What were the causes and consequences of the 1967 Six Day War ?

True cause: Israel started it to acquire more Palestinian and Arab lands.
  • Israel was under no military threat from the Egyptian or Syrian militaries.
  • An ineffective, partial blockade on a minor port did not actually threaten it with strangulation.
  • Israel constantly and aggressively provoked its neighbors with raids, bombings and violations of UN resolutions.
  • Israel avoided every attempt at mediation or de-escalation, and chose to attack right before a meeting that could have eased tensions.
  • Virtually every talking point Israel uses to justify this war is based on strategic omission and the manipulation of history.
Consequences: In 1967, the remainder of Palestine was invaded and occupied by the Zionists and over 350 thousand Palestinian were expelled or fled. In the 1970’s, the “Judaization of the Galilee” (the term Zionists use to describe the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from this area for exclusively Jewish settlement) followed the same pattern of settlement familiar throughout historic Palestine:
  • The confiscation of agricultural and grazing land in the areas surrounding Palestinian population centers.
  • The freezing of growth in Palestinian villages by denying building and planning rights.
  • The systematic demolition of Palestinian homes and businesses.
  • Planned Jewish settlement aimed at breaking up the territorial continuity of Palestinian areas.
  • The denial of access to basic services such as water (the theft of that water).
  • Policies aimed at preventing Palestinian economic subsistence and forcing dependence on settlers.
Through the “peace negotiations” of Oslo, the Geneva Accords, and the Road Map, Zionists have pursued a policy of stealing more land and striking genuine resistance to colonial settlement with crushing force.
The rubble of the Moroccan Quarter after it was razed to the ground and the Palestinian families expelled to make way for Jews to pray at the Wall.

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