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http://www.mediamonitors.net/mosaddeq24.html#1 II. A History of Systematic Aggression The systematic initiation of “wars of terrorism” by the State of Israel since then is a matter of record. The 1967 Six Day War, for example, although blamed by Israel on the dire threat posed to the Zionist State by the Arabs, was in fact the primary responsibility of Israel. General Ezar Weizman, then Israeli Chief of Operations, admitted that Egypt and Syria – which are conventionally blamed as the initiators of aggression - had never posed a threat to Israel. “There was never a danger of extermination. This hypothesis had never been considered in any serious meeting.”[15] General Chaim Herzog, Commanding General and first Military Governor of Israeli Occupied West Bank similarly confessed: “There was no danger of annihilation. Israeli headquarters never believed in this danger.”[16] The 1967 Six Day War was actually a war of Israeli aggression, perpetrated to illegally expand the State’s borders. Yigal Allon, Minister of Labour and member of Eshkol’s Military Advisory Committee on the origin of the Six-Day War, had asserted unequivocally: “Begin and I want Jerusalem.”[17] Mordechai Bentov, Israeli Minister of Housing has elaborated that: “The entire story of the danger of extermination was invented in every detail, and exaggerated a posteriori to justify the annexation of new Arab territory.”[18] Indeed, the entire episode was meticulously planned by the Israeli military. General Mordichai Hod, Commanding General of the Israeli Air-Force admitted that: “Sixteen years’ planning had gone into those initial eighty minutes [of the Six Day War]. We lived with the plan, we slept on the plan, we ate the plan. Constantly we perfected it.”[19] Menachim Begin himself has admitted in this regard that: “In June l967, we 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.”[20] The Israeli Defence Minister of the time has voiced similar revelations. According to the New York Times: “Moshe Dayan, the celebrated commander who, a 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 their farmland.”[21] Dayan testified that “at least 80 per cent” of two decades of border clashes were in fact initiated by Israel, under pressure from land-hungry farmers and army commanders in Northern Israel.[22] This concurs with the assessment of former Israeli General Matityahu Peled, who admitted that more than half of the border clashes before the 1967 war “were a result of our security policy of maximum settlement in the demilitarized area.”[23] The details of these clashes have been documented by British journalist and Middle East scholar David Hirst, who notes that the Israelis “began by staking an illegal claim to sovereignty over the zone [on the Syrian frontier] and then proceeded, as opportunity offered, to encroach on all the specific provisions against introducing armed forces and fortifications… “They repeatedly obstructed the operations of the UN observers, on one occasion even threatening to kill them. They refused to cooperate with the Mixed Armistice Commission, and when it suited them they simply rejected the rulings and requests of the observers. They expelled, or otherwise forced out, Arab inhabitants, and razed their villages to the ground. They transplanted trees as a stratagem to advance the frontier to their own advantage. They built roads against the advice of the UN. They carried out excavations on Arab land for their own drainage schemes.”[24] Swedish General Carl von Horn, head of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in the region, observed that all this was “part of a premeditated Israeli policy to edge east through the Demilitarized Zone towards the old Palestine border (as shown on their maps) and to get all the Arabs out of the way by fair means or foul… “The Jews developed a habit of irrigating and ploughing in stretches of Arab-owned land nearby, for the ground was so fertile that every square foot was a gold mine in grain. Gradually, beneath the glowering eyes of the Syrians, who held the high ground overlooking the Zone, the area had become a network of Israeli canals and irrigation channels edging up against and always encroaching on Arab-owned property.”[25] U.S. analyst Sheldon L. Richman of the Cato Institute in Washington DC reports that: “This policy continued well into the 1950s. Most of the 2,000 Arabs living in the zone had been forced out by 1956. Many moved to the sloping land below the Golan Heights. In response to the expulsion of Arabs from the zone, the otherwise helpless Syrian forces on the Heights began firing on Israelis, particularly when, each year, their tractors plowed further into the demilitarized zone. General von Horn was convinced the instances of firing would not have occurred without the specific Israeli provocations.”[26] According to Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Dayan, the Israeli settlers “didn’t even try to hide their greed for their land,” wanting “to grab a piece of land and keep it until the enemy will get tired of us.” Describing the idea that Syria was threatening Israel before the 1967 war as “bullshit”, he affirmed in detail that: “I know how at least 80% of all the incidents with Syria started… “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… You do not attack the enemy because he is a bastard, but because he threatens you, and the Syrians in the fourth day of the war were not threatening us.”[27] As Hirst observes, the most charitable interpretation of this Israeli policy was that the regime had done its best to provoke Syria into opening fire. According to one United Nations observer at the scene: “It was a premeditated raid of intimidation motivated by Israel’s desire... to bait the Arab states into some overt act of aggression that would offer them the opportunity to overrun additional territory without censor”.[28] In the words of the Washington Post: “Israel, with an appetite for land, for political profit and for strategic depth, was in the Golan instance… an aggressor, not the victim of aggression.”[29] Israel’s war had devastating consequences for the indigenous Palestinian population who faced the brunt of the Zionist regime’s policies of intimidation, provocation and terror. Jewish scholar Alfred Lilienthal noted that: “To solidify their gains after the 1967 war, according to UN figures, the Israelis destroyed during the period between June 11, 1967 and November 15, 1969 some 7,554 Palestinian Arab homes in the territories seized during that war; this figure excluded thirty-five villages in the occupied Golan Heights that were razed to the ground. In the two years between September 1969 and 1971 the figure was estimated to have reached 16,312 homes.”[30] In its occupation of the Golan Heights, Israel expelled a total of over 120,000 inhabitants - mostly Syrians but also several thousand Palestinian refugees. Israel simultaneously destroyed two cities, 133 villages and 61 farms. Only 6,396 inhabitants remained in the six villages left standing.[31] Again and again we find the same policies of aggression and provocation through terrorism being adopted by Israel to manufacture a conflict by which to expand the State’s borders and grab more land. The Yom Kippur War of 1973, for instance, was provoked by Israeli intransigence, and was not an attempt to respond defensively to Arab military threats to the State’s existence. As Yitzhak Rabin admitted: “The Yom Kippur War was not fought by Egypt and Syria to threaten the existence of Israel. It was an all out use of their military force to achieve a limited political goal. What Sadat wanted by crossing the canal was to change the political reality and, thereby, to start a political [peace] process from a point more favorable to him than the one that existed.”[32] Israeli historian Professor Benny Morris highlights the context of Zionist intransigence in which this occurred, noting that according to the memoirs of several Israeli Labour politicians and officials of the 1970s: “Israel’s premier, Golda Meir, rejected reasonable Egyptian peace or non-belligerency offers in 19701, thus ‘forcing’ the Arabs to launch the 1973 October War.”[33] In fact, Israel’s systematic fabrication and exaggeration of threats to justify the provocation and initiation of “wars of terrorism” appears to be official strategy for Zionist expansion. In Israeli Prime Minister Moshe Sharatt’s personal diaries, there is an excerpt from May of 1995 in which he quotes Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Dayan as follows: “[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 nay finally get rid of our troubles and acquire our space.”[34] Throughout Israel’s existence, the Zionist State has thus consistently perpetrated a policy of violent repression against the indigenous Palestinians. As the New York-based rights monitor, the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR), reports in summary of the bloody record of Israeli terrorism: “In the 1948 War Israel extended its control over 77% of the territory of the former Palestine Mandate and expelled almost the entire Palestinian Arab population… Only 100,000 residents remained of a pre-war population approaching one million. Israel conquered the rest of Palestine in the 1967 War, creating another 300,000 refugees, many of them refugees for the second time. To build a Jewish state on these conquered lands and erase the memory of centuries of Palestinian existence, Israel: 1. Razed to the ground over 500 Palestinian towns and villages, 2. Converted Palestinian-owned land into state property for the benefit of Jews only (excluding even Arab citizens of Israel), 3. Rejected the return of any Palestinian refugees while recognizing the right to ‘return’ of any Jewish citizen living in any other country, 4. Maintained military occupation of Palestinian land through an explicit ‘iron fist’ policy of disproportionate response to Palestinian resistance, 5. Refused to allow economic development in the occupied territories while re-orienting Palestinian labor to serve the needs of the Israeli economy, and 6. Refused to define its own borders (despite accepting the borders specified in resolution 181) in order to justify continued illegal expansion. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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