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2007-05-20 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

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Posted by Bobby 2007-05-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 I was following the news back in 1967. I thought Israel was going to be wiped off the map then. Its victory truly seemed a miracle.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-05-20 02:55|| 2007-05-20 02:55|| Front Page Top

#2 I was in AF - in SAC of all places - when this went off. We were hunkered down in alert mode since no one knew where this would lead. But it was over so quickly (actually less than the 6 days) that it made Gulf War I seem like a century.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-05-20 06:56|| 2007-05-20 06:56|| Front Page Top

#3 "Six Days of War" is a great read

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-05-20 08:18|| 2007-05-20 08:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Allen favored the Israelis.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-05-20 10:31|| 2007-05-20 10:31|| Front Page Top

#5 I was in the Navy, we were somewhre inside the med, fairly between Egypt and Italy when the ship (Refrigerated freighter) made an emergency "U" turn, and went back to Norfolk.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-05-20 13:19|| 2007-05-20 13:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Done Nothing! What about teh Billions in US dollars that go to Isreal every year?

Posted by Hupert Grundy4998 2007-05-20 13:32|| 2007-05-20 13:32|| Front Page Top

#7 I think that the US spends more on Arabs and the Plaetinans that it spends on Israel. We

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-05-20 16:02|| 2007-05-20 16:02|| Front Page Top

#8 I think that the US spends more on Arabs and the Palestinians that it spends on Israel. We also have to rememeber the Saudis hiding behind their women in harems while Americans spilled their blood protecting them from Saddam. And once the danger had passed they plotted 9/11.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-05-20 16:06|| 2007-05-20 16:06|| Front Page Top

#9 We also have to rememeber what was at stake: not the destruction of the state of Israel but the genocide of its entire population, not even the cold and aseptical genocide a la Auschwitz (I know about the cruelties of the Enzatztruppen and about what happened to those who weren't sent immeditely to the gas chambers) but a Rwanda-type one. Given the genocidiacl hate instilled in their own populations and the Palestinians by the imams and the nazi-inspired Arab regimes (eg Baas full name is National socialist party fopr Arab renewal) it is easy to imagine the scenes of hooror in Israeli meternities. Another Rwanda that was what was at stake.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-05-20 16:27|| 2007-05-20 16:27|| Front Page Top

#10 Legend has it that during the May-June period in 1967, Egypt's air wing would be on high alert from sunrise until about ten o'clock, the optimal time for Israeli aircraft to come out of the rising sun which would blind Egyptian gunners and pilots.

Supposedly, Egypt's air wing routinely would stand down after ten o'clock and then go on alert the next morning at sunrise. The story goes that Israel's fighter jets swept in right after ten o'clock, managing to catch and destroy the bulk of Egypt's aircraft on the ground without opposition.

Anyone have confirmation on this?

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-05-20 16:52|| 2007-05-20 16:52|| Front Page Top

#11 we came flying low........
we got them on the ground........
we got their airplanes and their airports.....

Posted by Spanky Angaiting9054 2007-05-20 17:27|| 2007-05-20 17:27|| Front Page Top

#12 Oren's book, pg 171 - Day One: the Egyptians assumed they would be attacked at dawn, flew their sunrise patrols and returned to base at 8:15AM - they were attacked on the ground. Only 4 training flights were in the air, none armed

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-05-20 17:41|| 2007-05-20 17:41|| Front Page Top

#13 The attack was on 7:45. Egyptians had been expecting an attack at sunrise when the sun would have been in the eyes of egptian artillerymen. For days they had been flying large CAPs just before sunrise but by 7:3O the egyptian planes landed, probably with little or no fuel and their pilots went to have breakfast. This day the breakfast pause was abruptly interrupted timetable.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-05-20 17:48|| 2007-05-20 17:48|| Front Page Top

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