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Thread #111199   Message #2341469
Posted By: CarolC
15-May-08 - 02:26 PM
Thread Name: BS: Obama on Zionism, Jews
Subject: RE: BS: Obama on Zionism, Jews
Catspaw, Jordan has never waged war against Israel, except possibly in 1973, which was about taking back land that was taken from them in 1967. But during war of 1948, 1949, Jordan had an agreement with the leadership of Israel to not do any fighting in the areas that had been given to the Jews in the partition plan. And they didn't, except for a very small part of old Jerusalem. The 1948/49 war was a defensive war on the part of the Arabs, and almost all of the fighting took place on land that had been given to the Arabs, and that the Israelis were trying to take from them. This was not a war of Arab aggression, but a war of Israeli aggression.

The 1967 war was a war of Israeli aggression as well. Israel attacked its neighbors in that war, on manufactured pretexts (much as the US did in Iraq). That war was not defensive on Israel's part, but offensive, and for the purpose of taking land.