Reply #109: Some facts you might have missed.

[aranthus]

The war against Israel started in 1947. The PLO wasn't formed until about 1964. When do you think that the PLO manifested a willingness to accept a true two state solution (i.e. without the demand for RoR?) As for the PLO fomenting the 1967 war, I suggest that you read, "Six Days of War" by Michael Oren. Do you have a citation for the fantasy that the Arabs mobilized in response to the Soviets announcing that Israel was developing nukes? The truth is that Syria and the PLO had been causing trouble on the border to goad Israel into a "deliberate overreaction." When that came, the Syrians and Soviets falsely claimed that Israel was mobilizing their forces on the Syrian border, and things spiraled out of control after that. Not to minimize the Soviet responsibility, but the ultimate cause was PLO and Syrian connivance in creating a crisis.