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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres tells Security Council that Palestinians have been ‘subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation’


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Priceless.   The Secretary General of the UN is a socialist.  :lol:  

A member of the Portuguese Socialist Party, Guterres served as prime minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002

https://www.foxnews.com/world/israeli-un-ambassador-demands-un-secretary-general-resign-shocking-speech

 

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In 1967 Israeli neighboring countries massed military on their border and were threatening closing the Sinai Peninsula and Straits of Tiran .....it would have been smart just to let them invade.  :lol:  

Lets not forget who attacked who first in 1948. 

Failed U.S. Diplomacy
The Six Day War had its origins in disputes between Israel and Egypt over the rights of Israeli shipping to pass through the Suez Canal and the Red Sea. The State of Israel had been founded in May 1948. The boundaries established by Israel's 1948 war with its Arab neighbors had held uneasily for a few years when Egypt's ruler Gamal Abel Nasser decided in 1956 to nationalize the Suez Canal and deny passage to Israeli ships both there and in the Straits of Tiran that led to the Red Sea. Israel responded by invading and occupying the Sinai Peninsula for several months until a United Nations peacekeeping force was put in place and the right of free shipping restored. In late May 1967, Nasser told the U.N. force to leave Egypt and again closed the Straits of Tiran to Israel. Egypt also began preparing for an attack that was aborted when the Israelis learned of it. The United States, which had guaranteed Israel's right to passage through the Straits, asked Israel not to attack while it pursued a diplomatic resolution, but that effort was unsuccessful, and after a May 26 meeting with Israel's foreign minister, President Lyndon Johnson declared, "I've failed. They'll go."

Events of the War
The war began on June 5 with Israeli preemptive air strikes that destroyed 286 of Egypt's 420 combat aircraft. Israeli tanks surged across the Sinai, and its troops took over the Egypt-occupied Gaza Strip. Focused on the fight against Egypt, Israel initially did not seek to move against Jordan, which controlled East Jerusalem and the West Bank, but when King Hussein's troops began shelling Israeli positions, the battle plans changed. Israeli paratroopers captured East Jerusalem on June 7, and the Israeli army stormed across the West Bank, driving opposing forces to the Jordan River.

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