(October 15, 2023 at 9:58 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:(October 15, 2023 at 9:44 pm)LinuxGal Wrote: Sure, the blood bath Israel started.
WP: On 14 May 1948, David Ben-Gurion declared the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel to be known as the State of Israel, a few hours before the termination of the Mandate. At midnight on 15 May 1948, the British Mandate was officially terminated, and the State of Israel came into being. Several hours later, Iraq and the neighbouring Arab states, Egypt, Transjordan and Syria, invaded the newborn state, and immediately attacked Jewish settlements.
You can't gaslight me. It doesn't work.
Worth noting, every single conflict that Israel has been a part of (except for the 1956 Suez Crisis), they're never the ones to shed first blood. Granted, quite a bit of the time, the Arab states who end up fighting are pushed by Israel's policies (like pushing Gazan citizens out of their homes), and once the fighting starts, they will usually escalate it long past the point where it's easy to excuse (the white phosphorus bombs would be a good example), but the violence itself tends to start with the other nations.
Six Days, too, but as with the 1956 thing, Nasser blockaded Eilat first.