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Title: | #9 Jerusalem Shmuel | |||
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| Name: | Johnboy | | |||
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| City: | Sydney | State: | Australia | | |
| Strange logic you have there, JS. You list five wars - 1956, 67, 73, 82, 06 - and in only one of them did the Arabs actually start the war (1973). In all the others the war starts with either an Israeli aerial attack or an Israeli armored offensive. JS:"The other guys in each case shot first" Not true in 1956 or 1967. Definitely is true in 1973. In the two cases you cite for Lebanon (1982 and 2006) the initial arab move was a *provocation*, not the opening shots of an arab-initiated *war*. Israel has done - and continues to this day - to provoke the Lebanese by flying f-16s into their territory. It has often violated the Blue Line with ground troops, "undercover soldiers" and sundery assassinations. Border crossings, ambush of army patrols, assassinations, and sporadic artillery shellings are NOT sufficient casus belli for a war, JS, not when Israel does it to "the other guys", nor when they do it to Israel. |
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