Why Israel Attacked ... LETTERS
Why Israel AttackedDavid Killion
Israel's far-right government has also announced plans to build 5,000 new buildings in its settlements within the occupied West Bank, while in April police carried out a raid on the al Aqsa mosque - one of the three holiest sites in Islam. On the other hand, the...
Hamas and Hizbullah attacked Israel, killing and abducting Israeli soldiers, leading to a month-long war. For all these developments, majority-Muslim countries blamed Israel. There was no criticism of Hamas, Hezbollah and Ahmadinejad. On the contrary, they were idolized...
Nearly four decades on, almost all Jews everywhere and most other people still believe that Israel went to war either becausethe Arabs attacked(that was Israel’s first claim), or becausethe Arabs were intending to attack(thus requiring Israel to launch a pre-emptive strike). The ...
So your Washingtonian model of America having a passionate partisanship for one country (Israel), which angers other countries (the Arabs) is not true. What got America hyper-involved in Arab-Israeli, and thus increasingly angered the Arabs, was not America siding with Israel, but America actin...
Israel invaded Egypt in response to President Gamal Abdel Nasser's nationalization of the strategically critical Suez Canal. Although hostilities ended that same year, yet another world war seemed possible as France and Britain joined the fray, while Russia postured as if it were poised to do ...
become involved in the Vietnam War? Why was the U.S. involved in the Gulf War? Why did the Onin War start? Why did the U.S. support Israel after the Six-Day War? Why did the Six-Day War happen? Why was the Onin War important? Why did the Iraq War start? Why did the U....
Although Netanyahu consistently depicts Iran as a military aggressor, that country hasn’t attacked another in a conventional war in modern history, whereas Israel has repeatedly launched wars of aggression, including 1956, 1967, 1982, 2009 and 2014. (The 1982 Israeli act of naked aggression on ...
1967 unwillingness to discuss either the Palestinians’ plight or the nature of the Israeli relationship with Washington as “The Great Silence” fueled by “The Great Silencer,” namely the charge of anti-Semitism or Jewish self-hating inevitably leveled against any critic of Israel. The circle ...