Because of the League’s deficient war capacity (Arab warfare is sporadic), it sought compensation with a steady stream of anti-Israel rhetoric and literature, led and fuelled by Gamal Abdul Nasser. Such rhetoric eventually escalated into closing the Straits of Tiran, and the Six-Day War. In one of his daily speeches Nasser said, “if war broke out, the issue would not be the Gulf of Akaba, but ‘the destruction of Israel.’” The Middle Eastern map would no longer contain a “State of Israel.” On November 18, 1965 Nasser said in a radio address: “Our aim Is the full restoration of the rights of the Palestinian people; in other words, we aim at the destruction of the State of Israel.”⁵⁵ Delegations from all the Arab countries flocked to Cairo to pledge their participation in the kill, and by the first week in June 1967, Egypt had received and deployed contingents from Kuwait, Algeria, Sudan and Iraq. Lybia and Tunesia took part; former King Hussein signed a Defense Pact with Nasser, placing Jordanian troops under Egypt’s command. An Iraqi delegation signed a similar pact.

On May 28, 1967, only several days before the Six-Day War, Nasser told a Cairo press conference: “Israel’s very existence is aggression.”⁵⁶ On June 1, 1967, President Aref of Iraq said: “There is resolve, determination and unity among all Arab League nations to achieve our dear aim: to remove Israel from the map... It is the day to wash away the stain. We shall, god willing, meet in Tel Aviv and Haifa.”⁵⁷

Vast crowds in the streets of Cairo shouted: “Nasser, Nasser, we are behind you! We will slaughter them! We will destroy them! Slaughter, slaughter, slaughter ... !” The radio broadcasted this bloodthirsty delirium, and Egyptian General Mourtaghi announced: “In five days we shall liquidate the little State of Israel,” while Damascus asserted to “destroy Israel in four days at the most.”

As a result of Israel's lightening victory after six days of war, Israel held 26,476 square miles of territory previously in Arab hands: 444 sq miles on the Golan Heights; 2,270 sq miles in Judea and Samaria; 140 sq miles in the Gaza strip, and 23,622 sq miles in Sinai (which was returned to Egypt⁵⁸ in exchange for their non-aggression).

The “occupation” of the territories is the result of this war (of “extermination” of Israelis).

Yet, on April 10, 1968, Nasser still had the audacity to declare in a radio address: “We will move to the containment of Israel, and after that to... its eradication.”

Following their devastating defeat, the full scale of' which was prevented by the U.S and the UN, the oil-rich Arab states began to apply political pressure in terms of “blackmail” with their oil, in order to secure a complete Israeli withdrawal. But Israel, remembering the traumatic experiences of the Arab attacks and ravages between 1952-56, would cling to the territorial gains, thereby ensuring a minimum of safety and security. 

There is not a single center of population anywhere in Israel which is far from a hostile frontier. Tel Aviv/Jaffa is within 14 miles from the Jordan frontier, Jerusalem is less than a half mile from the Jordan border. From Mt. Carmel, where Haifa lies, the Lebanese frontier can be easily seen, and Jordan is but 24 miles away. Until those borders were made more secure with the territories as “buffer-zones” and Israel’s peace-treaty with Jordan, terrorists would cross Israel’s border and destroy miles of irrigation pipes, thousands of young olive and fruit trees, and plunder masses of fertilizers and seeds in an effort to sabotage agricultural development. Miles of telephone wires and telephone poles were destroyed in an attempt to cause the cessation of normal activity. Endeavoring to undermine Israel’s morale and to paralyze her economy more than 2,000 chickens were slaughtered on the festival of Purim, on the border of Moshav "Neshua,” near Lachish. The moshav’s poultry industry had been set up only four weeks before through a $ 50,000 investment from the Jewish Agency. The chickens were knifed, axed, beheaded, with heads yanked off, insides pulled out, and still others stomped on. The damage was estimated to be $ 20,000.

Little has been said, if anything at all, about the brutal murders of Israel women and children, the bombing of civilian transit buses, the ambushing of school children's buses, the placing of bombs in public waste-baskets, restaurants, supermarkets, department stores and even into letters. Since the Oslo Accords the Palestinians have acquired moreover guns and mortars, even smaller missiles, and large amounts of material for explosives “suicide-bombers”strap around their bodies in belts to explode in crowded areas within Israel’s cities. The tremendous grief and deep sorrow left behind in the wake of such terror is not a matter to be taken lightly in terms of international security, let alone humanitarian grounds.

YET THERE IS SOMETHING GRAVELY WRONG ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL DISREGARD WHICH HAS SURROUNDED THESE MONSTRUOUS MURDERS.

The absence of any formal expression of sympathy contrasts painfully with such where Israeli life is not involved.

THERE HAS BEEN AN ELEMENT OF DISCRIMINATION IN THE WORLD'S REACTION TO ISRAEL’S SACRIFICES ON THE ONE HAND AND THOSE OF HER NEIGHBORS ON THE OTHER.