeli newspaper Al-Hamishmar contained the following statement by Mordecai Bentov, a member of the wartime national government. “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.”
On 4 April 1972, General Haim Bar-Lev, Rabin’s predecessor as chief of staff, was quoted in Ma’ariv as follows: “We were not threatened with genocide on the eve of the Six Days War, and we had never thought of such a possibility.”
In the same Israeli newspaper on the same day, General Ezer Weizmann, Chief of Operations during the war and a nephew of Chaim Weizmann, was quoted as saying: “There was never any danger of annihilation. This hypothesis has never been considered in any serious meeting.”
In the spring of 1972, General Matetiyahu Peled, Chief of Logistical Command during the war and one of 12 members of Israel’s General Staff, addressed a political literary club in Tel Aviv. He said: “The thesis according to which the danger of genocide hung over us in June 1967, and according to which Israel was fighting for her very physical survival, was nothing but a bluff which was born and bred after the war.”
In a radio debate Peled also said: “Israel was never in real danger and there was no evidence that Egypt had any intention of attacking Israel.” He added that “Israeli intelligence knew that Egypt was not prepared for war.”
In the same programme General Chaim Herzog (former Director of Military Intelligence, future Israeli Ambassador to the UN and President of his state) said: “There was no danger of annihilation. Neither Israeli headquarters nor the Pentagon – as the memoirs of President Johnson proved – believed in this danger.”
On 3 June 1972 Peled was even more explicit in an article of his own for Le Monde. He wrote: “All those stories about the huge danger we were facing because of our small territorial size, an argument expounded once the war was over, have never been considered in our calculations. While we proceeded towards the full mobilisation of our forces, no person in his right mind could believe that all this force was necessary to our ‘defence’ against the Egyptian threat. This force was to crush once and for all the Egyptians at the military level and their Soviet masters at the political level. 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 analysing this kind of situation, but is primarily an insult to the Israeli army.”
The preference of some generals for truth-telling after the event provoked something of a debate in Israel, but it was short-lived. If some Israeli journalists had had their way, the generals would have kept their mouths shut. Weizmann was one of those approached with the suggestion that he and others who wanted to speak out should “not exercise their inalienable right to free speech lest they prejudice world opinion and the Jewish diaspora against Israel.”
It is not surprising that debate in Israel was shut down before it led to some serious soul-searching about the nature of the state and whether it should continue to live by the lie as well as the sword; but it is more than remarkable, I think, that the mainstream Western media continues to prefer the convenience of the Zionist myth to the reality of what happened in 1967 and why. When reporters and commentators have need today to make reference to the Six Days War, almost all of them still tell it like the Zionists said it was in 1967 rather than how it really was. Obviously there are still limits to how far the mainstream media is prepared to go in challenging the Zionist account of history, but it could also be that lazy journalism is a factor in the equation.
For those journalists, lazy or not, who might still have doubts about who started the Six Days War, here’s a quote from what Prime Minister Begin said in an unguarded, public moment in 1982. “In June 1967 we had a choice. The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches did not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us, We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him.”
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Rehmat:
June 5th, 2012 at 11:41 am
Dr. Norman Finkelstein in his book, ‘The Holocaust Industry’ has also claimed that most American Jews did not take Israel seriously until the 1967 war. However, he has claimed that the turning point was due to the reason that the pro-Israel lobby groups were able to convince the Jews that unless they come to the aid of Israel – the Israeli Jews might suffer their second holocaust.
However, the so-called “Six-Day War” was planned months ahead by both Israel and the US in collaboration with Washington’s stooges in Egypt, Syria and Jordan. The idea was to kill the chance of a future Palestinian state as visioned by the notorious Balfour Declaration. Even today, most of Arab rulers pay lip service to Palestinians – but they’re very scare of an independent and democratic state – which, like Iran – will become a threat to the western-puppet regimes.
“The Six-Day War induced more Jews to identify with Zionism as a defender of Jews. Yet now we know that war was a long-planned land grab destined to outrage Arabs and Muslims. When combined with a murderous occupation, decades of Israeli provocations were guaranteed to evoke the violent reactions required to rationalize a “war on terrorism”,” wrote Jeff Gates in February 2010.
There are whole lot of Zionist myths kept alive for over century know. Some of these myths has beome part of Jewish religion and the others – part of western culture.
http://rehmat1.com/2009/03/08/zionist-myths-no-more/
David:
June 6th, 2012 at 6:18 am
All true. Israel has elected expansion over peace again and again and most Israelis and most world Jews don’t understand this even though the record is clear: The history of the region and the Jewish state can only be understood by turning the myths upside down and inside out. Example: If Israel were under dire existential threat prior to instigating war, how then did Israel manage to whip these big bad enemies in a matter of days, fighting all actions outside of Israel, i.e. expanding Israel’s control into neighboring states? Had the threat been real, little Israel would have had to fight a long harsh war at its borders (assuming it had borders) just to go on breathing. And that clearly did not happen. Why? Because it was never under such a threat.
This is just one lie in the whole mythology of Israel. There are more — the longing for peace, the fight against “terrorism”, the only “democratic” state…the list of lies is long.
But I encourage others to take their favorite Israel myth and reverse it and see if you can’t get a clearer understanding of history by so doing. But that means actually thinking and so many are opposed to thinking, it just gives them a headache.
Israel is now an extremist expansionist state in the heart of the ME, poised, as a handful of Jews, to run the region for the benefit of an even smaller handful of Israeli families. And all with the backing and hardware provided by the US. For what? To outrage and alienate from the US virtually hundreds of millions of Arabs and others in the region? What kind of foreign policy is that? But don’t ge tme started…
maryam:
June 6th, 2012 at 8:57 am
Israel and its myths are the backbone of all the “war on terror” nonsense that is destroying the world. By portraying the Arab world as a hotbed of extremism, it is currently promoting the myth that the revolution in Syria is not legitimate but is actually part of some convoluted plot to install a “puppet regime” in place of Bashar Assad. The truth is, the Arabs despise Assad just as they despised the tyrants of Libya, Tunisia and Egypt. However, Israel had every interest in keeping those tyrants in power, including Assad – the status quo kept Israel as the single controlling power in the region. It is quite likely Israel and the US are attempting to meddle in these revolutions, but they certainly did not start them.
Israel also persists in pushing the myth that Arabs hate Jews, and that is why there is so much acrimony against Israel in the Arab world. What sheer nonsense; Arabs hate tyranny, and Israel is a tyrant who, along with the US, has kept its foot on the neck of the Arabs for generations. It has nothing to do with religion.
Rehmat:
June 6th, 2012 at 12:36 pm
maryam – History read from objective sources shows that Arabs became ‘liberators’ of Jews who were treated as slaves under Christian rules.
During Nazi era – while hundreds of thousands of Jews collaborated with Nazis – Muslims from Turkey, Iran and Albania saved over 100,000 Jews from Holocaust.
http://rehmat1.com/2012/06/04/iranian-diplomat-saved-2000-jews-from-the-nazis/
maryam:
June 6th, 2012 at 1:01 pm
But of course, the Muslims don’t get any recognition for that, Rehmat. One of the timeworn pieces of hasbara Israel uses against Arabs is the assertion that the Mayor of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, collaborated with the Nazis, as if any such thing would even be of import in the grand scheme of things whether it happened or not. And even if it did, who would blame this man for taking steps to keep his homeland from being stolen from him and his people?
Ronald Douglas Kennedy:
June 6th, 2012 at 4:48 pm
The defeat’ of the United States Navy in not protecting its ship USS. LIBERTY while being deliberately attacked in 1967, is still an unrealized and not understood history by the American Public. Along with the tragedy of this attack of stealing the land’s of: Christians, Muslims and other’s.
The Navy was forced to stand down while there men and those of NSA died. Following direct orders from our Israel compromised President Johnson. along with many of the best Government – money can buy – in WDC. The House still has six pointed star’s on the sides each Congressman’s seat to remind them, just who they really represent with there Vote. Surely its not our Finest fighting these proxy wars.
Brad Brzezinski:
June 7th, 2012 at 3:34 pm
david: “Israel has elected expansion over peace again and again ..”
Excuse me for noticing and I’m not going to argue fine points here but: of the lands taken in the 1967 war, Sinai – the vast majority of the area – has been returned in full. Gaza is now completely “Juice-free” and in much of the west bank, Palestinian government exercises control.
In the interim, Israel had control in Lebanon but also pulled out in full.
I just don’t see how your statement above makes sense.
Seeing as the issue is peace, it is also painfully obvious that in each of the “returned” territories, the threat to Israel has increased.
Lebanon – Hizb’allah
Gaza – Hamas and others, rockets
Sinai (Egypt) – Leadership expressions of Israel hatred since the Arab Spring are now common.
Does none of this suggest that perhaps a more balanced approach to the allocation of blame might actually help in promoting peace, rather than persistent vilification of Israel?
Vera Gottlieb:
June 7th, 2012 at 7:02 pm
Demonize the truth and sanctify the lie! And so many so good at it.
maryam:
June 8th, 2012 at 9:46 am
I was wondering when the hasbarist would show up. And he’s shown up.
Your statements about Gaza and the West Bank are so idiotic that I won’t even bother to address them. You are insulting the intelligence of Alan and his readers by even making them here.
Hizbullah, in case you don’t know, is a resistance organization, and now a political party, in Lebanon which did not come out of a vacuum, but came about in response to Israeli military aggression. We also all know this. If you don’t, I can’t imagine where you’ve been hiding.
Egypt never regained total sovereignty over Sinai – under the peace treaty the number of troops it can place there is limited.
Rehmat:
June 8th, 2012 at 6:00 pm
Brad Brzezinski – The Jewish army never withdrew from any of its occupied territories including the Zionist entity established on 54% of the historical Palestine in 1948. It has always been forced to retreat from the occupied territories. You know “what’s gained by terrorism, must be recovered by militry resistance”.
In Lebanon, the Jewish army and its Christian Philangists militia were defeated by Hizbullah – twice, in 2000 and 2006.
http://rehmat1.com/2010/08/27/hizbullah-changed-the-me-in-2006/
Brad Brzezinski:
June 8th, 2012 at 7:11 pm
rehmat: I said I was not here to argue the fine points. If it makes you feel better to believe that Israel was pushed out of these territories, then go right ahead. Nothing you have said overcomes the actual argument I was making and I make it to advance the interests of peace.
Do I take it that peace is not in your interest and that you merely want Jews gone from the Middle East?
maryam:
June 9th, 2012 at 3:02 pm
“Do I take it that peace is not in your interest and that you merely want Jews gone from the Middle East?”
Hasbara in the form of a question. Keeping Israel behind the green line, curbing its aggression, forcing it to give back ALL land it stole in 1967 including Jerusalem, lifting the siege on Gaza, and stop annoying its neighbors is the ticket to peace in the middle east. Jews have lived there for millennia. Nobody minds Jews, but they sure do despise Zionists.
Rehmat:
June 16th, 2012 at 1:27 am
The daughter and son of 1967 Israeli war of aggression’s hero, Gen. Matti Peled – Professor Nurit Peled-Elhanan (Hebrew University) and Miko Peled, a former IOF soldier and author of book, “The General’s Son” – have recently spoken about Israel, its culture of racism and the so-called ‘Six Day War’.
http://rehmat1.com/2012/06/16/occupation-israeli-generals-family-speaks/
Brad Brzezinski:
June 19th, 2012 at 12:56 am
rehmat: It’s interesting how much of the anti-Israel narrative relies on the use of Jewish and/or Israeli evidence.
This tells one that this group runs a pretty open shop which implies that internal criticism should serve to damp wrongdoing.
On the Palestinian/Arab/Islamic side, things are a little different. There are fewer detractors, they are less organized and (for the most part) live under threat and are very brave people. Logic says we should give them more credence than we do their Jewish counterparts.
I recently stumbled upon Peled’s blog and right at the top he started referred to Israel’s “terrorist” army. Whatever family legends he has spun to craft his tale, the use of such language takes away his credibility. I pay no attention to people (on either side) who cannot state their case plainly and without the use of pejoratives
Hint: In your case, ”Jewish army” and “Zionist entity” immediately mark you as someone who will consider only evidence that suits your viewpoint an unworthy of serious consideration..
maryam:
June 20th, 2012 at 12:11 pm
Brad, good luck to you. You cannot afford to be so stuffy about which narratives you prefer. If you want to learn the full story of the occupation of Palestine, you have no choice but to endure “pejoratives” from various viewpoints. If you choose to pay no attention, you are not listening to the human voices who have lived this belligerent occupation in all its aspects.
Arthur Lloyd:
June 22nd, 2012 at 9:59 pm
The significance of Mr. Hart’s post is not so much as merchandising his book as it is merchandising the History it presents. As in to-day’s commerce you keep your product always in view. He’s just stirring the pot; presenting his subject, Zionism, from all different views. As a Constitutional American must endure and accept worldly criticisms of our present Administration; our duty to rectify; so then must the Jew endure and accept the criticisms of Zionism and their need to rectify. The real significance of his book is that it becomes more valuable each time you read another book of historical value; it fills in many of the unexplained reasons of events. An excellent example is Pat Buchanan’s book, ”Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary war.” US. Didn’t gain anything. It cost 117.000 Dead; 205,690 wounded. Germany lost all their colonies through out the world. New Zealand and Australia were given the southern colonies. France and UK. Got the rest. UK. Increased their holding by 950,000 square miles and millions of subjects; and they walked away from their war debts. The US. Was left holding the bag. The Zionists were the only ones who gained in this country. Google: Col. Edward House. He convinced Woodrow Wilson He should go to war and that it was a good idea to have The Federal Reserve of 1913. After the treaty of Versailles the American Jew bought up Germany to gain control; 1933 world jews declared war on Germany boycotting all German products. Google: Henry Morganthau for FDR. Last post, USS Liberty is a prime example of with whom we are dealing. With older History you have to compare authors for authenticity but with Mr. Hart you can toggle to to-days news. It is live history and not something read from a printed sheet read by a paid puppet. Israel is a fascist, racist state; Christians and Palestinians not wanted. They want WW111; that is pathological. You know Mr. Hart’s view on Iran’s possession of a nuclear weapon. Means nothing. Israel with 200 nuclear war heads. Russia? He refers to our stooges[traitors] in congress. What is being said is these are the same people running our country. AIPAC is the largest lobbyists in the country. Learn the difference between history and hate speech. We have no rights. Patriot Act. NDAA. Wake up America. Yes, we have been had; conned, but before we get too upset or disbelieving, just think of all those white crosses. If we let them down, they’ve been had. Thank you Mr. Hart.
http://www.texemarrs.com/102009/zionist_jews_in_power.htm
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/expelled.htm/ History Jewish Expulsion.
These next three are for historical facts.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6657600254881054584#/ The other Israel
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7713806100545252588#/ Why the Mid-east Bleeds.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4452153918748081072#/ Zionism and Christianity
Unholy Alliance
Reo:
June 24th, 2012 at 2:31 am
I used to be one of the Americans that believed Israel was important to the world of Christians. As I matured throughout the years, I have read thousands of books about politics, humanistic behavior, history (world and american) and many others I cannot list for time. It is because of Alan Hart. I started listening and studying both sides of the Israeli-Arab situation. Today, I no longer subcribe to the religious myths and propaganda that have over four billion people hypnotized. Until there is free thought amongst all mankind, mankind will never be free.
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Richard Schlosser:
February 26th, 2013 at 5:14 pm
Why does the “western” media do such a terrible job objectively reporting the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
Iveson:
April 1st, 2013 at 2:06 pm
Thanks for the auspicious writeup. It if truth be told was once a enjoyment account it.
Ronald Douglas Kennedy:
April 6th, 2013 at 5:25 pm
Win will The United State’s of America be free to have full open public hearings on the, pre planed attack by Israel on the, USS. Liberty, during the Six Day War: 34. killed , another 171. Americans wounded?
President Johnson, should have been “Impeached”. For his order’s to recall two separate flight’s from two Aircraft Carrier’s. Which would have shot down or driven of the Israel fighter plains attacking our defenseless intelligence ship Liberty, before the Israel torpedo boat’s reached the engagement area, to kill and wound American’s
ontogram:
April 6th, 2013 at 5:45 pm
Liberty and 9/11 prove that democracy and transparency and freedom are just so much poofery: Whenever “necessary” the media, the armed forces, everyone simply does as they are told which is either nothing at all or outright lies.
buddy:
July 21st, 2013 at 1:16 pm
BTW, the 1967 attack by Israel followed the Israeli 1956 Invasion of Egypt’s Sinia in collusion with UK and France. The later would enable the Jewish state’s Nuclear program. Israel would also conduct a letter bombing campaign against Egypt in late fifties. Israel would further recruit Egyptian Jews to firebomb US and UK targets in Egypt prior to 1967 attack. Captured spy Wolfgang Lotz, would be infiltrated into Egypt to plot strike targets prior to impending Israeli attack.
By 1967 Israel had 2 crude Nuclear weapons as backup for their “defensive war of survival”…..
Presently Israel’s (Iran war) of survival sees it with a WMD stockpile in the hundreds. That would include Nuclear,Chemical,and Biological.
See Operation Susannah, Lavon Affair
Israel attack on USS Liberty
David:
August 4th, 2013 at 12:05 pm
The bellicosity of Nassar (“We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand; we shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood” said by him in 1965), the build up of attacks by Syria on Northern Israel during 1965 and 1966 necessitated pre-emptive action by Israel. No country in a situation like Israel faced could wait to see whether the Arabs would mount an assault.
For Hart to brazenly state here “neither his Egypt nor any of the frontline Arab states had any intention of attacking Israel” is to ignore all the Arab rhetoric at the time. The Arabs were increasing the pressure day by day on Israel, so it was compelled to strike to prevent a situation developing that could have eventually compromised the nation’s security.
Amir rana:
September 7th, 2013 at 5:10 pm
I have been trying hard to understand the philosophy of 1967 war in particular. so far i have only been able to understand that this war was a big drama designed by USA,France and Britain.
1 to refrain the influence of Russia in middle East as it has strong links with Egypt Yeoman war due to the regime change in yeoman.
2.If UAR was maintaining offensive posture then why there were no fighter caps in the air to deal with any eventuality.
3.Why France was supplying weapons to israel. answer is simple because they wanted to has a positive control over suez canal and strait of ti-ran for smooth trade. to me britishers are the mother of all evils. thanks
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mac mccarthy:
June 10th, 2014 at 6:21 pm
Just as I always suspected. How else do you explain the extensive plans on how the conquered territories would be governed(and still are) that pre date the war.
buddy:
June 16th, 2014 at 3:04 pm
Israel was the belligerent party in 1967,just on the fact that it had previously attacked Egypt in 1956 and was carrying out sabotage activities on the same in the interim.
Ron Ross:
July 9th, 2014 at 10:48 am
This semitic pissing contest has brought the world to the point of annihilation and here we sit, like fools in a burning movie theatre debating whether the smoke is coming from a lit cigarette or a faulty electrical system. If any one really wants viable answers just do what true crime detectives always do. follow the money. Like Friedrich Nietzsche said, “All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth”. Isn’t that right bankers? WINK! WINK!
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Ronald Douglas Kennedy:
July 20th, 2014 at 10:30 pm
Regarding: The Sio. Movie scrip to dominate all of Palestine, real ling out now must stop.
Pope Frances requested a meeting at the Vatican. For a lasting effort to agree on the border, lands that would belong to Israel, with a lasting agreement by the Native Population of Palatine’s. Is now set aside in blood.
As O.B & Keary efforts were defeated, In the old Sio sham line, “It’s all ours”. Send your: Dollars and weapons for endless war’s. As you owe use.
The Catholic & Greek Church’s are also having part of there property’s taken by the settlers, Sio squatters, saying its all ours.
Netany Ahu now crying out his Political Rropaganda Lines, as he is sends out his military to destroy and kill: ” we have the right to self defense, it’s our property, its our territory, its our country being attacked “.
As Hamas crude un guided rockets are factually only falling on Palestine Land’s. As called out by: International Law, and U.N. Resolutions.
Factually Israel is not following there, Contract land agreements, as they agreed to. In the signing agreements, as the Israel State with the U.N. in 1948. As showing there sanctioned agreed border call out’s.
At this time they are just the killing, occupying military power, with out legal land rights in Palestine.
Netany Ahu and his Military Officers leading this “Knife Edge” deliberate butchery of Palestinian Civilians by there, Israel military occupation power, are breaking the law. Under international law, be booked and tried for War Crimes.
The past 2009 war crimes in Gaza are not forgotten, our forgiven. As further called out.
( Richard Goldstone Report) Report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict* A/HRC/12/48 25 September 2009
Shalom- Ronald Douglas Kennedy
darren milligan:
December 9th, 2016 at 12:33 pm
i cant understand how less than a generation after the holocaust the jews have managed to build armed forces strong enough to defeat the armies of three established countries.