Letters to the Editor
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Gator90: Your Disinformation
"Israel's decision to attack was preceded by the Egyptian dictator's expulsion of the UN peacekeeping force from the Sinai Desert. The Sinai had been de-militarized by the UN in order to prevent further warfare between Israel and Egypt, but Egypt chose unilaterally to expel the UN and re-militarize it.
--You just said it yourself. Israel attacked. Among other interesting facts to note. The sinai was demilitarized because Israel had attacked Egypt in the first place nearly a decade earlier.
"Eqypt also blockaded Israel's ports, an act of war under international law."
--Untrue. Egypt did not blockade Israel's ports. Egypt closed off the Straits of Tiran to Israeli traffic.
"To portray the 1967 war as Israeli aggression is, to put it mildly, misleading."
--In what Universe?
"Israel did not attack Jordan. The hostilities between Israel and Jordan, resulting in Israel's ill-starred conquest of the West Bank, were initiated by Jordan a couple days into the war."
Israel did in fact attack Jordan using a pretext that even the US declared laughable.