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Rethinking Israel's David-and-Goliath past

Little-noticed details in declassified U.S. documents indicate that Israel's Six-Day War may not have been a war of necessity.
By Sandy Tolan

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  • Monday, June 4, 2007 04:59 AM

    A casus belli as far as international law was concerned, too

    The blockade of the Strait of Tiran was an act of war, according to international law, not 'just as far as Israel was concerned'.

    (See http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Blockade)

    If Egypt was so weak in relation to Israel, then it shouldn't have blockaded the Strait and provoked a war.

    —Ross Johnson Read Ross Johnson's other letters

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