Never Forget The Six Days War Either

So-called U.S. President Obama has taken it upon himself to dictate the American view that Israel should give up the buffer lands it kept after it repelled the aggressor in 1968. That his opinion is not that of the Americans as a people, nor the death sentence that his dictate would place upon Israel and its citizens are both concepts the Great Ob was unable to grasp. Netanyahu did his best to educate the Great Ob; this corespondent doubts the lesson will take root.

Memories fade, so it is just plain necessary to look at what was actually said when the Six Days War happened:

He was answered by the Israeli foreign minister, Abba Eban [his speech is here], whose detailed documentation and eloquence told how the Arabs had given his country the choice of defending its national existence or forfeiting it for all time. Then he put Kosygin himself in the defendant’s dock. Russia, he charged, was guilty of inflaming passions in a region “already too hot with tension” by feeding the arms race and spreading false propaganda. He called Kosygin’s reference to the Nazis “an obscene comparison . . . a flagrant breach of international morality and human decency.” As for the Russian demand that Israel pull back to her prewar lines, that, he said, was totally unacceptable until durable and just solutions are reached “in free negotiations with each of our neighbors.” The Arab states “have come face to face with us in conflict; let them now come face to face with us in peace.” Israel was determined not be deprived of her victory.