Our effort to stop Nazi Germany that we spent two years attempting to ignore and postpone? Yes we did something valuable in stopping Hitler, but if you think for one second that it was an entirely unselfish act, my friend, you need to sit down and think for a moment.
And the Six-Day War? You mean
this Six-Day War -->
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After a period of relative calm, border incidents between Israel and Syria, Egypt, and Jordan increased during the early 1960s, with Palestinian guerrilla groups actively supported by Syria. In May, 1967, President Nasser, his prestige much eroded through his inaction in the face of Israeli raids, requested the withdrawal of UN forces from Egyptian territory, mobilized units in the Sinai, and closed the Gulf of Aqaba to Israel. Israel (which had no UN forces stationed on its territory) responded by mobilizing.
The escalation of threats and provocations continued until June 5, 1967, when Israel launched a massive air assault that crippled Arab air capability. With air superiority protecting its ground forces, Israel controlled the Sinai peninsula within three days and then concentrated on the Jordanian frontier, capturing Jerusalem's Old City (subsequently annexed), and on the Syrian border, gaining the strategic Golan Heights. The war, which ended on June 10, is known as the Six-Day War.
The Suez Canal was closed by the war, and Israel declared that it would not give up Jerusalem and that it would hold the other captured territories until significant progress had been made in Arab-Israeli relations.
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If the Israelis just went after Syria, that would be understandable - they were the then-equivalent of Afghanistan, aiding and abetting the Palestinians. But Israel started with Egypt, then Jordan, THEN Syria. The nation they had the most visible cause to attack was near the bottom of the target list!
The Israelis withdrew from the Sinai in 1982, and the Golan in 2000, but they still have Jerusalem to this day. If this was a "just war", would they have struck first AND waited just over 30 years to give territory back? And even then, just 2/3 of it?