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The lie is compounded

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Submitted by Yuval Brandstetter MD (Israel), Aug 25, 2007 at 14:34

On the second or third day of the six day war the leaders of three Arab regimes, colluded in a collosal lie. Their aerodromes and air-force devastated, their armed forces running for their lives, their Russian friends routed, they decided to explain the defeat to their own people using the Arab stratagem of "blame others' never myself". Over the telephone Assad, Hussein, and Nasser fabricated the story that American and British planes laid their aerodromes to waste, not the ineffectual Zionist army, which was supposedly made up of cowardly Jews. The conversation was recorded and made public.

Now it turns out the Arab might, over which they waxed grandiose, was not their chief source of self-inflated confidence. They actually had the Russians ready to do the work for them, whereas the Arabs were to do the slaughter afterwards (I can still remember the boastful words of the Voice of Cairo blaring from the tube-radio, promising rivers of blood in tel-aviv boulevards). They figured if the Russians were willing to participate in the Big Fraud, the Jews were likely to have done the same.

Except that Jews do not lie, except to themselves. History teaches us that even a superpower could not prevail against the Fighting Jew. Only the Jew is capable of defeating himself.

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Title Commenter Date Thread
SEND IN THE NUKES. [228 words]DAVID J FEIGEROct 17, 2012 01:53199871
A Call for More Research on the Role of State-Sponsorship in Conflicts More Generally [151 words]AlexNov 5, 2007 00:18113110
Saida 1982 [150 words]UgriSep 9, 2008 03:05113110
Daniel, please read The Fifty Year War [62 words]Tom DavisSep 21, 2007 19:10109408
Hiding [57 words]David W. LincolnSep 21, 2007 10:32109377
This stuff again? [155 words]Wayne WagnerAug 29, 2007 00:25107154
Of course this is not news! [47 words]MosheSep 2, 2007 06:56107154
The inability of the world to write about any event which exonerates Israel. [175 words]Mladen AndrijasevicAug 27, 2007 02:03107040
Dimona libel [91 words]jacob CH.Aug 28, 2007 12:38107040
Russian denial [92 words]Rebecca MouldsAug 25, 2007 17:54106974
1The lie is compounded [214 words]Yuval Brandstetter MDAug 25, 2007 14:34106970
The FOXBAT mission doesn't imply the Soviets instigated the 1967 war [206 words]Charles MartelAug 24, 2007 11:45106902
RTWT [35 words]Brian HAug 24, 2007 17:50106902
1Martel, you do not realize [202 words]Yuval Brandstetter MDAug 25, 2007 14:46106902
None of this implies the Soviets instigated the 1967 war to overfly Dimona [342 words]Charles MartelAug 27, 2007 11:21106902
Of course not! They overflew Dimona prior the 1967 war. [121 words]MosheSep 2, 2007 07:34106902
That is a different story, and plausible [133 words]Charles MartelSep 25, 2007 17:21106902
This was the story from its beginning, and as at last you correctly admitted: It is indeed plausible. [24 words]MosheOct 8, 2007 04:21106902
"Plausible" is a pretty weak statement, and I'm not blaming Israel for 1967 war [344 words]Charles Martel (the baffled)Nov 5, 2007 12:52106902

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