I had understood that the 6 day war lasted six days
because the US and Israel’s financial backers called
it off...it’s not clear that Israel would have won
a long term war. Is that true?

2 excellent sites devoted to this:
The Arab American Insitute - http://www.aaiusa.org - is running hour-by-hour updates to commemorate the 6-day War.
The other one is Creative Syria - http://www.creativesyria.com/syrianbloggers/ - which has invited Syrians to blog their experiences and perspectives on the Golan Heights, and has solicited participation and dialogue with Israeli bloggers as well.
George Ajjan
http://www.georgeajjan.com

Bravo, Taki.
I wish there were more crisp,
no-nonsense voices like yours. You refuse
to be intimidated, and you see what’s going on -
two qualities notably lacking in today’s
“leaders.”

Good question, Taki; “Was it worth it?”
Aside from penniless Russian peasants and
parasitic statists, who on earth would actually
want to live there that didn’t have to?

Likewise, how many of the thousands of wealthy
Mohammedan Princes actually live in the
“Holy” land? My guess is few or none.

Israel, as a Jewish state, is losing an unwinnable
battle of attrition on all fronts physical and
spiritual. I give it 50 more years tops and then
its kaput’skie.

Only the mineral rights will remain.

This article puts the issue forward as clearly and succinctly as possible.

I can’t tell you how angry that military pension issue makes me feel.  I don’t mean that figuratively, but rather more literally; I can’t tell you, because if I did, you’d have to delete my comment for fear this website would be seen as giving aid & comfort to U.S. insurrectionists.

Typically servicemembers can elect a Survivor’s Benefit Plan to provide payments to a surviving spouse.  The benefit, if elected, is paid for from deductions from the member’s paycheck.  If the benefit is not elected there is no deduction, the member’s pension terminates upon his death and his widow gets nothing.

How can a nation built, with the full complicity of the West, on lies and theft be wrecked anymore than the horrendous crime of its original and shameful creation.  Wreckage requires decay or devastation from an undamaged state.  Israel more closely resembles a Gadarene Slope or a painful trip to the underworld.  Dante wrote of nine levels of Hell.  Taoist and Buddhist mythology speaks of eighteen levels of despair.  I keep wondering when will we reach the bottom wrung of the American-Israeli nightmare.  Paraphrasing Pyrhhus, “Another such victory ....and we are (all) undone.”

kaputski is the word
50 years you gotta be kidding
25 years tops
come to cape town south africa
come see all the derelict schuls & jewish schools

Israel can only survive long-term if the westernized Jews living there can embrace their many Arab neighbors in friendship and mutual aid. This is just not in the cards. Israelis have an intense hatred for the Arabs which is mutually returned. This can go on about as long as a colony of white people, who hate blacks, can last in Harlem. Besides, why live in the Mid-East if you hate Arabs? Why live in Harlem if you hate blacks? Staying out of spite seems insane. Which is how I view militant Israel - some sort of insane venture. And I definitely resent America getting dragged into insane wars to support an insane venture.

According to the US media, a kid standing up to a tank in Tiananmen Square is a hero, a kid standing up to a tank in the West Bank a terrorist. That’s problem one. Fred Thompson is going to run for president. His first stop is in Israel to see Ehud Olmert. That’s problem two.

Close to 60 years and the question “the right for
Israel to exist” is still being asked,that should say
somesthing...!!.The way I see it a few zionists created
this “Myth” of a jewish state,and the americans and others
rushed to believe it.What we have here a human disaster
for those poor foreing citizens who went along and were
convinced to leave thier countries to live a in lie.Who
can be blamed for the new holocaust waiting to happen..?

Then there’s that nagging question again. Why do all the US president hopefuls go to Israel to be voted in?  The justification of the Israeli state is illegal to begin with.

Caligula said “Oderint dum metuant”: Let them hate us as long as they fear us, and this seems to be the operant philosophy- but who thought the world would see what technology has created:  Caligula combined with Zeus, capable of hurling real thunderbolts. In the case of the U.S., thunderbolts in one hand and Cliff’s Notes in the other.

Thanks, Taki, for a forthright commentary about the Six Day War.  I also remember the Israeli attack on the U.S.S. Liberty and the traitors in the U.S. Government who refused to send air support, but also covered it up, beginning with that moral coward and Israeli stooge, Lyndon Johnson.  Maybe many do not realize this, but the U.S. is plummeting to self destruction.  It isn’t just Israel that will in time be nothing but a blip on history’s screen.  As much as I would like to see a man of conviction (an extremely rare species), like Ron Paul, be elected, don’t bet your life on it.  The power brokers will not allow it, just like they did not allow Pat Buchanan when he ran for the Presidency.

Mr. Horkowitz is entirely correct.  If the widow Taki
refers to doesn’t have survivor’s benefits from her
husband’s military pension, it is because he opted to not extend those benefits to his wife.

Taki, you’ve been had.  The U.S.S. Liberty Incident
has been kept alive by factoids and hearsay informa-
tion only.  Long story short, it was an Isreali mili-
tary clusterf*** in which their navy, which hadn’t
booked a single achievement in the war, found a target
and didn’t stop to ask questions.  The U.S. has always
demanded that the officers responsible for such
dereliction of duty be prosecuted, only to be stone-
walled by the Israelis, who blame everyone but them-
selves.  Israel paid humanitarian blood money to the
victims or their survivors and in 1980 finally arran-
ged to pay the U.S. government a bargain rate of
$6,000,000 for the ship, which had to be scrapped. At
that point both governments decided they would just
have to agree to disagree on the matter, since it had
dragged on so long without either side budging.  The
incident itself has been deeply embarrassing to both
governments, not because of any conspiracy but because
it displays a lack of military professionalism on both
sides. And when you’re embarrassed about something you
really don’t like to talk about it much, do you?

The catastrophic Zionist occupation of Palestine would never have been possible in the first place if it weren’t for a longer standing and eeven more disastrous occupation:  that of the white man’s occupation of the Native American Indians; North America.

The Question is “ why US dances over Israeli tunes? “, What price is USA paying ? why is Israeli lobby so strong in US ? What makes USA to be a puppet of Israel?

Well, the way i see things if i were a Jew I would distance myself from the massacres, lies, corruption, theft and evil of the Zionists.  Their disgusting evil deeds are becoming more and more obvious.  The Palestinians have suffered long enough.  South African is supporting the International Campaign Calling for the End of the Occupation.  Jews however in SA refuse to see a single crime committed and they unashamedly defend this violent military regime which finds itself in complete disarray.

When will you Mr. Taki, stop referring to Israelis as “Jews”?
They are not, in any of the contexts you mention. The acts of Israel are the acts of a state, not a religion.
The Israelis and their supporters, known as Zionists, use Judaism to cloak and excuse actions which are demanded by the political problems they have created for themselves. None of the actions are in any way grounded in the Jewish religion, which so far as I know, does not require any certain “holy land” or Jewish State to be effective.
The only reasons to refer to Israelis as “Jews” are: 1) to tar with Israel’s actions all Jews, or if one really belives that Zionism and the Jewsih State are in fact, reflections of Jewish religious demands. They are not.

JEFFREY ST. CLAIR has a piece on the LIBERTY:
http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair06082007.html

Good try Montag but the attack on the USS Liberty was a coordinated operation between the Israeli Air Force and the Israeli Navy.  The highly organized and structured attack suggested it was put into motion by an authority higher than naval command.  This fact was later confirmed by US intelligence stations around the world that recorded the “chatter” before during and after the lethal operation.  It was also identified during the subsequent inquiry.

Predictably, Israel changed its story a half dozen times after the murderous rampage. Unforgivably, her defenders in Congress, the White House and the Major Media took Israel’s side over the lives of US servicemen.  Disgraceful.

Montag, if you are going to SHILL for Israel, at least get your facts straight. The days of unchallenged story telling are over.

Cheers.

Israel will never disappear without wrapping the arab world in a nuclear firestorm first.  Does anyone really doubt they would push the button?  They’re run by the worst kind of racist fanatics who will see nothing wrong with 10 million deaths.

Maybe it is time for the US to slide into oblivion. I’m reminded of the final paragraphs of Wendell Berry’s elegant essay, “Tuscany”, and his warning that, “It is understandable that we should have reacted to the attacks of September 11, 2001 by curtailment of civil rights, by defiance of laws, and by resort to overwhelming force, for those actions are the ready products of fear and hasty thought.  But they cannot protect us against the destruction of our own land by ourselves.  They cannot protect us against the selfishness, wastefulness, and greed that we have legitimized here as an economic virtue, and have taught to the world.”

Mike, amazing that you see the genocide of the American Indian as sustaining the Palestine genocide. The guilty protect each other. None of us are safe.

My late father once told me, never make decisions while angry. Taki looks likes he writes while angry. The fact is the Egypt was sending troops to the Israeli border because the Soviet Union told Egypt that Israel was going to attack. This was a lie, that the Egyptians bought it. But Taki says why would the Arab states attack Israel knowing that they could not win. Gee, what about the sneak attack in the 1973 Yom Kippur war which Israel almost lost? Taki also rehashes the USS Liberty lie with a link to Justin Raimondos Antiwar.com essay in which Antiwar.com printed a letter of mine refuting Raimondos nonsense. LBJ did not cover up anything. The attack was not premeditated as the ship arrived in the region the same day it was attacked. No proof has ever been shown to show that Israel knowingly attacked a US ship. No evidence has ever been shown why they would intentionally attack an American ship. The Golan Heights invasion theory has been shot down. The alleged massacre of Egyptian POW’s has been shot down. We are then left with......Maybe Taki can tell us if the Greek invasion of Cyprus in 1975 is the cause for all the problems in Cyprus.

I agree more with the cluster-something-or-other explanation of the U.S.S. Liberty because folly and stupidity tend to explain more human behavior than competence and true malice aforethought.

Try to get hold of a copy of Arthur Koestler’s “The Thirteenth Tribe.” I got my copy on ebay.  There is a small but powerful body of scholarship to the effect that the Ashkenazy Jews who control Israel are not descended from the Hebraic Jews of the Old Testament but from the Khazars, an Eastern European tribe who converted to Judaism around the end of the Ninth Century.  To add to the ridiculousness of Israel, modern advances in genetic testing show that most of the Palestinians are descended from the Hebrews; thus (Are you reading this, Pat Robertson?) non-Hebraic Jews are carrying out genocide against Hebraic Jews, with the roaring approval of the Christian Zionists and their Jack Daniels-guzzling pastors.  Way to go, Yisroel!  Sephardic Jews are descended from the Hebrews.  Boxing fans may recall the famous Eighteenth Century pugilist Mendoza.  He was a Sephardic Jew.  Remember Leslie Howard as The Scarlet Pimpernel during the scene where he is watching a boxing match?  “Get up, Mendoza!” he shouts to the downed fighter, and b’gosh, the man does.  Sephardic Jews were respected in Eighteenth Century England, Ashkenazy Jews were not.

“Taki, you’ve been had.  The U.S.S. Liberty Incident has been kept alive by factoids and hearsay informa-
tion only.”

Baloney!  Visit the website (http://www.ussliberty.org), which is hosted by the brave sailors who survived this vicious attack:  no “factoids and hearsay information only” on this website; just the testimony of our brave men.

The word “genocide” is used too loosely, too casually. If there are survivors, there obviously has been no genocide. Last time I noticed, there were still plenty of Jews around...ditto Indians. (who are NOT the “native” Americans). And as hard as Bush is trying, there are a lot of Iraqis standing.