And you are biased against Israel.
I oppose their occupation of palestinian territory, oppressing
of palestinians and war crimes against civilians.
Can you show me examples?
It was a classic setting for international intrigue, a
tile-roofed villa secluded among fog-swirled trees, ivy clinging to
building wings clustered around a stunted steeple-like tower. The
first group of conspirators landed at a French airfield outside
Paris and reached the wall-enclosed villa in an unmarked car during
the wee hours of October 22, 1956.
Later that Monday morning, French Foreign Minister Christian
Pineau visited his office in Paris, then was chauffeured home to
switch to his personal car. He soon was at the villa shaking hands
with Israel’s 70-year-old Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion,
eye-patched Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan and Defense Ministry
Director-General Shimon Peres.
British Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd, a key member of the third
group of plotters, called his office in London to say he was
staying home with a cold. He left England shortly after, to arrive
at the villa that afternoon.
By the time the tense clandestine discussions–which also
included French Premier Guy Mollet and British Prime Minister
Anthony Eden–ended two days later in France and England,
a secret accord
had been reached. Champagne glasses were raised to
celebrate a tripartite pledge to pursue what one chronicler called
‘the shortest and possibly silliest war in history.’
The target was
Gamal Abdel Nasser’s Egypt, which had become the symbol of Arab
nationalism.
http://www.historynet.com/suez-crisis-operation-musketeer.htm
“The former Commander of the Air Force, General Ezer Weitzman,
regarded as a hawk, stated that there was ‘no threat of
destruction’ but that the attack on Egypt, Jordan and Syria was
nevertheless justified so that Israel could ‘exist
according the scale, spirit, and quality she now
embodies.’...Menahem Begin had the following
remarks to make: ‘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.’“ Noam
Chomsky, “The Fateful Triangle.”
“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, Israel’s
Chief of Staff in 1967, in Le Monde, 2/28/68
“Moshe Dayan, the celebrated commander who, as Defense Minister
in 1967, gave the order to conquer the Golan...[said] many 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
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/origin.html
The February 27, 1954 meeting among Ben Gurion, Sharett, Lavon
and Dayan has already been mentioned in connection with Israel's
invasion plans of Egypt and Syria. In that same meeting
a concrete
proposal was outlined to disrupt Israel's most peaceful neighbor at
that time, Lebanon. In this case, Israel's
hegemonic ambitions did not even pretend to wear the phony fig leaf
of security or defense.
Then he [Ben Gurion] passed on to another issue. This is the
time, he said, to push Lebanon, that is, the Maronites in that
country, to proclaim a Christian State. I said that this was
nonsense. The Maronites are divided. The partisans of Christian
separatism are weak and will dare do nothing. A Christian Lebanon
would mean their giving up Tyre, Tripoli, the Beka'a. There is no
force that could bring Lebanon back to its pre-World War I
dimensions, and all the more so because in that case it would lose
its economic raison-d'etre. Ben Gurion reacted furiously.
He began to
enumerate the historical justification for a restricted Christian
Lebanon. If such a development were to take place,
the Christian Powers would not dare oppose it. I claimed that there
was no factor ready to create such a situation, and that if we were
to push and encourage it on our own we would get ourselves into an
adventure that will place shame on us. Here came a wave of insults
regarding my lack of daring and my narrow-mindedness. We ought to
send envoys and spend money. I said there was no money. The answer
was that there is no such thing. The money must be found, if not in
the Treasury then at the Jewish Agency! For such a project it is
worthwhile throwing away one hundred thousand, half a million, a
million dollars. When this happens a decisive change will take
place in the Middle East, a new era will start. I got tired of
struggling against a whirlwind. (27 February 1954, 377)
The next day Ben Gurion sent Sharett the following letter:
To Moshe Sharett The Prime Minister
Sdeh Boker February 27, 1954
Upon my withdrawal from the government I decided in my heart to
desist from intervening and expressing my opinion on current
political affairs so as not to make things difficult for the
government in any way. And if you hadn't called on me, the three of
you, yourself, Lavon and Dayan, I would not have, of my own accord,
expressed an opinion on what is being done or what ought to be
done. But as you called me, I deem it my duty to comply with your
wishes, and especially with your own wish as Prime Minister.
Therefore, I permit myself to go back to one issue which you did
not approve of and discuss it again, and this is the issue of
Lebanon.
.........It is
clear that Lebanon is the weakest link in the Arab
League. The other minorities in the Arab States are
all Muslim, except for the Copts. But Egypt is the most compact and
solid of the Arab States and the majority there consists of one
solid block, of one race, religion and language, and the Christian
minority does not seriously affect their political and national
unity. Not so the Christians in Lebanon. They are a majority in the
historical Lebanon and this majority has a tradition and a culture
different from those of the other components of the League. Also
within the wider borders (this was the worst mistake made by France
when it extended the borders of Lebanon), the Muslims are not free
to do as they wish, even if they are a majority there (and I don't
know if they are, indeed, a majority) for fear of the Christians,
The creation of a Christian State is therefore a natural act; it
has historical roots and it will find support in wide circles in
the Christian world, both Catholic and Protestant. In normal times
this would be almost impossible. First and foremost because of the
lack of initiative and courage of the Christians. But at times of
confusion, or revolution or civil war, things take on another
aspect, and even the weak declares himself to be a hero. Perhaps
(there is never any certainty in politics) now is the time to bring
about the creation of a Christian State in our neighborhood.
Without our initiative and our vigorous aid this will not be done.
It seems to me that this is the central duty - for at least one of
the central duties, of our foreign policy. This means that time,
energy and means ought to be invested in it and that we must act in
all possible ways to bring about a radical change in Lebanon.
Sasson ... and our other Arabists must be mobilized. If money is
necessary, no amount of dollars should be spared, although the
money may be spent in vain. We must concentrate all our efforts on
this issue ........ This is a historical
opportunity. Missing it will be unpardonable. There is no challenge
against the World Powers in this ........Everything should be done,
in my opinion, rapidly and at full steam.
The goal will
not be reached of course, without a restriction of Lebanon's
borders. But if we can find men in Lebanon and
exiles from it who will be ready to mobilize for the creation of a
Maronite state, extended borders and a large Muslim population will
be of no use to them and this will not constitute a disturbing
factor.
I don't know if we have people in Lebanon-but there are various
ways in which the proposed experiment can be carried out.
D.B.G. (27 February 1954, 2397-2398)
http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/essays/rokach.html
USS Liberty -- Attack by Israeli forces, 8 June
1967
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-l/agtr5-k.htm
LIBYAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 114 shot down by Israel
-1973
http://plane-truth.com/Aoude/geocities/plane.html