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Originally Posted by Ephirith
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Are you seriously comparing the potency of the Israeli military machine to jewish civilians living scattered among Europe?
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Not like your implying. You really have a knack for taking a concept and running into absurdity for the sake of your arguments don't you?
You also have this strange notion that I think that armed jewish civilians would have defeated Hitler on the field of battle. I think that an armed Jewish peoples scattered in Europe would have had many more survivors, that is many would have been able to succeed in escaping. Those that failed to escape would have incurred losses for the Nazi's. Apparently you think their best bet was to just... give in, roll over? Rhetorical question mind you, this debate has grown quite stale.
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Originally Posted by Ephirith
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They were decisively defeated by a far superior Israeli military, heavily funded by Western nations and provided with top of the line, sophisticated equipment and modern command doctrine and signals intelligence.
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MYTH
“The United States helped Israel defeat the Arabs in six days.”
FACT
The United States tried to prevent the war through negotiations, but it could not persuade Nasser or the other Arab states to cease their belligerent statements and actions. Still, right before the war, President Johnson warned: “Israel will not be alone unless it decides to go alone.” 16 Then, when the war began, the State Department announced: “Our position is neutral in thought, word and deed.”
Moreover, while the Arabs were falsely accusing the United States of airlifting supplies to Israel, Johnson imposed an arms embargo on the region (France, Israel’s other main arms supplier, also embargoed arms to Israel).
By contrast, the Soviets were supplying massive amounts of arms to the Arabs. Simultaneously, the armies of Kuwait, Algeria, Saudi Arabia and Iraq were contributing troops and arms to the Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian fronts.