45th anniversary of the Six-Day War

[Solomon2]

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To commemorate what some call "Naksa Day" the Israeli Air Force released new pictures from its archives:


The Egyptian pyramids


The sphinx in Egypt within sight of IDF troops


Egyptian planes destroyed on the ground


A Mirage plane after taking down an enemy fighter


Ezer Weizman, Moshe Dayan, and Motti Hod sitting on the banks of the Suez Canal

link (h/t: EoZ)

Israel claims to have destroyed 452 Egyptian, Jordanian, Syrian, and Iraqi aircraft, 403 on the ground and 49 in the air.

[King Solomon]

It was a great victory for Israel. If not for the preemptive strike, Israel would be in a potentially fatal disadvantage. Nasser's verbal threats, hundreds of raids by Arab terrorists in preceding years, massive buildup of Arab troops (about 250000), Egyptian naval blockade against Israel etc. If your enemy has a gun pointed at you, you don't wait for him to press the trigger first.

[Solomon2]

At news of the start of the war -

...'Amer was nevertheless elated...He promptly commanded Sidqi Mahmud to provide air cover for the conquest of Israel's coast (Operation Leopard) and to deploy Egypt's newest Sukhoi jets, if necessary with their Russian instructors -

...Throughout the capital [Cairo] the citizenry was celebrating. "The streets were overflowing with demonstrators," rememberbered Eric Rouleau, Middle East correspondent for Le Monde...The sole source of information was the ogvernment's communiqué: "With an aerial strike against Cairo and across the UAR, Israel began its attack today at 9:00. Our planes scrambled and held off the attack."

The accounts of that counterstrike were promising. A total of eighty-six enemy planes reportedly shot down, including an American bomber. Egypt's losses were put at two -

....Not present at Supreme Headquarters when the news of the Israeli air strikes arrived, Nasser also welcomed the opening of hostilities and believed the tide would soon turn. Nevertheless, by 10:00 - the height of the second wave - when the air force claimed to have downed 161 Israeli bombers, Nasser becames suspicious. He tried contacting 'Amer, but received no reply; Sidqi Mahmud was also unreachable -

...Nasser remained in the dark, not the least because no one in the army or the government dared enlighten him. All went along....

But the Egyptians had, in reality, just lost 286 of the 420 combat aircraft in their arsenal: Tu-16s, IL-28s, Sukhoi-7s, MiG-21s, MiG-19s, MiG-17s, transport planes and helicopters - and almost a third of their pilots killed. Thirteen bases were rendered inoperable. Only 17 Israeli aircraft had been lost:

At 10:35 Hod turned to Rabin and reported, "The Egyptian Air Force has ceased to exist."

...pilot Hashem Husayn, stationed at Bir al-Thamada, described the feeling:

Some 30 seconds from the end of the [first] attack, a second wave of planes arrived...We ran about the desert, looking for cover, but the planes didn't shoot. They merely circled, their pilots surprised that the base was comletely destroyed and that no targets remained. We were the only targets...weak humans scurrying in the desert...pilots of the newest and best-equipped jets fighting with handguns. Five minutes after the beginning of the attack the planes disappeared and a silence prevailed that encompassed the desert and the noise of the fire that destroyed our planes and the airbase and the squadron. They completed their assignment in the best way possible, with a ratio of losses - 100 percent for us, 0 percent for them.

Source: Six Days of War, Michael Oren, pp. 176-178.

[Solomon2]

I should have started this thread with a pictorial run-up to the start of the Six-Day War. Well, here it is, courtesy of Elder of Zion:



"The neck of the bottle - the Straits of Tiran" Rose al Youssef, Egypt, May 29, 1967

This refers to the start of the crisis: Egypt blockaded the Straits - an act of war - then Egypt's president, Nasser, impudently demanded the U.N. remove its troops from the buffer zone in Sinai. The Secretary-General complied and Egyptian troops advanced to new positions.



"The Zionist to Hell," Syrian army newspaper, May 30, 1967


The mouths of the guns of eight Arab countries: Sudan, Algeria, United Arab Republic, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. Al Jarida , Beirut, May 31, 1967


Armored forces of Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. Al Hayat, Beirut, May 31, 1967

As Nasser had scored such a success, the other Arab sovereigns unified their military commands under his leadership, and serious preparation was made to prepare the Arab populations for an upcoming war of extermination:

"We shall destroy Israel and its inhabitants," declared Palestine Liberation Organization leader Ahmad al-Shuqayri declared in the three-week period between the U.N. withdrawal and June 5, 1967. "As for the survivors -- if there are any -- the boats are ready to deport them."

Thus when the war started (but before the Arab leaders released the bad news) their response was murderous ecstasy:



he clubs fall on the head of Israel: Israel asks: Where can I run? Al Goumhourya , Baghdad, June 6, 1967


"The barricades of Tel Aviv," Al-Jundi Al Arabi , Damascus, June 6, 1967


Nasser kicking the Jew (Israel) into the sea, with the armies of Lebanon, Syria and Iraq supporting him. Al-Farida, Lebanon

[phylumchordata]

God is with Israel... for sure.

[muslim282]

God is with Israel... for sure.

I suppose he personally told you that.
If god is with the winners, then he certainly was with the viet-cong, the taliban whom are kicking american *** and lets not forget the hezbullah whom israel can do sweet f.a about.

Though on the other side, I do see your point, maybe god is with israel, but satan with the zionists, as it is a a satanic ideology.

[BLACKEAGLE]

Just after one year Zionest entity was humiliated in 1968 war with Jordan.

2. Haim Bar-Lev, the Israeli chief of staff said in an interview, that Israel lost, in Al-Karama battle with the Jordan military, vehicles equivalent to three times what it lost in the Six-Day War.

3. Haim Bar-Lev, Chief of Staff of the Zionist enemy in an interview published in Haaretz newspaper on 31/3/68 "The process of dignity was unique did not get used to the people (Israel), such as this type of operation, in other words, all the processes that result in our a decisive victory for our troops, and here has used our people to see its military forces as it emerges Mtansrh of every battle The battle honor was unique, because of the large number of casualties among our forces, and other phenomena resulting from the battle, such as Jordanian forces seized a number of our tanks and our machinery, and this is why surprising that hit the Israeli community about the process of dignity.

5. The member of the Knesset (Shmuel Tamir) to form a parliamentary committee to investigate the results of the campaign on Jordanian territory, because the number of victims is relatively more in the Israeli forces.

6. The battle group commander of the Israeli report (Aharon Peled) battle later to the Israeli newspaper Davar said: I watched the shelling heavily a few times in my life but I have not seen anything like this before most of my battles tanks got hit in the battle with the exception of only two.

7. A senior military leader, Gereshko Marshal Chief of Staff of the armed forces in the Soviet period: the battle of Al-Karama has formed a turning point in the history of Arab military.

[Wright]

Gotta say Isreal was impressive in both wars.

I suppose he personally told you that.
If god is with the winners, then he certainly was with the viet-cong, the taliban whom are kicking american *** and lets not forget the hezbullah whom israel can do sweet f.a about.

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Why are the "winners" always poor, improverished, while the "losers" are wealthy first world global powers?

[Solomon2]

Changing the subject, Blackeagle? Why am I not surprised? The phony Arab victory at Karameh (where Jordanian forces defended a village controlled by PLO terrorists responsible for blowing up an Israeli school bus, but ultimately failed) set Jordan on the course to Black September. Jordanians discovered then what happens when you nurse vipers - as the Pakistanis have been learning for the past decade.

[Supply&Demand]

I suppose he personally told you that.
If god is with the winners, then he certainly was with the viet-cong, the taliban whom are kicking american *** and lets not forget the hezbullah whom israel can do sweet f.a about.

Though on the other side, I do see your point, maybe god is with israel, but satan with the zionists, as it is a a satanic ideology.

I dont know how u consider Taliban winning...The whole of afghanistan has been destroyed.. the whole power of Taliban is literrally gone..the only way they stay relevant in news is by sending a woman or child as a suicide bomber to blow up some market place..and the pakistani cheerleaders cheering for its comrades...

NATO's only failure is that it could not stabilize Afghanistan as much as it wanted.
Maybe u consider that as a victory..

[BLACKEAGLE]

Changing the subject, Blackeagle? Why am I not surprised? The phony Arab victory at Karameh (where Jordanian forces defended a village controlled by PLO terrorists responsible for blowing up an Israeli school bus, but ultimately failed) set Jordan on the course to Black September. Jordanians discovered then what happens when you nurse vipers - as the Pakistanis have been learning for the past decade.

I didn't say anything, read your humiliated leaders' speeches again:

Just after one year Zionest entity was humiliated in 1968 war with Jordan.

2. Haim Bar-Lev, the Israeli chief of staff said in an interview, that Israel lost, in Al-Karama battle with the Jordan military, vehicles equivalent to three times what it lost in the Six-Day War.

3. Haim Bar-Lev, Chief of Staff of the Zionist enemy in an interview published in Haaretz newspaper on 31/3/68 "The process of dignity was unique did not get used to the people (Israel), such as this type of operation, in other words, all the processes that result in our a decisive victory for our troops, and here has used our people to see its military forces as it emerges Mtansrh of every battle The battle honor was unique, because of the large number of casualties among our forces, and other phenomena resulting from the battle, such as Jordanian forces seized a number of our tanks and our machinery, and this is why surprising that hit the Israeli community about the process of dignity.

5. The member of the Knesset (Shmuel Tamir) to form a parliamentary committee to investigate the results of the campaign on Jordanian territory, because the number of victims is relatively more in the Israeli forces.

6. The battle group commander of the Israeli report (Aharon Peled) battle later to the Israeli newspaper Davar said: I watched the shelling heavily a few times in my life but I have not seen anything like this before most of my battles tanks got hit in the battle with the exception of only two.

7. A senior military leader, Gereshko Marshal Chief of Staff of the armed forces in the Soviet period: the battle of Al-Karama has formed a turning point in the history of Arab military.

[Solomon2]

I didn't say anything, read -

Still ignoring the reality to hang on to what you think of as achievement and honor, Blackeagle?

[muslim282]

I dont know how u consider Taliban winning...The whole of afghanistan has been destroyed.. the whole power of Taliban is literrally gone..the only way they stay relevant in news is by sending a woman or child as a suicide bomber to blow up some market place..and the pakistani cheerleaders cheering for its comrades...

NATO's only failure is that it could not stabilize Afghanistan as much as it wanted.
Maybe u consider that as a victory..

What nonsense.

Its the americans and nato that claim the taliban run 90% of the country not me. Its the americans and nato that are pleading for the taliban to come to the table not me. It the occupiers that have set a dead line of 2014 to escape, not me. Its the americans that claim that no matter how much they do for the afghans, they still back the taliban.
Yes the country has been destroyed, but by whom. Soviets ( their land mines still exist), now the yanks.
Just get it through your skull, the afghans dont like invaders.
Regarding you indians. Well as a rising shoe-per-power you thought afghanistan would become your back yard for a proxy against pakistan. Well what a nasty wake up call, your new found western friends are all ready to run, don,t see raw hanging about for much longer.
Oh yeah we are all well aware of the suicide bombers and whom they are backed by. You indians spread the trend long time ago with suicide bombers on your soil. Remember Mr Rajiv Ghandi. I suppose that was also ISI backed.

[Ottoman-Turk]

how can isreal think 1973 war was victory they lost that war , just look at the outcome of the war and you will see who won the war

[King Solomon]

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Jordan got badly humiliated in 1967 war. So much that Jordan's King Hussein, before 1973 war, begged Israel to not invade Jordan by informing Israeli officials of an impending Syrian attack.