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Originally Posted by Skybird
Saw a feature on it this early evening. Israeli intel back then strongly suggested that noone ever should seriously think about occupation of territories - it would create problems that are exactly what in later years until today has been seen. So clever minds already back then knew it all too well. Of course, some dumper minds knew it better, and so...
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And so...
Two months after the war, in August 1967, the Arab leaders meeting in Khartoum adopted a formula of three noes: "no peace with Israel, no negotiations with Israel, no recognition of Israel."
And so...
The Arab League created the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Cairo in 1964 -
3 years prior to the Six Day War - as a weapon against Israel. Until the Six Day War, the PLO engaged in terrorist attacks that contributed to the momentum toward conflict. Neither the PLO nor any other Palestinian groups campaigned for Jordan or Egypt to create an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. The focus of Palestinian activism was and still is today on the destruction of Israel.
And so...
Chances are had Israel then returned every last centimer of land and retreated to the pre-war "Green Line", more wars and more severe ones would have followed, leading to even more death and terror than Israel has suffered from these past 40 years.
As it is, so far Israel has since given back some 93% of the areas it captured in the 6 day war.
And so...
Some minds are
dumper that others.
EDIT: No Pyrrhic Victory.