With regard to Wikipedia, it IS edited, as Henny points out. I believe that there are two Wikipedia articles, one (that is called up by a Google of Six Day War) is fairly comprehensive, summarizes along the lines favoured by Ami and sirs, but then provides a lot of the background showing the lead-up to the war, and implicating the Israelis a lot more heavily than the summary would indicate. The other Wikipedia article is the one quoted by sirs - - it is the same as the first article, MINUS all of the stuff indicating that Israel was not exactly blameless in setting the stage for the war. Indicating, basically, the role that Israeli aggression and provocation may well have played in the troop movements that sirs would like to pretend was the sole cause of the war.
With regard to domer's comments about pre-emptive wars, this is a perfect example of a straw-man argument. In the first place, I don't excuse everything the Egyptians and their allies did before the war. They may even have precipitated it, but there was a longer road leading up to it than sirs was prepared to admit. My initial objection was to sirs' dishonesty in presenting a truncated version of the facts, obviously heavily edited by Zionist supporters to remove any sign pointing towards the Israelis as contributors to the causus belli. It was never my intention to blame either the Jews or the Arabs exclusively for the war, only to point out the deliberate suppression of facts implicating the one side and thereby casting blame entirely on the other, as sirs tried to do.
And secondly, of course, it is absolutely absurd to consider the Six Day War, HOWEVER caused, as justification for the horrific injustice and abuse suffered by the Palestinians at the hands of the Israelis for what is now 39 years. The Palestinians had nothing to do with the actions of the Jordanian, Syrian or Egyptian forces, they are all civilians, and the Fourth Geneva Convention expressly forbids the occupation and settlement of territory taken in war. The Israelis themselves signed on to the Fourth Geneva Convention in 1949. To justify what is happening today and every day in the West Bank on the basis of what happened during six days in 1967 is bullshit.
The plain and obvious explanation for the occupation is greed for land and complete indifference to the human rights of others, not some illogical and unrealistic "connection" to the actions of three Arab governments for which the victims of the occupation bear no responsibility whatsoever.
And, no, Henny, I don't get a headache from this. I see lies and I just want to put the record straight. Sometimes I think how does all this shit go down? In Palestine, three million people deprived of every normal civil and human right through no fault of their own for 39 years. In Viet Nam, 2,000,000 innocent peasants incinerated, blown to bits, deformed by chemicals. In Iraq, hundreds of thousands shot, imprisoned, raped, beaten, tortured. How? How does all this happen? Are Americans all bad people? I think, no, they can't all be bad. They are stupid. Ignorant. Insulated from reality. Easily misled. And all this shit happens because of the lies they are told. Lies that come down from the top but are ignorantly repeated and defended by the sirs of this generation and the sirs of the generation before, the "Vietnam sirs," whoever they were. Sometimes I get tired of repeating myself, but as long as they persist in repeating their lies, I just won't give up and give them the last word. They gotta know and anyone reading this has gotta know that lies can't kill truth. Truth will kill lies. And the good news is, the American people ARE starting to see the truth, in greater and greater numbers. As they always do, eventually.
