Ace McJack

The israelis have opened the sewage water dam into the Wadi Gaza stream, polluting the coast, and in turn the entire Mediterranean Sea

What gives these clowns the confidence and fatuous self-righteousness to speak with such authority on a subject they know literally nothing about? Do they do this on every issue, or just on the great moral demand of the age to hate a particular nation? Israel got the jump on the Egyptians, true, after they placed a naval blockade on Eilat, kicked out international peacekeepers, massed troops on the border and had their state radio announce that war was imminent. The blockade wasn’t an inconvenience, it was an existential threat. 90% of Israel’s oil came from Iran through the Port of Eilat in those years. Israel had oil reserves for maybe a few weeks, and then the country would start running out of fuel, including for tanks and planes. The blockade was a deliberate strangulation that would very quickly have reduced Israel’s capacity to actually fight a war. And it was deliberately intended to be a casus belli. Golda Meir in 1957 announced that the blockade of Tiran would constitute a casus belli for Israel. Nasser was challenging that claim. He knew that Israel now faced a choice: See its fuel supply dwindle to dangerously low levels, or respond with force. In other words, the blockade was the start of the war. But you know what? We don’t actually have to get this complicated. Because the 67 war had three fronts. And on the other two, it was the Arab side that started the shooting — in the simplest, most literal sense. Jordan on the eastern front and Syria in the north. Israel even politely asked the Jordanians not to attack, and Egypt had to lie to the Jordanians about the state of its military to convince them to enter the war. So to recap, on two of three major fronts, the Arab states attacked first. And only on the southern front, after absorbing numerous dramatic casus belli — aggressive actions that directly threatened Israel’s capacity to defend itself — did Israel pull the trigger first. And given that history, would a rational person still characterize Bill Maher’s description as “one hundred percent false?”

In other words, colonial rule in which the locals are denied a vote for their own government. Yeah, no

This is one hundred percent false. Israel launched an attack on Arab neighbors in 1967 starting the Six Days War. This idiot wants to lecture kids and he doesn’t know a goddamn thing, just spouting rank propaganda.