Six-Day War Waiting period

The waiting period was a 3-week interval in the history of Israel, May 15 – June 5, 1967, between the Egyptian crossing of the Suez Canal into the Sinai Peninsula and the outbreak of the Six-Day War. thumb|There will be no Jewish survivors in the holy war for liberating Palestine ~ Ahmad Shukeiri Quotes Millions of Arabs are … preparing to blow up all of America’s interests, all of America’s installations, and your entire existence, America. Cairo Radio, May 25, 1967 Quoted in Six Days of War June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East, p. 92. As of today, there no longer exists an international emergency force to protect Israel. We shall exercise patience no more. We shall not complain any more to the UN about Israel. The sole method we shall apply against Israel is total war, which will result in the extermination of Zionist existence. After the withdrawal of the UNEF during the Six Day War waiting period, the Voice of the Arabs radio station (May 18 1967), Quoted in The legal case for Palestine, p. 272. [Promosing to] turn the Mediterranean red with Jewish blood. Head of the PLO Ahmad Shukeiri, Egypt's president Nasser, Quoted in The Holocaust: History and the War of Ideas, p. 196 We will not accept any…coexistence with Israel…Today the issue is not the establishment of peace between the Arab states and Israel…The war with Israel [has been] in effect since 1948 Our basic objective will be the destruction of Israel. The Arab people want to fight Egyptian president Nasser, 27 May 1967, Quoted in The second partition of Palestine, p. 28. We are ready for war, our armed forces and all our people are ready for war, we have built a strong national army and achieved our objectives. Egyptian President Nasser on May 22, Quoted by Abba Eban in Abba Eban: An Autobiography, p. 379 You are the victims of aggression. US President Lyndon B. Johnson to Abba Eban in May 26, 1967, quoted in Michael B. Oren, Six Days of War June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East, p. 114. Arab masses, this is your day. Rush to the battlefield.... Let them know that we shall hang the last imperialist soldier with the entrails of the last Zionist Damascus Radio, 23 May 1967, Quoted in Righteous Victims, p. 310. There will be no Jewish survivors in the holy war for liberating Palestine Head of the PLO Ahmad Shukeiri, Quoted in The Times June 8 1967 newspaper. Israel on her part will not initiate hostile acts, but she is firmly resolved to defend her territory and her international rights. Our decision is that if Egypt will not attack us, we will not take action against Egyptian forces at Sharm el-Sheikh—until or unless they close the Straits of Tiran to free navigation by Israel Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, May 19th 1967, Quoted in Abba Eban: An Autobiography by Eban Abba, p. 327. Our forces are now entirely ready not only to repulse the aggression, but to initiate the act of liberation itself, and to explode the Zionist presence in the Arab homeland. The Syrian army, with its finger on the trigger, is united....I, as a military man, believe that the time has come to enter into a battle of annihilation. Syrian Defense Minister Hafez Assad (May 20 1967), quoted in The Classical Liberal Case for Israel, p. 290. External links Category:1967 Category:20th century in Israel