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First of all, the "war" of 1967 lasted only 6 days. Israel managed to double it's land and displace over 500,000 Palestinians, the success was mostly due to "pre-emptive" strikes.
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If by "pre-emptive" you mean "After an act of war committed by Egypt against Israel", then yes.
The closing of the Gulf of Aqaba was intended as an act of war, was internationally recognized as an act of war, and was interpreted by Israel as an act of war.
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UN Solution? Split the thing in "half" giving 56.47% to the Jews and 43.54% to the Arabs. Fair? Considering that at the time the Jewish immigrants owned only about 6% of the land? I think not.
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Considering the massacre of Hebron in 1929, the idea was to keep a large buffer zone between the populations. Jews were a majority in nearly all of land areas that were given to the state of Israel by the split in 1948.
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Needless to say war broke out immediatly and Israel happily slaughtered Arab inhabitants of villages surrounding Jerusalem.
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I think what you mean to say is "Palestinians immediately attacked Israel. Unfortunately, some Jews attacked and slaughtered some Arab inhabitants of villages surrounding Jerusalem." I think that's what you meant to say because that's a far more accurate portrayal of what happened. Israel cannot be blamed for the actions of a few, just like the Palestinians cannot be blamed for the actions of a few.
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There are plenty of cases of Israel going out to "eliminate" terrorist and then proceeding to slaugher innocent civilians.
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Then you should have no problem producing plenty of unbiased sources that report on this. Because what I see is Israel exercising great restraint in its attacks on militants because, unfortunately, innocent people almost always get killed in those attacks.
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Fact is that all Palestinians want is their land back, the land they fought and died for since the 1920s. The land that the Zionists managed to cheat them out of. The land that got split 56% going to 6%.
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Why do you leave out that many Palestinians and Arabs don't just want their land back, but they want to <b>kill all the Jews</b>? I think that's pertinent, because it justifies how vigorously Israel defends itself. This has been discussed in another thread, which you can read
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You have failed to justify the terrorism perpetrated against Israeli civilians or to explain the unwillingness of the terrorist groups to cease their activities. You have not argued against my statement that Israel could not justify its current actions if the Palestinians did not so violently resist. You have made no attempt to rebut my contention that Palestine would be a state if the Palestinians would non-violently resist.
I pose to you another question: If Palestine was a country, by which other countries was it recognized as such? Where were its embassies set up in the countries with which it had diplomatic relations? (Hint: Palestine never has been a country. It is a word used to describe an area, and that is all it has ever been.)