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Topicreading about the Six Day War is awe inspiring
Funkdamental
06/15/17 3:28:34 PM
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GOATTHlEF posted...
Yeah the six day war pretty much cemented Israel's reputation as eternal badasses.


It might have established it. (Strangely, US taxpayers rarely question why Israel supposedly needs to be propped up on perpetual life support by $3 billion of their money in aid every year, when it has the world's fourth biggest arms export industry and -- if you believe the myths -- is an invincible fighting machine that could smash the entire Arab world with one hand tied behind its back before breakfast. It's got to be the world's biggest welfare scam.)

But it didn't cement it, for the reason that the First Arab-Israeli War was really a case of a third-rate army vs. the half-hearted and piecemeal efforts of fourth-rate ones. The image of the 1948 war as a besieged Jewish state blitzkrieged by five Arab armoured jihadist hordes all hell-bent on her bloody extermination, and rescued by the miracle of superhuman Israeli fighting prowess, might make for some heroic propaganda but the reality was definitely more mundane.
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