In contrast to the 1967 Six Day War, when Israel was universally acclaimed for having valiantly defended itself as a David vs Goliath against the combined might of Arab armies bent on her annihilation, today the image of the Jewish state has been reversed.

Perhaps its been reversed because people have woken up to the fact that the 1967 war was actually started by Israel at least in part to steal good farming land [1] and that the mighty “Arab armies bent on her [Israel's] annihilation” were mostly Israeli smoke and mirrors! [2]

[1]

“….[M]any of the firefights with the Syrians were deliberately provoked by Israel, and the kibbutz residents who pressed the Government to take the Golan Heights did so less for security than for the farmland…[Dayan stated] ‘They didn’t even try to hide their greed for the land…We would send a tractor to plow some area where it wasn’t possible to do anything, in the demilitarized area, and knew in advance that the Syrians would start to shoot. If they didn’t shoot, we would tell the tractor to advance further, until in the end the Syrians would get annoyed and shoot. And then we would use artillery and later the air force also, and that’s how it was…The Syrians, on the fourth day of the war, were not a threat to us.’” The New York Times, May 11, 1997.

– The New York Times, May 11, 1997.

[2]

“”I do not think Nasser wanted war. The two divisions he sent to The Sinai would not have been sufficient to launch an offensive war. He knew it and we knew it.”

– Yitzhak Rabin, IDF Chief of Staff 1967, quoted in Le Monde, 2/28/68

“In June 1967, we again had a choice. The Egyptian Army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him.”

– Menahem Begin, quoted in Noam Chomsky’s “The Fateful Triangle.”

The fact is the only war not started by Israel was in 1973. The wars of 1948, 1956 and the Lebanon invasions of 1978, 1982, 2006 were all wars of choice mainly started to expand Israel’s borders and expel the Palestinians in line with Zionist philosophy.

“”[Israel] must see the sword as the main, if not the only, instrument with which to keep its morale high and to retain its moral tension. Toward this end it may, no – it must – invent dangers, and to do this it must adopt the method of provocation-and-revenge…And above all – let us hope for a new war with the Arab countries, so that we may finally get rid of our troubles and acquire our space.”

– Moshe Dayan, quoted in Livia Rokach, “Israel’s Sacred Terrorism.”