Context: In 1967, a war broke out between a coalition of Arab countries and Israel. Despite being outnumbered and fighting on three fronts, Israel managed to win the war in six days.

  • frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mlEnglish
    89·
    2 months ago

    I didn’t post that meme

    Ok.

    And for what it’s worth, I believe Israel is currently perpetrating a genocide. That doesn’t mean everything they’ve ever done was always 100% evil.

    That’s besides the point. The meme is lying about who attacked whom in 1967. Israel destroyed the Egyptian air force on the ground in a surprise attack. The USA has done evil things, but I’m not gonna lie and say they launched a surprise attack against Japan in WW2. Facts are facts.

    I’m against re-writing history

    So am I. That’s why we can’t accept a meme that says the Arab countries jumped Israel with a knife and it then defended itself with superior firepower. Total contradiction of the facts.

      • frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mlEnglish
        61·
        2 months ago

        Israel has admitted that that narrative is misinformation (“bluff”)

        “The thesis that the danger of genocide was hanging over us in June 1967 and that Israel was fighting for its physical existence is only a bluff, which was born and developed after the war.” Israeli General Matityahu Peled, Ha’aretz, 19 March 1972